(Encyclopedia) Franz Josef LandFranz Josef Landfrăns jōˈzəf, fränts yōˈzĕf [key], Rus. Zemlya Frantsa Iosifa, archipelago, c.6,300 sq mi (16,320 sq km), in the Arctic Ocean N of Novaya Zemlya, Russia…
(Encyclopedia) hydrofoil, flat or curved finlike device, attached by struts to the hull of a watercraft, that lifts the moving watercraft above the water's surface. The term is often extended to…
(Encyclopedia) Waters, Ethel, 1896?–1977, African-American singer and actress, b. Chester, Pa. As a singer, she is noted for her sultry, sophisticated, and dramatic version of the blues, evinced in…
First Place: $100,000 scholarship, Shivani Sud, 17, of Durham, North Carolina for a bioinformatics and genomics project that focused on identifying stage II colon…
Biographies of U.S. representatives and senators from Nevada Member Name Birth-Death ARENTZ, Samuel Shaw (Ulysses) 1879-1934 ASHLEY, Delos Rodeyn 1828-1873…
(Encyclopedia) Ross, Sir James Clark, 1800–1862, British polar explorer and rear admiral. In 1818 he accompanied his uncle, Sir John Ross, in search of the Northwest Passage and commanded the Erebus…
(Encyclopedia) Pepper, Beverly, American sculptor, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. She lived in Italy from the 1950s. Pepper began as a social realist painter but soon turned to sculpture, inspired by the carvings…
The world beyond Charlotte's Web—Holly Hartman Since the days of Aesop's fables, animal stories have brought readers closer to the animal kingdom while pointing up truths about the human world.…
(Encyclopedia) Wood, Grant, 1891–1942, American painter, b. Anamosa, Iowa, studied Art Institute of Chicago and in Paris. He experimented with an impressionist style in Paris, but in Munich in 1928…
