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Even
Even ETHNONYMS: Lamuts, Tungas Orientation Identification. The Even, like the related Evenki, are singularly distinguished Read more |
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Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth Rock group More than image, style, or even substance, the punk rock movement of the mid 1970s challenged the mainstream musical establishment. It was in the years following this movement that no wave rock—na... Read more |
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System of a Down
System of a Down Rock group For the Record… Selected discography Sources Fusing rock, punk, metal, rap, and even ethnic folk and jazz, and tackling subjects ranging from cultural and political issue... Read more |
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heriot
heriot is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word for ‘war-gear’ (in Scotland, hereyeld). This was a feudal obligation due to a lord on the death of a tenant. Originally the tenant's heir returned armour and weapons lent to him, but it developed into a claim by the lord to the best beast or... Read more |
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Cryptobiosis
cryptobiosis (anhydrobiosis) A state of apparent suspended animation entered by certain invertebrate animals in order to survive desiccation or other extreme stresses. It is best documented among the rotifers, nematodes, collembolans, tardigrades, and other minute inhabitants of mosses and lichens,... Read more |
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Mordecai Manuel Noah
Mordecai Manuel Noah , 1785-1851, American journalist and politician, b. Philadelphia. He became a journalist in Charleston, S.C., and gave ardent support to the War of 1812. As a special agent to Algiers, he helped secure (1813-15) the release of American prisoners held by Algerian pirates. He... Read more |
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George William Curtis
George William Curtis American writer, orator, and, especially, civil service reformer, George William Curtis (1824-1892) was a patrician whose ideals and causes are blurred in historical retrospect by a personal elitism that bordered on priggishness and was out of step even in his own time.... Read more |
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Private Schools
Private Schools Sources Popularity.Private schools, also called venture, adventure, or evening schools, first appeared about 1660 in New Netherland and by the beginning of the eighteenth century were found in most cities and towns in America. Colonial private... Read more |
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Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell 1894-1978, American illustrator, b. New York City. An enormously popular illustrator, Rockwell specialized in warm and humorous scenes of everyday small-town life. Best known for his magazine covers, notably for the Saturday Evening Post, he developed a style of finely drawn... Read more |
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Rural free delivery
Rural Free Delivery Sources Mail.In 1847 railroads carried only about 10 percent of the U.S. mail while their remainder was transported by steamboat, by stagecoach, and on horseback. In 1855 the railroads began using special mail cars and central distribution... Read more |
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