E. V. Lucas was taught to swim by George Bernard Shaw, heard James Barrie reading Peter Pan while it was still in manuscript, and knew virtually everyone in the London literary and publishing worlds in the first third of the twentieth cent...

Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 Let the Gospels speak. Of what I have learnt from these documents in the course of my long task, I will say nothing now. Only this, that they bear the seal of the Son of Man and God, they ...

E. W. Howe's importance in the development of American realism rests on his first and best book, The Story of a Country Town (1883). Howe's autobiographical novel, depicting midwestern drabness and neurotic failure, anticipates the early w...

With a relatively small volume of work, some fifty poems, a short novel, about seventy short stories, and a roughly equivalent volume of essays, Edgar Allan Poe has exerted a substantial influence on American and world literature. He may b...

Emma Dorothea Eliza Nevitte Southworth, who published many of her books under the name Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, was one of the most popular fiction writers in the United States during the mid nineteenth century. Beginning in 1846, she ...

E. Donnall Thomas has pioneered techniques for transplanting bone marrow, an operation that has been utilized to treat patients with cancers of the blood, such as leukemia. For proving that such transplants could save the lives of dying pa...

American architect Fay Jones (born 1921) carried the principles of his mentor Frank Lloyd Wright into his own work, primarily private residences and small religious structures. His most famous work is the Thorncrown Chapel (1980) at Eureka...

E. G. Squier was a journalist, diplomat, and archaeologist whose extensive travels in Latin America resulted in important and definitive contributions to the study of archaeology in Central America and Peru. An authority on Central America...

1862-1932 American mathematician who, in addition to his important work in algebra and group theory, helped to found an American school of mathematics on equal terms with the superior scholarship of foreign universities. Under Moore'...

Few poets can be said to occupy a more secure position in the literary history of their countries than that held by E. J. Pratt. Often hailed in his own lifetime as Canada's unofficial poet laureate, Pratt has become, since his death in 19...

Best known as the author of such children's novels as The Railway Children and The Story of the Treasure-Seekers, the English writer E. Nesbit (1858-1924) also authored fiction, drama, and poetry for adults. In addition she was active in p...

While William LeQueux was the father of the espionage novel, E. Phillips Oppenheim made the genre his own. Like LeQueux, Edgar Wallace, and many other mystery novelists of his generation, E. Phillips Oppenheim was a prolific writer. The au...

American biologist and geneticist who helped confirm some important aspects of population genetics. Early researchers in population genetics, Godfrey Hardy and Wilhelm Weinberg had developed relationships describing the distribution of gen...

E. W. Scripps, the Illinois farm boy who grew up to build the first major newspaper chain in the United States and to found what later became United Press International, was a paradox. He based his success on his support for the working cl...

Any of many large, heavy-beaked, big-footed birds of prey belonging to the family Accipitridae, found worldwide. Eagles are generally larger and more powerful than hawks and may resemble a vulture in build and flight characteristics, but t...

Rosemary Sutcliff's The Eagle of the Ninth combines the presentation of the historic era of the Roman occupation of Britain with an acute sense of place. A feeling of belonging to a certain landscape becomes a vital part of the plot structu...

The Eagle could refer to: Eddie Belfour, the Canadian ice-hockey goalkeeper in the NHL Michael Edwards, the British ski jumper, called "Eddie the Eagle" The Eagle, the British weekly comic The Eagle, a silent film starring Rudolph Valentino...

Organ of hearing and balance. The outer ear directs sound vibrations through the auditory canal to the eardrum, which is stretched across the end of the auditory canal and which transmits sound vibrations to the middle ear. There a chain o...

Most commonly called the eardrum, the tympanic membrane is an oval-shaped, thin, fibrous membrane that covers the ear canal separating the outer ear (external acoustic meatus) from the middle ear (tympanum). The tympanic membrane is bilami...

You should have printed what he meant, not what he said....

It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat....

1937- American physicist who has made important contributions to laser technology. Shaw helped develop the free electron laser, infrared lasers, and tunable lasers. Tunable lasers are important because, unlike conventional lasers, the wave...

We keep going back, stronger, not weaker, because we will not allow rejection to beat us down. It will only strengthen our resolve. To be successful there is no other way....

Earl K. Long , (August 26, 1895 – September 5, 1960), governor of Louisiana and younger brother of Huey Long "Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anyth...