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Peter Arno
Peter Arno , 1904-68, American cartoonist, b. New York City. Arno's satirical cartoons appeared in The New Yorker magazine from 1925 until his death. He achieved a distinctive drawing style featuring heavily outlined figures. Notable among his urbane characterizations are the self-important execut... Read more
Arno Allan Penzias
Arno Allan Penzias 1933-, German-American physicist, b. Munich, Germany, Ph.D. Columbia Univ., 1962. He fled Nazi Germany with his family and after finishing school began work at Bell Telephone Laboratories. In 1964 he and colleague Robert Wilson began monitoring radio waves in the Milky Way gala... Read more
Della-Cruscans
Della-Cruscans [from the Accademia della Crusca, founded for linguistic purity, Florence, 16th cent.], a group of English poets living in Italy at the end of the 18th cent. who published pretentious, sentimental verse in The Arno (1784) and The Florence Miscellany (1785). Robert Merry, writing ... Read more
Robert Woodrow Wilson
Robert Woodrow Wilson 1936-, American radio astronomer, b. Houston, Tex., Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 1962. In 1964 he and co-researcher Arno Penzias began monitoring radio waves in the Milky Way galaxy with a radio telescope and discovered cosmic background radiation. Their discove... Read more
Harold Wallace Ross
Harold Wallace Ross 1892-1951, American editor, b. Aspen, Colo. He founded The New Yorker magazine in 1925 and was its influential managing editor until his death. Ross quit school at the age of 14 to work at the Salt Lake City Tribune. During World War I he edited Stars and Stripes in France... Read more
Tiber
Tiber , Ital. Tevere, Latin Tiberis, river, 251 mi (404 km) long, rising in the Etruscan Apennines, central Italy. It flows generally S across Tuscany, Umbria, and N Latium, then SW through Rome to empty into the Tyrrhenian Sea by two mouths. It is connected with the Arno River by the Chiana Can... Read more
Bartolomeo Ammanati
Bartolomeo Ammanati , 1511-92, Italian sculptor and architect. He studied under Bandinelli in Florence and assisted Jacopo Sansovino in his work on the Library of St. Mark's, Venice. Ammanati, whose style was greatly influenced by Michelangelo's Medici tombs, made a colossal statue of Hercules, at P... Read more
Apennines
Apennines , Ital. Appennino, mountain system, running the entire length of the Italian peninsula. It extends south c.840 mi (1,350 km) from the Cadibona Pass in Liguria, NW Italy, where the Apennines join with the Ligurian Alps, to the Strait of Messina; the mountains of Sicily are a southwest con... Read more
Liguria
Liguria , region (1991 pop. 1,676,282), 2,098 sq mi (5,434 sq km), NW Italy, extending along the Ligurian Sea and bordering France on the west. The generally mountainous region has a steep, narrow coastal strip that includes the beautiful Italian Riviera . In the interior, the Ligurian Alps rise in... Read more
black body
black body in physics, an ideal black substance that absorbs all and reflects none of the radiant energy falling on it. Lampblack, or powdered carbon, which reflects less than 2% of the radiation falling on it, crudely approximates an ideal black body; a material consisting of a carpetlike arrangem... Read more

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Arno Allen Penzias
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Arno Allen Penzias At various times—...x2014; German-born American scientist Arno Penzias (born 1933) has been a researcher...philosopher, and humanitarian. Early Life Arno Allen Penzias was born April 26, 1933, in...
Peter Arno
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Peter Arno , 1904-68, American cartoonist, b. New York City. Arno's satirical cartoons appeared in The New Yorker magazine...endowed woman. His cartoons have been collected in Peter Arno's Parade (1929), Peter Arno's Hullabaloo (1930...
Arno
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Arno river, c.150 mi (240 km) long, rising...Pisa, to empty into the Ligurian Sea. The Arno valley is fertile and densely populated...its scenery. In 1966 a great flood on the Arno heavily damaged the art treasures of Florence...
Arno Allan Penzias
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Arno Allan Penzias 1933-, German-American physicist, b. Munich, Germany, Ph.D. Columbia Univ., 1962. He fled Nazi Germany...
Arno Holz
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Arno Holz , 1863-1929, German critic and poet. His influence as a founder of the German naturalist school and as a critic is more...
Penzias, Arno Allan
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Penzias, Arno Allan (1933– ) US astrophysicist, b. Germany. Penzias and Robert Wilson discovered the cosmic background...
Grant, Joan (Joan Marshall Kelsey)(1907-1989)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...London: Methuen, 1942. New York: Arno Press, 1980. — —...of Mind, A Lot to Remember. New York: Arno Press, 1980. — —...Harper & Brothers, 1940; New York: Arno Press, 1980. — —...
Edward Henry Harriman
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Harriman: the little giant of Wall Street, New York: Arno Press, 1981. Kennan, George, E. H. Harriman, a biography, New York: Arno Press, 1981, 1922. Memoirs of three railroad pioneers, New York: Arno Press, 1981. □
Somnambulism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...London, 1843. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1975. Cahagnet, L. A. The Celestial...London, 1850. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1976. Colquhoun, J. C. Report...Edinburgh, 1833. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1975. Esdaile, Ja
Florence
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...capital of Tuscany and of Firenze prov., central Italy, on the Arno River, at the foot of the Apennines. Florence, the jewel of...survived World War II, and now several modern bridges span the Arno. Points of Interest It is impossible to mention here all of...

Dictionary entries related to "Arno"

Wagner, Fritz Arno
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers WAGNER, Fritz Arno Cinematographer. Nationality: German. Born: Schmiedefeld am Rennsteig...London), no. 13, 1973. Filme (Berlin), May-June 1981. * * * Fritz Arno Wagner is responsible for photographing some of the most iconographic images...
Breker, Arno
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists Breker, Arno. See Despiau .
Schatten
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...idea by Albin Grau; photography: Fritz Arno Wagner; editor: Arthur Robison; production...New York), April 1930. Wagner, Fritz Arno, in Film Art, no. 8, 1936. Rayns...sets and costumes, the cameraman Fritz Arno Wagner, and the director-scriptwriter...
Technology
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...military engineer and sent officailly “ a livellare Arno in quello di pisa e levello del letto suo ” (1503...was the first, though so young, to propose to canalise the Arno from Pisa to Florence. He made designs for mills, fulling machines...
Geology
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...probably drawn in the field, is a sketch of the valley of the Arno (Uffizi). It displays similar characteristics-horizontal...barriers, they drain down one into the other. In this way the Arno was seen to be cutting through its own flood plain, the Po to...
Menzel, Jirí
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Trains ) (+ co-sc, role as the doctor) 1968 Rozmarné leto (Capricious Summer ) (+ co-sc, role as the magician Arnoštek); Zločin v šantánu (Crime in a Night Club ) (+ co-sc) 1969 Skrivá...
Merrimac, Sinking of
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1988. Long, John D. The New American Navy. New York: The Outlook Company, 1903; New York: Arno Press, 1979. Allan Westcott / a. r. See also Navy, United States ; Spanish-American War, Navy in .
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Anderson shared a Nobel Prize in 1977 for research that led to a greater understanding of solid-state electronics. A year later, Arno A. Penzias and Robert W. Wilson jointly accepted a Nobel Prize for their discovery of the cosmic microwave background, the...
Cooke, Jay, and Company
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...BIBLIOGRAPHY Harnsberger, John L. Jay Cooke and Minnesota: The Formative Years of the Northern Pacific Railroad. New York: Arno Press, 1981. Oberholtzer, Ellis P. Jay Cooke: Financier of the Civil War. New York: B. Franklin, 1970. Henrietta M...
Coxey's Army
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Carlos A. Coxey's Army: An American Odyssey. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985. Vincent, Henry . The Story of the Commonweal. New York: Arno Press, 1969. Donald L. McMurry / h. s. See also Financial Panics ; Populism .

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Arno Therapeutics, Inc. Completes $18 Million Financing and Reverse Merger with Laurier International, Inc.
PR Newswire; 6/4/2008; 700+ words ; ...Private offering provides new funding as Arno Therapeutics, Inc. becomes a publicly...June 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Arno Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical...under the ticker symbol "LRRI.OB". Arno will continue to trade under the symbol...
Arno story overplayed by Post-Dispatch.
Magazine article from: St. Louis Journalism Review; 6/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...school bus incident, or call it the Al Arno case, uncovered racial tensions not only...especially the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Arno is the white Post ad salesman who stopped...moving bus onto his car. Bedlam erupted and Arno threw water, trash and soda on some students...
Peter Arno meets Somerset Maugham.
Magazine article from: American Scholar; 9/22/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...of matters of dress and manner: Peter Arno. Maugham had agreed to write an introduction to a collection of Peter Arno's cartoons. Finding himself in New...time Maugham is sixty-seven and Peter Arno is thirty-seven. There are differences...
Arno Therapeutics to Present at the Rodman & Renshaw 10th Annual Healthcare Conference.
PR Newswire; 11/3/2008; 700+ words ; ...Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Arno Therapeutics, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD...G. Berlin, Chief Executive Officer of Arno, will present at the Rodman & Renshaw...company overview and update on the status of Arno's current clinical development programs...
Arno Therapeutics Appoints William F. Hamilton to Board of Directors.
PR Newswire; 10/30/2008; 700+ words ; ...J., Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Arno Therapeutics, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: ARNI.OB...FACS, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Arno, said, "Bill brings to Arno an impressive track record from a distinguished...
Arno's rainbow.(News)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Tribune (South Africa); 4/13/2008; 700+ words ; ...the walls and hang from light poles and Arno Carstens's Another Universe blares from...early nineties. Front man for Nude Girls, Arno Carstens, now an uber-successful solo...music while I was still in the womb," Arno jokes. "But I sang in the choir when...
Arno Therapeutics Announces Appointment of Roger G. Berlin, MD, as Chief Executive Officer and Director.
PR Newswire; 9/3/2008; 700+ words ; ...Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Arno Therapeutics, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: ARNI...Dr. Berlin as Chief Executive Officer of Arno," stated Arie S. Belldegrun, MD, Chairman of Arno. "We believe Dr. Berlin's extensive pharmaceutical...
Lawyer says Arno will appeal verdict.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: St. Louis Journalism Review; 5/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...Louis Post-Dispatch ad salesman Albeit Arno was found guilty on May 1 of disorderly...municipal judge Stephen O. Smith assessed Arno a total of $2,750 in fines and $176 in court.costs. Arno has until June 6 to pay fines and court...
Arno Therapeutics Announces Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results.
PR Newswire; 8/18/2008; 700+ words ; ...Aug. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Arno Therapeutics, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD...ended June 30, 2008. At June 30, 2008, Arno had cash and cash equivalents of $14...approximately $17.8 million resulting from Arno's June 2008 private placement of common...
ILLNESS DOESN'T SLOW DOWN WINDHAM'S ARNO
Newspaper article from: Portland Press Herald (Maine); 9/17/2001; 700+ words ; ...Press Herald (Maine) 09-17-2001 Nick Arno has diabetes, but he still plays baseball...1D From staff reports WINDHAM-- Nick Arno only has to look at his side to be reminded of the discipline required in his life. Arno has diabetes; he has an insulin pump attached...