Many children have written books that have been published. One of the first we know about is Francis Hawkins. In 1641, when he was 8 years old, he wrote a book of manners for children called Youth…
(Encyclopedia) Noguchi, IsamuNoguchi, Isamuēsäˈm&oomacr; nōg&oomacr;ˈchē [key], 1904–88, American sculptor, b. Los Angeles. The son of a Japanese poet father and an American mother, he was a…
(Encyclopedia) Mekas, Jonas, 1922–2019, Lithuanian-American avant-garde filmmaker, critic, and journalist. During and after World War II, he and his younger brother, Adolfus, were interned in labor…
(Encyclopedia) Moore's Law, a projection of semiconductor manufacturing trends made by Gordon E. Moore, cofounder of the Intel Corp., in a 1965 magazine article. He observed that the number of…
Inaugural Trivia Firsts and facts about presidential inaugurations by Christine Frantz and Beth Rowen NOTABLE INAUGURAL EVENTS George Washington's was the shortest…
(Encyclopedia) Fay, Frank, 1870–1931, and W. G. Fay, 1872–1947, brothers, both Irish actors. The Fay brothers formed the Irish National Theatre, an amateur group founded on the conviction that only…
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