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Smith, Zadie

(Encyclopedia) Smith, Zadie, 1975–, British writer. The biracial daughter of an English father and Jamaican mother, Smith burst on the literary scene in 2000 with her first novel, White Teeth, the…

Smith Act

(Encyclopedia) Smith Act, 1940, passed by the U.S. Congress as the Alien Registration Act of 1940. The act, which made it an offense to advocate or belong to a group that advocated the violent…

Smith College

(Encyclopedia) Smith College, at Northampton, Mass.; undergraduate for women, graduate coeducational; chartered 1871, opened 1875 through a bequest of Sophia Smith. The first president, Laurenus…

Smith, Adam

(Encyclopedia) Smith, Adam, 1723–90, Scottish economist, educated at Glasgow and Oxford. He became professor of moral philosophy at the Univ. of Glasgow in 1752, and while teaching there wrote his…

Wayland Smith

(Encyclopedia) Wayland Smith, in English folklore, a skillful blacksmith and great armor maker, whose forge was near the White Horse (Oxfordshire). He appears in the Old English Beowulf and Deor and…

Koko Taylor Biography

musicianBorn: September 28, 1928Died: June 3, 2009 (Chicago, Illinois, USA) Best Known as: blues singer Born in Tennessee, the daughter of a sharecropper, Koko…

Marshall (Major) Taylor

Born: Nov. 26, 1878Cyclist Considered one of the first African-American sports heroes; held seven world cycling records at the turn of the century, racing mostly in Europe, Australia and New…

Philo Taylor Farnsworth

Born: 1906Birthplace: Beaver, Utah Television system—At the age of 20 Farnsworth produced the first all-electronic television image. In addition to his television system he invented the first cold…

Jonathan Taylor Thomas

(Jonathan Weiss)actorBorn: 9/08/1981Birthplace: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Before winning a role on the television series Home Improvement (1991–1998), Thomas worked as a model and appeared in The…

J.G. Taylor Spink

Born: Nov. 6, 1888Publisher of The Sporting News from 1914-62 BWAA annual meritorious service award named after him.Died: Dec. 7, 1962