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1995 New York Film Critics Circle Awards

Best PictureLeaving Las VegasBest ActorNicolas Cage, Leaving Las VegasBest ActressJennifer Jason Leigh, GeorgiaBest Supporting ActorKevin Spacey, Swimming With Sharks, The Usual Suspects and…

Who's Who in the "Lord of the Rings"

From Aragorn to Ring Wraiths by Laura Hayes   Related Links Peter Jackson brings The Lord of the Rings to the silver screen Guide to Middle-earth J.R.R. Tolkien…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Matilda Gathering Flowers

by Percy Bysshe Shelley The First Canzone of the ConvitoFragment: Adapted from the Vit...Matilda Gathering Flowers From the Purgatorio Of Dante, Canto 28, Lines 1-51. Published in part (…

Geometry: The Cosine Ratio

The Cosine RatioGeometryThe Unit Circle and TrigonometryThe Tangent RatioThe Sine RatioThe Cosine RatioAnd the RestHow Does This Relate to the Unit Circle? The story so far: Given one of the acute…

Brewer's: Supernaculum

The very best wine. The word is Low Latin for “upon the nail,” meaning that the wine is so good the drinker leaves only enough in his glass to make a bead on his nail. The French say of…

Biblical Allusions

Antedeluvian: Antedeluvian is Latin for “before the flood,” referring to the flood Noah rode out in Genesis. Something very old or outdated is sometimes exaggeratedly called antedeluvian. The…

Our Top 5 Stories for the Week of September 6, 2021

It’s been a busy week, from the attempt to use Bitcoin as currency to Afghanistan’s new government. Who has time to keep track of it all? That’s why we’ve boiled it all down to our top five stories…

November Current Events 2023: U.S. News

Top of Page World News | Disaster News | Science & Technology News | Current Events This Week The world is a very busy place, and it's hard to stay on top of everything. Infoplease has got you…