(from the article "gospel music") ...the American Civil Rights Movement, "We Shall Overcome"; the Reverend C.L. Franklin of Detroit, who issued more than 70 albums of his sermons and choir after World War II; blind ...
(from the article "chemical engineering") A landmark in the development of chemical engineering was the publication in 1901 of the first textbook on the subject, by George E. Davis, a British chemical consultant. This concentrated ...
(from the article "1953: Other Winners") ...for From Here to EternityCinematography, Color: Loyal Griggs for ShaneArt Direction, Black-and-White: Edward Carfagno and Cedric Gibbons for Julius CaesarArt Direction, Color: George W. Davis and Lyle Wheeler for The ...
American world-record holder in the 400-metre hurdles (1956-62) who was the first man to win the Olympic gold medal twice in that event. [1 Related Articles]
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Maryland unionist during the secession crisis, harsh critic of Abraham Lincoln, and coauthor of the congressional plan for Reconstruction during the American Civil War.
American gospel singer was a founding member (as an 11-year-old boy) of the Dixie Hummingbirds (briefly known as the Sterling High School Quartet), an a cappella group that pioneered a ...
president of the Confederate States of America throughout its existence during the American Civil War (1861-65). After the war, he was imprisoned for two years and indicted for treason but ... [11 Related Articles]
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American jazz musician, a great trumpeter who as a bandleader and composer was one of the major influences on the art from the late 1940s. [19 Related Articles]
highest point in Pennsylvania, U.S., at an elevation of 3,213 feet (979 metres). The peak is on a ridge of the Allegheny and Appalachian mountains in Somerset county, 15 miles ... [2 Related Articles]
American writer, actor, director, and social activist who was known for his contributions to African American theatre and film and for his passionate support of civil rights and humanitarian causes. ... [3 Related Articles]
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American physicist who, with Koshiba Masatoshi, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2002 for detecting neutrinos. Riccardo Giacconi also won a share of the award for his work on ... [4 Related Articles]
American essayist and writer, remembered primarily for her story "Life in the Iron Mills," which is considered a transitional work of American realism.
(from the article "Dependent States") ...which created a labour shortage in the Cook Islands, whose citizens traveled freely to New Zealand for better-paid work. The territory mourned the death in July of 90-year-old former prime ...
American country music singer (b. Dec. 30, 1931, Dry Ridge, Ky.-d. Sept. 19, 2004, Nashville, Tenn.), began performing on the Grand Ole Opry radio program in 1959 and remained a ...
(from the article "Billiard Games") ...the tournament, became the first qualifier to take snooker's most prestigious event. Murphy won £250,000 (about $475,000) for his efforts, which included victories over three former champions: Steve Davis, John ...
American abstract artist whose idiosyncratic Cubist paintings of urban landscapes presaged the use of commercial art and advertising by Pop artists of the 1960s. [3 Related Articles]
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(from the article "Track and Field Sports") ...one rival had thrown farther all winter. His second throw flew 22.11 m (72 ft 612 in), the longest indoor shot put since 1989. American triple jumper Walter Davis's historic ...
(from the article "Literature") ...Western Limit of the World (2005)-Berkeley, Calif., writer David Masiel wrote about the last days of a chemical tanker on the high seas en route to Africa. North Carolinian Angela ...
(from the article "Davis, Alexander Jackson") ...and the West Presbyterian Church (1831-32) and the Custom House (1833-42) in New York City. One of the original elements that Davis evolved at this time was a window type ...
(b. c. 1541-d. Dec. 21, 1608, Stepney, London), secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England, chiefly remembered for his part in the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.
American experimental physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1937 with George P. Thomson of England for discovering that electrons can be diffracted like light waves, thus verifying ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "North Kingstown") ...was incorporated in 1674; in 1686-89 it was called Rochester. In 1722-23 it was divided into North Kingstown and South Kingstown. North Kingstown includes the villages of Allenton, Davisville, Hamilton, ...
founder of the Irish Land League (1879), which organized resistance to absentee landlordism and sought to relieve the poverty of the tenant farmers by securing fixity of tenure, fair rent, ... [3 Related Articles]
town, Graubunden canton, eastern Switzerland, consisting of two villages, Davos-Platz and Davos-Dorf, in the Davos Valley, on the Landwasser River, 5,118 feet (1,560 metres) above sea level. The town is ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Neue Sachlichkeit") ...assembled at the Kunsthalle, Hartlaub displayed the works of the members of this group: George Grosz, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, Georg Schrimpf, Alexander Kanoldt, Carlo Mense, Georg Scholz, and Heinrich ...
(from the article "fuel cell") ...resulted in the invention of gas-diffusion electrodes in which the fuel gas on one side is effectively kept in controlled contact with an aqueous electrolyte on the other side. By ...
(from the article "bass drum") ...sporting events) giant drums have been constructed. British orchestras often use a larger type of one-headed bass drum known as a gong drum. Similar large cylindrical drums are the Turkish ...
(from the article "Nolichucky River") ...U.S., and flowing northwest into Tennessee, then west to join the French Broad River after a course of 150 miles (241 km). A dam on the Nolichucky just south of ...
physician, chemist, and inventor who devised the electromagnetic repeater for relaying telegraphic signals and invented an electrochemical telegraph (1838).
English chemist who discovered several chemical elements (including sodium and potassium) and compounds, invented the miner's safety lamp, and became one of the greatest exponents of the scientific method. [24 Related Articles]
(from the article "Tennis") Off-court controversies sometimes overshadowed what happened on the tennis court in 2007. Russia's Nikolay Davydenko, who finished the year ranked number four in the world, was under investigation by the ...
(from the article "Swimming") ...its decadelong domination of synchronized swimming-winning six of the seven contested events in Melbourne, including the team free and the team technical routines. The two Anastasiyas-Davydova and Yermakova-unbeaten since 2002, ...
(from the article "Arabian Desert") ...the Pleistocene Epoch (1,800,000 to 10,000 years ago) by ancient river systems now represented by such wadis as Al-Rimah-Al-Batin, Al-Sahba', and Dawasir-Jawb, which carried vast loads of sediment from the ...
(from the article "Australian literature") ...he could in the secular world of spiritual realities and to demonstrate the importance of poetry in ordinary life (a representative volume of his work is Dog Fox Field [1990]), ...
(from the article "China") ...sites in northern Jiangsu (first half of 4th millennium) represent regional cultures that derived in large part from that of Qingliangang. Upper strata also show strong affinities with contemporary Dawenkou ...
(Feb. 8, 1887), U.S. law providing for the distribution of Indian reservation land among individual tribesmen, with the aim of creating responsible farmers in the white man's image. It was ... [5 Related Articles]
arrangement for Germany's payment of reparations after World War I. On the initiative of the British and U.S. governments, a committee of experts, presided over by an American financier, Charles ... [9 Related Articles]
30th vice president of the United States (1925-29) in the Republican administration of President Calvin Coolidge. An ambassador and author of the "Dawes Plan" for managing Germany's reparations payments after ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Ikhwan") A congress convened by Ibn Sa'ud in October 1928 deposed Ibn Humayd, ad-Dawish, and Ibn Hithlayn, the leaders of the revolt. A massacre of Najd merchants by Ibn Humayd in ...
University of Oxford zoologist Richard Dawkins made a career out of trying to present science in terms that could be understood by the general public. Through television appearances, opinion articles ...
(from the article "Literature") In nonfiction The God Delusion (2006) by Richard Dawkins continued to be high-profile and controversial, and it remained on the best-seller lists. A rash of books came out in response ...
(from the article "Babur") When Babur made his first raid into India in 1519, the Punjab was part of the dominions of Sultan Ibrahim Lodi of Delhi, but the governor, Dawlat Khan Lodi, resented ...
(from the article "Persian literature") ...American authors as Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In contrast to the late-20th-century tendency by writers to apply modern narrative techniques to their novels stands the social realism of Mahmoud Dawlatabadi. His ...
town ("parish"), Teignbridge district, administrative and historic county of Devon, England, on the English Channel. It became fashionable in the 19th century and is featured in the novels of Charles ...
(from the article "sunlight") ...During this long passage the dominant blue wavelengths of light are scattered and blocked, leaving the longer, unobstructed red wavelengths to reach the Earth and lend their tints to the ...
(from the article "Physical Sciences") NASA launched its Dawn mission to explore asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres on September 27. It carried a visual and infrared spectrometer and a gamma-ray and neutron detector to ...
(from the article "snake") ...Pelvic vestiges present. Tracheal lung present. 1 species (Ramphotyphlops braminus) parthenogenetic.15 species in 4 genera from Central America to northern South America. Size ...
extinct group of horses that flourished in North America and Europe during the early part of the Eocene Epoch (55.8-33.9 million years ago). Even though these animals are more commonly ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "Ahmed Hasim") ...but, after his study of the poetry of Charles Baudelaire and the Symbolist poetry of Arthur Rimbaud, Stephane Mallarme, and others, his poetic style changed. In 1909 he joined the ...
genus of conifers represented by a single living species, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, from central China. Fossil representatives, such as M. occidentalis, dated to about 90 million years ago ... [1 Related Articles]
city, western Yukon Territory, Canada. It lies at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers, near the Alaska, U.S., boundary, 165 miles (265 km) south of the Arctic Circle. ... [2 Related Articles]
city, northeastern British Columbia, Canada. The city lies along Dawson Creek near the Alberta border. It has the Mile "Zero" post marking the beginning of the Alaska Highway and is ...
river in eastern Queensland, Australia. It rises in the Carnarvon Range and flows southeast, northeast, and north for about 400 miles (640 km) through a 50-mile-wide valley to join the ...
(from the article "Boxing") The heir apparent to the light heavyweight throne appeared to be Chad Dawson (U.S.), who won the WBC light heavyweight title on February 3 with a 12-round decision over Tomasz ...
(from the article "Piltdown man") In a series of discoveries in 1910-12, Charles Dawson, an English lawyer and amateur geologist, found what appeared to be the fossilized fragments of a cranium, a jawbone, and other ...
(from the article "Performing Arts") ...March 24 the Mariinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg added Forsythe's Approximate Sonata to its growing collection of his works and at the same performance gave the premiere of Reverence by ...
English journalist, editor of The Times from 1912 to 1919 and from 1923 until his retirement in 1941. He changed his surname from Robinson to Dawson following ...
American physicist (b. Sept. 30, 1930, Champaign, Ill.-d. Nov. 17, 2001, Los Angeles, Calif.), was one of the world's foremost authorities on plasma physics. Dawson was known for his development ...
(from the article "London in 1940") ...for English-speaking peoples around the globe. The following article "London" was originally printed in the 1941 Britannica Book of the Year (events of 1940). It was written by Lawrence Hawkins ...
British comedian (b. Feb. 2, 1934, Collyhurst, near Manchester, England--d. June 10, 1993, Manchester), was a stand-up comic and television personality whose dour, misanthropic humour was reminiscent of W.C. Fields ...
(from the article "bryophyte") Leafy bryophytes grow up to 65 centimetres (2 feet) in height (the moss Dawsonia) or, if reclining, reach lengths of more than 1 metre (3.3 feet; the moss Fontinalis). They ...
a carbonate mineral, NaAlCO3 (OH)2, that is probably formed by the decomposition of aluminous silicates. Of low-temperature, hydrothermal origin, it occurs in Montreal, where it was first discovered; near Monte ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Zahiriyah") This approach to the Islamic tradition was apparently pioneered in Iraq in the 9th century by one Dawud ibn Khalaf, though nothing of his work has survived. From Iraq, it ...
town, Landes departement, Aquitaine region, southwestern France. It lies on the left bank of the Adour River, 88 miles (142 km) southwest of Bordeaux and 50 miles (80 km) north ...
(from the article "Economic Affairs") ...programs once the political uncertainty surrounding the national elections in September was over. The inconclusive election result did cause stock market performance to waver a little. The German DAX 30 ...
(from the article "China") In the middle and lower Yangtze River valley during the 4th and 3rd millennia, the Daxi and Qujialing cultures shared a significant number of traits, including rice production, ring-footed vessels, ...
brief Chinese text generally attributed to the ancient sage Confucius (551-479 BC) and his disciple Zengzi. For centuries the text existed only as a chapter of the Liji ("Collection of ... [4 Related Articles]
great mountain range in western Sichuan province, southwestern China. These enormously high and rugged mountains were formed around the eastern flank of the ancient stable block of the Plateau of ... [2 Related Articles]
time required for a celestial body to turn once on its axis; especially the period of the Earth's rotation. The sidereal day is the time required for the Earth to ... [8 Related Articles]
(from the article "fighter aircraft") ...intercepting and defeating or routing invading fighters. A night fighter is one equipped with sophisticated radar and other instruments for navigating in unfamiliar or hostile territory at night. A day ...
any plant of the genus Hemerocallis of the family Hemerocallidaceae, consisting of about 15 species of perennial herbs distributed from central Europe to eastern Asia. Members of the genus have ...
public holiday observed in South Africa on December 16. The holiday originally commemorated the victory of the Voortrekkers (southern Africans of Dutch, German, or Huguenot descent who made the Great ... [1 Related Articles]
holiday in Mexico, also observed to a lesser extent in other areas of Latin America and in the United States, honouring dead loved ones and making peace with the eventuality ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Spain") One important holiday is both religious and civic. October 12 is the Day of the Virgin of El Pilar and also the day on which the "discovery" of America is ...
U.S. geophysicist known for his studies of the properties of rocks and minerals at very high and very low temperatures. He investigated hot springs and earthquakes, the absolute measurement of ...
