Internationally acclaimed for bringing Shakespeare to a vast new audience, this pioneering series presents twelve of his works as animated masterpieces- "Richard III".

Lauren Groveman, from Larchmont, New York, shows Julia Child the many steps of bagel baking. In this episode, Groveman demonstrates how bagels are boiled, and then baked. Flavors can be added to the top and the bottom of the bagels. Bagel-baking tips are shared, including how baking soda and sugar help brown the bagels during baking, and tossing ice cubes on the bottom of the oven creates steam. Groveman also prepares vegetable cream cheese, smoked...

"This biography introduces readers to Richard Nixon including his military service, early political career, and key events from Nixon's administration including his debates with John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal, and his resignation. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and...

"Scientist Marian Creighton was skeptical of her father's lifelong research of ancient holy water-until she ingests some of it and finds herself transported back to the Middle Ages. With the help of an emotionally wounded nobleman, can she make her way back home? Or will she be trapped in the past forever?"-- Provided by publisher.

From 1971-73, Richard Nixon secretly recorded his private conversations in the White House. When the existence of the tapes was exposed during the Watergate scandal, Nixon refused to allow their release, explaining they contained "blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects" that could sully the presidency forever. Only certain conversations pertaining to Watergate ended up being heard at the time, but after Nixon's death in 1994, the government...

Facing impeachment hearings due to his involvement in the 1972 Watergate scandal, President Richard Nixon resigned from office. In a speech delivered on August 8, 1974, he claimed that the United States needed "a full-time president and a full-time Congress" and that a trial would divert the federal government's attention from more important matters, but he did not admit to any criminal activity. It was the first time a U.S. president had ever resigned....

During the 1968 presidential campaign, Richard Nixon made an issue of Attorney General Ramsey Clark's liberal tendencies, promising to replace Clark to "restore order and respect for law" in the United States. As attorney general, Clark helped author the 1968 Civil Rights Act. He also supported gun control, opposed wire tapping, and spoke out against mayor Richard Daley's brutal reaction to the riots outside of the 1968 Democratic National Convention...

A month after becoming president, Gerald Ford offered a "free, full, and absolute pardon" to former president Richard Nixon for any crimes he may have committed during the Watergate bugging and conspiracy. While the move elicited a strong negative reaction from the public, historians argue that it also allowed Ford to focus on more critical issues such as high unemployment and the energy crisis.

Despite increasing dissent from Americans involved in the anti-war movement, Nixon believed that victory in Vietnam was still possible, and tried to show the American people the progress that was being made. At the time of this address, American troops were being replaced with U.S.-trained South Vietnamese troops, which enabled the gradual reduction of the United States' military presence. Allied troops were also successfully containing enemy activity....

On June 17, 1972, five men connected with the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) broke in to the Democratic Party national headquarters at the Watergate complex. The five, along with G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, were convicted of conspiracy, burglary, and eavesdropping charges on January 30, 1973. Further investigation revealed White House involvement and an attempted cover-up. On April 30 White House advisors John Dean, H.R. Haldeman,...