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From Boxing Day to Wales Atlas: United Kingdom Boxing Day Boxing Day Quiz British Academy of Film and TV Awards British and Irish History British and Irish History: Biographies…

polo

(Encyclopedia) polo, indoor or outdoor ball and goal game played on horseback. Some historians claim that polo originated in Persia in the 6th cent.; it spread to Turkey, India, and Tibet and, with…

communications satellite

(Encyclopedia) communications satellite artificial satellite that functions as part of a global radio-communications network. Echo 1, the first communications satellite, launched in 1960, was an…

Beckett, Samuel

(Encyclopedia) Beckett, SamuelBeckett, Samuelbĕkˈĭt [key], 1906–89, Anglo-French playwright and novelist, b. Dublin. Beckett studied and taught in Paris before settling there permanently in 1937. He…

Tibetan art and architecture

(Encyclopedia) Tibetan art and architecture have been almost entirely religious in character (see Tibetan Buddhism). The art of Tibetan Lamaism retains strong elements drawn from the forms of both…

Classic Love Poems on the Web

Love is only a click away by Ann-Marie Imbornoni From Donald Hall to Shakespeare, Byron to Browning, a wide sampling of some of the best known love poetry is just a few keystrokes away. Some…

Biographies: A -C

Alvar Aalto Iorwith Wilbur Abel Sir Patrick Abercrombie Henry Carter Adams Alexander Agassiz Horace Marden Albright Maurice Allais Sir Hugh Allan Linda Alvarado Oakes Ames Othmar Hermann…

1943 Academy Awards

The 1944 Academy Awards were presented March 15, 1944 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, Calif.Outstanding Motion PictureCasablanca (Warner Bros.)For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paramount)…