district within the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S., whose name is synonymous with the American film industry. Lying northwest of downtown Los Angeles, it is bounded by Hyperion Avenue and Riverside Drive (east), Beverly Boulevard (s...

cultural movement that attained widespread popularity in the 1980s and '90s; also, the backing music for rap, the musical style incorporating rhythmic and/or rhyming speech that became the movement's most lasting and influential art form. ...

Bernard Barton, traditionally known as the "Quaker Poet," achieved popular recognition during the early 1820s through the publication of several volumes of moralistic verse. His literary output declined after 1828, but his popularity with ...

Vaporization of a liquid and subsequent condensation of the resultant gas back to liquid form. It is used to separate liquids from nonvolatile solids or solutes (e.g., water from salt and other components of seawater) or to separate two or...

Legendary director/choreographer Bob Fosse (1927-1987) is known for hits such as Sweet Charity, with its trademark jazzy number, "Hey Big Spender," and Cabaret. Bob Fosse began his unusual career as a dancer in the late 1940s, touring with...

Bulb-forming flowering plant (Narcissus pseudonarcissus), also called common daffodil or trumpet narcissus, native to northern Europe and widely cultivated there and in North America. It grows to about 16 in. (41 cm) and has five or six le...

A cultural analyst and political activist, Barbara Ehrenreich is arguably one of the most astute, acerbic and witty critics in the United States. She belongs to the generation of feminists who came to maturity in the 1960s as student dissi...

Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a writer and lecturer who tried to create a cohesive body of historical and social thought that combined feminism and socialism. Charlotte Perkins was born on July 3, 1860, in Hartford, Connect...

Food manufacture is the process by which food is manufactured....

Save The Last Dance is a 2001 film that parallels Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet play, set in the suburbs of Chicago. Directed by Thomas Carter Contents 1 Sara Johnson 2 Derek Reynolds 3 Chenille Reynolds 4 Dialogue 5 Cast 6 External links...

Egypt is the most populous country in the Middle East and the second-most populous on the African continent. Nearly 100% of the country's 78,887,007 (2006 est.) people live in three major regions of the country: Cairo and Alexandria and els...

Sleep debt is the cumulative effect of not getting enough sleep. A large sleep debt, for example, would suggest that a person is mentally or physically fatigued due to insufficient sleep. There is debate in the scientific community over the...

Tom Stoppard, a leading figure of the British theater since the mid 1960s, ranks as a dramatist of brilliant and original comic genius. His first major success established him as a master of philosophical farce, combining dazzling theatric...

(born June 6, 1944, Clarksville, Texas, U.S.) American sprinter who held the world record for the 200-metre dash with turn (1966–71), his best time being 19.83 sec—the first time that the distance was run in less than 20 sec. H...

Brain freeze, cold headache, ice cream headache, shakeache, frigid face, freezie, Frozen Brain Syndrome, cold-stimulus headache, or its given scientific name sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia are terms used to describe a form of cranial pain ...

Cleopatra (69-30 BC) was the last of the Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt. She was notorious in antiquity and has been romanticized in modern times as the lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Third daughter of Ptolemy XII Auletes, Cleopatra VI...

Generally recognized as one of the best essayists of the twentieth century, E. B. White was also a major force in the success of The New Torker magazine, a writer of some of the best children's stories of our time, an inspiring advocate of...

Meramec Caverns is a 26 mile cavern system in the Ozarks of Missouri, USA. It was formed from large limestone deposits over millions of years. Pre-Columbian Native American artifacts have been found in the caverns. Currently the caverns are...

The development of effective pharmacological treatments for alcohol and drug abuse depends on our understanding of the biological mechanisms that start and maintain these behaviors. Studies in animals and humans have confirmed that SEROTON...