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Walt Whitman: With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!

With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!With husky-haughty lips, O sea! Where day and night I wend thy surf-beat shore, Imaging to my sense thy varied strange suggestions, (I see and plainly list thy…

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…

Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg was the English film director and cinematographer best known for atmospheric and unsettling dramas like Walkabout (1971), Don't Look Now (1973) and The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976).…

K-Pax

Director:Iain SoftleyWriter:Charles LeavittUniversal Pictures; PG-13; 118 minutesRelease:10/01Cast:Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Alfre Woodard Ambiguity can be a hard thing to fake. Films that…

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Director/Writer:Steven SpielbergWarner Bros. and DreamWorks; PG-13; 140 minutesRelease:6/01Cast:Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor Don't take the young kids to see the Steven…

Ken Jennings

Ken Jennings won 74 straight games on the TV game show Jeopardy! in 2004. The unprecedented run earned him $2,522,700, at the time the greatest amount ever won by any contestant on an American game…

Galileo (U.S.)

Destination: Jupiter. Launched: Oct. 18, 1989. Achieved Orbit: Dec. 7, 1995. Mission ended: Sept. 2003. Mission: To study the chemical composition and physical state of the largest planet in the…

James Franco

James Franco was nominated for an Oscar as best actor for his role as an ill-fated climber in the 2010 movie 127 Hours. But he may still be best known for his earliest roles, including Freaks and…

2005 Year in Review

Top events for the nation and the world   American soldiers search for insurgents in Mosul, Iraq Quizzes Incendiary Political Remarks, 2005 Who suggested we assassinate a South…

50 Funniest "Futurama" Quotes

Top of Page Greetings, fellow Earthicans! Are you ready for a journey to the far, far future? A time when robots, aliens, and mutants roam the streets and the fate of the universe hangs in the…