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...

V for Vendetta is about a man and his quest for revenge and to right the wrongs in his society. The story takes place in England and starts in 1997. It is a world changed by war, famine and disease. In response to these changes, the governm...

Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel....

V. S. Pritchett (1900-1997) was an English short story writer, novelist, literary critic, journalist, travel writer, biographer, and autobiographer. Though not an innovator in terms of style, he was nevertheless an interesting and highly c...

(The following essay discusses Marshall Field III with his son, Marshall Field IV and his grandson, Marshall Field V.) Marshall Field III, IV, and V, heirs to the fortune of the first Marshall Field, a retailing magnate, were important fig...

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...

process of producing immunity and method of vaccination that consists of introduction of the infectious agent onto an abraded or absorptive skin surface instead of inserting the substance in the tissues by means of a hollow needle, as in i...

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...

Space in which there is no matter or in which the pressure is so low that any particles in the space do not affect any processes being carried on there. It is a condition well below normal atmospheric pressure and is measured in units of p...

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...

Worship of Vishnu as the supreme deity, as well as of his incarnations, mainly Rama and Krishna. Vaishnavism is one of the major forms of modern Hinduism, along with Shaivism and Shaktism, and is probably the most popular and most widely p...

five-pronged ritual object extensively employed in Tibetan Buddhist ceremonies. It is the symbol of the Vajrayāna school of Buddhism. Vajra, in Sanskrit, has both the meanings of “thunderbolt” and “diamond.” L...

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...