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Geometry: Whose Geometry Is It Anyway?

Whose Geometry Is It Anyway?GeometryWhose Geometry Is It Anyway?Non-Euclidean GeometryHyperbolic Geometry: Saddle Up!Spherical GeometryTaxi-Cab GeometryMax GeometryHow Many Shapes Can a Circle Have…

Gene Fowler Jr. 1998 Deaths

Gene Fowler Jr. Age: 80 An Academy and Emmy Award-winning director and editor of more than 100 movies and television shows, Fowler will perhaps be best remembered for his 1957 cult classic,…

Milton Berle 2002 Deaths

Milton BerleAge: 93 Emmy Award-winning actor who began his career as a vaudeville performer before moving on to radio. He made his mark in television, however, starring in Texaco Star…

Milton Berle Biography

Milton Berle(Milton Berlinger)actorBorn: 7/12/1908Birthplace: Harlem, New York Emmy Award-winning television, film and stage comic actor known as “Mr. Television.” He starred in television's The…

Rothko, Mark

(Encyclopedia) Rothko, MarkRothko, Markrŏthˈkō [key], 1903–70, American painter, b. Dvinsk, Russia (now Daugavpils, Latvia), as Marcus Rotkovitch. His family immigrated to the United States in 1913.…

Sid Caesar Biography

Sid Caesarcomedian, actorBorn: 9/8/1922Birthplace: Yonkers, New York American comedian and actor who starred in Caesar's Hour (1954–57) and appeared in the film It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World…

Sonnets by William Shakespeare: CXL

Sonnet CXXXIX Sonnet CXLI CXL Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain; Lest sorrow lend me words, and words express The manner of my pity-…

ZaSu Pitts Biography

ZaSu PittsactressBorn: 1/3/1894Birthplace: Parsons, Kan. The name “ZaSu”" was created because her two aunts, Eliza and Susan, each wanted the baby named after them. Pitts started working as…