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Women's Olympic Tennis

Multiple gold medals (including women's doubles): Helen Wills, Gigi Fernandez, Mary Joe Fernandez, Serena Williams, and Venus Williams.SinglesYear 1900 Charlotte Cooper Great Britain1906…

The Devil's Dictionary: Story

by Ambrose Bierce SPOOKERSUCCESSSTORY -n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. One evening Mr. Rudolph…

Narnia: A Look Back

It's been fifty-five (Earth) years since our first visit by Holly Hartman "All I can tell you is that pictures come into my head and I write stories about them." —C. S. Lewis According to C. S.…

Part Five in a Six-Part Series

Mirror Image by Alicia Potter Source: Arttoday.com "Women come in waving Victoria's Secret catalogues or Playboy clippings and say, 'I want those breasts.' Men come in and say, 'I want to get…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: April 19, 1806

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark April 18, 1806April 20, 1806April 19, 1806 Saturday Aprl. 19th 1806. This morning early we had our small canoes drawn out, and employed all hands…

Summer 1924 Olympics Leading Medal Winners

Number of individual medals won on the left; gold, silver and bronze breakdown to the right. Men No   Sport G-S-B 6 Ville Ritola, FIN Track/Field 4-2-0 5 Paavo Nurmi, FIN…

Amy's Will

Amy's WillWhile these things were happening at home, Amy was having hard times at Aunt March's. She felt her exile deeply, and for the first time in her life, realized how much she was…

Entertainment News from April 2000

3Actor-director-producer Edward Burns is set to buy the late John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s Tribeca apartment for around $2.5 million. The apartment has been up for sale since the publisher died in a…

Country Music Hall of Fame

Find out who was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, from its foundation in 1961 to the present day.1961 Jimmie Rodgers Fred Rose Hank Williams 1962 Roy Acuff 1963 No…