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Face to Face Face to Face
Face to Face Rock group Bad boy rockers Face to Face made a name for themselves as a punk band, but they weren't entirely comfortable with that label. The group combined pop influences with classic punk sounds for a crowd-pleasing blend that owed as much to the Police as it did to the Sex... Read more
Voskhod Voskhod
Voskhod Soviet engineers designed the Voskhod ("Dawn") spacecraft to keep the Soviet Union ahead in the space race of the 1960s while they developed their advanced Soyuz spacecraft. They modified the single-seat Vostok spacecraft to produce Voskhod. Voskhod's improvised ... Read more
astern astern
astern, backwards, behind. It is a word employed in two senses in maritime use. (1) In movement, that of a ship going backwards. (2) In direction, directly behind a ship. As an order given to the engine room of a ship for the movement of its engines, it indicates that they must be made to revolve... Read more
Notacanthoidei Notacanthoidei
Notacanthiformes (subclass Actinopterygii, superorder Elopomorpha) An order of deep-sea fish that have elongate, tapering bodies terminating in a very small tail fin. The pelvic fins are located on the abdomen slightly ahead of the origin of the dorsal fin. All species have a long anal fin and a... Read more
spritsail spritsail
spritsail. 1. A fore-and-aft quadrilateral sail extended from the mast by means of a sprit set diagonally across the sail. This extends from the foot of the mast with the upper end attached to the peak of the sail. It is particularly well known for its use on the Thames barge. 2. A small square... Read more
Cibola Cibola
CIBOLA CIBOLA, an Indian name for the villages of the Zuni in what is now western New Mexico, rumored in the early sixteenth century to be fabulously wealthy. In 1539 the Spanish dispatched an expedition under Friar Marcos de Niza, guided by a Moorish man named Esteban. Esteban went ahead but was... Read more
Preferred Stock Preferred Stock
PREFERRED STOCK Stock shares that have preferential rights to dividends or to amounts distributable on liquidation, or to both, ahead of common shareholders. Preferred stock is given preference over common stock. Holders of preferred stock receive dividends at a fixed annual rate. The earnings of... Read more
Royal Titles Act Royal Titles Act
Royal Titles Act, 1876. After the Indian mutiny in 1857, sovereignty in India was transferred to the crown and the governor-general became a viceroy. The elevation of Wilhelm I to be Emperor (of Germany) seems to have upset Victoria, who asked her private secretary in 1873, ‘why have I... Read more
Jess Willard Jess Willard
BOXING Unpopular Beginnings While there have always been amateur fist fights in which contestants for recreation or in anger match skills in the "manly art of self-defense," the sport of boxing for money, or prizefighting, did not enjoy wide popularity for much of America's... Read more

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