(Encyclopedia) Perry, Ralph Barton, 1876–1957, American realist philosopher, b. Poultney, Vt., grad. Princeton (B.A., 1896) and Harvard (Ph.D., 1899). He taught at Harvard from 1902, becoming…
"The Actor's Director": Priming the Prima DonnasMovies and FilmArtists or Stars? The Aesthetics of ActingFilm Acting vs. Theater ActingThe Star SystemThe Schools of Film Acting"The Actor's Director…
Poems in Honor of SpringA selection of verses to cheer the winter-weary soulCompiled by Ann-Marie Imbornoni For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days…
Alice Alice, an impressionable Victorian girl of seven-and-a-half, falls down a rabbit hole into Wonderland, where she has many strange and curious adventures. Alice is one of the earliest classic…
actor, directorBorn: 9/25/1952Birthplace: New York City Classically handsome film, stage and television actor who became a movie icon as the title character of Superman (1978). Reeve avoided…
NELSON, Charles Pembroke, (son of John E. Nelson), a Representative from Maine; born in Waterville, Kennebec County, Maine, July 2, 1907; graduated from Cony High School, Augusta, Maine, in…
Senate Years of Service: 1880-1891Party: DemocratBROWN, Joseph Emerson, a Senator from Georgia; born in the Pickens District of South Carolina April 15, 1821; moved to Georgia; attended…
(Encyclopedia) Du PontDu Pontd&oomacr;pŏnt [key], family notable in U.S. industrial history. The Du Pont family's importance began when Eleuthère Irénée Du Pont established a gunpowder mill on…
(Encyclopedia) Triangle Waist Company, often called the Triangle Shirtwaist Co., manufacturers of women's cotton and linen blouses. Located in lower Manhattan in the early 20th cent., on Mar. 25,…
biochemistBorn: 1/9/1922Birthplace: Raipur, India (now Pakistan) Har Gobind Khorana grew up as a member of one of the few literate families in his tiny village. His father insisted upon educating…
