V is a science fiction TV franchise created by American producer and director Kenneth Johnson concerning aliens known as "The Visitors" trying to take over Earth. It ran as a miniseries in 1983 and 1984, and a weekly TV series from 1984 to...

Spoiler warning: Plot, ending, or solution details follow. V for Vendetta is a 2006 film set in a dystopian future United Kingdom, where V , a mysterious anarchist wearing a Guy Fawkes costume, works to bring down an oppressive fascist gov...

"Half the writer's work . . . is the discovery of his subject." With this statement V. S. Naipaul declares his purpose as a writer and the object of his craft—the imaginative shaping of experience into an affecting and intelligent na...

Dr V Shanta (March 11, 1927 ) is an Oncologist. This people article needs cleanup. Please review , especially the standard format of people articles , to determine how to edit this article to conform to the current standard . Unsourced "If...

V. is the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, published in 1963. It describes the exploits of a discharged U.S. Navy sailor named Benny Profane, his reconnection in New York with a group of pseudo-bohemian artists and hangers-on known as the Who...

Aimé Pelletier, who has written all of his works under the pseudonym Bertrand Vac, is a Montreal surgeon. Vac's literary career, which has spanned several decades, is marked by his constant attempt at various writing styles and diff...

Vaccination is the use of vaccines to prevent specific diseases. Many diseases that once caused widespread illness, disability, and death now can be prevented through the use of vaccines. Vaccines are medicines that contain weakened or dea...

Viewpoint: Yes, a properly run voluntary system could produce higher vaccination rates while also protecting parents' rights. Viewpoint: No, mandatory vaccinations have greatly reduced the incidence of many diseases and should be ma...

Ojars Vacietis is generally considered one of Latvia's most talented poets of the second half of the twentieth century. He almost single-handedly revived interest in poetry in Latvia following World War II and played a key role in maintain...

The theater of the absurd, in my view, has two genetic components which determine its life as long as it persists in the way we know it from Beckett and Ionesco. One is its innovative dynamism which opposes it to the theater of the naturali...

Ludvík Vaculík played a major role in the life of postwar Czechoslovakia as a journalist and a writer. Starting out as an idealistic communist, he helped to promote socialism in his country in the 1950s. As an energetic and a...

Vacuum is a term that describes conditions where the pressure is lower than that of the atmosphere. A sealed container is said to be "under vacuum" in this case whereas it is "pressurized" when the pressure is higher than atmosphere. In a ...

In 1917, just one year after the publication of his general theory of relativity, German American physicist Albert Einstein wrote a short paper titled Cosmological Considerations on the General Theory of Relativity. For the first time the ...

A vacuum is a space completely devoid of matter. A pure vacuum does not exist--even outer space has many particles per cubic meter. In practice one uses a vacuum pump to partially exhaust a space to the highest degree possible, and this pa...

Making capitalism out of socialism is like making eggs out of an omelet....

Ekman was a member of a consortium of Scandinavian scientists who transformed the study of oceanography and meteorology at the turn of the twentieth century. Ekman's father, Fredrik Laurentz Ekman, was an oceanographer, but Vagn Ekman's gr...

Vagueness A term is vague if, and only if, it is capable of having borderline cases. All borderline cases are inquiry-resistant: Senator Hillary Clinton is a borderline case of "chubby" because, given her constitution, no amo...

Judita Vaiciunaite emerged in the latter half of the twentieth century as one of Lithuania's most prominent women poets. Filled with vibrant personal reflections, her poetry expresses the complicated structure and evolution of human emotio...

Petr Vail' and Aleksandr Genis, who started out as journalists in their native Latvia, pioneered a brand of writing that came to be known as "essayism," a specific genre combining a lyrical style with methods used in cultural studies. The ...

Vaira Vike-FreibergaPresident (pronounced "VAHY-rah VEE-ke FRAY-behr-guh") "We are the inheritors of our past, but we are not slaves who should live in the shadow of our past. We are the builders of our own future...

Hinduism: Vaishnavism FOUNDED: c. 500 B.C.E. RELIGION AS A PERCENTAGE OF WORLD POPULATION: 9.5 percent Overview Vaishnavism is the name given to the faith and practices of those Hindus who hold Vishnu ("the all pervasive one"...

VAJRASATTVA (Tibetan, Rdo rje sems dpa' [Dorjé Sempa]; Chinese, Jingang sadou; Japanese, Kongōsatta), the "Adamantine Being," is a bodhisattva affiliated primarily with the Buddha Akṣobhya (Unshake...

VAJRAPĀṆI. "As for Vajrapāṇi … I confess to finding him by far the most interesting divine being throughout the whole history of Buddhism, for he has a personal history and considerable personal ch...