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The Most Popular Girl Scout Cookies

The Question: What are the best-selling Girl Scout cookies? The Answer: According to the Girl Scouts of America, here is the percentage-of-…

Snoopy

Cartoon beagle Snoopy is a sidekick/star of the long-running newspaper comic strip Peanuts, created by Charles Schulz. Snoopy was the oddball, manic pet of lovable loser Charlie Brown. Originally a…

Asian Food Primer: Indonesian Food

by David Johnson Asian Foods Guide Common ingredients and popular dishes of various cultures. IntroductionEast Asia ChinaJapanKoreaMongoliaTibetPacific Region FijiHawaiiPapua New…

Charles Schulz 2000 Deaths

Charles SchulzAge: 77 American cartoonist who created the “Peanuts” comic strip. In a career that spanned nearly 50 years, Schulz drew more than 18,250 “Peanuts” comic strips, which expressed…

hickory, in botany

(Encyclopedia) hickory, any plant of the genus Carya of the family Juglandaceae (walnut family); deciduous nut-bearing trees native to E North America and south to Central America except for a few…

Vince Guaraldi Biography

Vince Guaraldijazz pianist and composerBorn: July 17, 1928Birthplace: San Francisco, California Jazz pianist Vincent Anthony Guaraldi is best known for creating the "Charlie Brown sound" for such…

Entertainment News from February 2000

6Richard Gere and girlfriend Cary Lowell, former star of Law & Order, welcome their first child, a son, Homer James Jigme Gere, who weighed in at 8 pounds, 12 ounces. It's the first child…

Food Around the World

by Beth Rowen Related Links Fun Facts About Food Near and Far Feast and Fast Who grows the most? bobotie (…

World Series 2008 by the Numbers

Source: U.S. Census Bureau Related Links Record of World Series Games World Series Club Standings World Series Single Game and Single Series Records Our National Pastime 30…

James Earl Carter, Jr.

James Earl Carter, Jr.Born: 10/1/1924Birthplace: Plains, Ga. James Earl Carter, Jr., was born in the tiny village of Plains, Ga., Oct. 1, 1924, and grew up on the family farm at nearby…