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Pascal's law

(Encyclopedia)Pascal's law päskälzˈ [key] [for Blaise Pascal], states that pressure applied to a confined fluid at any point is transmitted undiminished throughout the fluid in all directions and acts upon every...

Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

(Encyclopedia)Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852–1930, American author, b. Randolph, Mass. Her stories and novels paint a picture of Massachusetts and Vermont still under the influence of Puritanism, in her view...

Duncan, Robert

(Encyclopedia)Duncan, Robert, 1919–88, American poet, b. Oakland, Calif. He was a leading poet of the San Francisco renaissance during the late 1940s. His lyric style contains private allusions, gaps in syntax, a...

Ekimov, Alexei

(Encyclopedia)Alexei Ekimov, 1945– , b. Leningrad, USSR, Russian physicist, studied at Leningrad State University and Ioffe Institute of the Russian Academy of Scie...

Angus cattle

(Encyclopedia)Angus cattle ăngˈgəs [key], breed of black polled (hornless) beef cattle, originated in Scotland and introduced in 1873 to the United States, where they have become well established. Often called B...

Joyner-Kersee, Jackie

(Encyclopedia)Joyner-Kersee, Jackie joiˈnər-kûrˈzē [key], 1962–, American track and field athlete, b. East St. Louis, Ill. One of the world's best all-around women athletes, she won the silver medal in the h...

Kasprowicz, Jan

(Encyclopedia)Kasprowicz, Jan yän käsprôˈvēch [key], 1860–1926, Polish poet. His writings progressed from social revolt (e.g., From a Peasant's Field, 1891) to poems of spiritual struggle and philosophical i...

Stenbock, Count Magnus

(Encyclopedia)Stenbock, Count Magnus mängˈnəs stānˈbôk [key], 1665–1717, Swedish field marshal. One of the ablest lieutenants of Charles XII in the Northern War, he helped defeat (1700) Peter I of Russia at...

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

(Encyclopedia)Stopes, Marie Carmichael stōps [key], 1880–1958, British paleobotanist and eugenicist, b. Edinburgh, D.Sc. Univ. of London, Ph.D. Univ. of Munich. She lectured on paleobotany at the universities of...

Peirce, Benjamin

(Encyclopedia)Peirce, Benjamin, 1809–80, American mathematician and astronomer, b. Salem, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1829. From 1833 he was a professor at Harvard; he helped establish the Harvard Observatory and was a...