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Etiquette Q & A

Etiquette Q & A We asked manners expert Jodi Smith of Mannersmith http://www.mannersmith.com/ General 1. What's your biggest pet peeve concerning manners? Not enough people use…

Olympics 2012: Memorable Moments

  Summer Olympics Memorable Moments       Outstanding Performances Michael Johnson at the Atlanta Olympic Games. (Source: AP) Eight Is Great Michael Phelps wins a record…

Soaps between the Ropes:

The Rebirth of Professional Wrestling on't look now, but the most popular programming on cable television is professional wrestling. But this isn't your father's pro wrestling, with big…

Brewer's: Odin

Chief god of the Scandinavians. His real name was Siggë, son of Fridulph, but he assumed the name of Odin when he left the Tanais, because he had been priest of Odin, supreme god of the…

Brewer's: Monumental Figures

No. 1. (1) Those in stone, with plain sloping roofs, and without inscriptions, are the oldest. (2) In 1160 these plain prismatic roofs began to be ornamented. (3) In the same century the…

The Movies of 2001

About Adam A.I. Artificial Intelligence Ali Along Came a Spider Amelie American Outlaws American Pie 2 America's Sweethearts Amores Perros Angel Eyes The…

Epidemics of the Past: Bubonic Plague

Bubonic PlagueEpidemics of the PastSmallpox: 12,000 Years of TerrorBubonic PlagueInfluenza: A Twentieth-Century Epidemic Ring around the rosy, A pocket full of posies, Ashes … ashes, We all…

Most Dangerous Insects

Mosquitos, flies, bees and wasps, and other insects by David Johnson Aggressive "killer bees" deliver a nightmarish, agonizing death by swarming all over their victim. In the…