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Walter Chauncey Camp
Walter Chauncey Camp 1859-1925, American athlete, football coach, administrator, b. New Britain, Conn. In his three years as captain at Yale Univ. in the 1880s, Camp shaped the rules that transformed rugby football into American football, including playing with 11 men, using a line of scrimmage, a ...
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American Film Institute
American Film Institute (AFI), nonprofit organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1967 by the National Endowment for the Arts to preserve and catalog American films and television, to provide work grants for new and established filmmakers, and to increase recognition and understanding of th...
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public relations
public relations activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most favorable light. Thus, the goal of the ...
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cabinet
cabinet group of advisers to the head of the state who themselves are usually the heads of the administrative government departments. The nature of the cabinet differs widely in various countries. In Great Britain, where the cabinet system originated, it was at first a committee of the privy counci...
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Pulitzer Prizes
Pulitzer Prizes annual awards for achievements in American journalism, letters, and music. The prizes are paid from the income of a fund left by Joseph Pulitzer to the trustees of Columbia Univ. They have been awarded each May since 1917 on the recommendation of an advisory board comprising journal...
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Seleucus I
Seleucus I (Seleucus Nicator) , d. 280 BC, king of ancient Syria. An able general of Alexander the Great, he played a leading part in the wars of the Diadochi . In the new partition of the empire in 312 BC he received Babylonia. Conquest of Susiana and Media enlarged his holdings, and he invaded ...
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Oman
Oman , officially Sultanate of Oman, independent sultanate (2005 est. pop. 3,002,000), c.82,000 sq mi (212,380 sq km), SE Arabian peninsula, on the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. It is bordered on the west by Yemen and Saudi Arabia and on the north by the United Arab Emirates, which separates the...
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International Court of Justice
International Court of Justice principal judicial organ of the United Nations, established by chapter 14 of the UN Charter. It superseded the Permanent Court of International Justice (see World Court ), and its statute for the most part repeats that of the former tribunal. The court consists of 15...
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art
art The major general surveys on topics in the fine arts are painting ; sculpture ; drawing ; photography , and architecture .
Bibliography: See also articles on specific artists, periods, styles, regions, genres, and graphic media.
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Qatar
Qatar or Katar , officially State of Qatar, independent emirate (2005 est. pop. 863,000), c.4,400 sq mi (11,400 sq km), E Arabia, coextensive with the Qatar peninsula, which projects into the Persian Gulf. The capital and largest city is Doha .
Land and People
Qatar is largely barren,...
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