actor, director, writer, producerBorn: 2/14/1932Birthplace: Bronx, New York Adept at strong and vulnerable character roles, Morrow studied both prelaw and drama at Florida State College before…
actorBorn: 1/23/1944Birthplace: Breukelen, Netherlands Having spent much of the '70s honing his skill in European cinema, Hauer gained the coveted starring role in Grijpstra en de Gier (1979), a…
(Encyclopedia) Redi, FrancescoRedi, Francescofränchāsˈkō rāˈdē [key], 1626?–1698?, Italian naturalist, poet, philologist, and court physician to the dukes of Tuscany. Through controlled experiments…
Here are the results for the 2008 National Society of Film Critics Awards, given out January 4, 2009. Best Picture: Waltz With Bashir Best Actor: Sean Penn,…
(Encyclopedia) Hazlitt, William, 1778–1830, English essayist. The son of a reform-mindeed Unitarian minister, he abandoned the idea of entering the clergy and took up painting, philosophy, and later…
(Encyclopedia) Botany Bay, inlet, New South Wales, SE Australia, just S of Sydney. It was visited in 1770 by James Cook, who proclaimed British sovereignty over the east coast of Australia. The site…
(Encyclopedia) Avarua, town (est. pop. 2,600), capital, largest town, and main port of the Cook Islands, located on the N coast of Rarotonga. A trading center for locally produced fruit and fish, it…
(Encyclopedia) ManihikiManihikimänĭhēˈkē [key], atoll, c.2 sq mi (5.2 sq km), South Pacific, in the Cook Islands. It comprises 12 islets; the whole group that includes Manihiki and Penrhyn is also…
(Encyclopedia) Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729–98, German naturalist and teacher. His Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1772–73) on zoology, ornithology, and ichthyology established him…
