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Fort Sill
Fort Sill U.S. military reservation, Comanche co., SW Okla., 4 mi (6.4 km) N of Lawton; est. 1869 by Gen. Philip Sheridan. A 95,000-acre (38,445-hectare) field artillery and missile base, it is the home of the U.S. Army Artillery and Missile Center. Fort Sill was named in memory of Joshua W. Sill, ... Read more
Beverly Sills
Beverly Sills 1929-2007, American coloratura soprano, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., as Belle Silverman. Her childhood career as a radio singer (when she was first nicknamed "Bubbles" ) led to voice studies with Estelle Liebling. She toured extensively in the United States and Europe before making her debut... Read more
Lawton
Lawton city (1990 pop. 80,561), seat of Comanche co., SW Okla.; inc. 1901. It is a commercial and trade center for the surrounding cotton, wheat, and cattle area. Fort Sill is the largest local civilian employer. Lawton's industries include machining and the production of baked goods, meat, rubbe... Read more
igneous rock
igneous rock One of three major classes of rock produced by the cooling and solidifying of molten magma. All igneous rocks are crystalline and most resist erosion. Extrusive, or volcanic, igneous rocks, such as basalt, form by the rapid cooling of molten material at the surface. Intrusive, or hyper... Read more
Palisades
Palisades cliffs along the west bank of the Hudson River, NE N.J. and SE N.Y., extending from N of Jersey City, N.J., to the vicinity of Piermont, N.Y., with a general altitude of from 350 ft to 550 ft (107-168 m). The Palisades, rising vertically from close to the water's edge, are the margin of a... Read more
Geronimo
Geronimo , c.1829-1909, leader of a Chiricahua group of the Apaches , b. Arizona. As a youth he participated in the forays of Cochise , Victorio , and other Apache leaders. When the Chiricahua Reservation was abolished (1876) and the Apaches removed to the arid San Carlos Agency in New Mexico, Ge... Read more
rock
rock aggregation of solid matter composed of one or more of the minerals forming the earth's crust. The scientific study of rocks is called petrology. Rocks are commonly divided, according to their origin, into three major classes—igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. Igneous Rocks ... Read more
Triassic period
Triassic period , first period of the Mesozoic era of geologic time (see Geologic Timescale , table) from 205 to 250 million years ago. Throughout the Triassic, E North America, as a result of the mountain-building episode that formed the Appalachians in the late Paleozoic era , was elevate... Read more

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Sills, Beverly
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography Beverly Sills Born: May 25, 1929 Brooklyn, New York American singer Beverly Sills was a child performer, coloratura soprano (a light...New York City Opera Company. Early years Beverly Sills was born Belle Miriam Silverman in Brooklyn, New...
Beverly Sills
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Beverly Sills Beverly Sills (born 1929) was a child performer, coloratura soprano, and operatic...New York City Opera Company and a prominent public figure. Beverly Sills was born Belle Miriam Silverman in Brooklyn, May 25, 1929, during...
port sills
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea port sills, or cills , the name given to the lengths of timber used for lining the top and bottom edges of the gunports in sailing men-of-war.
hypabyssal igneous rocks
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth ...x2019; is used to encompass dykes and sills (Fig. 1), which are parallel-sided...without otherwise deforming it. Dykes and sills propagate as the ‘hydrostatic...dykes were intruded vertically, whereas sills were intruded horizontally. Dykes range...
intrusion types and intrusive igneous rocks
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth ...known as a sill . Well-known examples of sills are those of the Karroo region of South...a prominent natural feature. Dykes and sills may range from tens of metres thick down...refered to as igneous veins . Dykes and sills make space for themselves by pushing the...
rock
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...less vertical, filling fissures in previously existing rock; sills, more or less horizontal, forced between layers of previously existing rock; and laccoliths, modified domelike sills that arch under the overlying rock. Igneous rocks are commonly...
Obituaries
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...ROSTROPOVICH, MSTISLAV (born 1927), Russian cellist and conductor, died in Moscow, Russia, on April 26, 2007 (Vol. 13). SILLS, BEVERLY (born 1929), American soprano, died of lung cancer in New York on July 2, 2007 (Vol. 14). SMITH, IAN (born...
Sarah Caldwell
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...participate in Caldwell's dramatic production even though they earned less money and had longer rehearsal times. Beverly Sills performed in Manon (1962) and Joan Sutherland made her Boston stage debut in I Puritani. The Opera Co. of Boston also presented...
sill
Book article from: World Encyclopedia sill Sheet-like intrusion of igneous rock that is parallel to the bedding or other structure of the surrounding rock. Sill rock is normally medium-grained; basic sills ( dolerites ) are the commonest.
Cassatt, Mary
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Villard Books, 1994. Pollock, Griselda. Mary Cassatt: Painter of Modern Women. London: Thames & Hudson, 1998. Sills, Leslie. Visions: Stories about Women Artists. Morton Grove, IL: A. Whitman, 1993. Sweet, Frederick A. Miss Mary...

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Sills, Beverly
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Sills, Beverly [ Silverman, Belle ] ( b Brooklyn, NY, 1929). Amer. soprano and opera administrator. Child performer on radio...
New York City Opera
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...x2013;79, Christopher Keene 1983–6. Beverly Sills was dir. 1979–88; Keene 1989–95...many fine singers, best known of whom are the sops. Beverly Sills, Ashley Putnam, and Carol Vaness, the ten. Plá...
Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...memory of the brigade. BIBLIOGRAPHY Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives. Home page at . Bruckner, Noel, Mary Dore, and Sam Sills. The Good Fight. New York: KINO International, 1984. Videotape. Carroll, Peter N. The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln...
City Center, New York
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...of Duke Bluebeard's Castle , Orff's Der Mond , and Strauss's Die schweigsame Frau . Several fine singers have consolidated their early careers with co. incl. Beverly Sills (dir. 1979–87) and Plácido Domingo.
variolitic
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences ...fine, radiating fibres of plagioclase or pyroxene that is found in the glassy, chilled margin of shallow-level, basic , igneous intrusions ( dykes and sills ) or the glassy groundmass of some quenched (see QUENCHING ) basaltic lavas .
plutonic
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences ...Other petrologists use the term to describe any igneous rock that forms in largish intrusions (i.e. excluding dykes and sills ). ‘Plutonic’ has also been used to describe the origin of magmas and gas derived from near the base...
komatiite
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences ...magnesium olivine accompanied by lesser amounts of aluminous clinopyroxene and chromite , and found as lava flows and shallow sills within Archaean and Proterozoic rock successions. Many komatiite flows were erupted above their liquidus temperature and may...
concordant
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences ...igneous intrusion that has been emplaced parallel with the structure ( bedding , foliation , etc.) of the invaded country rock . Sills are examples of concordant intrusions. 2. Applied to a relationship in which adjacent strata are structurally concurrent with...
112
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...they began by performing at church functions. During the early 1990s they earned the notice of the management team Courtney Sills and Kevin Wales, which introduced the group to Combs. Christening the teenaged singers 112 (after a popular nightclub in...
sectional
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...the structure of an object in section: sectional drawings. ∎  made or supplied in sections: sectional sills, made from more than one piece of timber. • n. a sofa made in sections that can be used separately as chairs...

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Beverly Sills, people's diva, dies Soprano bridged cultures
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 7/3/2007; ; 700+ words ; Beverly Sills, whose radiant soprano and vibrant personality...had been revealed a few days ago that Ms. Sills was gravely ill with inoperable lung cancer...said her manager, Edgar Vincent. Ms. Sills, who retired from the stage in 1980, sang...
Beverly Sills talks about what ails opera -- and what's right with it, too.(Originated from KRT CALIFORNIA)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 7/13/1998; 700+ words ; ...Hodgins The Orange County Register Beverly Sills was blessed with everything you need for...government _ don't get me started,'' Sills said from her office at New York's Lincoln...cretins sitting there in Congress!'' Sills capped her rant with a sound that was halfway...
Beverly Sills speaks with an optimistic note
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/26/1991; ; 700+ words ; Retirement is nothing new for Beverly Sills, the famous coloratura soprano who has...for her first piano. In 1979, at 50, Sills retired from singing, saying, "I wanted...appearances on television talk shows, Sills says that "a man from a lecture bureau...
BEVERLY SILLS
Magazine article from: Opera News; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...more than thirty years ago that Beverly Sills, who died of cancer on July 2, graced...1969) and Time (1971). The 1970s were Sills's era of greatest fame. Among opera...Plcido Domingo have matched the breadth of Sills's celebrity in America, and it could...
MALCOLM SILLS AND GRADE-SCHOOL PAL CREATED TOP AD AGENCY.(City Desk/Local)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 12/17/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...Todd Neff ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS When Malcom Sills joined Gil Frye to start an advertising...arm cranking it,'' Frye said. Frye-Sills worked out somewhat better for the duo...Airlines and the Rio Grande Railway. Malcom Sills died of cancer Sunday. He was 78. Mr...
Beverly Sills: She was the people's soprano
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 7/9/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Record (Bergen County, NJ) 07-09-2007 Beverly Sills: She was the people's soprano By JEFFREY PAGE Date...OPINION Edtion: All Editions Biographical: BEVERLY SILLS HAD BEVERLY SILLS come along in the Thirties, the Marx Brothers never...
Beverly Sills: Made in America
Magazine article from: Journal of Singing; 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; Beverly Sills: Made in America. Beverly Sills, soprano and narrator. (Deutsche Grammophon B000JJRYAG; 1:23) The unexpected death of operatic icon Beverly Sills on July 1, 2007 set off a wave of heartfelt tributes that ranged...
RED HOT! DOUGLAS SILLS HELPED CARRY AN AILING 'SCARLET PIMPERNEL' TO ACCLAIM WITH HIS CAPTIVATING PERSONALITY, IMPRESSIVE RESUME AND - ABOVE ALL - UNMATCHED TALENT.(L.A. Life)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 5/2/2000; 700+ words ; ...Reed Johnson Theater Writer When Douglas Sills was hired to rescue people from the guillotine...Lion King'' ($15 million). Enter Sills, a strapping, multitalented Michigander...Broadway star for the challenging lead role, Sills' versatility, charisma and technical...
Opera Star Beverly Sills Dies of Cancer
News Wire article from: AP Online; 7/3/2007; 700+ words ; NEW YORK - Beverly Sills, the Brooklyn-born opera diva who was...diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, Sills died Monday evening at her Manhattan home...been a smoker. Beyond the music world, Sills gained fans worldwide with a style that...
Golden voice silenced: Beverly Sills dead at 78
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 7/3/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...07-03-2007 Golden voice silenced: Beverly Sills dead at 78 -- Diva became a key figure in arts...NEWS Edtion: All Editions Biographical: Beverly Sills NEW YORK — Beverly Sills, the Brooklyn-born opera diva who was a global...