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The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien
In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as the Ring is entrusted to his care. He must leave his home and make a pe... |
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Rear Window, Hitchcock
This old classic (with photographer James Stewart confined to his apartment with a cast on his leg and his girlfriend Grace Kelly providing legs for their sleuthing) neve... |
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Condoleezza Rice
Dr. Condoleezza Rice became the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor, on January 22, 2001. In J... |
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CERN: European Org. for Nuclear Research
CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the world's largest particle physics centre. Here physicists come to explore what matter is made of and what force... |
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Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Gail Winfrey, often referred to simply as Oprah, is an American television host, media mogul, and philanthropist. Her internationally-syndicated talk show, The Opra... |
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African American History - Timeline
A history of black people in the United States. African Americans (American Blacks or Black Americans), racial group in the United States whose dominant ancestry is from... |
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Civil Rights Timeline
Milestones in the modern civil rights movement... |
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Director
Flush from Delicatessen's success, Jeunet and Caro finally made a feature they'd been planning for 14 years, the adult fairy tale The City of Lost Children (1995). Shot o... |
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The Lynching of Emmett Till
In the summer of 1955, Mamie Till gave in to her son's pleas to visit relatives in the South. But before putting her only son Emmett on bus in Chicago,... |
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Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs is CEO of Apple, a leader in personal computing devices which he co-founded in 1976, and CEO of Pixar, the Academy-Award-winning computer animation studi... |
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Bill Gates, Founder Microsoft
William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for person... |
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Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of The Web
In 1989, he proposed a global hypertext project, to be known as the World Wide Web. Based on the earlier "Enquire" work, it was designed to allow people to work together... |
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The Crying Crocodile, Appel
The Crying Crocodile Tries to Catch the Sun, 1956. Oil on canvas, 145.5 x 113.1 inches. Peggy Guggenheim.
Appel’s paint handling activates a frenzy of rhythmic movement... |
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Anthony Gottlieb, Writer
Anthony Gottlieb is Executive Editor of The Economist and a former departmental fellow in philosophy at Birkbeck College, London University. He studied philosophy at Cam... |
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Hans Christian Andersen Awards
Every other year IBBY presents the Hans Christian Andersen Awards to a living author and illustrator whose complete works have made a lasting contribution to children's l... |
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