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Television Hall of Fame

Each year, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences inducts up to seven people or programs to the Television Hall of Fame. Here are the past…

From Reel Love to Real Love

Movies that inspired off-screen romances Greta Garbo and John Gilbert's onscreen passion ignited a two-year offscreen romance, as well. Valentine Links…

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…

Kennedy, Ted

(Encyclopedia) Kennedy, Ted (Edward Moore Kennedy), 1932–2009, U.S. senator from Massachusetts (1962–2009), b. Boston, Mass., youngest son of Joseph P. Kennedy and the last survivor of brothers…

shock

(Encyclopedia) shock, any condition in which the circulatory system is unable to provide adequate circulation to the body tissues, also called circulatory failure or circulatory collapse. Shock…

cerium

(Encyclopedia) ceriumceriumsērˈēəm [key] [from the asteroid Ceres], metallic chemical element; symbol Ce; at. no. 58; at. wt. 140.116; m.p. 799℃; b.p. 3,426℃; sp. gr. 6.77 at 25℃; valence +3 or +4.…

Recipients of Kennedy Center Honors

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., created its Honors awards in 1978 to recognize the lifetime achievements of selected American…

Burns Bud Roper 2003 Deaths

Burns “Bud” RoperAge: 77 influential pollster who wrote the polling question that has become the standard inquiry to gauge the mood of the country: Are things “generally going in the right…

Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: 1781

by Robert Burns 178017821781ContentsWinter: A DirgePrayer, Under The Pressure Of Violent AnguishParaphrase Of The First PsalmFirst Six Verses Of The Ninetieth Psalm Versified, ThePrayer, In…

Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: 1782

by Robert Burns 178117831782ContentsFickle Fortune: A FragmentRaging Fortune-Fragment Of SongImpromptu-"I'll Go And Be A Sodger"Song-"No Churchman Am I"My Father Was A FarmerJohn Barleycorn…