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Washington Square

Director: Agnieszka HollandWriter: Carol DoyleDirector of Photography:Jerzy ZielinskiEditor:David SiegelMusic:Jan A. P. KaczmarekProduction Designer:Alan StarskiProducers:Roger Birnbaum and…

Altgeld, John Peter

(Encyclopedia) Altgeld, John PeterAltgeld, John Peterältˈgĕlt [key], 1847–1902, American politician, governor of Illinois (1892–96), b. Germany. He was taken by his immigrant parents to Ohio, where…

Child, Julia

(Encyclopedia) Child, Julia, 1912–2004, American cooking teacher, author, and television personality, b. Pasadena, Calif., as Julia Carolyn McWilliams. In the early 1940s both she and her husband-to-…

Scariest Movies: Psycho (1960)

Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next by Beth Rowen Psycho (1960) Hitchcock's psychological thriller broke new ground in Hollywood and forever changed the genre. The bone-chilling tension…

Normandy campaign

(Encyclopedia) Normandy campaign, June to Aug., 1944, in World War II. The Allied invasion of the European continent through Normandy began about 12:15 a.m. on June 6, 1944 (D-day). The plan, known…

Maori

(Encyclopedia) MaoriMaorimäˈōrē [key], people of New Zealand and the Cook Islands, believed to have migrated in early times from other islands of Polynesia. Maori tradition asserts that seven canoes…

inert gas

(Encyclopedia) inert gas or noble gas, any of the elements in Group 18 of the periodic table. In order of increasing atomic number they are: helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon. They are…