Welcome to Dailypedia

Lebanon began three days of mourning on Wednesday for an anti-Syrian cabinet minister who was gunned down on Tuesday. Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel, a Christian, was the sixth anti-Syrian politician to be killed in nearly two years. The killing will heighten tensions between the anti-Syrian government and the pro-Damascus opposition led by Hezbollah, the powerful Shi'ite Muslim guerrilla group.

DEFINITION: (noun) A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock. SYNONYMS: lea, grazing land, pasture. USAGE: On their way to San Francisco, they drove by miles of pastureland upon which cattle grazed contentedly.

Born Jacob Cohen, Dangerfield was an American comedian and actor who appeared in a slew of movies, including Caddyshack, Easy Money, and Back To School. His Manhattan nightclub, "Dangerfield's," was the venue for an HBO show that helped popularize many stand-up comics, including Jerry Seinfeld and Roseanne Barr. Dangerfield was best known for his trademark line "I don't get no respect," which was inspired by what iconic 1972 film?

The assassination of John F. Kennedy while he was riding in a presidential motorcade in Dallas was a seminal event in American history. Although two official investigations have concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was the culprit, the assassination is still the subject of widespread speculation and has spawned a number of conspiracy theories. Who was the "Babushka Lady," and what was she doing at the time of the assassination?

Sequoias are huge coniferous evergreen trees that belong to the cypress family. They probably originated over 100 million years ago and were once widespread in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere but were almost exterminated by the ice sheets of the glacial ages. Today, the two living species survive only in a narrow strip near the Pacific coast of the US. How high does the redwood variety, which is probably the tallest tree in the world, grow?