Val Kilmer (born December 31, 1959) is an American actor. Contents 1 Attributed 1.1 On playing Batman 1.2 On acting 1.3 On other actors 1.4 On turning down Blue Velvet 1.5 On violence 1.6 On show business 1.7 On his early career 1.8 On his...

Val Logsdon Fitch was born to Fred B. and Frances M. (Logsdon) Fitch on March 10, 1923, on a cattle ranch near Merriman, Nebraska, a short distance from the South Dakota border. After an injury to the elder Fitch on the ranch, the family m...

Valdemar Poulsen was a Danish engineer who invented the magnetic recorder in 1898. His ideas were the basis of magnetic recording and led to crucial developments in communications and computer technology. Born in Copenhagen on November 23,...

Luis Valdez (born 1940) was founder of the El Teatro Campesino in California and is thought to be the father of Mexican American theater. Playwright and director Luis Valdez is considered the father of Mexican American theater. In 1965 he ...

The form of Patrizia Valduga's poetry--its most striking component--attracts the attention of critics and readers. Her rich, ponderous, minutely examined language has been full of philological refinements and neologisms since the publicati...

Valence refers to a number assigned to elements that reflects their ability to react with other elements and the type of reactions the element will undergo. The term valence is derived from the Latin word for strength and can reflect an el...

1745-1822 French abbot and inventor who is credited with the conception (1771) of an embossed letter system to educate persons with blindness. In 1783-84 Abbot Haüy founded the Institute for the Blind and began training his blind stud...

Valentin Grigor'evich Rasputin made his name as one of the foremost writers of "village prose" with four novellas written in the late 1960s to the mid 1970s achieving particular prominence with "Proshchanies Materoi" (translated as Farewel...

Valentine is a horror movie with David Boreanaz about a highschool outsider who kills his tormentors. Tagline: Love Hurts. External links IMDB Wikipedia has an article about: Valentine (movie)...

1629-1683 Irish man who, with what would today be called faith healing, cured many people suffering from psychosomatic illness—illness that originates or is made worse by the patients' belief that they are ill. His ability to...

1785-1865 American physician who pioneered vascular surgery. Mott earned a medical degree from New York's Columbia College, studied surgical techniques abroad in London and Edinburgh, then returned to the United States to teach at C...

Early-twentieth-century biographers of Diego de Valera such as Lucas de Torre y Franco-Romero and José Antonio de Balenchana tend to dismiss Valera as little more than a pedant and a brigand. This portrait has been extensively revis...

1942- Russian Cosmonaut Dr. Valery Vladimirovich Polyakov—physician, researcher, and cosmonaut—holds the record for human longevity in space. In 1994-95 Polyakov spent 437 days and 17 hours in space, the longest uninterrupted...

The Roman emperor Valerian (ca. 200-ca. 260), or Publius Licinius Valerianus, attempted to stay the advances of the barbarians and the Persians on Roman territory and was a vigorous persecutor of the Christians. The background of Valerian ...

SOURCE: A review of Set in Motion, in The New York Times, June 23, 1978, p. C23. Broyard is an American critic and essayist. In the following review, he favorably assesses Set in Motion, noting Martin's focus on male-female relationships. H...

Valerie Profumo ( 14 April 1917 – 13 November 1998 ) was the wife of the disgraced British Politician and later charity worker John Profumo . She had a career as an actress during the 1930s to 1950s under her maiden name Valerie Hobson ....

Valerius Cordus. German Botanist 1515-1544 Valerius Cordus was an early sixteenth-century German botanist who advanced the study of pharmacology by studying botany in a newly observant way. Born in 1515 as the son of botanist Euricu...

What is in a name? Valerius Maximus, author of the Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem (Memorable Deeds and Sayings, A.D. 31-32), possesses a name that provides no small proportion of what little is known about him. Although the ...

1939- Russian astronaut who served as flight director of the Salyut-7 and Mir space stations from 1981-89. Ryumin spent a total of 362 days in space, primarily on two missions to the Salyut-6 space station—175 days in 1977 and 185 d...

During the 1970s William Dempsey Valgardson established himself as one of Canada's foremost writers of short fiction. His forceful presentation of lives shaped by isolation and the brutal effects of a northern environment, his careful cont...

SOURCE: Umland, Samuel J. “To Flee from Dionysus: Enthousiasmos from ‘Upon the Dull Earth’ to VALIS.” In Philip K. Dick: Contemporary Critical Interpretations, edited by Samuel J. Umland, pp. 81-99. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press,...

VALLABHA (1479–1531), also called Vallabhācārya, was a Vaiṣṇava Hindu philosopher and religious leader. Vallabha was born in central India at Campāraṇya (Raipur District, Madhya Pradesh) int...

Victor Manuel Valle is a poet, translator, editor, activist, and investigative journalist whose creative vision is rooted in the history of the valley of Los Angeles. Although Valle's poetry has motivated the rest of his work, his journali...

Manuel Mejía Vallejo is a Colombian writer whose work emanates from the traditions of his native region of Antioquia. Antioquia's rich oral tradition is an integral element in his fiction. Paradoxically, despite this traditionalism,...