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Wild Card Playoff Game

On September 28, 1998, the Chicago Cubs and San Francisco Giants, each with a regular-season record of 89-73, staged a playoff game to determine the winner of the National League wild card…

Frankie Muniz Biography

Frankie MunizactorBorn: 12/5/1985Birthplace: Woodridge, N.J. The young star of TV's Malcolm in the Middle grew up in Knightdale, North Carolina. The home-schooled son of a restaurant manager…

Stoppard, Tom

(Encyclopedia) Stoppard, Tom, 1937–, English playwright, b. Zlín, Czechoslovakia (now in the Czech Republic), as Tomas Straussler. During his childhood he and his family moved to Singapore, later (…

Epstein, Sir Jacob

(Encyclopedia) Epstein, Sir JacobEpstein, Sir Jacobĕpˈstīn [key], 1880–1959, sculptor, b. New York City. He studied with Rodin in Paris and later worked chiefly in England. In revolt against the…

Bentley, Eric

(Encyclopedia) Bentley, Eric (Eric Russell Bentley), 1916–2020, American critic, editor, and translator, b. Bolton, England, grad. Oxford, 1938, Ph.D. Yale, 1941. He became a U.S. citizen in 1948. A…

Aesop's Fables: The Lion and the Wild Ass

by Aesop The Two Soldiers and the RobberThe Man and the SatyrThe Lion and the Wild Ass A Lion and a Wild Ass went out hunting together: the latter was to run down the prey by his superior…

Stat Abstract: A Walk on the Wild Side

by Borgna Brunner Since 1878 the U.S. government has published The Statistical Abstract of the United States, an annual compendium of facts and figures covering demographics, vital statistics,…

Aesop's Fables: The Wild Boar and the Fox

by Aesop The Shipwrecked Man and the SeaMercury and the SculptorThe Wild Boar and the Fox A Wild Boar was engaged in whetting his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a Fox…

World Wide Web

(Encyclopedia) World Wide Web (WWW or W3), collection of globally distributed text and multimedia documents and files and other network services linked in such a way as to create an immense…