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- American poet, novelist, and scholar whose work combines the influences of feminism and her Native American heritage. [1 Related Articles]
- Allen, Peter
- (from the article "1981: Other Winners") ...for Raiders of the Lost ArkOriginal Score: Vangelis for Chariots of FireOriginal Song: "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" from Arthur; music and lyrics by Peter Allen, Burt Bacharach, Christopher Cross, Carole Bayer SagerHonorary Award: Barbara Stanwyck
- Allen, Phog
- American college basketball coach who is regarded as the first great basketball coach. He was also instrumental in making basketball an Olympic sport. [1 Related Articles]
- Allen, Ralph
- (from the article "Wood, John, the Elder") ...death, by his son John Wood the Younger), and the Royal Crescent (1767-69; executed by the younger Wood from his father's design). Later a school, Prior Park was originally the residence of Ralph Allen, Wood's chief patron and the principal supplier of Bath building stone (an oolitic limestone).contribution to Bath
- Allen, Richard
- founder and first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, a major American denomination. [1 Related Articles]
- Allen, Robert S.
- (from the article "Pearson, Drew") ...China in 1925 and the Geneva Naval Conference of 1927. He was on the staff of the United States Daily from 1926 to 1933 and wrote for the Baltimore Sun from 1929 to 1932. Pearson and Robert S. Allen, another Washington, D.C., reporter, wrote a book, Washington Merry-Go-Round (1931), a ...
- Allen, Scott
- (from the article "Olympic Games") ...Belousova and Oleg Protopopov defeated their longtime rivals Marika Kilius and Hans-Jurgen Baumler (West Germany) to win their first gold medal. In the men's figure skating competition, Scott Allen (U.S.) captured the bronze two days before his 15th birthday, becoming the youngest athlete to win a Winter Games medal. Tragedy ...
- Allen, Sir Hugh
- organist and musical educator who exerted a far-reaching influence on the English musical life of his time.
- Allen, Sir James
- statesman, leader of the New Zealand Reform Party, and minister of defense (1912-20) who was instrumental in the development of New Zealand's navy and expeditionary military force.
- Allen, Steve
- pioneer American television entertainer, versatile author, songwriter, and comedian who performed in radio, motion pictures, and theatre as well as television. Allen wrote a sidebar on The Tonight Show for the Encyclopaedia Britannica (see Sidebar: The Tonight Show). [3 Related Articles]
- Allen, Viola
- American actress, especially famous for her Shakespearean roles and for her roles in Frances Eliza Burnett's Little Lord Fauntleroy and Bronson Howard's Shenandoah, both extremely popular plays.
- Allen, Walter
- British novelist and critic best known for the breadth and accessibility of his criticism. [1 Related Articles]
- Allen, William
- English cardinal and scholar who supervised the preparation of the Roman Catholic Douai-Reims translation of the Bible and engaged in intrigues against the Protestant regime of Queen Elizabeth I. [2 Related Articles]
- Allen, William
- (from the article "Allentown") city, seat (1812) of Lehigh county, eastern Pennsylvania, U.S. Situated on the Lehigh River, Allentown, with Bethlehem and Easton, forms an industrial complex. William Allen, mayor of Philadelphia and later chief justice of Pennsylvania, laid out the town (1762), naming it Northampton. It was incorporated as the borough of Northampton ...
- Allen, Woody
- American motion-picture director, screenwriter, actor, and author, best known for his bittersweet comic films containing elements of parody, slapstick, and the absurd. He was also known as a sympathetic director for women, writing strong and well-defined characters for them. Among his featured performers were Diane Keaton and Mia Farrow, with ... [9 Related Articles]
- Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount
- field marshal, the last great British leader of mounted cavalry, who directed the Palestine campaign in World War I. [8 Related Articles]
- Allendale
- county, southern South Carolina, U.S. It is a rural area on the Coastal Plain. The Savannah River border with Georgia defines the western boundary, the Salkehatchie River the northeastern. It is also drained by the Coosawhatchie River. Much of the area is covered by pine and mixed forests. Swamps along ... [1 Related Articles]
- Allende meteorite
- meteorite that fell as a shower of stones (see meteorite shower) after breaking up in the atmosphere at Chihuahua, Mex., near the village of Pueblito de Allende, in February 1969. More than two tons of meteorite fragments were collected. Fortuitously, the Allende meteorite fell shortly before the first rock samples ... [1 Related Articles]
- Allende, Isabel
- Chilean American writer in the magic realist tradition who is considered one of the first successful woman novelists from Latin America. [3 Related Articles]
- Allende, Salvador
- Chile's first socialist president. [9 Related Articles]
- Allentown
- city, seat (1812) of Lehigh county, eastern Pennsylvania, U.S. Situated on the Lehigh River, Allentown, with Bethlehem and Easton, forms an industrial complex. William Allen, mayor of Philadelphia and later chief justice of Pennsylvania, laid out the town (1762), naming it Northampton. It was incorporated as the borough of Northampton ... [1 Related Articles]
- Alleppey
- city, southern Kerala state, southwestern India. It lies on a narrow land spit between the Arabian Sea and Vembanad Lake, south of Kochi (formerly Cochin). Alleppey's port was opened to foreign trade by the British in the late 18th century to end the commercial supremacy of the Dutch trading post ...
- Allerdale
- district, administrative county of Cumbria, historic county of Cumberland, northwestern England, in the northwestern part of the county along the coast of the Solway Firth. Except for its coastal plain on the west and northwest, Allerdale is a scenic district of mountains and lake-filled valleys forming the northwestern part of ...
- allergen
- substance that in some persons induces the hypersensitive state of allergy and stimulates the formation of reaginic antibodies. Allergens may be naturally occurring or of synthetic origin and include pollen, mold spores, dust, animal dander, insect debris, foods, blood serum, and drugs. Identification of allergens is made by studying both ... [7 Related Articles]
- allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis
- (from the article "aspergillosis") Characteristic symptoms of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, seen especially in patients with chronic pulmonary diseases, include a chronic, productive cough and purulent sputum occasionally tinged with blood and flecks of white or brownish mycelium (fungus material). Severe invasive aspergillosis is almost entirely limited to those whose immune systems have been severely ...
- allergy
- hypersensitivity reaction by the body to foreign substances (antigens) that in similar amounts and circumstances are harmless within the bodies of other people. [22 Related Articles]
- Allerheim, Battle of
- (from the article "Europe, history of") ...the Swedes advanced to the Danube and threatened Vienna. Reinforcements were also sent to assist the French campaign against Bavaria, and on August 3 Maximilian's forces were decisively defeated at Allerheim.
- Allerod
- (from the article "Holocene Epoch") ...can be presented for the selection of the lower boundary of the Holocene at several different times in the past. Some Russian investigators have proposed a boundary at the beginning of the Allerod, a warm interstadial age that began about 12,000 BP. Others, in Alaska, proposed a Holocene section beginning ...
- Alley Theatre
- (from the article "directing") A promising development was the establishment of regional theatres in and around the bigger centres of population. Pioneering theatres such as the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., and the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas, provided forums not only for a wide repertoire of world theatre but also for new playwrights ...
- Alleyn, Edward
- one of the greatest actors of the Elizabethan stage and founder of Dulwich College, London. Rivaled only by Richard Burbage, Alleyn won the outspoken admiration of such authors as Ben Jonson and Thomas Nashe for his interpretations of Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine, Doctor Faustus, and The Jew of Malta and of ... [3 Related Articles]
- Allgauer Alps
- (from the article "Germany") Very small portions of the outer limestone (or calcareous) Alps extend from Austria into Germany. From west to east these are the Allgauer Alps, the Wetterstein Alps-with Germany's highest mountain, the Zugspitze-and the Berchtesgadener Alps. Like the North German Plain, the Alpine Foreland is fundamentally a depression filled with Tertiary ...
- Allgemeine Deutsche Burschenschaft
- (from the article "Charles Augustus") ...Decrees (1819), passed by a conference of ministers of the more important German states, forced Charles Augustus to curtail his subjects' liberties once again. Nevertheless, his patronage of the Allgemeine Deutsche Burschenschaft (Young Germany Movement), a liberal, idealistic student association, from 1818 helped launch that organization into national prominence.
- Allgemeine Enzyklopadie der Wissenschaften und Kunste
- (German: "Universal Encyclopaedia of Sciences and Arts"), monumental uncompleted German encyclopaedia of which 167 volumes were published from 1818 to 1889. Founded by a German bibliographer, Johann Samuel Ersch, who began work on it in 1813, the Allgemeine Enzyklopadie der Wissenschaften und Kunste is noteworthy for containing the longest known ... [2 Related Articles]
- Allgemeine Zeitung
- (German: "General Newspaper"), greatest German newspaper in the 19th century, founded at Tubingen in 1798 by Johann Friedrich Cotta, later Freiherr (baron) von Cottendorf. Censorship and other pressures forced it to move successively to Stuttgart, Ulm, Augsburg, and Munich. The name has been carried on in a sense by the ... [2 Related Articles]
- Allgemeine-SS
- (from the article "SS") ...were trained and equipped along the lines of the regular army. By 1939 the SS, now numbering about 250,000 men, had become a massive and labyrinthian bureaucracy, divided mainly into two groups: the Allgemeine-SS (General SS) and the Waffen-SS (Armed SS).
- Allgood family
- (from the article "Pontypool ware") japanned (varnished) tinplate produced in Wales at the Allgood family factory in Pontypool and later in Usk, Monmouthshire. It is distinguished from other japanned tinware by its distinctive lustre and unique durability. These features are the results of the experiments by craftsmen of the Allgood family, who also developed their ...
- Allgood, Sara
- Irish character actress who performed in the original Sean O'Casey plays produced at Dublin's Abbey Theatre and in many American motion pictures of the 1940s. Her early instructors included Frank and W.G. Fay, W.B. Yeats, and John Millington Synge.
- Alliaceae
- family of flowering plants in the order Asparagales, with about 30 genera and more than 670 species, distributed throughout most regions of the world, except for the tropics, Australia, and New Zealand. Members of the family have corms, bulbs, or underground stems; most have long, thin leaves and clusters of ...
- Alliance
- city, Stark county, northeastern Ohio, U.S., on the Mahoning River, about 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Canton. In 1854 the villages of Williamsport, Freedom, and Liberty were incorporated as the village of Alliance, so named for the junction and crossing there of the former New York Central and Pennsylvania ...
- alliance
- in international relations, a formal agreement between two or more states for mutual support in case of war. Contemporary alliances provide for combined action on the part of two or more independent states and are generally defensive in nature, obligating allies to join forces if one or more of them ...
- Alliance for a Healthier Generation
- (from the article "Confronting Childhood Obesity") Curbing the rise in childhood obesity was the aim of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a partnership formed in 2005 by the American Heart Association, former U.S. president Bill Clinton, and the children's television network Nickelodeon. Clinton, who had been a fat child, knew firsthand the life-threatening...
- Alliance for Democracy in Mali
- (from the article "Mali") In the July legislative elections, turnout was again low. Toure's coalition, the Alliance for Democracy and Progress (ADEMA), won 128 of the 147 seats in the National Assembly. On September 3 ADEMA leader Dioncounda Traore was elected to a five-year term as president of the National Assembly. In other news, ...
- Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction
- (from the article "Gambia, The") ...leadership of Halifa Sallah, minority leader in the parliament, launched a coalition-the National Alliance for Democracy and Development-to challenge Pres. Yahya Jammeh and his ruling Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction in the 2006 elections. The same month Jammeh, who had ruled since 1994, was defeated in a contest for ...
- Alliance for Progress
- former international economic development program established by the United States and 22 Latin American countries in the Charter of Punta del Este (Uruguay) in August 1961. Objectives stated in the charter centred on the maintenance of democratic government and the achievement of economic and social development; specific goals included a ... [4 Related Articles]
- Alliance for the Future of Austria
- (from the article "Austria") ...when Jorg Haider-the populist former party leader and governor of Carinthia-together with most of the FPO leadership and parliamentarians broke away to form a new party, the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZO). This unexpected development followed a period of acrimonious fighting within the FPO; tensions flared between the ...
- Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia
- (from the article "Somalia") ...opposition groups-including many Islamist insurgents and the powerful Hawiye clan-boycotted it; they held their own conference in September in Asmara, Eritrea. There they formed the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS), an umbrella group that vowed that it would not negotiate until a full withdrawal of Ethiopian troops from ...
- Alliance Israelite Universelle
- (from the article "Hirsch, Maurice, baron de") ...to Constantinople. He began his philanthropic activities by aiding Oriental Jews, whose poverty struck him while he was on a visit to Turkey. To aid them, he contributed 1,000,000 francs to the Alliance Israelite Universelle, a philanthropic organization, and subsequently maintained it with large annual donations. He then established and ...
- Alliance of Civilizations
- (from the article "Religion") ...are being made to split the world on the basis of religion or ethnicity, to drive a wedge primarily between the Christian and Islamic communities." An international group called the Alliance of Civilizations, made up of 20 prominent figures in religion and government, issued a report in November urging leaders ...
- Alliance of Free Democrats
- (from the article "Hungary") ...minister for the first time in the post-1989 period. Peter Medgyessy resigned in August after losing confidence from the governing Hungarian Socialist Party and its junior coalition partner, the Alliance of Free Democrats. His resignation came two months after the first Hungarian elections for the European Parliament (EP), which failed ...
- Alliance of the Left of Movements and Ecology
- (from the article "Greece") ...of the vote, ND won 165 of the 300 mandates in the parliament, compared with 40.6% and 117 seats for PASOK. The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) won 5.9% and 12 seats, and the Alliance of the Left of Movements and Ecology (SYN) won 3.3% and 6 seats. Other parties, ...
- Alliance of the Reformed Churches Throughout the World Holding the Presbyterian Order
- (from the article "World Alliance of Reformed Churches (Presbyterian and Congregational)") ...international organization of Presbyterian, Congregational, and Reformed churches that was formed in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1970 by the merger of the International Congregational Council with the Alliance of the Reformed Churches Throughout the World Holding the Presbyterian System (also called the World Alliance of Reformed Churches).
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