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Tiger Woods

Name at birth: Eldrick Tont WoodsThe winner of 15 major championships, Tiger Woods was golf's dominant superstar when a sex scandal and then injuries derailed his career starting for nearly a decade…

Beyond Pluto

In July 2005, a team from the California Institute of Technology announced the discovery of a possible “tenth planet” temporarily called 2003 UB313. This most distant object so far found in…

Christina Rossetti: Cousin Kate

Cousin KateI was a cottage maiden Hardened by sun and air, Contented with my cottage mates, Not mindful I was fair. Why did a great lord find me out, And praise my flaxen hair? Why did…

The Devil's Dictionary: W

by Ambrose Bierce VXW W (double U) has, of all the letters in our alphabet, the only cumbrous name, the names of the others being monosyllabic. This advantage of the Roman alphabet over the…

Algebra: Rational Expressions

Rational Expressions Algebra Rational Expressions Simplifying Rational Expressions Combining Rational Expressions Multiplying and Dividing Rationally Encountering Complex Fractions There are…

Movies and Film: The Eighties and Nineties

The Eighties and NinetiesMovies and FilmFrench Film HistoryIt's Art, Stupid!A Century of Cinematic SplendorBefore the WarSurfing the "New Wave"The Eighties and NinetiesTen Fabulous French Films We…

The Illiad: The Embassy to Achilles.

The Second Battle, and the Dis... The Night Adventure of Diomed ... The Embassy to Achilles. Agamemnon, after the last day's defeat, proposes to the Greeks to quit the siege, and…