entrepreneur, adventurerBorn: 1950Birthplace: Sharnley Green, Surrey, England With little formal education, he began a mail-order business for discount records in 1969, then opened a retail store,…
Why does a knuckleball seem to “dance” toward home plate? The ball drops and soars unpredictably because it doesn’t spin. The lack of rapid spin turns the seams of the baseball into tiny airfoils—…
WHY ARE INSECTS SO SUCCESSFUL? HOW DO INSECTS DEFEND THEMSELVES? WHAT DO INSECTS EAT? WHERE DO INSECTS GO IN WINTER? HOW DO INSECTS AFFECT HUMANS? INSECT CLASSIFICATIONANTENNAECOLONIESFIND OUT…
Faster Than a Speeding Light WaveTheories of the UniverseCracks in a Newtonian WorldFaster Than a Speeding Light WaveIt All Depends on Your PositionThe Relative Nature of Space and TimeGeological…
Oscars–Filmographies Best Director Best Actor Best Actress Best Suppporting Actor Best Supporting Actress Best Adapted Screenplay Best Original Screenplay Best Original Music or…
There are dozens of theories to explain a probable cause or causes. Throughout the Mesozoic Era, individual dinosaur species were evolving and becoming extinct for various reasons. The unusually…
airplane manufacturerBorn: 1/8/1881Birthplace: Knapps Creek, N.Y. Called “the Henry Ford of aviation,” Piper mass produced affordable aircraft and is credited with popularizing airplanes as a…
civil rights leaderBorn: 3/17/1933Birthplace: Vicksburg, Mississippi Evers-Williams married civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1951. The couple worked for the NAACP against segregation and…
(Charles Edmund DuMaresq de Clavelle)screenwriter, director, producer, novelistBorn: 10/10/1924Birthplace: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Although he wrote the screenplays for a number of…
composerBorn: 4/13/1942Birthplace: Providence, Rhode Island An incredibly prolific composer, he first earned critical acclaim for scoring Vittorio de Sica's Oscar-winning The Garden of the Finzi-…
