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Mahabharata

(Encyclopedia) MahabharataMahabharataməhäˌbärˈətə [key], classical Sanskrit epic of India, probably composed between 200 b.c. and a.d. 200. The Mahabharata, comprising more than 90,000 couplets,…

Andersen's Fairy Tales: The Fir Tree

The Shoes of FortuneThe Snow QueenThe Fir Tree Out in the woods stood a nice little Fir Tree. The place he had was a very good one: the sun shone on him: as to fresh air, there was enough…

Louisa May Alcott: Thanksgiving

ThanksgivingThis yearly festival was always kept at Plumfield in the good old-fashioned way, and nothing was allowed to interfere with it. For days beforehand, the little girls helped Asia…

Camilla Parker Bowles Biography

Camilla Parker Bowles The Queen Consort of the United Kingdom; wife of Britain's King Charles IIIBorn: July 17, 1947Birthplace: London, U.K.   Camilla Shand grew up in Sussex and was educated at…

Disney Movies: Lady and the Tramp (1955)

Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next by Beth Rowen Lady and the Tramp (1955) Disney's canine caper-romance broke new ground for the studio on two fronts. It was its first CinemaScope…

1986 Radio & Records All-Time Charts

1986 Radio & Records All-Time ChartsAC“Your Wildest Dreams” Moody Blues (Polydor/PG)“Glory of Love” Peter Cetera (Full Moon/Warner Bros.)“There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)” Billy…

Discus Throw

Discus ThrowYear Distance 1928 Halina Konopacka, POL 129-113/4 WR1932 Lillian Copeland, USA 133- 2 OR1936 Gisela Mauermayer, GER 156- 3 OR1948 Micheline Ostermeyer, FRA 137- 6 1952 Nina…