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1976–1977 Emmy Awards

Outstanding Drama SeriesMasterpiece Theatre: Upstairs, Downstairs (PBS)Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama SeriesJames Garner, The Rockford FilesOutstanding Lead Actress in a Drama…

Sally Field

Sally Field has twice won best actress Oscars: for the labor drama Norma Rae (1979) and for Places In the Heart (1984, with John Malkovich). Sally Field got her start playing spunky-but-naive young…

Patty Schemel Biography

musicianBorn: April 24, 1967Birthplace: Marysville, Washington At age 11, Patty Schemel learned how to play the drums. By age 15, she had formed her first band,…

Time Tangled Island: Ancient Greece

Factropica Fast Facts and quizzes by Beth Rowen Related Links Zeus Biography Ancient Greece Delphi Try our Ancient Greece Quiz! Factropica Fast…

Harry Potter Movie Stars

Bringing the Potter books to the big screen by Shmuel Ross Daniel Radcliffe Related Links Order of the Phoenix Movie ReviewHarry Potter and the Goblet of FireQuiz: Order of the Phoenix…

Brewer's: Peck

(A). Some food. “To have a peck,” is to have something to eat. Peckish. Hungry, or desirous of something to eat. Of course “peck” refers to fowls, etc., which peck their food. “When shall…

Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st earl of Beaconsfield

(Encyclopedia) Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st earl of BeaconsfieldDisraeli, Benjamin, 1st earl of Beaconsfielddĭzrāˈlē, 1804–81, British statesman and author. He is regarded as the founder of the modern…

Brewer's: White Ladies

[Les Dames Blanches ]. A species of fée in Normandy. They lurk in ravines, fords, bridges, and other narrow passes, and ask the passenger to dance. If…