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Weather: The Take on Temperature

The Take on TemperatureWeatherMeasuring the AtmosphereThe Take on TemperatureIs the Pressure Getting to You?The Wind in the WillowsIt's Not the Heat, It's the HumidityMeasuring the RainPlacing the…

1975 Grammy Awards

Captain and TennilleArchive PhotosRecord of the Year“Love Will Keep Us Together,” Captain and TennilleAlbum of the YearStill Crazy After All These Years, Paul Simon (Columbia)Song of the Year…

1965 Grammy Awards

Record of the Year“A Taste of Honey,” Herb Alpert and the Tijuana BrassAlbum of the YearSeptember of My Years, Frank Sinatra (Reprise)Song of the Year“The Shadow of Your Smile” (Love Theme…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: May 29, 1805

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark May 28, 1805May 30, 1805May 29, 1805 Wednesday May 29th 1905. Last night we were all allarmed by a large buffaloe Bull, which swam over from the…

Flatland: Of Recognition by Sight

by Edwin A. Abbott Of our Methods of Recognizing ...Concerning Irregular FiguresOf Recognition by Sight I am about to appear very inconsistent. In the previous sections I have said that…

The Movies of 1998

AfflictionAir Bud: Golden RetrieverThe AlarmistAn Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn Almost HeroesAmerican History XAntzThe ApostleApt PupilArmageddonThe AvengersBabe, Pig in the CityBad…

Great Basin

(Encyclopedia) Great Basin, semiarid, N section of the Basin and Range province, the intermontane plateau region of W United States and N Mexico. Lying mostly in Nevada and extending into California…

barnacle

(Encyclopedia) barnacle, common name of the sedentary crustacean animals constituting the infraclass Cirripedia. Barnacles are exclusively marine and are quite unlike any other crustacean because of…

John Keats: Calidore

by JohnKeatsSpecimen of an Induction to a PoemTo Some LadiesCalidore A fragment Young Calidore is paddling o'er the lake; His healthful spirit eager and awake To feel the beauty of a…

The Divine Comedy: Paradiso: Canto IV

Paradiso: Canto IIIParadiso: Canto VParadiso: Canto IV Between two viands, equally removed And tempting, a free man would die of hunger Ere either he could bring unto his teeth. So…