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August 2009 Current Events: World News

U.S. News | Business/Science News Here are the key events in world news for the month of August 2009. N. Korea Pardons Imprisoned American Journalists (Aug. 4): The government of North Korea…

1979 Academy Awards

The 1979 Academy Awards were presented April 14, 1980 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles.Best PictureAll That Jazz, Robert Alan Aurthur, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox)Apocalypse…

Presidency on Film, Part 2

Presidential Trivia Eight of the first nine American presidents —Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Jackson, and Harrison— were born British subjects. Van…

Biographies: Selected Basketball Players

Selected Basketball Players Magic Johnson drives by Angola's Anibal Moreira (Barcelona Olympics, 1992) See also NBA Most Valuable Players People in the NewsRecent…

Baseball America Player of the Year

Baseball America Player of the Year Presented to the College Player of the Year since 1981 by Baseball America.Year 1981Mike Sodders, Ariz. St., 3B1982Jeff Ledbetter, Fla. St., OF/P1983Dave…

Brewer's: Dragon's Teeth

Subjects of civil strife; whatever rouses citizens to rise in arms. The allusion is to the dragon that guarded the well of A'res. Cadmus slew it, and sowed some of the teeth, from which…

2000 NBA Basketball Assist Leaders

Assists GmAstAvgJason Kidd, Pho6767810.1Sam Cassell, Mil817299.0Nick Van Exel, Den797149.0Terrell Brandon, Min716298.9Gary Payton, Sea827328.9John Stockton, Utah827038.6Stephon Marbury,…

2002 Drama Desk Awards

The Drama Desk, a group of 150 theater critics and reporters, announced the awards on May 19, 2002.Outstanding Play (tie)The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? and MetamorphosesOutstanding…