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Tom Felton

Tom Felton is the English actor known for playing Draco Malfoy, schoolboy foe of Harry Potter, in the movies based on J.K. Rowling's novels. Tom Felton's screen career began in TV commercials in…

New Horizons (U.S.)

Image of Pluto sent back by New Horizons. Source: NASA Destination: Pluto-Kuiper Belt. Launched: Jan. 19, 2006. Arrival: Summer 2015. Mission: To study the worlds at the edge of our solar…

Garry Shandling Biography

Garry Shandlingcomedian, talk show host, actorBorn: 11/29/1949Birthplace: Chicago Shandling successfully parlayed his personal life into fodder for his stand-up comedy routine, which in turn appeared…

Selena Gomez

Selena Gomez is the dark-eyed former Disney Channel star who moved on to become a grown-up pop singer and actress. Selena Gomez was a kiddie regular on the TV show Barney and Friends (along with Demi…

Aliza's Time Travel Essay

Aliza imagines life in the year 2108 Related Links How to Write a Five Paragraph Essay Punctuation Sentences Ten Tips for…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: To Constantia

by Percy Bysshe Shelley To Constantia, SingingFragment: To One SingingTo Constantia Dated 1817 by Mrs. Shelley, and printed by her in the "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition. A copy exists…

Kodi Smit-McPhee

Australian actor Kodi Smit-McPhee was in the spotlight in early 2022 for his Oscar-nominated role as Peter in The Power of the Dog (2021). By that time, Smit-McPhee had had more than a dozen years…

I. The Ozone Layer

The Earth's atmosphere is divided into several layers. The lowest region, the troposphere, extends from the Earth's surface up to about 10 kilometers (km) in altitude. The next layer, the…

Kris Kristofferson

Kris Kristoffersoncomposer, singer, actorBorn: 6/22/1936Birthplace: Brownsville, Texas A former Rhodes Scholar and tenure-track professor at West Point, this unlikely hipster began making history in…

The Big Bang: Origin of the Universe

Before the universe as we now know it existed, there was no space or time. The Big Bang and its associated theories try to explain or describe the moment of change from nothingness and no…