(Encyclopedia) Wyss, Johann DavidWyss, Johann Davidyōˈhän däˈvĭt vēs [key], 1743–1818, Swiss author. His Swiss Family Robinson (1813, tr. 1814), an internationally popular classic for children,…
Jackie Robinson Robinson wasn't the most talented player in the Negro Leagues, but Rickey considered him the most "suitable" player to desegregate baseball. The fact that he was married —…
CROWLEY, Joseph Burns, a Representative from Illinois; born in Coshocton, Coshocton County, Ohio, July 19, 1858; moved with his parents to a farm near St. Marie, Jasper County, Ill., in 1860…
WHERE DO SEX CELLS FORM? HOW DOES AN EMBRYO FORM? WHERE DOES THE EMBRYO DEVELOP? HEREDITYFIND OUT MORENew life is created by reproduction. The mother and father produce sex cells, which join to…
(Encyclopedia) Tarnovsky, Andrei, 1932–86, Soviet film director, grad. State Institute of Cinematography (1960), where he made several notable short films. The son of poet Arseni Tarkovsky, he is…
(Encyclopedia) Balla, Giacomo, 1871–1958, Italian painter, one of the founders of futurism. He moved from Turin to Rome in his twenties and began painting in a realist style. He travelled (1900) to…
American Reparations? Robinson's new book asks "What is Owed to Blacks?" by Jace Clayton Randall Robinson's book of nonfiction, The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks (Dutton, 2000),…
MicroevolutionMicroevolution and MacroevolutionIntroductionMicroevolutionSpeciationMacroevolution Microevolution is the change in the genome, or gene pool, for a given species in a relatively short…
