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Related Links Mother’s DayYoung Adults Living at HomeChild Care for Children Under Six Years OldHistorical Living Arrangements of ChildrenAdoption in the U.S. Catherine Scorsese, Mother of Director Martin Scorsese When she wasn’t cooking for the cast and crew on the set of one her son’s movies, she was cooking on screen. In Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas (1990), Catherine Scorsese plays Tommy’s mother, who feeds her son and the other good fellas pasta after their hard night of murder and mayhem....

The bald eagle is not bald; it has a cap of white feathers on top of its head. The koala is not a bear; it is a marsupial, which is a mammal with a pouch. The Komodo dragon is not a dragon; it is a lizard. The prairie dog is not a dog; it is a rodent similar to a squirrel. The sea horse is not a horse; it is a fish....

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Today’s Weather Fact The U.S. Weather Service defines a blizzard as a storm with winds of more than 35 miles an hour and snow that limits visibility to 500 feet or less. A severe blizzard is defined as having winds exceeding 45 miles an hour, visibility of a quarter mile or less, and temperatures of 10 degrees F or lower. The “Great White Hurricane,” as it was called, paralyzed the East Coast from the Chesapeake Bay to Maine....

Chinese or Japanese, Angelino or San Franciscan? One history of the fortune cookie claims that David Jung, a Chinese immigrant living in Los Angeles and founder of the Hong Kong Noodle Company, invented the cookie in 1918. Concerned about the poor he saw wandering near his shop, he created the cookie and passed them out free on the streets. Each cookie contained a strip of paper with an inspirational Bible scripture on it, written for Jung by a Presbyterian minister....

Below are the five most common fears about the LHC and reasons for why you should not be worried. More from Science

The Middle Atlantic region was settled by a wider range of people than New England. Dutch immigrants moved into the lower Hudson River Valley in what is now New York State. Swedes went to Delaware. English Catholics founded Maryland, and an English Protestant sect, the Friends (Quakers), settled Pennsylvania. In time, all these settlements fell under English control, but the region continued to be a magnet for people of diverse nationalities....

The diameter of our closest star, the Sun, is 1,392,000 kilometers. The Sun is thought to be 4.6 billion years old. The Sun is a medium–size star known as a yellow dwarf. It is a star in the Milky Way galaxy and the temperature in its core is estimated to be over 15,000,000 degrees Celsius. In the Sun’s core, hydrogen is being fused to form helium. The energy created by this process radiates up to the visible boundary of the Sun and then off into space....

Hugh F. J. Corr and David G. Vaughan, of the British Antarctic survey, published a report in January 2008 on the Nature Geoscience website about the recently discovered volcano. American and British scientists were able to see the buried layer of volcanic ash with radar surveys performed in 2004 and 2005. In earlier radar surveys of the area, the layer of ash was so thick it was mistaken for bedrock....

Related Links Space ExplorationSpace Shuttle TimelineSpace Shuttle (Encyclopedia) Space AccidentsSpace Movies Troubled Mission Ends Up a Success Originally, Curiosity was supposed to launch in the fall of 2009 and cost $1.6 billion. Technical problems delayed the launch and NASA had to wait 26 months—the next time Earth lined up with Mars in the right position for the landing. In the meantime, the cost of the mission rose to $2.5 billion. Still, the mission was a huge achievement for NASA, which has seen criticism in recent years that the agency will never be what it once was....

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Note: Yiddish is written in the Hebrew alphabet thus the spellings in this glossary are transliterations.

In 2004, Bening was again a Best Actress nominee for her role in Being Julia. She played a stage diva bent on revenge in the film. It was another strong performance, earning her a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. She was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for the role, losing again to Hilary Swank. Now Annette Bening is once again nominated for Best Actress....

Common ingredients: seafood, pork, chicken, nuts, tropical fruits Popular dishes: hearts of palm; breadfruit; roasted fish; roasted kukui nuts More Information: Encyclopedia: Polynesia