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maple

(Encyclopedia) maple, common name for the genus Acer of the Aceraceae, a family of deciduous trees and shrubs of the Northern Hemisphere, found mainly in temperate regions and on tropical mountain…

mussel

(Encyclopedia) mussel, edible freshwater or marine bivalve mollusk. Mussels are able to move slowly by means of the muscular foot. They feed and breathe by filtering water through extensible tubes…

Brewer's: Galere

(2 syl.). Que diable allait-il faire dans cette galère? (What business had he to be on that galley?) This is from Molière's comedy of Les Fourberies de Scapin. Scapin wants to bamboozle…

Olive Oyl

Animator Max Fleischer brought Olive Oyl to the big screen in 1933, when he developed a cartoon from E.C. Slegar's popular comic strip Popeye, The Sailor Man. Olive is Popeye's love interest, a…

1996 Men's Olympic Yachting Medalists

Finn: 1. Mateusz Kusznierewicz, POL (32 pts); 2. Sebastien Godefroid, BEL (45); 3. Roy Heiner, NET (50). Mistral: 1. Nikolaos Kaklamanakis, GRE (17 pts); 2. Carlos Espinola, ARG (19); 3. Gal…

Patty Jenkins

Patty Jenkins is a television director and the filmmaker who made the feature films Monster and Wonder Woman. A graduate of Cooper Union and the American Film Institute, Jenkins worked in television…

Lynda Carter

Lynda Carter was TV's Wonder Woman in the late 1970s, starring first in a TV movie in 1975, then on the popular television series from 1976 to 1979. Lynda Carter first made her name as winner of the…

The Major and the Minor

Universal; $14.98Feature; NRDirector:Billy WilderCast:Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland Billy Wilder's delightful American debut (1942) stars the always crackerjack Ginger Rogers as a struggling…

I’ll Have Another

I'll Have Another is the chestnut horse who won both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes in 2012, setting him up for a run at the Triple Crown. I'll Have Another was bred in Kentucky and born…