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Thorndike, Dame Sybil

(Encyclopedia) Thorndike, Dame Sybil (Agnes Sybil Thorndike), 1882–1976, English actress. Thorndike made her debut with the Ben Greet Players and toured the United States with them (1904–7). She…

intuition

(Encyclopedia) intuition, in philosophy, way of knowing directly; immediate apprehension. The Greeks understood intuition to be the grasp of universal principles by the intelligence (nous), as…

Branson, Sir Richard

(Encyclopedia) Branson, Sir Richard (Richard Charles Nicholas Branson), 1950–, British business mogul and adventurer. He left school at 16 to start his first business, the magazine Student. In 1970…

Chadwick, Lynn

(Encyclopedia) Chadwick, Lynn (Lynn Russell Chadwick), 1914–2003, English sculptor. After studying architecture, Chadwick began his career as a sculptor in 1945, working largely in metal. He came to…

Salomon, Haym

(Encyclopedia) Salomon, HaymSalomon, Haymhīm [key], 1740–85, American Revolutionary financier, b. Lissa (now Leszno), Poland. A Jewish emigrant from Poland, he was imprisoned (1778) by the British in…

Information Please Almanacs

Two Great Almanacs     Order a hardcover Collector's Edition today from TIME.Call 1-800-327-6388.   Order a paperback copy now from Amazon. The 2006 TIME…

The Top 10 Lowest Radiation Cell Phones 2012

The Environmental Working Group selected the top ten cell phones with the lowest amount of radiation. Results are listed by the maximum possible SAR level from the cell phone. SAR is…

The Top 10 Lowest Radiation Cell Phones, 2013

The Environmental Working Group selected the top ten cell phones with the lowest amount of radiation. Results are listed by the maximum possible SAR level from the cell phone. SAR is…

Taylor, Joseph Hooton, Jr.

(Encyclopedia) Taylor, Joseph Hooton, Jr., 1941–, American astrophysicist, b. Philadelphia, Ph.D. Harvard, 1968. Taylor was a professor at the Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst from 1969 to 1980,…