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What Do You Know About Vampire Bats?

While these little creatures might not actually turn into bloodsucking counts and countesses, they are still fascinating beings. It's time to test your knowledge of the common vampire bat!

Aesop's Fables

Contents Introduction The Fox and the Grapes The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs The Cat and the Mice The Mischievous Dog The Charcoal-Burner and the Fuller The Mice in Council The Bat and…

Aesop's Fables: Aesop's Fables

by Aesop Aesop's FablesContentsIntroductionThe Fox and the GrapesThe Goose That Laid the Golden EggsThe Cat and the MiceThe Mischievous DogThe Charcoal-Burner and the FullerThe Mice in CouncilThe…

The Little Vampire

Director:Ulrich EdelNew Line Cinema; 95 minutes; PGRelease:10/00Cast:Jonathan Lipnicki, James Carter, Alice Krige The Little Vampire arrives in time for Halloween, draining the scary…

Pee Wee Reese 1999 Deaths

Pee Wee ReeseAge: 81 Hall of Fame shortstop who was the undisputed leader of the “Boys of Summer,” the Brooklyn Dodgers post-World War II teams; born Harold Henry Reese; stood 5-9, 140 pounds…

Asturias, Miguel Ángel

(Encyclopedia) Asturias, Miguel ÁngelAsturias, Miguel Ángelmēgĕlˈ ängˈhĕl äst&oomacr;ˈryäs [key], 1899–1974, Guatemalan novelist, poet, and diplomat. Living in Paris in the 1920s, Asturias was…

La Farge, Oliver

(Encyclopedia) La Farge, OliverLa Farge, Oliverlä färzh [key], 1901–63, American writer and anthropologist, b. New York City, grad. Harvard (B.A., 1924; M.A., 1929). He conducted three archaeological…

Johnson, Guy

(Encyclopedia) Johnson, Guy, c.1740–1788, Loyalist leader in colonial New York, b. Ireland. He emigrated to America as a boy and married (1763) a daughter of Sir William Johnson, whom he succeeded as…

Lasker, Albert Davis

(Encyclopedia) Lasker, Albert Davis, 1880–1952, American advertising executive, sometimes called the founder of modern advertising, b. Freiburg, Germany. He came to the United States as an infant and…