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Louis, Joe

(Encyclopedia) Louis, Joe (Joseph Louis Barrow)Louis, Joel&oomacr;ˈĭs [key], 1914–81, American boxer, b. Lafayette, Ala. His father, a sharecropper, died when Louis was four years old, and in…

secession, in art

(Encyclopedia) secession, in art, any of several associations of progressive artists, especially those in Munich, Berlin, and Vienna, who withdrew from the established academic societies or…

Geometry: Taxi-Cab Geometry

Taxi-Cab GeometryGeometryWhose Geometry Is It Anyway?Non-Euclidean GeometryHyperbolic Geometry: Saddle Up!Spherical GeometryTaxi-Cab GeometryMax GeometryHow Many Shapes Can a Circle Have? Taxi-cab…

Wilco

rock group Founded after the 1994 breakup of Uncle Tupelo and including four of that group's original members, Wilco (1994–present) has carried on in Uncle Tupelo's alternative-country-rock hybrid…

Schildkraut, Rudolph

(Encyclopedia) Schildkraut, RudolphSchildkraut, Rudolphshĭltˈkrout [key], 1862–1930, Austrian actor. He was a member of Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater, Berlin. In 1911 he came to the United States…

Kendrew, John Cowdery

(Encyclopedia) Kendrew, John Cowdery, 1917–97, British biochemist, grad. Cambridge (Ph.D. 1949). He was a fellow of Peterhouse College at Cambridge from 1947 to 1975 and was scientific adviser to the…

Stefan, Josef

(Encyclopedia) Stefan, JosefStefan, Josefyōˈzĕf shtĕfˈän [key], 1835–93, Austrian physicist. At the Univ. of Vienna he became a professor of physics and later director of the Physical Institute. From…

Warburg, Otto Heinrich

(Encyclopedia) Warburg, Otto HeinrichWarburg, Otto Heinrichŏtˈō hīnˈrĭkh värˈb&oobreve;rkh [key], 1883–1970, German physiologist. He was director (1931–53) of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (now…

Other 2006 Grand Slam Champions

French Open (Paris, France, May 28-June 11, 2006) Men's singles—Rafael Nadal defeats Roger Federer 1-6 6-1 6-4 7-6 (4) Women's singles—Justine…

Geometry: Hyperbolic Geometry: Saddle Up!

Hyperbolic Geometry: Saddle Up!GeometryWhose Geometry Is It Anyway?Non-Euclidean GeometryHyperbolic Geometry: Saddle Up!Spherical GeometryTaxi-Cab GeometryMax GeometryHow Many Shapes Can a Circle…