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Summer Olympics Through the Years: 1956

MelbourneTop 10 StandingsLeading Medal WinnersTrack & FieldSwimmingTeam SportsBoxingCanoeingCyclingEquestrianFencingGymnasticsModern PentathlonRowingShootingWeightliftingFreestyle…

Classic Ballets

Classic Ballets Because many ballets take their stories from folklore, they can feel like fairy tales told through dance. Here are some favorites. The date the ballet was first performed is in…

Plants

Plants Without plants, nearly all life on Earth would end. Plants provide oxygen for humans and animals to breathe and they provide food for many animals. There are about 260,000 plant species in…

NFL Football Preview 2000: NFC Central

  NFL Preview: NFC Central Tampa Bay, Minnesota, Green Bay, Chicago, Detroit   by Mike Morrison   1. Tampa Bay—They missed the Super Bowl last year by just…

Groundhog Day

The Adventures of Punxsutawney Phil, Wiarton Willie, and Pothole Pete by Holly Hartman February 2 brings the most-watched weather forecast of the year—and the only one led by a rodent. Legend…

Infoplease Spotlight

Section header Organizers at the Tournament of Roses Parade set off all this bowl-game hysteria when they decided a football game would more appealing to parade watchers than a polo match.…

Urals

(Encyclopedia) Urals or Ural Mountains, E European Russia and NW Kazakhstan, forming, together with the Ural River, the traditional boundary between Europe and Asia and separating the Russian plain…

Symbols of the United States

Symbols that have become American icons by Beth Rowen Great Seal of the U.S. Related Links State SymbolsUnited StatesBald Eagle Removed from Endangered Species List The Great Seal…

Symbols of the United States

Symbols that have become American icons by Beth Rowen Great Seal of the U.S. Related Links State SymbolsUnited StatesBald Eagle Removed from Endangered Species List The Great Seal…