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semantics

(Encyclopedia) semantics [Gr.,=significant] in general, the study of the relationship between words and meanings. The empirical study of word meanings and sentence meanings in existing languages is a…

Zbigniew Herbert 1998 Deaths

Zbigniew HerbertAge: 73 influential Polish poet, essayist and moralist.Died: July 28, 1998Oran K. HendersonG - LA. Leon Jr. Higginbotham

Marie-Louise von Franz 1998 Deaths

Marie-Louise von FranzAge: 83 leading disciple of the famous psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung. She was an expert on the significance of fairy tales.Died: Feb. 17, 1998.Morris K. UdallR -…

Darwood Smith 2002 Deaths

Darwood SmithAge: 72 actor who appeared in 22 of the Our Gang films. Died: Riverside, Calif., May 15, 2002 Al SmithR - ZHoward K. Smith

James Myers 2001 Deaths

James MyersAge: 81 songwriter who penned more than 300 songs, including 1954's “Rock Around the Clock,” which was recorded by Bill Haley and His Comets. Died: Bonita Springs, Fla., May 9,…

2012 National Book Awards

The National Book Awards were presented November 15, 2012, in New York City. Fiction: The Round House, Louise Erdrich (Harper…

César Milstein 2002 Deaths

César MilsteinAge: 74 Argentine-born immunologist who, with Niels K. Jerne and Georges J. F. Köhler, won the 1984 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work in the “development and control of the…

Phil Smith 2002 Deaths

Phil SmithAge: 50 All-American guard at the University of San Francisco and a member of the Golden State Warriors' 1975 NBA championship squad; not heavily recruited out of high school, he…

Viljo Akseli Heino 1998 Deaths

Viljo Akseli HeinoAge: 84 the last of the track stars called the "Flying Finns"; established world records despite suffering from a leg injury during Finland's war with the Soviet Union in…