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Lester Horton
Lester Horton 1906-53, American modern dancer, choreographer, and teacher, b. Indianapolis. Moving to California in 1928, Horton formed his own company in Los Angeles and also performed in theater, films, and nightclubs. He became one of the country's most influential choreographers, incorporating ... Read more
Charles Horton Cooley
Charles Horton Cooley 1864-1929, American sociologist, b. Ann Arbor, Mich., grad. Univ. of Michigan (B.A., 1887; Ph.D., 1894); son of Thomas M. Cooley. He taught in the sociology department at the Univ. of Michigan after 1892, although his degree was in economics. Cooley's major contribution to the... Read more
Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss pseud. of Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904-91, American author and illustrator of children's books, b. Springfield, Mass. His books are known for their blend of whimsy, zany humor, catchy verse, and outlandish illustrations. His style is evidenced in such books as Horton Hears a Who (1954... Read more
bookplate
bookplate label pasted in a book to indicate ownership, also called ex libris [Lat.,=from the books of]. The bookplate is usually of paper on which heraldic or other designs are engraved or printed. The earliest printed bookplates date from c.1480 in Germany. Dürer and Holbein designed and eng... Read more
Alvin Ailey, Jr.
Alvin Ailey, Jr. , 1931-89, American modern dancer and choreographer, b. Rogers, Tex. Ailey studied in Los Angeles with Lester Horton , whose strong, dramatic style and views about multiracial casting influenced his choreography and artistic direction. He moved to New York in 1954, where he studied... Read more
James Kent
James Kent 1763-1847, American jurist, b. near Brewster, N.Y. He was admitted to the bar in 1785 and began practice in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Active in the Federalist party, he served several terms in the New York legislature. In 1793, Kent moved to New York City, where his reputation for learning est... Read more
sonar
sonar , device used underwater for locating submerged objects and for submarine communication by means of sound waves. The term sonar is an acronym for so und na vigation r anging. The main component of sonar equipment is an electroacoustic transducer that is in direct contact with the water. I... Read more
Hart Crane
Hart Crane (Harold Hart Crane), 1899-1932, American poet, b. Garrettsville, Ohio. He published only two volumes of poetry during his lifetime, but those works established Crane as one of the most original and vital American poets of the 20th cent. His extraordinarily complex, visionary, and sonorou... Read more
San Diego
San Diego , city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. Economy San Diego is the second largest city in California and the seventh ... Read more
John Milton
John Milton 1608-74, English poet, b. London, one of the greatest poets of the English language. Early Life and Works The son of a wealthy scrivener, Milton was educated at St. Paul's School and Christ's College, Cambridge. While Milton was at Cambridge he wrote poetry in both Latin and E... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "horton"

Horton, Myles (19051990)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education HORTON, MYLES (1905 – 1990) Activist...the Highlander Folk School, Myles Falls Horton was born in a log cabin near Savannah...July 9, 1905. His parents, Elsie Falls Horton and Perry Horton, had both been school...
Charles Horton Cooley
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Charles Horton Cooley The American social psychologist, sociologist, and educator Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929) showed that personality...complementary aspects of human association. Charles Horton Cooley was born in Ann Arbor, Mich., on...
Lester Horton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Lester Horton 1906-53, American modern dancer, choreographer...Indianapolis. Moving to California in 1928, Horton formed his own company in Los Angeles and...Arthur Mitchell , and James Truitte. Horton's company continued to perform after...
Horton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Horton river, c.275 mi (440 km) long, rising in a lake N of Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada, and flowing NW to Franklin Bay, a part of the Beaufort Sea.
Horton, George Moses
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature Horton, George Moses (1798?–1880?), enslaved black on a farm near Chapel Hill, N.C., where he was befriended by...
Foote, Horton
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre Foote, Horton. See Young Man from Atlanta, The .
Barrett, George (Horton)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre Barrett, George [Horton] (1794–1860), actor. The son of actors in Dunlap 's company at the Park Theatre , he began performing as a boy...
Alvin Ailey
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Hollywood modern dance school run by Lester Horton, whose company was the first racially...for him as a dancer, however, he left Horton's school after one month. After graduating...studying the romance languages. When Horton offered him a scholarship in 1949, Ailey...
Ailey, Alvin
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the modern dance school run by Lester Horton, whose dance company (a group of dancers...him as a dancer, however, Ailey left Horton's school after one month. After graduating...Los Angeles to study languages. When Horton offered him a scholarship in 1949 Ailey...
subsurface flow and erosion
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth ...by the American hydrologist Robert E. Horton in the 1940s. Hortonian theory maintained...capacity of the soil surface. According to Horton's premise, stream channels begin where...overland flow. It is now realized that Horton's idea that overland flow is generated...

Dictionary entries related to "horton"

Horton's syndrome
Book article from: A Dictionary of Nursing Horton's syndrome ( hor -t'nz) n. a severe headache caused by the release of histamine. [ B. T. Horton (20th century), US physician]
Horton analysis
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences Horton analysis See DRAINAGE MORPHOMETRY .
Stringham, Silas Horton
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Stringham, Silas Horton (1797–1876) Union naval officer. A New Yorker, Stringham went to sea at the age of twelve. In 1819, he was aboard...
Cooley, Charles Horton
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology Cooley, Charles Horton (1864–1929) Cooley was one of the first generation of American sociologists, but an eccentric who differed from...
O Thiasos
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Theo Angelopoulos, Munich, 1992. Horton, Andrew, Films of Theo Angelopoulos...of Contemplation, Princeton, 1997. Horton, Andrew, editor, Late Modernist: The...York), Winter 1976–77. Horton, Andrew, "O Thiasos: The Most Original...
Dom za Vesanje
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Director, Cannes 1989. Publications Books: Horton, Andrew, "Time of the Gypsies," Writing...Centered Screenplay, Berkeley, 1994. Horton, Andrew, "Ethnic Godfathers and Grandmothers...Retakes on Remakes, edited by Andrew Horton & Stuart McDougal, Berkeley, 1996...
Igla
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Baschirov (Spartak ). Publications Books: Horton, Andrew, and Michael Brashinsky, The...Cinema, London and New York, 1992. Horton, Andrew, editor, Inside Soviet Film...1993. Brashinsky, Michael, and Andrew Horton, editors, Russian Critics on the Cinema...
Angelopoulos, Theodoros
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Individual Vision," interview with A. Horton and D. Georgakas, in Cineaste, vol...Exhibition Catalogue), New York, 1990. Horton, Andrew, The Films of Theo Angelopoulos...Contemplation. Princeton, New Jersey, 1997. Horton, Andrew, editor, The Last Modernist...
Malenkaya Vera
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Books: Brashinsky, Michael, and Andrew Horton, Russian Critics on the Cinema of Glasnost...Cinéma (Paris), June 1989. Horton, A., in Film Quarterly (Berkeley...rejects. But more importantly, as Andrew Horton argues in his review of Little Vera in...
Loyalty
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary ...friend of Hamlet. [Br. Lit.: Hamlet ] Horton “ faithful one hundred percent, ” Horton sits on the Mayzie bird ’ s egg...hatched. [Children ’ s Lit.: Horton Hatches the Egg ] Iolaus nephew and trusted...

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Horton Technique
Magazine article from: Dance Spirit; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...30s and '40s, dancer/choreographer Lester Horton developed a dance technique based on Native American...technique and choreographing a number of works, Horton established the Lester Horton Dance Theater, one of the first permanent theaters...
Horton hopes his number is called
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; Horton hopes his number is called Cornerback...the telephone rings in the room of Jason Horton, the anonymous cornerback with the uncommon...s his mother and father, John and Clara Horton, calling from the North Carolina agricultural...
Horton who?(author's anecdotes about confusing Christian author Douglas Horton with theologian Walter Marshall Horton and other Christian scholars with the same last name)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 4/7/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...Protestantism when, in 1933, Douglas Horton translated Karl Barth's The Word of...just as it was when Walter Marshall Horton, formerly a liberal, wrote his own Realistic...dissertation, subtitled "A Study of Douglas Horton's Illustrative Career." That gift...
Horton's pay puts him in big league UO recruiting class tabbed 10th.(Sports)(The UO coach is among the highest-paid college baseball coaches in the country)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 10/11/2008; 700+ words ; ...Bob Clark The Register-Guard George Horton will be paid a minimum of $450,000 annually...contract. The increased amount to be paid if Horton isn't coaching is presumably related to the fact that Horton could increase his salary through several...
A Horton Family Portrait
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL); 12/2/2004; ; 700+ words ; Seven-year-old Sean Horton holds a Polaroid shot of his dad, Marine Sgt. Josh Horton, holding two of his infant siblings while sister...Shaleigh, 5, holds a print of her mom, Taunacy Horton with her arms loaded with the other two survivors...
Horton answers Duck call for coach.(Sports)(Cal State-Fullerton's coach has reached a deal to lead Oregon's revived program)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 9/1/2007; 700+ words ; ...coaches, Cal State-Fullerton's George Horton, as their head coach. In 11 seasons as the Titans' head coach, Horton has led his team to a national championship...for this morning in Eugene to introduce Horton as their coach. Horton, who made a...
Horton Corporate Marketing Department Takes Shape
PR Newswire; 6/30/1997; 700+ words ; ...MINNEAPOLIS, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Horton, Inc. has a new product management focused...Manager - Communications: Mary comes to Horton from General Mills and will be responsible...Motion Control Systems: Jahn has been with Horton for two years and will be responsible...
Horton Has the Body To Beef Up Bullets;No. 2 Choice Has First-Rate Physique
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/1/1989; ; 700+ words ; ...a lot of Detroit Piston in this Ed Horton guy, in the sense that when he's...Burson. No one has ever contended that Horton did anything wrong, but it was after Ohio State's Burson bounced off Horton on a drive that he crashed into a basket...
Lester Horton
Magazine article from: Dance Teacher; 2/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...before the 1970s era of feminism, Lester Horton's The Beloved chilled viewers with its...today, but this duet reminds us that Horton (1906-1953) was an American original...quiet childhood spent in Indianapolis, Horton went on to found one of the first racially...
Horton's 'Hat Trick' Helps Put the Saints on Ice
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/15/2008; ; 700+ words ; Chris Horton's day began with an early-morning text...was writing around 8:30 a.m. to tell Horton he wasn't going to be able to play against...I'm real sorry," Doughty wrote. Horton started sweating. Eight hours later...