While Isaac Asimov officially celebrated his birthday as 2 January 1920, his birth date is uncertain. Records were not well kept in the U.S.S.R. in the period between World War I and World War II, particularly if the records concerned Jews. By the time A...

By the time of his death in 1992, Isaac Asimov was widely regarded as one of the most productive and versatile writers of all time. Asimov was best-known for his science-fiction novels and popularized accounts of science, but he worked in a number of oth...

The author of nearly five hundred books, Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) is esteemed as one of the finest writers of science fiction and scientific fact in the twentieth century. Asimov was born on January 2, 1920, to middle-class Jewish parents in Petrovichi,...

A required showing to the trial court prior to the admissibility of certain evidence, such as bullet matching, that the party offering it has sufficient knowledge to be able to truthfully testify. One example is a ballistics examiner’s rendition...

Generally taken as the base portion of a building or other construction. Some sources describe this portion as the FOOTING and define the foundation as the ground upon which the footing...

A weak foundation destroys the work upon which it is built. (Roman) Remove the foundation and the structure falls....

Foundation is the first book in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy (later expanded into The Foundation Series). It is a collection of five short stories, which were first published together as a book by Gnome Press in 1951. Together, they form a single...