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Judson Dance Theater

(Encyclopedia) Judson Dance Theater, a loose collective of dancers, musicians, and visual artists that produced an influential series of avant-garde performance pieces at Judson Memorial Church in…

Campin, Robert

(Encyclopedia) Campin, RobertCampin, Robertkämˈpĭn [key], 1378–1444, Flemish painter who with the van Eycks ranks as a founder of the Netherlandish school. He has been identified as the Master of…

Bly, Robert Elwood

(Encyclopedia) Bly, Robert Elwood, 1926–2021, American writer, translator, editor, and publisher, b. Lac qui Parle County, Mn., Harvard (B.A., 1950),…

Medical Advances Timeline

Find key developments in the field of medicine, from the birth of Hippocrates to today. 460 BCE Birth of Hippocrates, Greek physician and founder of the first university. Considered the father…

2000 Deaths: M - Q

Jean MacArthurCharles MacGillivaryJeff MacNellyConrad McRaeMeredith MacRaePercy McRaeConrad Marca-RelliNancy MarchandAlice Sheets MarriottDon MartinHelen MartinWalter MatthauStanley…

Hitchcock, Sir Alfred

(Encyclopedia) Hitchcock, Sir Alfred, 1899–1980, English-American film director, writer, and producer, b. London. Hitchcock began his career as a director in 1925 and became prominent with The 39…

Robbins, Jerome

(Encyclopedia) Robbins, Jerome, 1918–98, American choreographer and dancer, b. New York City as Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz. Robbins began his career dancing in musicals (1937). In 1940 he joined the…

Tubman, Harriet

(Encyclopedia) Tubman, Harriet, c.1820–1913, American abolitionist, b. Dorchester co., Md. Born into slavery, she escaped to Phildelphia in 1849, and subsequently became one of the most successful “…

Brethren

(Encyclopedia) Brethren, German Baptist religious group. They were popularly known as Dunkards, Dunkers, or Tunkers, from the German for “to dip,” referring to their method of baptizing. The Brethren…

Iron Eyes Cody Biography

Iron Eyes CodyAge: (80s or early 90s) TV and film actor most familiar to Americans as the Indian who shed a tear in a 1970s anti-littering commercial.Died: Los Angeles, January 5, 1999Steve…