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Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: The Rainmaker
The Legislator and the Citizen The Citizen and the Snakes The Rainmaker AN Officer of the Government, with a great outfit of mule-waggons loaded with balloons, kites, dynamite bombs,…Entertainment News from April 2001
3 Jodi Foster confirms that she's pregnant with her second child, who is due in November. No word on the paternity of the baby. She has a son, Charles, who is almost 3 years old. 4…radiator
(Encyclopedia) radiator, device used to heat an area surrounding it or to cool a fluid circulating within it. The familiar radiators of steam and hot water heating systems in buildings are misnamed,…A Hall of Famer On and Off the Field
An interview with Len Dawson, Hall of Fame quarterback and prostate cancer survivor by Mike Morrison In 1999, an estimated 179,300 new cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed in the United…Surratt, Mary Eugenia
(Encyclopedia) Surratt, Mary EugeniaSurratt, Mary Eugeniasərătˈ [key], 1820–65, alleged conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, hanged on July 7, 1865. A widow (her maiden name was…The Boston Marathon Tragedy
Three people were killed and hundreds injured after multiple bombs exploded during the Boston Marathon. Boston Marathon Shrine, April 20, 2013 Photo credit: Natalie Baumgardner…sulfur
(Encyclopedia) CE5 Sulfur crystals sulfur or sulphursulfursŭlˈfər [key], nonmetallic chemical element; symbol S; at. no. 16; interval in which at. wt. ranges 32.059–32.076; m.p. 112.8℃ (rhombic…1996 George Foster Peabody Awards
The Peabody Awards, administered by the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications, honor excellence in both radio and television broadcasting.Black…2000–2001 Prime-Time Television Wrap-Up
The 2000–2001 network television season got off to a late start because the summer Olympics were really the fall Olympics. NBC paid billions for broadcast rights to the Sydney games, and…Brewer's: Tontine
(2 syl.). A legacy left among several persons in such a way that as anyone dies his share goes to the survivors, till the last survivor inherits all. So named from Lorenzo Tonti, a…