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Poetry Month | Notable Poets

Auden, Byron, Chaucer, and more A-B | C-D | E-H | J-M | N-R | S-T | U-Z   Amiri Baraka   Abu Nuwas Addison, Joseph Aidoo, Ama Ata Aiken, Conrad Akhmatova, Anna Aldington,…

Campaign 2008: Primary and Caucus Results

  Candidates Hillary ClintonBarack ObamaJohn EdwardsBill RichardsonChristopher DoddJoseph BidenDennis KucinichRudolph GiulianiFred ThompsonJohn McCainMitt RomneyMike…

2006 Midterm Elections: The Senate

Dates in left column indicate term in office; birth years are given in parentheses after party affiliation. All terms are for six years and expire in January. Senators listed in italics were…

The Senate

Dates in left column indicate term in office; birth years are given in parentheses after party affiliation. All terms are for six years and expire in January. Senators listed in italics were…

Members of the U.S. Senate, 113th Congress

United States > United States Government > Elections Below lists the members of the Senate in the United States' 113th Congress following the November 2012 elections. Dates…

Entertainment Bios — W

Mark WahlbergTom WaitsChristopher WalkenAlice WalkerEli WallachThe WallflowersJ. T. WalshRay WalstonBarbara WaltersJulie WaltersSam WanamakerVera WangWayne WangFred WardRachel WardAndy…

church, building for Christian worship

(Encyclopedia) church [Gr. kuriakon=belonging to the Lord], in architecture, a building for Christian worship. The earliest churches date from the late 3d cent.; before then Christians, because of…

holography

(Encyclopedia) holographyholographyhŏlŏgˈrəfē, hō– [key], method of reproducing a three-dimensional image of an object by means of light wave patterns recorded on a photographic plate or film.…

London Company

(Encyclopedia) London Company, corporation composed of stockholders residing in and about London, which, together with the Plymouth Company (see Virginia Company), was granted (1606) a charter by…

New York City Ballet

(Encyclopedia) New York City Ballet (NYCB), one of the foremost American dance companies of the 20th and 21st cents. It was founded by Lincoln Kirstein and George Balanchine as the Ballet Society in…