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50th Emmy Awards: Comedy Acting Nominees

prev | lead roles | supporting roles | guest stars | next Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Michael J. Fox: Spin City Kelsey Grammer: Frasier John Lithgow: 3rd Rock From the Sun Paul…

50th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards

The DGA Awards, which honor directorial excellence in film and television, were announced March 7, 1998. These are the television awards.Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Dramatic…

FIFA (Soccer) Top 50 World Rankings: for 2001

FIFA announced a new monthly world ranking system on Aug. 13, 1993 designed to “provide a constant international comparison of national team performances.” The rankings are based on a mathematical…

Top 50 All-Time Box Office Hits

Top of Page Source: Getty ImagesMovies have come a long way since they were first invented in 1878 by Eadward Muybridge. Back then, his two-second long film, which featured consecutive shots sewn…

50 Best Anime Quotes (From Movies & TV!)

Top of Page Originating in Japan, anime is a form of entertainment that has been widely embraced by people of all ages around the world. It has gained popularity due to several reasons, such as…

Palermo

(Encyclopedia) PalermoPalermopälĕrˈmō [key], Lat. Panormus, city (1991 pop. 698,556), capital of Palermo prov. and of Sicily, NW Sicily, Italy, on the Tyrrhenian Sea. Situated on the edge of the…

Drew, Charles Richard

(Encyclopedia) Drew, Charles Richard, 1904–50, African-American physician, b. Washington, D.C. A surgeon and a professor at Howard Univ. (1935–36; 1942–50), he developed a means of preserving blood…

coolie labor

(Encyclopedia) coolie labor, term applied to unskilled laborers from Asia, especially from India and China. With the discontinuance of slavery, the use of Chinese and Indian contract labor in British…