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Allan Pineda Lindo (apl.de.ap) Biography

(apl.de.ap) rap artistBorn: November 28, 1974Birthplace: Pampanga, Philippines Allan Pineda Lindo (more commonly known as apl.de.ap) was born in the Philippines…

Top 10 Sports Movies

The American Film Institute asked more than 1,500 members of the film community to pick the ten best films representing ten American genres: animated, fantasy, gangster, science fiction,…

Oriana Fallachi 2006 Deaths

Oriana FallachiAge: 76 controversial Italian journalist who covered the Vietnam War and conflicts in the Middle East. She was known for her provocative interviews with world leaders, such as…

Teresa Wright 2005 Deaths

Teresa WrightAge: 86 actress who was nominated for an Oscar in her first three films. She won for her role as Greer Garson's daughter-in-law in Mrs. Miniver. Her other credits include The…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Along the Potomac

by EmilyDickinsonXXXIIXXXIVAlong the Potomac Along the Potomac When I was small, a woman died. To-day her only boy Went up from the Potomac, His face all victory, To look at her; how…

The Devil's Dictionary: Proboscis

by Ambrose Bierce PRIVATEPROJECTILEPROBOSCIS -n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of…

Willy Messerschmitt

Wilhelm Emil "Willy" Messerschmitt was a German aircraft designer and manufacturer whose fighter plane, the Bf-109, was the pride of the Nazis during World War II. Messerschmitt built model airplanes…

Chet Atkins

Country music star Chet Atkins's finger-picking guitar career lasted for half a century. In the early 1950s he moved to Nashville and his first album, Chet Atkins' Gallopin' Guitar, came out in 1953…