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Anita Brookner Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner 1928-, English writer and art critic. After establishing an academic career at London's Courtauld Institute of Art and becoming the first woman appointed (1968) Slade Professor of Art at Cambridge, she began writing fiction in 1980, producing approximately one book a year of... Read more
Anita Desai Anita Desai
Anita Desai Anita Desai (born 1937) has been touted by British Writers' A. Michael Matin as "one of the preeminent contemporary Indian novelists," even referred to by many as the Mother of the Indian psychological novel genre. Her meticulous depictions of modern Indian life, combined with an... Read more
Anita Loos Anita Loos
Anita Loos Anita Loos (1893-1981) is most famous for her satirical short story collection Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady, which became a film phenomenon starring Marilyn Monroe. She was an amazingly prolific writer who turned out more than 150 works... Read more
Anita Anita
Anita ♀ Originally a Spanish pet form of Ana, the Spanish version of Anne. It is now widely used in English-speaking countries with little awareness of its Spanish origin. In the 1950s it came to prominence as the name of the Swedish film actress Anita Ekberg (b. 1931); more recently it... Read more
Greg Maddux Greg Maddux
Greg Maddux 1966- American baseball player Greg Maddux's record speaks for itself: he is simply one of the best pitchers ever to play the position. The first player ever to win four consecutive Cy Young Awards, he also shines defensively, as evidenced by his 13 consecutive Golden Glove... Read more
phylacteries phylacteries
phylacteries [Gr.,=safeguard], two small leather boxes worn during morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jews after the age of 13 years and one day. Each box contains strips of parchment inscribed with verses from the Scriptures: Ex. 13.1-10; 13.11-16; Deut. 6.4-9; 11.13-21. One box is... Read more
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Oz, mythical land that is the setting for 14 novels for children by L. Frank Baum, beginning with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). This fanciful region, traversed by a long yellow brick road, is accidentally discovered by Dorothy, a little girl from Kansas, when she and her dog Toto are blown off... Read more
Levallois-Perret Levallois-Perret
Levallois‐Perret, Paris/France In 1867 four communities merged to form the city; one was Levallois, named after its founder, Nicolas‐Eugène Levallois (1816–79), and another was Champerret which took its name from the Latin campus petrosus ‘stony ground’.... Read more
Death Mask Death Mask
D EATHM ASK A death mask is a wax or plaster cast of a person's face taken while he or she is alive or after their death. Usually the mask is created after the death of the person because of the danger imposed by its materials. The making of a reproduction of... Read more
Joanna Baillie Joanna Baillie
Joanna Baillie Scottish playwright and poet Joanna Baillie (1762-1851) was one of the most acclaimed literary figures of her day, despite the inescapable fact that she was female. Her work, which included over 25 plays and dozens of poems, was hailed by contemporaries in Great Britain and the... Read more

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