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Nordic Skiing/Ski Jumping/Cross Country

2006 U.S. Ski Jumping/Nordic Combined Championships(Jan. 21–22, 2006, Steamboat Springs, Colo.)MenNormal Hill (K100m)—1. Clint Jones, Steamboat Springs, Colo.; 2. Todd Lodwick, Steamboat Springs,…

National Poetry Month

Featured Biography Marianne Moore American poet Notable Poets » Akhmatova - ByronCatullus - DunbarEliot - HughesJarrell - MillayNeruda - RumiSandburg - TennysonValéry - YeatsPoetry…

National Poetry Month

Featured Biography Marianne Moore American poet Notable Poets » Akhmatova - ByronCatullus - DunbarEliot - HughesJarrell - MillayNeruda - RumiSandburg - TennysonValéry - YeatsPoetry…

National Poetry Month

Featured Biography Marianne Moore American poet Notable Poets » Akhmatova - ByronCatullus - DunbarEliot - HughesJarrell - MillayNeruda - RumiSandburg - TennysonValéry -…

Haydn, Franz Joseph

(Encyclopedia) Haydn, Franz JosephHaydn, Franz Josephfränts yōˈzĕf hīˈdən [key], 1732–1809, Austrian composer, one of the greatest masters of classical music. As a boy he sang in the choir at St.…

Kahn, Louis Isadore

(Encyclopedia) Kahn, Louis IsadoreKahn, Louis Isadoreĭzˈədôrˌ [key]Kahn, Louis Isadore, kän [key], 1901–74, American architect, b. Estonia. He and his family moved to Philadelphia in 1905, and he…

Locke, Alain LeRoy

(Encyclopedia) Locke, Alain LeRoy, 1885–1954, American writer, educator, philosopher, and cultural critic, b. Philadelphia, grad. Harvard (A.B., 1907; Ph.D., 1918), first African-American Rhodes…

plainsong

(Encyclopedia) plainsong or plainchant, the unharmonized chant of the medieval Christian liturgies in Europe and the Middle East; usually synonymous with Gregorian chant, the liturgical music of the…