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Robert Graves: Cherry-Time

Cherry-TimeCherries of the night are riper Than the cherries pluckt at noon Gather to your fairy piper When he pipes his magic tune: Merry, merry, Take a cherry; Mine…

Busy Times for Harry Potter

A Movie, a Lawsuit, and a Lot of Hungry Readers by Holly Hartman This article was posted on January 20, 2000. A French edition of the second Harry Potter book More About Harry The Scoop on…

The Life and Times of JFK, Jr.

July 16 marks the anniversary of Kennedy's tragic plane crash by Beth Rowen John F. Kennedy, Jr., and his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, died in a small plane on July 16, 1999. The Kennedys John…

Brewer's: Close-time for Game

(See Sporting Seasons.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894CloshClose Rolls A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Related…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Time

by Percy Bysshe Shelley To NightLinesTime Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824. Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are…

All-Time NASCAR Leaders

NASCAR's all-time Top 20 drivers in victories, pole positions and earnings based on records through 2001. Drivers active in 2002 are in bold type. Victories 1 Richard Petty 200 2 David…

NCAA All-Time Team

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the NCAA tournament in 1997, the NCAA announced its 50th Anniversary Team and introduced it during the 1997 championship game in Milwaukee. The team was…

How Big is a Time Zone?

The Question: How far apart are each of the time zones? The Answer: The answer to your question depends on where you are. The world's time zones were created by…

Brewer's: Wile away Time

(not While). It is the same word as “guile,” to “beguile the time” (fallere tempus). “To wile each moment with a fresh delight.”…

Walt Whitman: Locations and Times

Locations and TimesLocations and times—what is it in me that meets them all, whenever and wherever, and makes me at home? Forms, colors, densities, odors—what is it in me that corresponds…