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DK Arts & Entertainment: Poetry

ARE THERE DIFFERENT TYPES OF POETRY? WHAT IS THE OLDEST POEM? WHAT ARE POETIC DEVICES? WHAT IS METER? DO POEMS ALWAYS HAVE RHYME AND RHYTHM? IS A VERSE THE SAME AS A STANZA? FIND OUT MOREPoetry (…

Top 10 Selling Digital Songs, 2014

The following table lists the rank, title, and artist for each of the top ten selling digital songs in the United States during 2014. Rank Song Artist 1…

Erno Rubik

Erno Rubik was teaching interior design and architecture in Budapest when he created what is now known as the Rubik's Cube, a three-dimensional puzzle that became a worldwide sensation in the early…

Clifford Peter HANSEN, Congress, WY (1912-2009)

Senate Years of Service: 1967-1978Party: RepublicanHANSEN, Clifford Peter, a Senator from Wyoming; born in Zenith, Teton (then Lincoln) County, Wyo., October 16, 1912; attended the public…

John Singleton

John Singleton is the California filmmaker whose first movie, 1991's Boyz N the Hood, made him an Oscar-nominated director at the age of 24. He died in 2019 after suffering a major stroke at the age…

The Daniels

The filmmaking duo known as the Daniels is made up of Daniel Kwan (10 February 1988) and Daniel Sheinert (7 June 1987). Together their second feature film, Everything Everywhere All At Once, was…

Asian Food Primer: Chinese Food

by David Johnson The term "Chinese food" can be misleading because there are many Chinese styles of cooking. Scholars believe that Chinese cooking as we know it today dates to the Shang…

ocelot

(Encyclopedia) ocelotocelotäsˈəlŏtˌ, ōˈsə– [key], medium-sized cat, Leopardus pardalis, of Central and South America. It is occasionally found as far N as Texas. The ocelot has a yellow-brown coat…

lizard

(Encyclopedia) lizard, a reptile of the order Squamata, which also includes the snake. Lizards form the suborder Sauria, and there are over 3,000 lizard species distributed throughout the world (…