rock group In the early 1970s, in Pasadena, California, guitarist Eddie Van Halen and his brother Alex Van Halen, a drummer, formed the group Mammoth with vocalist David Lee Roth and bass player…
Check out these features in celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Read about Fred Korematsu and other famous Asian Americans. Find out the history of the fortune cookie…
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(Encyclopedia) Guy Blache or Guy-Blaché, Alice, 1873–1968, French-American filmmaker, b. Paris as Alice Guy. The first woman filmmaker, she directed, produced, wrote screenplays for, or supervised…
(Encyclopedia) Lu Xun or Lu HsünLu Hsünboth: l&oomacr;ˈshünˈ [key], 1881–1936, Chinese writer, pen name of Chou Shu-jen. In 1902, he traveled to Japan on a government scholarship, eventually…
(Encyclopedia) Marion, FrancisMarion, Francismârˈēən [key], c.1732–1795, American Revolutionary soldier, known as the Swamp Fox, b. near Georgetown, S.C. He was a planter and Indian fighter before…
(Encyclopedia) Weinberg, Steven, 1933–, American nuclear physicist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Princeton, 1957. Since 1982 he has been a professor at the Univ. of Texas at Austin, having previously been…