(Encyclopedia) Aumann, Robert John, American-Israeli mathematician, b. Frankfurt, Germany, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1955. He immigrated with his family to the United States in…
(Encyclopedia) NaganoNaganonägäˈnō [key], city (1990 pop. 347,026), capital of Nagano prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on the Tenryu River. It has a food-processing industry and produces auto parts…
(Encyclopedia) Haile Gebrselassie, 1973–, Ethiopian track athlete. Adept at both indoor and outdoor distance events as well as long-distance cross-country and marathon running, Haile won major races…
(Encyclopedia) EleusisEleusisĭl&oomacr;ˈsĭs [key], ancient city of Attica, Greece, 12 mi (20 km) NW of Athens. Through ancient times it was the seat of the Eleusinian Mysteries. There was a large…
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Video transmission and reception of color and black-and-white television: The camera lens focuses collected light rays into mirrors, which separate the image into its three…
Our solar system consists of one star (the Sun), eight planets and all their moons, three dwarf planets, and several thousand small solar system objects—…
Elizabeth Olsen made her big-screen splash in 2011, starring in the psychological thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene and the art house horror film Silent House. The younger sister of The Olsen Twins (…
Name at birth: Alfred Matthew Yankovic"Weird Al" Yankovic has made a career out of poking fun at pop musicians. Thanks to radio host Dr. Demento, Yankovic broke into the novelty song business in 1979…
Comedian Aziz Ansari broke through in 2009 with small parts in movies and as a featured co-star of the television sitcom Parks and Recreation (with Amy Poehler. Born and raised in South Carolina (his…
Joseph Kony is the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, an armed rebel group that has terrorized parts of Uganda for more than two decades and which gained extra fame on the Internet in 2012. Joseph…
