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MTV Movie Awards | Movie Sequence Nominees

Best Musical, Action, and Fight Sequences Austin Powers will vie for top movie and acting honors. Best Movie The MatrixAustin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged MeAmerican…

Burleson, Albert Sidney

(Encyclopedia) Burleson, Albert SidneyBurleson, Albert Sidneybûrˈləsən [key], 1863–1937, U.S. Postmaster General (1913–21), b. San Marcos, Tex.; grandson of Edward Burleson. He was a lawyer of Austin…

Sheldon, Edward Austin

(Encyclopedia) Sheldon, Edward Austin, 1823–97, American educator, b. Wyoming co., N.Y., studied at Hamilton College. After illness forced him to cut short his own education, he held a variety of…

Beard, Charles Austin

(Encyclopedia) Beard, Charles Austin, 1874–1948, American historian, b. near Knightstown, Ind. A year at Oxford as a graduate student gave him an interest in English local government, and after…

Austin, John Langshaw

(Encyclopedia) Austin, John Langshaw, 1911–60, British philosopher. A graduate of Oxford, he was a fellow of All Souls (1933–35) and Magdalen (1935–52) colleges before he became White's professor of…

Prigogine, Ilya

(Encyclopedia) Prigogine, IlyaPrigogine, Ilyaprĭgˈəjēn [key], 1917–2003, Belgian chemist, b. Moscow. He was raised and educated in Belgium, receiving his doctorate in 1941 and joining the faculty of…

Goodenough, John Bannister

(Encyclopedia) Goodenough, John Bannister, 1922–2023, American physicist, b. Jena, Germany, Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1952. Goodenough was a researcher…

MTV Movie Awards | Irreverent Nominees

Best Kiss, Best Action Sequence, Best Fight Sequence Blair and Gellar compete for Best Kiss Best Kiss Drew Barrymore and Michael Vartan, Never Been Kissed Chloë…

Federal Taxing Power Must be Restrained

Federal Taxing Power Must be RestrainedAbstractGeorge Mason of Virginia opposed the Constitution because it lacked a Bill of Rights, and centralized powers further than he felt it necessary.…