Valletta was built after the Great Siege of 1565. Malta had won the siege, but had paid dearly for its own freedom. The experiences of the siege had shown that if an enemy got hold of Mount Sciberras, Malta would have had to surrender. ...

SOURCE: "Primordial Passions of the Pleistocene Times: The Flesh Is Willing, But the Diction Is Weak," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, September 12, 1982, p. 3. In the following review, Sales finds the plot weak and the dialogue anachroni...

Jacqueline Susann was born on August 20, 1918 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At age eighteen she left Philadelphia and moved to New York where she could pursue in an acting career. She played a supporting role in a television series, and wr...

Valley of the Wolves Iraq (Turkish: Kurtlar Vadisi Irak) is a popular and controversial 2006 Turkish film based on a television series of the same name that has been a hit in Turkey for three seasons. This film article needs cleanup. Pleas...

Valley Song by Athol Fugard Born in 1932, Athol Fugard grew up to become the most renowned playwright of South Africa. His career spans four decades of the turbulent history of that racially divided country, during which his plays have made...

SOURCE: O'Brien, Tom. “Bland and Better Than Bland.” Commonweal 116, no. 21 (1 December 1989): 670-71. In the following excerpt, O'Brien argues that Valmont is more sensitive to the underlying humanity of its characters than Stephen Fre...

SOURCE: “The Hard Subjects,” in Hudson Review, Vol. 52, No. 2, Summer, 1999, pp. 285–88. In the following excerpt, Loughery pans Valparaiso. Don DeLillo’s Valparaiso concerns a man who buys a plane ticket to Valparaiso, Indiana, and...

The Valsalva maneuver is a coordinated muscular movement that increases pressure in the Eustachian tubes and middle ears. The maneuver produces a bilateral increase in pressure on both the left and right middle ears. The maneuver was first...

The concept of value is more complex than it might initially appear. Values can range across personal preferences as indicated by pleasures, desires, wants, and needs to more objective goods such as health, efficiency, progress, truth, bea...

Value Chain Management Value chain management (VCM) is the integration of all resources starting with the vendor's vendor. It integrates information, materials, labor, facilities, logistics, etc. into a time-responsive, capacity-man...

Pluralism is a term used to describe a number of positions from different fields. This entry will confine itself to a discussion of ethical—as opposed to political, social, or metaphysical—pluralism. Ethical pluralism (also ...

As a Catholic poet José María Valverde is broadly representative of the literary situation in post-civil-war Spain. His poetry of the 1940s and 1950s appeals, in conversational language, to the general reader's concern with d...

No creature haunting Western society's collective imagination has proven more enduring, more compelling, or more alluring than the vampire. But it was only with the his transformation from emaciated, plague-carrying "nosferatu" (literally,...

Vampire in Brooklyn is a dark comedy about the last vampire trying to find a mate in Brooklyn with Eddie Murphy Maximillian : [As Preacher] Evil is good! External links Wikipedia has an article about: Vampire in Brooklyn IMDB...

The Vampire Lestat (1985) is a novel by Anne Rice, and the second in her Vampire Chronicles, following Interview with the Vampire. Many events in the two books appear to contradict each other. These inconsistencies provide a good example of...

Very few [horror] films can stand serious analysis, but one which does is Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr. Vampyr (also known as The Strange Adventures of David Gray) is the story of a haunted world. A story of the dark and of the evil that dw...

When Explorer I, America's first satellite, was launched in early 1958, it contained a payload of miniaturized instruments designed to study the regions surrounding the earth in space. James Van Allen, an expert on cosmic rays and skilled ...

A Van der Waals force between molecules is a relatively weak intermolecular attraction. All neighboring molecules in liquids and solids attract each other. The nature and strength of these interactions depends on the types atom groups or f...

The qualities of one man can not be replaced with another man's. Look at the 80's most famous and infamous rock and roll band, Van Halen. Van Halen was a popular band with an exciting front man David Lee Roth or DLR. The band seemed to have...

Set in the late 19th century when mystery and supernatural powers are in motion this movie transports its viewer into the life of a monster slayer Van Helsing. Van Helsing works for the `Holy Order' based in Rome who are in charge of vanqui...

The Van is the story of two friends, Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr. and Bimbo Reeves, who operate a chipper van on the outskirts of Dublin. Bimbo uses money he got when he was laid off from his job to buy the van and he invites his buddy, Jimmy Sr. to...

July 20, 1645 New Amsterdam (later New York City) January 24, 1689 Albany, New York Overseer of Rensselaerswyck "This lady was polite, quite well informed, and of good life and disposition." Dutch travel writer Jasper Dankaer...

During his undergraduate years at Harvard, Van Wyck Brooks had ambitions of becoming a poet. His poetry appeared regularly in the Harvard Advocate, and in 1905, he and another aspiring writer, John Hall Wheelock, privately published a smal...