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Bradbury, Ray

(Encyclopedia) Bradbury, Ray (Raymond Douglas Bradbury)Bradbury, Ray (Raymond Douglas Bradbury)brădˈbĕrˌē, –bərē [key], 1920–2012, American writer, b. Waukegan, Ill. A popular and prolific writer of…

Condoleezza Rice, 2003 News

national security adviser, maintained her role as one of President Bush's closest and most trusted advisers as the U.S. prepared for a preemptive strike against Iraq. One of the hawks in…

Linda Johnson Rice Biography

Linda Johnson Ricemagazine publisher, executiveBorn: 1957? Linda Johnson graduated from the University of Southern California's School of Journalism and, in 1987, earned a master's degree in…

Cale Young Rice: The Mystic

The MysticCale Young RiceThere is a quest that calls me, In nights when I am lone, The need to ride where the ways divide The Known from the Unknown. I mount what thought is near me And…

Cale Young Rice: Kinchinjunga

Kinchinjunga(Which is the next highest of mountains)Cale Young RiceIO white Priest of Eternity, around Whose lofty summit veiling clouds arise Of the earth's immemorial sacrifice To Brahma in…

Condoleezza Rice, 2005 News

public official, was confirmed as secretary of state in January, despite Democratic criticism that she overlooked warnings of an al-Qaeda attack prior to Sept. 11 and for her role in the…

Condoleezza Rice, 2004 News

national security adviser, testified before the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in April. During the often contentious questioning, she said that although the…

The Devil's Dictionary: Rice-water

by Ambrose Bierce RIBROASTERRICHRICE-WATER -n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. It is said…

polarization of light

(Encyclopedia) polarization of light, orientation of the vibration pattern of light waves in a singular plane. Unpolarized light can be converted into a single polarized beam by means of the Nicol…