(Encyclopedia) Wolfe, Thomas Clayton, 1900–1938, American novelist, b. Asheville, N.C., grad. Univ. of North Carolina, 1920, M.A. Harvard, 1922. An important 20th-century American novelist, Wolfe…
(Encyclopedia) Young, Iris Marion, 1949–2006, American philosopher and political theorist, b. New York, Ph.D. Penn State University, 1974. An activist-…
(Encyclopedia) Redgrave, family of English actors. Sir Michael Redgrave, 1908–85, b. Bristol, Eng., was an actor, director, and writer. After his first professional performance in Counsellor-at-Law (…
Pixar hopes for another special-effects coup with A Bug's Life. Colonies of another kind — those inhabited by ants — are the setting for two tales about misfit Formicidae…
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East Timor, Malta, Paraguay, Togo, Tonga and Zimbabwe compete in the Winter Olympics for the first time. Related Links 2014 Winter Olympics Memorable Olympic Moments Birth of…
(Encyclopedia) Kent, county (1991 pop. 1,485,600), 1,525 sq mi (3,950 sq km), SE England. It lies between the Thames estuary and the Strait of Dover. The county town is Maidstone, and the county is…
(Encyclopedia) Richard II, 1367–1400, king of England (1377–99), son of Edward the Black Prince.
Richard is possibly the most enigmatic of the English kings. Some historians have attributed his…
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