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Movies and Film: Swedish Sweetness

Swedish SweetnessMovies and FilmScandinavian Film HistoryDanish DirectionsThe Networks of NorwaySwedish SweetnessIngmar Bergman and the Triumph of Scandinavian Cinema From the opening decade of…

Jen Welter

Jen Welter made headlines in the summer of 2015, when she became the first woman to be hired by the National Football League as a coach. Welter's appointment as an intern coach to off-season…

Maria Montessori

Maria Montessori was an Italian physician and educator whose method of teaching young children first became popular in the early 20th century. Today about 20,000 schools around the world use what is…

Spencer, Herbert

(Encyclopedia) Spencer, Herbert, 1820–1903, English philosopher, b. Derby. In 1848 he moved to London, where he was an editor at The Economist and wrote his first major book, Social Statics (1851),…

perspective

(Encyclopedia) perspective, in art, any method employed to represent three-dimensional space on a flat surface or in relief sculpture. Although many periods in art showed some progressive diminution…

Goebbels, Joseph

(Encyclopedia) Goebbels, Joseph (Paul Joseph Goebbels)Goebbels, Josephpoul yōˈzĕf göbˈəls [key], 1897–1945, German National Socialist propagandist. He was kept out of the service in World War I by a…

jurisprudence

(Encyclopedia) jurisprudencejurisprudencej&oobreve;rˌĭspr&oomacr;dˈəns [key], study of the nature and the origin and development of law. It is variously regarded as a branch of ethics or of…

Tippi Hedren

Name at birth: Nathalie HedrenTippi Hedren is best known for her roles in two Alfred Hitchcock films: The Birds (1963) and the psychological thriller Marnie (1964). She is sometimes classified as one…