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Salzburg Festival

(Encyclopedia) Salzburg Festival, annual festival of music and drama held in Salzburg, Austria, for five weeks starting in late July. The festival may be considered a descendant of the Salzburg Music…

How The Grinch Stole Christmas—Trivia

Grinchy Trivia Compare the holiday movie, TV, and Dr. Seuss creations by Holly Hartman The Silver-Screen Grinch The live-action movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas features more than…

Women in Technology

Profiles of female trailblazers in technology by Jennie Wood Ada Lovelace, the First Computer Programmer Women in Technology Ada Lovelace Grace Hopper Hedy Lamarr Jean Sammet Roberta…

Movies and Film: Danish Directions

Danish DirectionsMovies and FilmScandinavian Film HistoryDanish DirectionsThe Networks of NorwaySwedish SweetnessIngmar Bergman and the Triumph of Scandinavian Cinema On September 17, 1904, the…

Black Musicians

  Notable African-American Musicians     The following list includes African-American singers, composers, rappers, pianists, and other musicians who have contributed to the…

Scientists: Life Sciences

Biologists, botanists, geneticists, medical scientists, microbiologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and zoologists Related Links Cloning: Facts and Fallacies Life…

Writers

    Related Links Notable Asian-American Poets and Writers Notable Irish Writers Notable Female Literary Figures Notable Hispanic-American Figures Notable…

European Southern Observatory

(Encyclopedia) European Southern Observatory (ESO), an intergovernmental organization for astronomical research with headquarters in Garching, near Munich, Germany. The ESO began in 1962 as a…

surrealism

(Encyclopedia) surrealismsurrealismsərēˈəlĭzəm [key], literary and art movement influenced by Freudianism and dedicated to the expression of imagination as revealed in dreams, free of the conscious…