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1974 Tony Awards

PlayThe River NigerMusicalRaisinActor—PlayMichael Moriarty, Find Your Way HomeActress—PlayColleen Dewhurst, A Moon for the MisbegottenSupporting or Featured Actor—PlayEd Flanders, A Moon for…

Some Facts about Eclipses

Source: U.S. Naval Observatory and NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Anaxagoras, in the 5th century B.C., is credited as the first to figure out the true cause of a lunar eclipse, but his…

Andy Williams

Name at birth: Howard Andrew WilliamsAndy Williams was the laid-back pop singer whose string of hits in the late 1950s led to his own popular television variety show in the 1960s. He was best known…

NASA's 50th Anniversary

Celebrating NASA's birthday with fantastic slideshows featuring astronauts, spacecrafts, moons, planets, and more by Mark Hughes A wake up call came to the American people in 1957, when the…

Brewer's: Lunatics

Moon-struck persons. The Romans believed that the mind was affected by the moon, and that “lunatics” were more and more frenzied as the moon increased to its full. (See Avertin.) “The…

Brewer's: Osiris

(in Egyptian mythology). Judge of the dead, and potentate of the kingdom of the ghosts. This brother and husband of Isis was worshipped under the form of an ox. The word means Many-eyed.…