|
Search over 100 encyclopedias and dictionaries: |
Research categories | Follow us on Twitter |
Research categories
View all topics in the newsView all reference sources at Encyclopedia.com |
|||
|
news
... Read more |
|
Nexus
Nexus Nexus is among the more distinctive newsstand magazines reporting on paranormal realities. This Australian-based publication takes a decidedly countercultural and antigovernment perspective and is especially attuned to what it sees as possible conspiracies operating against the public's... Read more |
|
Federal Theatre
Federal Theatre (1935-39), branch of the Work Projects Administration designed to provide employment for actors, directors, writers, and scene designers. As well as providing a nationwide audience with inexpensive, high-quality productions, it gave impetus to experimental theaters, such as the... Read more |
|
El Capitan
El Capitan (1896), a comic opera by Charles Klein (book), John Philip Sousa (music, lyrics), Tom Frost (lyrics). [Broadway Theatre, 112 perf.] Don Medigua ( De Wolf Hopper), the viceroy of Peru, captures the rebel El Capitan, executes him, and assumes his place in disguise. The rebels capture... Read more |
|
Herbert Gans
Herbert Gans , 1927-, American sociologist and educator, b. Cologne, Germany. He came to the United States in 1940 and became a U.S. citizen. In The Urban Villagers (2d ed. 1982), an important analysis of second-generation Italian Americans, he argues that ethnicity is partly a manifestation of... Read more |
|
Action Painting
Action Painting. A type of dynamic, impulsive painting, practised by certain Abstract Expressionists, in which the artist applies paint with energetic gestural movements—sometimes by dribbling or splashing—and with no preconceived idea of what the picture will look like. Sometimes the... Read more |
|
Lars Onsager
ONSAGER, LARS(b. Oslo, Norway, 27 November 1903; d. Coral Gables. Florida, 5 October 1976)chemistry, physics.In 1968, when the news arrived that Lars Onsager had been awarded the Nobel Prize, the natural question was, “In physics or in chemisty?” Was it for his solution of the two-dimensional Ising... Read more |
|
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. 4101 Washington AvenueNewport News, Virginia 23607U.S.A.(804) 380-2000Fax: (804) 380-3114 Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Tenneco Inc.Incorporated: 1886 as Chesapeake Dry Dock & ConstructionCo.Employees: 19,950Sales: $1.8 billionSICs: 3731 Ship... Read more |
|
Ed Gordon
Ed Gordon1960- Television and radio news personality Ed Gordon emerged in the late 1990s as one of the hottest news personalities in the highly competitive business. For many years, Gordon was a leading news anchor for the Black Entertainment Television (BET) network. During his early years with... Read more |
|
The Girl with the Green Eyes
Girl with the Green Eyes, The (1902), a play by Clyde Fitch. [Savoy Theatre, 108 perf.] A streak of pathological jealousy besets the Tillmans. Geoffrey Tillman ( John W. Albaugh Jr.), having married a housemaid while drunk, enters into a secret bigamous marriage with Ruth Chester ( Lucille ... Read more |
|
|
Assessing the Art, Science of Inconvenient Truth
...PMMELISSA BLOCK, host: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED...Inconvenient Truth, opens in theatres today. Its a documentary about...cartoons. As Gore travels the globe to deliver that lecture time...I yeah, Bob. MONDELLO: Whats really striking, ... |