Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
AOL latest headlines, entertainment, sports, articles for business, health and world news.
help. " The Star-Spangled Banner " is the national anthem of the United States. The lyrics come from the " Defence of Fort M'Henry ", [2] a poem written by American lawyer Francis Scott Key on September 14, 1814, after he witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812.
Mercury is the first planet from the Sun and the smallest in the Solar System. In English, it is named after the ancient Roman god Mercurius ( Mercury ), god of commerce and communication, and the messenger of the gods. Mercury is classified as a terrestrial planet, with roughly the same surface gravity as Mars.
Box office. $490.7 million [5] War for the Planet of the Apes is a 2017 American science fiction action film [7] directed by Matt Reeves, who co-wrote it with Mark Bomback. The sequel to Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), it is the third installment in the Planet of the Apes reboot franchise and the ninth film overall. [8]
Robert Anthony Plant was born on 20 August 1948, in the Black Country town of West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England, to Robert C. Plant, a qualified civil engineer who worked in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, [10] and Annie Celia Plant (née Cain), a Romani woman.
The peanut ( Arachis hypogaea ), also known as the groundnut, [2] goober (US), [3] goober pea, [4] pindar (US) [3] or monkey nut (UK), is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds. It is widely grown in the tropics and subtropics, important to both small and large commercial producers. It is classified as both a grain legume [5] and, due ...
help. " Two of Us " is a 1969 song written by Paul McCartney [1] [2] and credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership. The song was recorded by the Beatles on 31 January 1969. "Two of Us" was originally released as the opening track on Let It Be (1970) and a remix of that recording was later included on Let It Be... Naked (2003).
Idiosoma is a genus of Australian armoured trapdoor spiders that was first described by Anton Ausserer in 1871. [3] Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was moved to the armoured trapdoor spiders in 1985. [4] The name is derived from the Greek ἴδιος ( idios ), meaning "individual, unique", and σῶμα ( soma ), meaning "body ...