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Ordericus Vitalis
Ordericus Vitalis , 1075-c.1143, Norman monk and chronicler, b. England. He spent most of his life in Saint-Évroul in Normandy. His Ecclesiastical History (4 vol., tr. 1853-56; repr. 1968), a universal history to 1143, is valuable for a study of the Normans in England, France, and Italy and... Read more
Johan Bojer
Johan Bojer , 1872-1959, Norwegian writer. Bojer's novels of contemporary Norwegian life treat social issues from a classical liberal viewpoint. The Power of a Lie (1903, tr. 1908) and The Great Hunger (1916, tr. 1918) illustrate his humanistic philosophy. The greater depth of The Last of the V... Read more
Institute for Advanced Study
Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J.; chartered 1930, opened 1933. It differs from a university in that it offers no curriculum or examinations, and confers no degrees. Founded with a gift from Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld as a center for graduate study, it subsequently became a r... Read more
time and motion study
time and motion study analysis of the operations required to produce a manufactured article in a factory, with the aim of increasing efficiency. Each operation is studied minutely and analyzed in order to eliminate unnecessary motions and thus reduce production time and raise output, which increase... Read more
William Stubbs
William Stubbs 1825-1901, English historian, educated at Oxford. Ordained in 1850, he was a professor of modern history at Oxford until in 1884 he was made bishop of Chester. Stubbs's critical studies of source materials transformed the study of medieval history. His Constitutional History of Engl... Read more
John Addington Symonds
John Addington Symonds , 1840-93, English author. Educated at Harrow and Oxford, constant ill health exiled him for the greater part of his life to Italy and Switzerland. His many writings include travel books, Sketches in Italy and Greece (1874) and Italian Byways (1883); literary essays, Intr... Read more
Charles Eliot Norton
Charles Eliot Norton 1827-1908, American scholar and teacher, b. Cambridge, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1846. As professor of the history of art at Harvard (1875-98) and as a man of letters he had a stimulating influence on his time. He edited (1864-68), with James Russell Lowell , the North American R... Read more
Joseph Justus Scaliger
Joseph Justus Scaliger , 1540-1609, French classical scholar. He was the son of Julius Caesar Scaliger, from whom he acquired his early mastery of Latin. He adopted Protestantism in 1562, served as companion of a Poitevin noble (1563-70), studied under Cujas at Valence (1570-72), and was professor o... Read more
Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle
Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle , 1820-97, Italian art critic and writer. Cavalcaselle studied painting at the Academy of Venice and traveled extensively through Italy studying its art treasures. He participated in the Revolution of 1848 and escaped to England, where he remained for several years. Wh... Read more
Egon Wellesz
Egon Wellesz , 1885-1974, Austrian composer and musicologist. Wellesz studied with Schoenberg at the same time as Berg and Webern. His early compositions show the influence of Mahler, but the clarity and articulation that characterize his later works are already evident. He is the author of studies ... Read more

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Strieber, Whitley (1945-)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...including Wolfen and The Hunger, have been adapted as successful...Century (1986). His novel The Hunger (1981), notable for the...based on various periods of history, including a game about the...a database and follow-up studies involving mental and physical...
Knut Hamsun
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...published first part of Hunger (1888), which made...first period—Hunger (1890), Mysteries...humor, its merciless study of the outsider—...Further Reading The finest study in English of Hamsun...Harold Beyer, A History of Norwegian Literature...
George Stanley McGovern
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...taught (1949-53) American history. After serving as a Democrat...first global ambassador on hunger. He has written War against...The Third Freedom: Ending Hunger in Our Time (2001), and...by R. S. Anson (1972); studies by R. Dougherty (1973...
Bellecourt, Clyde
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...hope. He decided to go on a hunger strike, figuring he would...book dealing with his Ojibwa history. Reading the book made Bellecourt...we had the first real Indian Studies program in the country...focused on American Indian history and traditions. However...public school system after a ...
Wright, Richard
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...friendship with the sociologist (a person who studies the interactions of a society) Louis...the fear, rage, rebellion, spiritual hunger and the undisciplined drive to satisfy...psychologists (people who are trained to study the mental and behavioral characteristics...Twelve Million Black Voices: A Folk ...
Adonis
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...radical vision of Arab history and culture, as well as a hunger for change and modernity...which enabled him to study in Paris. Adonis wrote...radical vision of Arab history and culture. This...the Changing ), a study of conventionalism...
Vegetative State
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed. ...vegetative patient does not respond to sound, hunger, or pain. Patients cannot obey verbal commands...cause of brain dysfunction. A comprehensive history and neurological examination, neuroimaging studies, and chemical analysis of the blood are...
Famine of 1946
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...government documents, officials avoided mention of hunger or starvation, employing euphemisms suggesting difficulties...Drought and Famine of 1946 – 47." Russian Studies in History 31:31 – 60. Nicholas Ganson
Development
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...social sciences and international policy studies. The key intellectual challenges for...drive international economic policy); history (research on the dynamic circumstances...addressing global issues of poverty and hunger in his 1949 State of the Union address...
Ku Klux Klan
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...sympathizers. In his fine study of the topic, Allen...Klan rally in American history occurred was Kokomo...ranks. With poverty, hunger, and unemployment among...shows. Throughout its history, however, the Ku Klux...Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan...

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Pudovkin, Vsevolod
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...accident, taught theoretic studies at V.G.I.K., 1935...Golod . . . golod . . . golod (Hunger . . . Hunger . . . Hunger ) (co-d, co-sc, role...1952. Leyda, Jay, Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film...
Rocha, Glauber
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Brazilian Cinema," and "Hunger vs. Profit Aesthetic...Autumn 1979. "The History of Cinema Novo," in...The Aesthetics of Hunger" and "Down with Populism...Cinema Novo in Brazil: A Study of His Critical Writings...Third World Cinema: A Study of Ousmane Sembene and...Quarterly Review of Film ...
Walden
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...superiority of shabby clothes, cold, hunger, and loneliness in a light-hearted...View of the Universe: Henry Thoreau's Study of Nature. Urbana: University of Illinois...Worster, Donald. Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas. New York: Cambridge...
Autistic Capsule/Nucleus
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...patients in greater detail, using her own case histories, notably that of an anorexic adolescent girl...tude psychanalytique de l'anorexie mentale (Hunger and the body: a psychoanalytic study of anorexia nervosa; 1972). This book also...
Babcock, Stephen Moulton
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...1866. His engineering studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic...Babcock began graduate studies at the University of...skepticism but led to studies that helped develop the...sketch of Babcock in Hunger Fighters (New York...x2013; 828. The history of the fat test is described...

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Fighting Hunger Program to Benefit Ohio Hunger Relief Providers.
PR Newswire; 5/27/1999; 700+ words ; ...these companies bring to the hunger community is a rich history in fighting hunger and working with local providers...all of which the Fighting Hunger program offers, as well...from a new hunger-related study. "Clearly, our commitment...
DEVELOPMENT: HUNGER AND FOOD SHORTAGES THREATEN SEVEN NATIONS
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 1/10/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...States "grappled with hunger, or at least the fear of it." The study said that children...report shows that hunger and food insecurity...prosperous economy in history," U.S. Agriculture...Meanwhile, Action Against Hunger, a New York-based...
History of hunger a feast for readers; Author concludes that 'not eating seems to be innately religious'
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 1/15/2006; ; 620 words ; ...Hunger: An Unnatural History." By Sharman Apt...charity. Usually, the hunger is in some faraway land. But hunger can be anywhere, anytime...millions, a book about hunger might seem out of place...so physicians could study what happened to them...
Overcoming hunger in the world within reach.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Independent (South Africa); 12/2/2007; 700+ words ; ...adhere to the drugs. Studies in Rwanda and Tanzania...not be met. The World Hunger Series challenges leaders...For the first time in history, we can direct enormous resources to overcoming hunger and poor health. The...detailed in the World Hunger Series 2007) are available...
Hunger strike commemorated at UCLA
News Wire article from: University Wire; 5/13/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...future of Chicana/o studies. The anniversary...talked about the history behind the hunger strike, how the hunger strike affected...recapture the memory and history of the hunger strike. "Students...year Chicana/o studies and history student...
Starving, or making a point; Hunger.(The impact that hunger has on people)(Hunger: An Unnatural History)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 2/11/2006; 700+ words ; ...foundations for the meticulous study of how extreme hunger affects body and mind...recovering hungry of Europe. Hunger breeds hideous behaviour. In Africa, a hunger-prone tribe lives in...Hunger: An Unnatural History. By Sharman Apt Russell...
Hunger is still problem in U.S.(Nation)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 1/21/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...first time in modern history, the prevalence of hunger seems stubbornly impervious...University's Center on Hunger, Poverty and Nutrition...households that experience hunger and food insecurity...Rector concluded. A 1990 study of D.C. children...
Should America be measured by its 3.5 million millionaires ... or by its 30 million hungry?(report on hunger and poverty in America)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Nation; 12/21/1998; 700+ words ; ...thing to know is that hunger is not an accident...thing to remember about hunger is that the well-off...poorest do. According to a study prepared for the U...prosperity in modern American history. The explanation? While...explains the increase in hunger. We have seen this same...
Advocates, Business Community and District Officials Join Hands to Release Plan to End Childhood Hunger in the Nation's Capital by 2016.
PR Newswire; 4/18/2006; 700+ words ; ...an opportunity to make history here in our great city...Ending childhood hunger is a significant achievement...commitment to ending childhood hunger in America, working...Ending Childhood Hunger Draws on Variety of Solutions...the edge of hunger. Studies have shown that this...
Ireland's Freedom Fasters; The Forces That Brought On The Hunger Strikes of 1981
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/29/1990; ; 700+ words ; ...not only the past of history, but that of myth and...memory that inspired the hunger strikers. Sands and...celebrating the courage of a hunger-striking poet.) As...centuries-from seeing the hunger strikes as anything but...O'Malley ends his study, appropriately, with...