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What is Turkish Delight?

The Question: I am looking for information on the dessert Turkish Delight. Can you help? The Answer: Turkish Delight, beloved treat of Edmund in The Lion…

DK People & Places: Southeast Europe

HOW DID THE RECENT CIVIL WAR IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA AFFECT THIS REGION? WHY WAS ALBANIA CUT OFF FROM THE WORLD FOR 50 YEARS? WHERE IS THE VALLEY OF THE ROSES? WHICH SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN COUNTRY IS…

Meg Tilly

(Margaret Tilly)actressBorn: 2/14/1960Birthplace: Texada Island, British Columbia Tilly first trained as a dancer and made a brief appearance as such in the film Fame (1980). She rose to fame…

Lee Remick

actressBorn: 12/14/1935Birthplace: Quincy, Massachusetts A versatile actress, Remick played a variety of roles ranging from drum majorette to addicted alcoholic. In the 1950s she began appearing in…

Kathleen Turner

(Mary Kathleen Turner)actressBorn: 6/19/1954Birthplace: Springfield, Missouri Body Heat (1981), Turner's screen debut, was the first of a string of successful films in which she would perform in…

Chrysler, Walter Percy

(Encyclopedia) Chrysler, Walter PercyChrysler, Walter Percykrīˈslər [key], 1875–1940, American industrialist, founder of the Chrysler Corp., b. Wamego, Kans. He began as a machinist's apprentice and…

Home Owners' Loan Corporation

(Encyclopedia) Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC), former U.S. government agency established in 1933 to help stabilize real estate that had depreciated during the depression and to refinance the…

Gujranwalla

(Encyclopedia) Gujranwalla Gujranwalla g&oobreve;jˌränˈvälə [key], city, NE Pakistan. A road and rail hub, with…

Flygare-Carlén, Emilie

(Encyclopedia) Flygare-Carlén, EmilieFlygare-Carlén, Emilieflüˈgärĕˌ-kärlānˈ [key], 1807–92, Swedish novelist. In The Rose of Thistle Island (1842, tr. 1844) and A Merchant's House on the Skerry (…