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Baseball Summary

Record of World Series Games World Series Club Standings World Series Single Game and Single Series Records Lifetime World Series Records Before the World Series National…

America's 25 Most Ozone-Polluted Cities, 2007

Ozone acts as a powerful respiratory irritant at the levels frequently found in most of the nation's urban areas during summer months. Symptoms include shortness of breath, chest pain…

William Shakespeare: Pericles, Act III, Scene II

Scene IIEphesus. A room in Cerimon's houseEnter Cerimon, with a Servant, and some Persons who have been shipwreckedCerimonPhilemon, ho!Enter PhilemonPhilemonDoth my lord call?CerimonGet fire…

ape

(Encyclopedia) ape, any primate of the superfamily Hominoidea, which includes humans; this article, however, focuses on the nonhuman apes. The small apes, the gibbons and the siamang, and the…

sirenian

(Encyclopedia) sireniansireniansīrēˈnēən [key] or sea cow, name for a large aquatic mammal of the order Sirenia. Living sirenians are the dugong and the manatee, both found in warm, shallow waters in…

epilepsy

(Encyclopedia) epilepsy, a chronic disorder of cerebral function characterized by periodic convulsive seizures. There are many conditions that have epileptic seizures. Sudden discharge of excess…

The Picture of Dorian Gray: Chapter 14

by Oscar Wilde Chapter 13Chapter 15Chapter 14 At nine o'clock the next morning his servant came in with a cup of chocolate on a tray and opened the shutters. Dorian was sleeping quite…

Amy Lowell: Paris, April, 1814

Paris, April, 1814Cold, impassive, the marble arch of the Place du Carrousel. Haughty, contemptuous, the marble arch of the Place du Carrousel. Like a woman raped by force, rising above her…