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Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster (Alicia Christian Foster), 1962-, American actress, b. Los Angeles. A child model, she began acting in TV commercials at three, appeared on various TV shows, and made her screen debut in Disney's Napoleon and Samantha (1972). Her first important role was as the barely adolescent pros...
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Mark Spitz
Mark Spitz
American swimmer Mark Spitz (born 1950) is considered to have been the fastest swimmer in history. For six years, beginning in 1966, he dominated the sport, winning a world record seven gold medals in the 1972 Olympics held in Munich, West Germany. This was the most gold medals won by ...
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David Sarnoff
David Sarnoff 1891-1971, American pioneer in radio and television, b. Russia. Emigrating to the United States in 1900, he worked for the Marconi Wireless Company, winning recognition as the narrator of the news of the Titanic disaster (1912). In 1915, he proposed a "radio music box" that led to...
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Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury , 1920-, American writer, b. Waukegan, Ill. A popular and very prolific writer of science fiction , Bradbury skillfully combines social and technological criticism with delightful fantasy. His best-known work is probably The Martian Chronicles (1950), the tale of the ruin of Martian ...
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Philo Taylor Farnsworth
Philo Taylor Farnsworth 1906-71, American inventor, b. Beaver, Utah, grad. Brigham Young Univ., 1925. He demonstrated (1927) a working model of a television system. His "dissector tube" (called the orthicon), like V. K. Zworykin's iconoscope, is a means of dividing an image into particles whose...
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Rachel
Rachel , stage name of Élisa Félix , 1821-58, French actress, b. Switzerland. Exploited by her father in her childhood, she sang in the streets with her sister Sarah. In Paris, showing great promise at the Théâtre Molière school, she entered the Gymnase (1833) an...
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Henk Badings
Henk Badings , 1907-87, Dutch composer, b. Bandung, Java (now Indonesia). Badings studied with Willem Pijper after working as a mining engineer. An extremely prolific composer, he started writing electronic music in the 1950s. Some of his compositions utilize scales of alternating whole and half ste...
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Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik , 1932-2006, Korean-American artist, b. Seoul. A performance and conceptual artist, Paik worked mainly with video, integrating visual images with music. A characteristic work, Fin de Siecle II (1989-90; Whitney Mus., New York City), incorporates hundreds of television monitors, confr...
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e-commerce
e-commerce commerce conducted over the Internet , most often via the World Wide Web . E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. A customer can order items from a vendor's Web site, paying with a credit card (the cus...
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Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch (Keith Rupert Murdoch), 1931-, Australian-American publishing magnate. Combining sensationalist journalism (often reflective of his generally hawkish, strongly conservative political views) with aggressive promotion, Murdoch established a worldwide communications empire, the News Cor...
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