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Surendranath Sir Banerjea Surendranath Sir Banerjea
Surendranath Banerjee Surendranath Banerjee (1848-1925) was a major figure in early Indian nationalism. A believer in moderate means, he was deeply committed to achieving constitutional objectives by constitutional methods. Surendranath Banerjee was born in Calcutta on Nov. 10, 1848, into a... Read more
Intifada Intifada
Intifada [Arab.,=uprising, shaking off], the Palestinian uprising during the late 1980s and early 90s in the West Bank and Gaza Strip , areas that had been occupied by Israel since 1967. A vehicular accident that killed four Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in Dec., 1987, sparked immediate local... Read more
Kaj Munk Kaj Munk
Munk, Kaj Harald Leininger [ Kaj Harald Leininger Petersen] (1898–1944), Danish priest and playwright, whose first substantial play, En idealist (Herod the King, 1928), was disastrously received on its first production and only fully established itself as a major work at its revival in... Read more
Muslim Brotherhood Muslim Brotherhood
Muslim Brotherhood officially Jamiat al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun [Arab.,=Society of Muslim Brothers], religious and political organization founded (1928) in Egypt by Hasan al- Banna . Early opposed to secular tendencies in Islamic nations, the organization has sought to foster a return to the original... Read more
organized crime organized crime
organized crime criminal activities organized and coordinated on a national scale, often with international connections. The American tradition of daring desperadoes like Jesse James and John Dillinger, has been superseded by the corporate criminal organization. Firmly rooted in the social... Read more
Sweet Sweet
Sweet Rock group For the Record… Selected discography Sources British pop rockers Sweet began their career by releasing records that were typical early 1970s bubblegum fare, but they soon became part of the glam-rock scene then taking hold in Britain and North America. Wresting... Read more
Napoleon I Napoleon I
Napoleon I , 1769-1821, emperor of the French, b. Ajaccio, Corsica, known as "the Little Corporal." Early Life The son of Carlo and Letizia Bonaparte (or Buonaparte; see under Bonaparte , family), young Napoleon was sent (1779) to French military schools at Brienne and Paris. He received his... Read more
Printing and Publishing Printing and Publishing
PRINTING AND PUBLISHING PRINTING AND PUBLISHING. The shift from script to print in early modern communications was both dramatic and gradual. The invention of printing from movable type did produce many more books and led to a steep decline in the production of manuscripts by about 1475. Still,... Read more
confetti confetti
confetti small pieces of coloured paper traditionally thrown over a bride and bridegroom by their wedding guests after the marriage ceremony has taken place. The term is recorded from the early 19th century, and originally denoted the real or imitation sweets thrown during Italian carnivals; it... Read more
runes runes
runes Angular characters or letters of an alphabet formerly used by Germanic peoples in early medieval times. Also called futhark after its first six letters (f, u, th, a, r, and k), the runic alphabet may have been developed by an unknown Germanic people from a n Italian alphabet.... Read more

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