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- (from the article "Football") ...Atlanta's Michael Vick was the first quarterback to run for more than 1,000 yd, gaining 1,039 yd for the league-leading rushing team with 183.7 per game. His teammate 46-year-old kicker ...
- Andersen, Tryggve
- novelist and short-story writer of the Neoromantic movement in Norway who depicted the conflict between the bureaucratic and peasant cultures and who helped revive Dano-Norwegian literature.
- Anderson
- county, northwestern South Carolina, U.S. It consists of a piedmont region in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains between the Saluda River to the northeast and the Savannah River ...
- Anderson
- city, seat (1828) of Madison county, east-central Indiana, U.S. It lies along the White River, in a corn- (maize-) and wheat-producing region, 39 miles (63 km) northeast of Indianapolis. Founded ...
- Anderson
- city, seat (1826) of Anderson county, northwestern South Carolina, U.S., in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It was founded in 1826 on what had been Cherokee Indian land. ...
- Anderson School of Natural History
- (from the article "Agassiz, Louis") In the interests of better teaching and of scientific enthusiasm, he organized in the summer of 1873 the Anderson School of Natural History at Penikese, an island in Buzzards Bay. ...
- Anderson University
- (from the article "Anderson") ...as William Anderson. In 1886 the city's industrial growth was assured with the discovery of natural gas in the locality. The city's manufactures now include automobile parts and electric vehicles. ...
- Anderson, Abram
- (from the article "Campbell Soup Company") In 1869 Joseph Campbell (d. 1900), a fruit merchant, and Abram Anderson, an icebox manufacturer, formed a partnership in Camden to can tomatoes, vegetables, preserves, and other products. In 1876 ...
- Anderson, Anna
- (from the article "Anastasia") ...the execution and managed to escape from Russia, and some claimed to be heir to the Romanov fortune held in Swiss banks. Perhaps the most famous of these claimants was ...
- Anderson, Benedict
- (from the article "anthropology") In the early 1980s Benedict Anderson, a political scientist, made the extremely influential move of analyzing nations as "imagined communities." His argument that nations, like religions, are based on the ...
- Anderson, Carl
- American actor and singer (b. Feb. 27, 1945, Lynchburg, Va.-d. Feb. 23, 2004, Los Angeles, Calif.), took over the role of Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar on Broadway in 1971 ...
- Anderson, Carl David
- American physicist who, with Victor Francis Hess of Austria, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1936 for his discovery of the positron, or positive electron, the first known particle ... [7 Related Articles]
- Anderson, Chris
- (from the article "Web 2.0") One of the most influential concepts of democratization is due to Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired. In The Long Tail, an article ...
- Anderson, Dame Judith
- Australian-born stage and motion-picture actress.
- Anderson, E S
- British microbiologist (b. Oct. 28, 1911, Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng.-d. March 14, 2006, London, Eng.), established in the 1960s that bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics through the transfer of plasmids ...
- Anderson, Elda Emma
- American physicist who played a pivotal role in developing the field of health physics.
- Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett
- English physician who advocated the admission of women to professional education, especially in medicine. [1 Related Articles]
- Anderson, Fred
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...3 was especially rewarding for the leader's sensitive settings for strings, percussion, and winds (in particular, Evan Parker's brilliant solo on tenor saxophone). Another tenor saxophonist, Fred Anderson, offered some ...
- Anderson, Garland
- (from the article "black theatre") ...and black theatre companies emerged in Chicago, New York City, and Washington, D.C. Among these was the Ethiopian Art Theatre, which established Paul Robeson as America's foremost black actor. Garland ...
- Anderson, Helen Eugenie Moore
- American diplomat, the first woman to serve in the post of U.S. ambassador.
- Anderson, Jack
- American journalist (b. Oct. 19, 1922, Long Beach, Calif.-d. Dec. 17, 2005, Bethesda, Md.), exposed political corruption in Washington, D.C., through his widely syndicated newspaper column, "Washington Merry-Go-Round" (1964-2004). He ... [2 Related Articles]
- Anderson, Jasey Jay
- (from the article "Skiing") Canadian Jasey Jay Anderson failed to medal in Turin, where American Seth Wescott triumphed in the first Olympic snowboardcross (SBX) competition, but Anderson edged teammate Drew Neilson for the men's ...
- Anderson, Jervis
- Jamaican-born American biographer and journalist (b. Oct. 1, 1932, Jamaica-found dead Jan. 7, 2000, New York, N.Y.), was a staff writer for The New Yorker from 1968 ...
- Anderson, John B.
- (from the article "U.S. presidential election results") ...and "Is America as respected throughout the world?" In the landslide, Carter won only 41 percent of the popular vote and 49 votes in the electoral college (third-party candidate John ...
- Anderson, John Henry
- Scottish conjurer and actor, the first magician to demonstrate and exploit the value of advertising.
- Anderson, Ken
- (from the article "Walsh, Bill") ...an assistant coach for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League (NFL) in 1968. There he served as end and quarterback coach under Paul Brown through 1975, earning praise ...
- Anderson, Kenneth
- (from the article "World War II") ...as Nov. 9, 1942, and were reinforced in the following fortnight until they numbered about 20,000 combat troops (which were subsequently heavily reinforced by air). Thus, when the British general ...
- Anderson, Laurie
- American performance artist, composer, and writer whose work explores a remarkable range of media and subject matter. [1 Related Articles]
- Anderson, Leroy
- American conductor, arranger, and composer of "Sleigh Ride," "Blue Tango," and other popular light orchestral music with memorable, optimistic melodies and often unusual percussion effects.
- Anderson, Lindsay
- English critic and stage and motion-picture director. [3 Related Articles]
- Anderson, Maceo
- American tap dancer (b. Sept. 3, 1910, Charleston, S.C.-d. July 4, 2001, Los Angeles, Calif.), was a founding member of the Four Step Brothers, a widely popular tap-dance act. Anderson ...
- Anderson, Margaret
- founder and editor of the Little Review magazine, the "little magazine" in which she introduced works by many of the best-known American and British writers of the 20th century.
- Anderson, Marian
- American singer, one of the finest contraltos of her time. [3 Related Articles]
- Anderson, Mary
- American actress whose popularity rested in great part on her exceptional beauty and highly successful publicity.
- Anderson, Maxie
- balloonist who, with Ben Abruzzo and Larry Newman, made the first transatlantic balloon flight and, with his son Kristian, made the first nonstop trans-North American balloon flight. [2 Related Articles]
- Anderson, Maxwell
- prolific playwright noted for his efforts to make verse tragedy a popular form. [1 Related Articles]
- Anderson, Michael
- (from the article "1956: Best Picture") Around the World in 80 Days, produced by Michael Todd, directed by Michael Anderson (AAN), screenplay by John Farrow, S.J. Perelman, and James Poe (AA) based on the 1873 novel ...
- Anderson, Michael P.
- American astronaut (b. Dec. 25, 1959, Plattsburgh, N.Y.-d. Feb. 1, 2003, over Texas), was the payload commander and a mission specialist on the space shuttle Columbia. Anderson was educated at ...
- Anderson, Orville
- (from the article "balloon flight") The Piccard 17,550-metre flight was followed by longtime National Geographic magazine contributor Capt. A. Stevens and Capt. Orville Anderson, both of the U.S. Army Air Corps, going ...
- Anderson, Paolo Melin
- (from the article "Fashions") In September, Paolo Melin Anderson departed from his Marni senior designer position to become designer in chief at Chloe, replacing British designer Phoebe Philo, who had resigned in January. Simon ...
- Anderson, Patrick
- English-born Canadian poet whose writings, characterized by a rapid juxtaposition of contrasting images, reflect the influence of Dylan Thomas, W.H. Auden, and T.S. Eliot and register his response to Canadian ...
- Anderson, Paul Thomas
- (from the article "2007: Best Actor") ...Daniel Day-Lewis took home another Academy Award for his portrayal of the oil prospector Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood (AAN). The film, written and directed ...
- Anderson, Philip W.
- American physicist and corecipient, with John H. Van Vleck and Sir Nevill F. Mott, of the 1977 Nobel Prize for Physics for his research on semiconductors, superconductivity, and magnetism. [1 Related Articles]
- Anderson, Poul
- prolific American writer of science fiction and fantasy, often praised for his scrupulous attention to scientific detail. [1 Related Articles]
- Anderson, Regina M.
- American librarian, playwright, and patron of the arts whose New York City home was a salon for Harlem Renaissance writers and artists.
- Anderson, Richard Heron
- Confederate general in the American Civil War.
- Anderson, Robert
- (from the article "American Civil War") The flash and dull roar of a 10-inch mortar on April 12, 1861, announced the opening of the American Civil War. After a 34-hour bloodless bombardment, Robert Anderson, in command ...
- Anderson, Robert
- (from the article "Everest, Mount") The last of the great pioneering climbs of the decade was via a new route up the left side of the East Face to the South Col. Led by American ...
- Anderson, Robert Orville
- American oil tycoon was a savvy wildcatter who parlayed a small oil refinery that he purchased (1941) in Artesia, N.M., into the Atlantic Richfield Oil Co. (ARCO), which by 1986 ...
- Anderson, Sherwood
- author who strongly influenced American writing between World Wars I and II, particularly the technique of the short story. His writing had an impact on such notable writers as Ernest ... [3 Related Articles]
- Anderson, Sir John
- (from the article "international relations") ...France the transition to a World-War-I-type command economy was precipitous. Churchill replaced some 60 interdepartment committees for war economics with the single Lord President's Committee under Sir John Anderson. Within ...
- Anderson, Sparky
- American professional baseball manager who had a career record of 2,194 wins and 1,834 losses and led his teams to three World Series titles.
- Anderson, Viv
- professional football (soccer) player and the first person of African descent (his parents were from the West Indies) to play for England's national football team (1978). Anderson, 1.85 metres (6 ...
- Anderson, William Robert
- commander (ret.), U.S. Navy, and American politician piloted the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, the Nautilus, beneath the North Pole on Aug. 3, 1958. The historic voyage under the polar ... [1 Related Articles]
- Andersonville
- village in Sumter county, southwest-central Georgia, U.S., that was the site of a Confederate military prison from February 1864 until May 1865 during the American Civil War. Andersonville was the ...
- Andersonville National Cemetery
- (from the article "Andersonville") Andersonville National Historic Site (established 1970) preserves the camp area and its environs. It includes Andersonville National Cemetery, containing some 16,000 graves, including those of prisoners who died at the ...
- Andersonville National Historic Site
- (from the article "Andersonville") Andersonville National Historic Site (established 1970) preserves the camp area and its environs. It includes Andersonville National Cemetery, containing some 16,000 graves, including those of prisoners who died at the ...
- Anderssen, Adolf
- chess master considered the world's strongest player from his victory in the first modern international tournament (London, 1851) until his defeat (1858) by the American Paul Morphy in match play ... [4 Related Articles]
- Andersson, Bibi
- Swedish actress noted primarily for her appearance in films by Ingmar Bergman.
- Andersson, Dan
- poet and prose writer, an early practitioner of working-class literature who became one of the few popular Swedish poets.
- Andersson, Harriet
- (from the article "1961: Best Foreign-Language Film") ...the lack or loss of religious faith. It was followed by Winter Light (1962, Nattvardsgasterna, "The Communicants") and The Silence (1963, Tystnaden). Harriet Andersson stars as a mentally ill woman ...
- Andersson, Johan Gunnar
- Swedish geologist and archaeologist whose work laid the foundation for the study of prehistoric China. In 1921, at a cave near Chou-k'ou-tien in the vicinity of Peking, on the basis ... [4 Related Articles]
- Andersson, Ove
- Swedish rally race car driver and manager transformed Toyota's rally car team into a world-championship racing organization. During Andersson's stint (1972-99) as team manager, Toyota garnered four world rally driver's ...
- Anderton
- (from the article "canals and inland waterways") ...several locks. Vertical lifts can be operated by high-pressure hydraulic rams, by submersible floats, or by geared counterweights. Hydraulic lifts with twin caissons were constructed in 1875 at Anderton, Eng., ...
- Andes Mountains
- mountain system of South America and one of the great natural features of the Earth. [22 Related Articles]
- Andes virus
- (from the article "hantavirus") ...cotton rat [Sigmodon hispidus]), Louisiana (the Bayou virus, carried by the marsh rice rat [Oryzomys palustris]), Chile and Argentina (the Andes virus, carried by ...
- andesine
- (from the article "Composition of the plagioclase minerals") ...the most common plagioclase, occurs in granite, diorite, and other felsic igneous rocks and in some metamorphic rocks; notable occurrences are at Aust-Agder, Norway, and Fine, N.Y., United States. Andesine, ...
- andesite
- any member of a large family of rocks that occur in most of the world's volcanic areas. Andesites occur mainly as surface deposits and, to a lesser extent, as dikes ... [2 Related Articles]
- Andesite Line
- (from the article "Pacific Ocean") A geologically important boundary between the continental, or "high," islands and the numerous truly oceanic, or "low," islands of the Pacific is the Andesite Line, a region of intense volcanic ...
- andesitic magma
- (from the article "igneous rock") Granitic, or rhyolitic, magmas and andesitic magmas are generated at convergent plate boundaries where the oceanic lithosphere (the outer layer of the Earth composed of the crust and upper mantle) ...
- Andhra
- (from the article "India") The Andhras are listed among the tribal peoples in the Mauryan empire. Possibly they rose to being local officials and then, on the disintegration of the empire, gradually became independent ...
- Andhra Pradesh
- state of India, located in the southeastern part of the subcontinent. It is bounded by the Indian states of Tamil Nadu (formerly Madras) to the south, Karnataka (Mysore) to the ... [5 Related Articles]
- Andhradesa
- (from the article "South Asian arts") Besides the schools of northern India, a very accomplished style also existed in southeast India; the most important sites are Jaggayyapeta and Amaravati, activity at the latter site extending well ...
- Andi languages
- (from the article "Caucasian languages") These occupy the central and western part of Dagestan and part of the Zakataly region in northwestern Azerbaijan. The member languages are the Avar language; the Andi subgroup of languages, ...
- Andigena
- (from the article "toucan") Toucans are nonmigratory, but the mountain toucans (Andigena) move seasonally up and down the Andes Mountains in search of fruit. Like manakins of the forest understory, toucans contribute to the ...
- Andijon
- city, extreme eastern Uzbekistan. Andijon lies in the southeastern part of the Fergana Valley. The city, which stands on ancient deposits of the Andijon River, dates back at least to ... [4 Related Articles]
- Andiparos
- (from the article "Paros") ...(cereals, grapes, figs, olives, and tobacco) and on tourism. Separated from Paros on the southwest by a channel 1.4 miles (2.2 km) wide is the once-attached island of Andiparos (Antiparos), ...
- andiron
- one of a pair of horizontal iron bars upon which wood is supported in an open fireplace. The oldest of fireplace furnishings, andirons were used widely from the Late Iron ... [1 Related Articles]
- Andisol
- one of the 12 soil orders in the U.S. Soil Taxonomy. Andisols are defined by the single property of having volcanic-ash parent material. Although these soils exist in all climatic ... [1 Related Articles]
- Andkhvoy
- (from the article "India") Soon, however, the Ghurid possessions were insecure everywhere. In 1205 Sultan Muhammad of Ghur suffered a severe defeat at Andkhvoy (Andkhui) at the hands of the Khwarezm-Shah dynasty. News of ...
- Ando family
- (from the article "Japan") ...with other warrior houses accused of plotting with them. Subsequently, the main Hojo house turned increasingly inward and autocratic, further alienating other vassal houses. When the Ando family raised a ...
- Ando Shoeki
- Japanese philosopher considered to be one of the forerunners of the 19th-century movement to restore power to the emperor. He was also one of the first Japanese to study European ... [1 Related Articles]
- ando soil
- (from the article "clay mineral") All types of clay minerals have been reported in soils. Allophane, imogolite, hydrated halloysite, and halloysite are dominant components in ando soils, which are the soils developed on volcanic ash. ...
- Ando Tadao
- one of Japan's leading contemporary architects. He is best known for his minimalist concrete buildings. [1 Related Articles]
- Ando, Momofuku
- Japanese food executive was the founder of Nissin Food Products Co. and the inventor of instant noodles; he introduced chicken ramen in 1958, debuted Cup Noodle in 1971, and ...
- Andocides
- Athenian orator and politician. [2 Related Articles]
- Andong
- city, North Kyongsang do (province), east-central South Korea. It lies 215 miles (345 km) from the mouth of the Naktong River, at the terminus of its navigable section, near a ...
- Andoni-Ibeno
- (from the article "Ibibio") ...a language now grouped within the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. The Ibibio comprise the following major divisions: Efik, Northern (Enyong), Southern (Eket), Delta (Andoni-Ibeno), Western (Anang), and ...
- Andorra
- small independent European coprincipality situated among the south slopes of the Pyrenees Mountains and bounded by Spain (south and west) and by France (north and east). It is one of ... [18 Related Articles]
- Andorra la Vella
- town, capital of the independent coprincipality of Andorra. It lies near the confluence of the Valira and the Valira del Norte rivers in the narrow Gran Valira valley, on the ... [4 Related Articles]
- Andorra, flag of
- vertically striped blue-yellow-red national flag with a central coat of arms. It has a width-to-length ratio of approximately 2 to 3.
- Andorra, University of
- (from the article "Andorra") ...also economically significant. Because Andorra has no national monetary unit, the primary currency used is the euro. No railway system exists, but good roads link Andorra with France and Spain. ...
- Andorran
- (from the article "Pyrenees") The Pyrenees are the home of a variety of peoples, including the Andorrans, Catalans, Bearnais, and Basques. Each speaks its own dialect or language, and each desires to maintain and ...
- Andosol
- one of the 30 soil groups in the classification system of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Andosols are highly porous, dark-coloured soils developed from parent material of volcanic origin, ...
- Andover
- market town, Test Valley district, administrative and historic county of Hampshire, England. It lies among chalk hills on the River Anton, a tributary of the Test, about 14 miles (22 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Andover
- town (township), Essex county, northeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies in the Merrimack River valley just south of Lawrence and 20 miles (32 km) north of Boston. Settled in 1642, it ...
- Andoyer, Dom
- (from the article "Old Roman chant") ...the melodies of the Old Roman tradition were first published (Paleographie musicale, 1891), they were described as a deteriorated and distorted Roman version of the Gregorian melodies. Dom Andoyer held ...
- Andrada e Silva, Jose Bonifacio de
- Brazilian statesman who played a key role in Brazil's attainment of independence from Portugal. He is known to Brazilians as the "Patriarch of Independence." [3 Related Articles]
- Andrade, Carlos Drummond de
- poet, journalist, author of cronicas (a short fiction-essay genre widely cultivated in Brazil), and literary critic, considered one of the most accomplished poets of modern Brazil and a major influence ...
- Andrade, Eugenio de
- Portuguese poet who, influenced by Surrealism, used concrete images that include earth, water, and the human body to explore such themes as love, nature, and death. His work is widely ... [2 Related Articles]
- Andrade, Jorge
- one of the most powerful playwrights within the wave of theatrical renewal that began in Brazil just after 1950.
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