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Poetry Month | Notable Poets

Auden, Byron, Chaucer, and more A-B | C-D | E-H | J-M | N-R | S-T | U-Z   Amiri Baraka   Abu Nuwas Addison, Joseph Aidoo, Ama Ata Aiken, Conrad Akhmatova, Anna Aldington, Richard…

Members of Congress: California, Congress,

Biographies of U.S. representatives and senators from California Member Name Birth-Death ALLEN, John Joseph, Jr. 1899-1995 ANDERSON, Glenn Malcolm 1913-1994 ANDERSON, John Zuinglius…

Bios of Artists, Painters, Sculptors, and More

  Painters, sculptors, and photographers   Read the brief and informative biographies of notable artists, from Pablo Picasso and Mary Cassatt to Vincent Van Gogh and Georgia O'Keeffe. This is…

Chinese art

(Encyclopedia) Chinese art, works of art produced in the vast geographical region of China. It the oldest art in the world and has its origins in remote antiquity. (For the history of Chinese…

Kazakhstan

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Kazakhstan or KazakstanKazakstankäˌzäkstänˈ [key], officially Republic of Kazakhstan, republic (2015 est. pop. 17,750,000), c.1,050,000 sq mi (2,719,500 sq km), central Asia. It…

Chinese literature

(Encyclopedia) Chinese literature, the literature of ancient and modern China. Fiction during the first years after the 1949 Communist revolution depicted the great social transformations taking…

Nobel Prizes (table)

(Encyclopedia) Nobel Prizes Year Peace Chemistry Physics Physiology or Medicine Literature 1901 J. H. Dunant Frédéric Passy J. H. van't Hoff W. C. Roentgen E. A. von Behring R. F. A. Sully-…