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multiple personality

(Encyclopedia) multiple personality, a very rare psychological disorder in which a person has two or more distinct personalities, each with its own thoughts, feelings, and patterns of behavior. The…

Bhagavad-Gita

(Encyclopedia) Bhagavad-GitaBhagavad-Gitabŭgˈəvəd-gēˈtə [key] [Skt.,=song of the Lord], Sanskrit poem incorporated into the Mahabharata, one of the greatest religious classics of Hinduism. The Gita (…

Adam's rib

The Question: Do men and women have the same number of ribs? The Answer: Yes. Men and women both have twelve pairs of ribs, for a total of…

1950 Academy Awards

The 1950 Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1951 at the RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, Calif.Best Motion PictureAll About Eve (Twentieth Century-Fox)Born Yesterday (Columbia)Father of…

John Keats: Hyperion: A Fragment

by John Keats PoemsHyperion: A Fragment If any apology be thought necessary for the appearance of the unfinished poem of Hyperion, the publishers beg to state that they alone are…

John Milton - Paradise Lost: Book VIII

Book VIII No more of talk where God or Angel Guest With Man, as with his Friend, familiar us'd To sit indulgent, and with him partake Rural repast, permitting him the while Venial discourse…

Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich

(Encyclopedia) Molotov, Vyacheslav MikhailovichMolotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovichvyĕˌchĭsläfˈ mēkhīˈləvĭch môˈlətəf [key], 1890–1986, Soviet political leader. A Communist from 1906, he changed his name…

Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich

(Encyclopedia) Turgenev, Ivan SergeyevichTurgenev, Ivan Sergeyevichēvänˈ syĭrgāˈəvĭch t&oomacr;rgāˈnyĭf [key], 1818–83, Russian novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer, considered one of the…