Z for Zachariah In Z for Zachariah there has been a nuclear explosion which Burdon valley survived, as the valley is a nuclear enclave which means a place has its own climate, and Anne a girl who was left at home when her family went ou...

Zabdiel Boylston (1679-1766) was the first American physician to use inoculation against smallpox in 1721 during a Boston epidemic. Zabdiel Boylston was born March 9, 1679, near the present city of Brookline, Mass., and studied medicine wi...

Zachary David Alexander Efron (born 1987-10-18 ) is an American actor. Unsourced I'm not telling you my exercise routine! Then everyone would look like me! (Unidentified) interview with Sugar Magazine I heard a rumour I was dead. Seriously...

Zachary Israel Braff (born April 6 , 1975 ) is a Grammy Award-winning American television and film actor, director, screenwriter, and producer. He came to fame during the early 2000s with his role as John Dorian on the NBC sit-com Scrubs ....

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"Du bist uns kaum entwichen, und schwermütig ziehen / Aus dumpfen Höhlen . . . Verdruß und Langeweile" (You have only just disappeared, and heavily rise / Frustration and boredom ... from musty caves). Johann Wolfgang Goeth...

Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), twelfth president of the United States, was, as one of the two military heroes of the Mexican War, the last Whig president. Living in a time when generals were politically appointed and the Army poorly trained, ...

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One of the best-known writers of the 1820s and 1830s, Mikhail Nikolaevich Zagoskin started his literary career as a successful playwright and subsequently worked in several other prose genres, but he is remembered primarily as an historica...

Peterson Zah (born 1937) has devoted his life to the service of the Navajo people. He has been active in the field of education, in legal matters, in attempts to reconcile disputes with the Hopi, and in efforts to resolve the issues of dep...

The integration of Koreans into Japanese society has always been a major social, economic, and political issue. The following description of Korean housing in Japan in the late nineteenth century indicates that house style was one cultural...

ZAKĀT is a Qurʾanic term that signifies the specific obligation of giving a portion of an individual's wealth and possessions for primarily charitable purposes. The word is derived from a root meaning "to be pur...

Mara Zalite represents the generation of Latvian writers that matured as artists under Soviet occupation. There are signs of political and intellectual malaise with the constraints of that regime in her own early poetry as well as in her c...

ZALMOXIS was the founder, possibly legendary, of a priestly line of succession closely linked with kingship of the Getae and the Dacians, the northernmost Thracian peoples of the ancient world. Whether he is a figure of legend or of histor...

A writer of prose, as well as a literary critic, editor, and outspoken defender of the environment, Sergei Zalygin had a long and prolific career. Zalygin wrote short stories, essays, novellas, and novels. Although Zalygin is best known fo...

The Zambales Mountains in the Philippines stretch from the northern part of Zambales Province to the northern edge of Bataan Province. This range comprises nearly the whole province of Zambales. There are eight named mountains in the range...

(2000 pop. 603,000). Located at the tip of the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Mindanao Island group in the Philippines, the City of Zamboanga is a chartered city independent of the province of Zamboanga del Sur in terms of funding, administrat...

Bernice Zamora's considerable reputation as a poet rests largely on one book, Restless Serpents (1976). Other poems, essays, reviews, and short stories by Zamora appeared in journals and anthologies during the formative years of the Chican...

Ask anyone to name a western writer and chances are the first name to come to mind will be Zane Grey (1872-1939). Considered to be the father of the modern American western novel, Grey was beloved by two generations of readers. His strengt...

Considered by pop-culture critics to be the quintessential underground comic book of the 1960s, Zap Comix can trace its genealogy to the publication of Jack Jaxon's God Nose in 1963. By 1999, there were estimated to be more than two...

The Spanish biochemist Federico Mayor Zaragosa (born 1934) served on various medical and scientific advisory committees and in the Spanish government before beginning his association with UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and...

Amina of Zaria (1533-1610"), commonly known as the warrior queen, expanded the territory of the Hausa people of north Africa to the largest borders in history. More than 400 years later, the legend of her persona became the model for a tel...

A prolific and long-lived writer of narodnik (populist) orientation, Pavel Vladimirovich Zasodimsky was actively involved in Russian literary life from the late 1860s until his death in 1912. He contributed to (and at times helped edit) th...

Zathura is a 2005 film about two squabbling brothers who start a simple game that becomes a space adventure. A New Adventure From the World of Jumanji ( taglines ) Contents 1 Danny 2 (Little) Walter 3 Astronaut (Big Walter) 4 Dialogue 5 Ta...