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(May 20, 2011) Oscar winner Penélope Cruz joins the crew for this fourth Pirates voyage. Rb Marshall, who won an Oscar for Chicago takes over the directing duties from Gore Verbinski. Verbinski directed the first three films, but opted to leave the franchise. Johnny Depp is back as Captain Jack and Keith Richards reprises his role as Jack’s father. (May 26, 2011) In this sequel to this animated 2008 blockbuster, a peacock named Lord Shen invents a weapon that wipes out the existence of kung fu....

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What Is a Tornado? A tornado is a dark funnel-shaped cloud made up of violently rotating winds that can reach speeds of up to 300 mph. The diameter of a tornado can vary between a few feet and a mile, and its track can extend from less than a mile to several hundred miles. Tornadoes generally travel in a northeast direction (depending on the prevailing winds) at speeds ranging from 20–60 mph....

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Related Links Encyclopedia: Pearl HarborEncyclopedia: World War IIWorld War II TimelineCasualties in World War IIPearl Harbor: the Movie Other Content National Geographic: Pearl HarborEyewitness Accounts of the AttackImperial Japanese Navy PageNational Museum of Naval AviationUSS Arizona Memorial Although the U.S. military forces in Pearl Harbor had been recently strengthened, the base was not at a state of high alert. Many people were just waking when the first bombs were dropped. No one was prepared to do battle....

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by Diane Wrigley, Physician Assistant — Certified One person in five will experience a depressive episode in his or her life, but only five percent of the population suffers from full-blown SAD. Another ten to twenty percent of the population suffers from at least some of the symptoms of SAD. A distinct subtype of recurrent depressive illness, SAD differs from other forms of mental illness (such as unipolar and bipolar depression) in that its symptoms only manifest themselves seasonally—generally starting in autumn and continuing through the winter months....

After recent monster successes with The Dark Knight, Iron Man, and the Spiderman series, Hollywood is rebooting several superhero franchises. Some redos like X-men, Superman, and Wonder Woman seem timely, while the choice to recast Spiderman so soon is risky. There are also new ventures into the worlds of Captain American, Thor, and Green Lantern. Thor (May 6, 2011) Thor, a mythic Norse hammer-wielding god, was the subject of various poems and paintings dating back to the 1700s before becoming a fictional superhero in publications published by Marvel Comics....

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“I am proud to announce: the eagle has returned,” Kempthorne said at a ceremony at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. “In 1963, the lower 48 states were home to barely 400 nesting pairs of bald eagles. Today, after decades of conservation effort, they are home to some 10,000 nesting pairs.” Alaska and Hawaii are not part of the lower 48 states. The bald eagle has been our national bird since 1782....

Size: About 10 times larger than Earth in diameterDiameter: 74,978 miles (120,660 km)Surface: Liquid and gasAtmosphere: Hydrogen and heliumTemperature: –288°F (–178°C)Rotation of its axis: 10 hours, 40 min, 24 secRotation around the Sun: 291/2 Earth yearsYour weight: If you weigh 100 pounds on Earth, you would weigh 107 pounds on Saturn.Distance from Earth: 744 million miles at the closest pointMean Distance from Sun: 887.14 million miles (1,427 million km)Satellites: 31Rings: 1,000?...

Pierre L’Enfant, a city planner from France, designed the new city. He decided to place the Capitol Building on one hill and the “President’s House” on another hill. L’Enfant had many plans for building the city, but he lost his job after too many disagreements with landowners. The streets and parks that exist in Washington, D.C., today are the result of the work of two surveyors, Andrew Ellicott and Benjamin Banneker, who made maps and plans based on L’Enfant’s original designs....