(Encyclopedia) Renard, JulesRenard, Juleszhül rənärˈ [key], 1864–1910, French writer. His Écornifleur (1892) is a novel about a young writer's selfish exploitation of a bourgeois family. Poil de…
Distributor:GPN Tour the United Nations headquarters with Le Var Burton, then travel with members of “Kids Can Free The Children” as they journey from their homes to Nicaragua to build a school.…
(Encyclopedia) Servan-Schreiber, Jean-Jacques, 1924–2006, French journalist, politician, and public intellectual, b. Paris, grad. École Polytechnique (1947). A political writer at Le Monde (1948–53…
(Encyclopedia) Dinwiddie, Robert, 1693–1770, colonial governor of Virginia (1751–58), b. near Glasgow, Scotland. He was collector of customs (1727–38) for Bermuda and surveyor general (1738–51) for…
(Encyclopedia) brutalism or new brutalism, architectural style of the late 1950s and 60s that arose in reaction to the lightness, polish, and use of glass and steel that had come to characterize the…
Rzewski, Frederic Anthony
(Encyclopedia) Rzewski, Frederic Anthony, 1938-2021, American classical composer and pianist, b. Westfield, Ma., Harvard Univ. (B.A., 1958),…
(Encyclopedia) Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain deMarivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain depyĕrˈ kärlāˈ də shäNblēˈ də märēvōˈ [key], 1688–1763, French dramatist and novelist. He enjoyed popularity…
Born: 1822Birthplace: Dôle, France Brewing beer and ale—Pasteur formulated the fundamental tenets of the germ theory of fermentation and of diseases which led to his pasteurization process of…
(Encyclopedia) Austen, JaneAusten, Janeôˈstən [key], 1775–1817, English novelist. The daughter of a clergyman, she spent the first 25 years of her life at “Steventon,” her father's Hampshire vicarage…
TAYLOR, John W., a Representative from New York; born in Charlton, N.Y., March 26, 1784; received his early education at home; was graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1803;…
