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- (from the article "Australia") ...Brilliant Career (1980), and Bruce Beresford's Breaker Morant (1980) were well received by critics and audiences and brought international acclaim. The success of George Miller's
- Miller, Glenn
- American big band leader, arranger, composer, and trombonist, considered the premier musical symbol of the World War II generation.
- Miller, Harriet Mann
- American children's author whose writing tended to either heartrending fiction about desolate children or lively, factual nature pieces.
- Miller, Henry
- U.S. writer and perennial Bohemian whose autobiographical novels achieve a candour-particularly about sex-that made them a liberating influence in mid-20th-century literature. He is also notable for a free and easy ... [2 Related Articles]
- Miller, Hugh
- Scottish geologist and lay theologian who was considered one of the finest geological writers of the 19th century and whose writings were widely successful in arousing public interest in geologic ...
- Miller, J. Hillis
- American literary critic who was initially associated with the Geneva group of critics and, later, with the Yale school and deconstruction. Miller was important in connecting North American criticism with ... [2 Related Articles]
- Miller, J. Irwin
- (from the article "Architecture and Civil Engineering") ...School of Craft in Maine. Pierre Koenig, 78 (see Obituaries), died in April. He was a designer of classic Modernist houses in southern California. Josef Kleihues, 71, ...
- Miller, Jason
- American actor and playwright (b. April 22, 1939, Long Island City, Queens, N.Y.-d. May 13, 2001, Scranton, Pa.), was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of Father Damien ...
- Miller, Joaquin
- American poet and journalist whose best work conveys a sense of the majesty and excitement of the Old West. His best-known poem is "Columbus" with its refrain, "On, sail on!"-once ...
- Miller, Johann Martin
- German poet, novelist, and preacher known for moralizing, sentimental novels and folk song-like poems.
- Miller, John
- (from the article "roller coaster") ...when more than 1,500 roller coasters were in operation in the country. Coasters were among the biggest attractions at amusement parks, and improvements in safety helped to advance coaster design. ...
- Miller, Jonathan
- actor, director, producer, medical doctor, and man of letters noted for his wide-ranging abilities.
- Miller, Keith Ross
- Australian cricketer (b. Nov. 28, 1919, Sunshine, Vic., Australia-d. Oct. 11, 2004, near Melbourne, Australia), was one of the best all-rounders of the 20th century and a key member of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Miller, Lee
- (from the article "Art and Art Exhibitions") "The Art of Lee Miller," a major retrospective exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (Sept. 15, 2007-Jan. 6, 2008), marked the 100th anniversary of the birth and the ...
- Miller, Leszek
- (from the article "Poland") Area: 312,685 sq km (120,728 sq mi) | Population (2004 est.): 38,176,000 | Capital: Warsaw | Chief of state: President Aleksander Kwasniewski | Head of government: Prime Ministers Leszek Miller ...
- Miller, Marilyn
- one of the most popular American musical comedy actresses of the 1920s.
- Miller, Marvin
- (from the article "baseball") ...the court failed to provide was in substance achieved by the Major League Baseball Players Association-founded in 1953 but largely ineffectual until 1966, when it hired as executive director Marvin ...
- Miller, May
- African-American playwright and poet associated with the Harlem Renaissance in New York City during the 1920s.
- Miller, Merton H.
- American economist who, with Harry M. Markowitz and William F. Sharpe, won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1990. His contribution (and that of his colleague Franco Modigliani, who received ... [3 Related Articles]
- Miller, Mitch
- (from the article "New York 1950s overview") Mitch Miller was the first major-label A&R man to appreciate the potential in covering country hits, producing "The Tennessee Waltz" by Patti Page for Mercury in 1950 and the first ...
- Miller, Neal E.
- American psychologist, who, with John Dollard, developed a theory of motivation based on the satisfaction of psychosocial drives by combining elements of a number of earlier reinforcement theories of behaviour ... [2 Related Articles]
- Miller, Oskar von
- electrical engineer who fostered the electric-power industry in Germany and founded the Deutsches Museum of science and technology in Munich.
- Miller, Philip
- (from the article "floral decoration") ...in 18th-century England gave incidental information on how to care for and display them. One of the best known of these works is the two-volume Gardeners Dictionary by the horticulturist ...
- Miller, Phineas
- (from the article "Whitney, Eli") ...was disappointed twice in promised teaching posts. The second offer was in Georgia, where, stranded without employment, short of cash, and far from home, he was befriended by Catherine Greene. ...
- Miller, Ralph
- American basketball coach (b. March 9, 1919, Chanute, Kan.-d. May 15, 2001, Black Butte, Ore.), was one of the most successful coaches in the history of college basketball. Miller coached ...
- Miller, Samuel Freeman
- associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1862-90), a leading opponent of efforts to use the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution to protect business against government regulation. He was spokesman ... [1 Related Articles]
- Miller, Sanderson
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...though now derelict, octagonal church at Hartwell, Buckinghamshire. An ardent admirer of Gothic, Keene had begun Gothicizing Arbury Hall, Warwickshire, as early as 1748. It was to the amateurs Sanderson ...
- Miller, Seton I.
- (from the article "1941: Other Winners") Screenplay: Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller for Here Comes Mr. JordanOriginal Story: Harry Segall for Here Comes Mr. JordanOriginal Screenplay: Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles for Citizen KaneCinematography, ...
- Miller, Shannon
- During the 1992 summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain, a 15-year-old U.S. gymnast, Shannon Miller, drew worldwide notice by earning two silver medals and three bronzes--more than any other ...
- Miller, Sienna
- (from the article "Fashions") ...25-piece collection was inspired by the clothes worn by Penelope Cruz and her sister Monica. Carlos Ortega, owner of Pepe Jeans, bankrolled Twenty8Twelve, a line of casual clothing conceived by ...
- Miller, Stanley
- American chemist designed the first experiment to produce organic molecules from some of the inorganic components of the Earth's prebiotic atmosphere. Miller's procedure (which was co-designed by Harold Urey and ... [1 Related Articles]
- Miller, Thomas
- (from the article "Culpeper's Rebellion") ...British Navigation acts. These trade laws denied the colonists a free market outside England and placed heavy duties on commodities. The colonists' resentment found an object in the deputy governor, ...
- Miller, William
- American religious enthusiast, leader of a movement called Millerism that sought to revive belief that the bodily arrival ("advent") of Christ was imminent. [3 Related Articles]
- Miller, William E.
- (from the article "Goldwater, Barry") ...favour, and Goldwater was handicapped by the charge that he was an extreme anticommunist who might carry the country into war with the Soviet Union. Goldwater and his vice-presidential running ...
- Miller, William Hallowes
- (from the article "Miller indices") ...upon the axis cut; and a plane cutting all three axes at lengths equal to the edges of a unit cell has Miller indices of (111). This scheme, devised by ...
- Miller, Willoughby Dayton
- (from the article "dentistry") In 1890 American dentist Willoughby Dayton Miller published The Micro-organisms of the Human Mouth, in which he proposed the theory that dental caries were the result of bacterial activity. Miller's ...
- Miller, Zell
- (from the article "The U.S. Election of 2004") ...a significant polling lead. Moderate Republican stars, including California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, and disaffected Democrats such as U.S. Sen. Zell Miller of ...
- Miller-El v. Dretke
- (from the article "Law, Crime, and Law Enforcement") In the field of criminal law, the death penalty-once a dormant area of constitutional law-occupied centre stage and was addressed in three separate cases: Miller-El v. Dretke, Rompilla v. Beard, ...
- Millerand, Alexandre
- French lawyer and statesman who, as president of the Republic (1920-1924), was noted for his desire to strengthen the power of the president by constitutional revision. [2 Related Articles]
- MillerCoors
- American brewing company formed in 2008 through the merger of SABMiller PLC and Molson Coors. Its headquarters are in Chicago.
- Millerism
- (from the article "Miller, William") American religious enthusiast, leader of a movement called Millerism that sought to revive belief that the bodily arrival ("advent") of Christ was imminent.history of Adventism
- millerite
- a nickel sulfide mineral (NiS) found in carbonate veins, as at Keokuk, Iowa, or as an alteration product of other nickel minerals, as at Andreas-Berg, Ger. Other occurrences are in ...
- Milles, Carl
- Swedish sculptor known for his expressive and rhythmical large-scale fountains. [2 Related Articles]
- millet
- any of various grasses, members of the Gramineae (Poaceae) family, producing small edible seeds used as forage crops and as food cereals. Millets, probably first cultivated in Asia or Africa ... [7 Related Articles]
- millet
- (Turkish: "religious community," or "people"), according to the Qur'an, the religion professed by Abraham and other ancient prophets. In medieval Islamic states, the word was applied to certain non-Muslim minorities, ... [10 Related Articles]
- Millet, Jean-Francois
- French painter whose serene landscapes made him one of the most influential followers of Nicolas Poussin in 17th-century France.
- Millet, Jean-Francois
- French painter renowned for his peasant subjects. [7 Related Articles]
- Millet, Richard
- (from the article "Literature") ...Harry Potter's and The Da Vinci Code's domination of best-seller lists, took a blow from within with the publication of Harcelement litteraire, in which the writer Richard Millet, interviewed by ...
- Millett, Kate
- American feminist, author, and artist, an early and influential figure in the women's liberation movement, whose first book, Sexual Politics, began her exploration of the dynamics of power in relation ... [1 Related Articles]
- millibar
- unit of air pressure in the metric system, commonly used in meteorology, equal to 100 pascals, 1,000 dynes per square cm (about 0.0145 pounds per square inch), or slightly less ... [2 Related Articles]
- Millicent
- market and industrial town, southeastern South Australia, some 250 miles (400 km) by road southeast of Adelaide. Founded in 1871, it was named for the wife of George Glen, an ...
- Milligan, Ex Parte
- (1866), case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal government could not establish military courts to try civilians except where civil courts were no longer functioning in ...
- Milligan, Lambdin P.
- (from the article "Milligan, Ex Parte") Lambdin P. Milligan had been arrested in 1864, charged with aiding the Confederacy, conspiring to free Confederate prisoners, and inciting insurrection. Arrested in his Indiana home by the Union general ...
- Milligan, Spike
- Irish writer and comedian who led the comic troupe featured on the 1950s British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) radio hit The Goon Show. His anarchic sense of absurdity ... [3 Related Articles]
- Millikan oil-drop experiment
- first direct and compelling measurement of the electric charge of a single electron. It was performed originally in 1909 by the American physicist Robert A. Millikan, who devised a straightforward ... [2 Related Articles]
- Millikan, Robert Andrews
- American physicist honoured with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for his study of the elementary electronic charge and the photoelectric effect. [4 Related Articles]
- millimetre
- (from the article "millimetre") unit of length equal to 0.001 metre in the metric system and the equivalent of 0.03937 inch.
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- Millin, Sarah Gertrude
- South African writer whose novels deal with the problems of South African life.
- milling
- (from the article "cetacean") Cetaceans show fright by fleeing from a situation or by bunching up and "milling." The former response has been utilized by fishermen, who drive a whale or school of dolphins ...
- milling
- (from the article "collective behaviour") Prior to most instances of collective behaviour there is a period during which people move about in a somewhat agitated but aimless way. Early students of crowd behaviour, struck by ...
- milling
- (from the article "beer") For efficient extraction with water, malt must be milled. Early milling processes used stones driven manually or by water or animal power, but modern brewing uses mechanically driven roller mills. ...
- milling
- (from the article "money") ...As a means of correcting this problem, payment by weight would be resumed for large transactions, and there would be pressure for recoinage. These particular defects were largely ended by ...
- milling cutter
- (from the article "machine tool") A milling machine cuts metal as the workpiece is fed against a rotating cutting tool called a milling cutter. Cutters of many shapes and sizes are available for a wide ...
- milling machine
- device that rotates a circular tool that has a number of cutting edges symmetrically arranged about its axis; the workpiece is commonly held in a vise or similar device clamped ... [3 Related Articles]
- Million Man March
- (from the article "Farrakhan, Louis") In 1995 the Nation sponsored the Million Man March in Washington, D.C., to promote African American unity and family values. Estimates of the number of marchers, most of whom were ...
- millipede
- any member of the arthropod class Diplopoda, distributed worldwide and commonly grouped with several other classes as myriapods. The approximately 10,000 species live in and eat decaying plant matter; some ... [5 Related Articles]
- Millonarios
- (from the article "Di Stefano, Alfredo") ...for the Buenos Aires club River Plate in 1944. There he was the Argentine league's top scorer with 27 goals in 1947, when the club won the first division championship. ...
- millones
- (from the article "Spain") ...even greater. In 1590 the Cortes accepted the royal demand for a new excise tax that was to raise eight million ducats in six years and that was appropriately nicknamed ...
- Mills Brothers, the
- John Charles (b. Oct. 19, 1910, Piqua, Ohio, U.S., -d. Jan. 24, 1936, Bellefontaine, Ohio),, Herbert (b. April 2, 1912, Piqua, -d. April 12, 1989, Las Vegas, Nev.),, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Mills College
- private liberal arts institution of higher education for women in Oakland, California, U.S. Men may study in the graduate-level programs. Mills College offers more than 30 undergraduate majors in English ... [1 Related Articles]
- Mills cross
- type of radio telescope based on the interferometer, first demonstrated in the 1950s by the Australian astronomer Bernard Yarnton Mills. It consists of two interferometers erected in two straight rows ...
- Mills Lake
- (from the article "Mackenzie River") ...in May. Branch roads extend to Fort Simpson and Fort Liard; except for a winter trail that is used only occasionally, there are no through roads farther north along the ...
- Mills, Bernard Yarnton
- (from the article "Mills cross") type of radio telescope based on the interferometer, first demonstrated in the 1950s by the Australian astronomer Bernard Yarnton Mills. It consists of two interferometers erected in two straight rows ...
- Mills, Bertram
- English circus entrepreneur who for 18 years (1920-37) staged a circus at London's Olympia Theatre at Christmas and also toured through the British Isles. [1 Related Articles]
- Mills, Billy
- athlete who was the first American to win an Olympic gold medal in the 10,000-metre race, achieving a dramatic upset victory at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo. [1 Related Articles]
- Mills, C. Wright
- American sociologist who, with Hans H. Gerth, applied and popularized Max Weber's theories in the United States. He also applied Karl Mannheim's theories on the sociology of knowledge to the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Mills, Caleb
- American educator known as the father of Indiana's public schools.
- Mills, Donald Friedlich
- American singer who enjoyed a six-decade career performing with the Mills Brothers, an innovative group that used their vocals to imitate instruments (Don was a trombone) and harmonize; the group ... [1 Related Articles]
- Mills, Florence
- American singer and dancer, a leading performer during the Jazz Age and the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. She paved the way for African Americans in mainstream theatre and popularized ...
- Mills, Harry
- (from the article "1938: Other Winners") ...Harry M. WarnerHonorary Award: Walt Disney for Snow White and the Seven DwarfsHonorary Award: Jan Domela, Farciot Edouart, Loyal Griggs, Dev Jennings, Gordon Jennings, Louis H. Mesenkop, Harry Mills, Walter ...
- Mills, Harry
- (from the article "Mills Brothers, the") ...April 2, 1912Piqua-d. April 12, 1989Las Vegas, Nev.), Harry (b. Aug. 19, 1913Piqua-d. June 28, 1982Los Angeles,...
- Mills, Hayley
- (from the article "1960: Other Winners") ...Stoloff and Harry Sukman for Song without EndSong: "Never on Sunday" from Never on Sunday; music and lyrics by Manos HadjidakisHonorary Award: Gary Cooper and Stan Laurel; Hayley Mills for ...
- Mills, Herbert
- (from the article "Mills Brothers, the") ...19, 1910Piqua, Ohio, U.S.-d. Jan. 24, 1936Bellefontaine, Ohio), Herbert (b. April 2, 1912Piqua-d. April 12, 1989Las Vegas,...
- Mills, John Charles
- (from the article "Mills Brothers, the") John Charles (b. Oct. 19, 1910Piqua, Ohio, U.S.-d. Jan. 24, 1936Bellefontaine, Ohio), Herbert (b. April 2,...
- Mills, John H.
- (from the article "Mills Brothers, the") The Mills Brothers began as a barbershop quartet-which was perhaps only natural, as their father, John H. Mills (1882-1967), owned a barbershop. They gave their first public performances in variety ...
- Mills, Mike
- (from the article "R.E.M.") ...Peter Buck (b. December 6, 1956Berkeley, California), Mike Mills (b. December 17, 1958Orange, California), and Bill...
- Mills, Robert
- one of the first American-born professional architects. He was associated with Thomas Jefferson, James Hoban, and Benjamin Latrobe. [5 Related Articles]
- Mills, Robert L.
- (from the article "gauge theory") ...in the modern theory of electromagnetism called quantum electrodynamics (q.v.), or QED. Modern work on gauge theories began with the attempt of the American physicists Chen Ning Yang and Robert ...
- Mills, Sir John
- British actor (b. Feb. 22, 1908, Watts Naval Training College, North Elmham, Norfolk, Eng.-d. April 23, 2005, Denham, Buckinghamshire, Eng.), appeared in more than 100 motion pictures and dozens of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Mills, Susan Lincoln Tolman
- American missionary and educator who, with her husband, established what would become the first U.S. women's college on the west coast.
- Mills, Victor
- American chemical engineer who, while working for the Procter & Gamble Co., revolutionized child care with the invention of the disposable diaper; he began work on that product in the ...
- Mills, William Corless
- U.S. museum curator who excavated Indian remains in Ohio, including Adena Mound (1901), a large earthen burial ground near Chillicothe, built c. 50 BC. It became the type site for ...
- millstone
- one of a pair of flat, round stones used for grinding grain. One millstone is stationary; the other rotates above it in a horizontal plane. Grain is poured through a ... [1 Related Articles]
- Millville
- city, Cumberland county, southwestern New Jersey, U.S. It lies at the head of navigation on the Maurice River, 45 miles (72 km) south of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Union Lake, formed by ...
- Milne Bay
- easternmost inlet on the coast of the island of New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, southwestern Pacific Ocean. Milne Bay measures 30 miles (50 km) by 6-8 miles (10-13 km). The ...
- Milne, A.A.
- English humorist, the originator of the immensely popular stories of Christopher Robin and his toy bear, Winnie-the-Pooh. [1 Related Articles]
- Milne, Christopher Robin
- British author and bookseller whose childhood was the inspiration for the popular Winnie-the-Pooh children's books written by his father, A.A. Milne (b. Aug. 21, 1920--d. April 20, 1996).
- Milne, Edward Arthur
- English astrophysicist and cosmologist best known for his development of kinematic relativity. [1 Related Articles]
- Milne, John
- English geologist and influential seismologist who developed the modern seismograph and promoted the establishment of seismological stations worldwide. [2 Related Articles]
- Milne-Edwards's sifaka
- (from the article "sifaka") ...southern desert. Two other species live in the dry forests of western Madagascar. The larger diademed sifaka (P. diadema), silky sifaka (P. candidus), and Milne-Edwards's sifaka (P. ...
- Milner Commission
- (from the article "Zaghlul, Sa'd") ...would undermine his position in Egypt, which was based on opposition to the British, so he refused to endorse any agreement and returned to Egypt, where he was greeted with ...
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