(Encyclopedia) Wollstonecraft, MaryWollstonecraft, Maryw&oobreve;lˈstənkräft, –krăft [key], 1759–97, English author and feminist, b. London. She was an early proponent of educational equality…
(Encyclopedia) Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron, 1879–1964, British financier, statesman, and newspaper owner, b. Canada. The son of a Scottish Presbyterian clergyman, he grew up near…
(Encyclopedia) space-time, central concept in the theory of relativity that replaces the earlier concepts of space and time as separate absolute entities. In relativity one cannot uniquely…
(Encyclopedia) Biddle, Nicholas, 1786–1844, American financier, b. Philadelphia. After holding important posts in the American legations in France and England, he returned to the United States in…
(Encyclopedia) Whig party, one of the two major political parties of the United States in the second quarter of the 19th cent.
By the time Fillmore had succeeded to the presidency, the…
Edward Furlong in John Waters' Pecker But don't look for any modern cowboys this fall. They've been replaced, for the most part, by an assortment of amiable kooks and wide…
