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96e3b336ef79945e8664593742f0acf8 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0824-silberman-autism-speaks-20150824-story.html | Op-Ed: Autism Speaks needs to do a lot more listening | Op-Ed: Autism Speaks needs to do a lot more listening
For a couple of decades now, Americans have been engaged in a wide-ranging and often heated conversation about autism. About what causes it, whether there’s more of it than there used to be, and whether it can be cured. About whether autism is a disorder, a disabili... |
42b2ca8a4240827825f7c1ed7984e630 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0902-schwartz-mobility-accessibility-20150902-story.html | Op-Ed: Why a car-centric transportation plan is folly for L.A. | Op-Ed: Why a car-centric transportation plan is folly for L.A.
The knock on L.A.'s Mobility Plan 2035 is that it will slow down traffic. After the City Council approved the blueprint, the community group Fix the City wrote that “MP2035 is not a mobility plan, it is a plan designed to create immobility.” It has a point.... |
b719abdae8df30544410682fc6a7d625 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1009-mcmanus-column-shutdown-obama-boehner-20131009-column.html | The uncompromiser in chief | The uncompromiser in chief
If you wanted to hear words of sweet conciliation, the White House was the wrong place to go this week.
“We’re not going to pay a ransom for America paying its bills,” President Obama said Tuesday, sticking to his demand that Congress pass a spending bill and raise the federal debt ceiling wi... |
3a7fee01c2963708075b4de4f9ff2f10 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1015-mahoney-california-exit-exam-20151015-story.html | Op-Ed: Goodbye and good riddance to California’s high school exit exam | Op-Ed: Goodbye and good riddance to California’s high school exit exam
The California high school exit exam is dead. The short and purposeless life of the exam began in 2001 when it was first administered to ninth-grade volunteers. It ended last week when Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill that not only suspended the test ... |
6d92f4b7bb2ae9012d6e215d54aeafe8 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1020-hasen-red-blue-election-law-20151020-story.html | Op-Ed: When it comes to election law, red America and blue America are not at all alike | Op-Ed: When it comes to election law, red America and blue America are not at all alike
We already know that Americans’ access to abortion services, healthcare and firearms varies according to where they live. In California, it’s relatively simple for women to obtain an abortion, and in Texas, it’s quite hard; the reve... |
677f845e9a80a5879436cc3753fc191d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1028-goldfinger-earthquake-prediction-20151028-story.html | Op-Ed: A 99.9% chance of a big L.A. earthquake by 2019? Don’t bet on it. | Op-Ed: A 99.9% chance of a big L.A. earthquake by 2019? Don’t bet on it.
Last week, the media went big with a terrifying-sounding study from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, which put the probability of a magnitude-5.0 earthquake in the Los Angeles area before 2019 at 99.9%. Ninety-nine point nine!
That number alone is enoug... |
60b0dc3b94839fc3aa4ffa36044c6868 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasily-Mishin | Vasily Mishin | Vasily Mishin
His successor, Vasily Mishin, attempted to maintain the program’s momentum, but he was not the effective manager or politically sophisticated operator that Korolyov had been.
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9fd8a94ce947333f299421510adc801d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasily-Nikitich-Tatishchev | Vasily Nikitich Tatishchev | Vasily Nikitich Tatishchev
Vasily Nikitich Tatishchev, (born April 19 [April 29, New Style], 1686, Pskov, Russia—died July 15 [July 26], 1750, Boldino, near Moscow), Russian economic administrator and historian who was the first to produce a comprehensive Russian history.
Tatishchev joined the army in 1704 and took p... |
431d0da97300b3cf6311e5f38b400d71 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasily-Sokolovsky | Vasily Sokolovsky | Vasily Sokolovsky
Marshal Sokolovsky’s volumes on military strategy in the 1960s, while granting that nuclear war would be an unprecedented disaster for all, still committed the U.S.S.R. to a war-winning capability.
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68143bf4892ca3f2f21e7b079a3f94ca | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasily-Vasilyevich-Smyslov | Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov | Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov
Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov, (born March 24, 1921, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.—died March 27, 2010, Moscow, Russia), Russian chess master who won the world championship from Mikhail Botvinnik in 1957 and lost it to Botvinnik in a return match in 1958.
Smyslov was noted for his patient positional... |
9ac25ac04a1950715d57b1f42a0f391b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vassili-K-Blucher | Vassili K. Blücher | Vassili K. Blücher
Blücher, who used the pseudonym Galen in China, was a commander in the Red Army who had worked with Chiang in 1924 and 1925 in developing the Whampoa Military Academy and forming the National Revolutionary Army. Blücher returned to Guangzhou in May and helped refine plans for the Northern Expedition,... |
8fa6567bb1dad83255389d331d35a963 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasubandhu | Vasubandhu | Vasubandhu
Vasubandhu, (flourished 5th century ad), Indian Buddhist philosopher and logician, younger brother of the philosopher Asaṅga. His conversion from the Sarvāstivāda to the Mahāyāna Buddhist tradition is attributed to Asaṅga. Vasubandhu refined classical Indian syllogistic logic by distinguishing the procedur... |
c782cb23e7480e1e6f65ed55063e1e36 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vatsyayana | Vatsyayana | Vatsyayana
…era) and his 5th-century commentator Vatsyayana established the foundations of the Nyaya as a school almost exclusively preoccupied with logical and epistemological issues. The Madhyamika (“Middle Way”) school of Buddhism—also known as the Shunyavada (“Way of Emptiness”) school—arose, and the analytical inv... |
7678f74b9b105f9580eee1a1ac8fc10e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Venantius-Fortunatus | Venantius Fortunatus | Venantius Fortunatus
Venantius Fortunatus, in full Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus, (born c. 540, Treviso, near Venice [Italy]—died c. 600, Poitiers, Aquitaine [France]), poet and bishop of Poitiers, whose Latin poems and hymns combine echoes of classical Latin poets with a medieval tone, making him an impo... |
841b77a73d40649919e4dcda1ee2af55 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Venedikt-Yerofeyev | Venedikt Yerofeyev | Venedikt Yerofeyev
…leave the Soviet Union; and Venedikt Yerofeyev, whose grotesque latter-day picaresque Moscow-Petushki—published in a clandestine (samizdat) edition in 1968—is a minor classic.
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f92f4cb1cf7c89c9dc24f698655085a6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Venus-Williams | Venus Williams | Venus Williams
Venus Williams , in full Venus Ebony Starr Williams, (born June 17, 1980, Lynwood, California, U.S.), American tennis player who—along with her sister Serena—redefined the sport with her strength and superb athleticism.
Like her sister Serena, Venus was introduced to tennis on the public courts in Los A... |
528ddb5a49bb0e0ae81dbd152057fb98 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vera-Miles | Vera Miles | Vera Miles
…and his wife, Hallie (Vera Miles), to their small hometown of Shinbone in the American West. They are there to pay their respects to their old friend Tom Doniphon (John Wayne), who is being buried in a pauper’s grave. Stoddard, who rode to fame as a tenderfoot lawyer credited…
…Gavin) and her sister (Vera M... |
c6ef1bcac8ad5f25430d1c110071ad97 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vercors | Vercors | Vercors
Vercors, pseudonym of Jean Marcel Bruller, (born Feb. 26, 1902, Paris, France—died June 10, 1991, Paris), French novelist and artist-engraver, who wrote Le Silence de la mer (1941; The Silence of the Sea), a patriotic tale of self-deception and of the triumph of passive resistance over evil. The novella was p... |
08e74888abec007db283a4ae4b0d1bb9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vere-Bird | Vere Bird | Vere Bird
…the 1976 legislative elections to Vere Bird, who favoured regional integration. In 1978 Antigua reversed its position and announced it wanted independence. The autonomy talks were complicated by the fact that Barbuda, long a dependency of Antigua, felt that it had been economically stifled by the larger isla... |
20d8109c7ac4a4048a37b9b4dabbc2a7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vic-Morrow | Vic Morrow | Vic Morrow
…led by Artie West (Vic Morrow) terrorize students and teachers alike. On Dadier’s first day, fellow teacher Lois Hammond (Margaret Hayes) is nearly raped by a student. Dadier beats her assailant, but he and math teacher Joshua Edwards (Richard Kiley) are attacked by Artie and his gang in retaliation.…
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72b42d40353d294feb1a9f6ff1ccb648 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vicente-Escudero | Vicente Escudero | Vicente Escudero
Vicente Escudero, (born Oct. 27, 1892, Valladolid, Spain—died Dec. 4, 1980, Barcelona), Gypsy dancer widely respected for his mastery of flamenco dance and for his adherence throughout his public career to an authentic style rarely distorted or commercialized.
Known in his youth for his dancing in t... |
68d8ac24399ff71501a068a3bcdcbd51 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vicente-Espinel | Vicente Espinel | Vicente Espinel
Vicente Espinel, in full Vicente Martínez Espinel, (baptized December 28, 1550, Ronda, Málaga, Spain—died February 4, 1624, Madrid), Spanish writer and musician remembered chiefly for his picaresque novel La vida del Escudero Marcos de Obregón (1618; “Life of Squire Marcos of Obregón”), upon which the ... |
e68f16ff3559b31544614322b4a4bc22 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Alexander-Haden-Horsley | Sir Victor Horsley | Sir Victor Horsley
Sir Victor Horsley, (born April 14, 1857, London—died July 16, 1916, Amārah, Iraq), British physiologist and neurosurgeon who was first to remove a spinal tumour (1887). He also made valuable studies of thyroid activity, rabies prevention, and the functions of localized areas of the brain.
By removi... |
acf7503434531c0d98ea573eae63c674 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Babes | Victor Babes | Victor Babes
…was named for Romanian pathologist Victor Babes, who discovered the organisms in the late 19th century in the red blood cells of cattle.
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46452f08a4cea2a7428ae7fc8e365527 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Balaguer | Victor Balaguer | Victor Balaguer
Victor Balaguer, in full Victor Balaguer i Cirera, (born Dec. 11, 1824, Barcelona, Spain—died Jan. 14, 1901, Madrid), Catalan poet and Spanish politician and historian.
Balaguer was a precocious youth; his first dramatic essay, Pépin el Jorobado; o, el hijo de Carlomagno (1838; “Pippin the Hunchbacked;... |
866156df4d539ab611f630425bea5b46 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Baltard | Victor Baltard | Victor Baltard
…halls (10 originals, designed by Victor Baltard and built between 1854 and 1866, and two 1936 reproductions) and their neighbourhood were designated for renewal. The renewal projects were delayed for several years, however, by bitter disagreements over how the area should be used. The old market halls w... |
f4a350ff318d70d78d5527b3d5bb8890 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Cousin | Victor Cousin | Victor Cousin
Victor Cousin, (born Nov. 28, 1792, Paris—died Jan. 13, 1867, Cannes, Fr.), French philosopher, educational reformer, and historian whose systematic eclecticism made him the best known French thinker in his time.
At the École Normale in 1811 Cousin was influenced by his studies of the philosophers P. L... |
ba4406343ff7786b9525447698124a36 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Gollancz | Sir Victor Gollancz | Sir Victor Gollancz
Sir Victor Gollancz, (born April 9, 1893, London—died Feb. 8, 1967, London), British publisher, writer, and humanitarian who championed such causes as socialism and pacifism while managing a highly successful publishing business.
Born to a family of orthodox Jews of Polish origin, Gollancz attende... |
cc879caefd5a7439d0964dcfbdf86251 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Houteff | Victor Houteff | Victor Houteff
…that continued the work of Victor Houteff (1885–1955), a Bulgarian emigrant to the United States and Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) layman who in a set of tracts entitled "Shepherd’s Rod" (1929) called for reform of the SDA church. Having been rebuffed by Adventist leaders, Houteff and his original followe... |
d5c48fed99ea501bb5ef01d85e592bc3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Laloux | Victor Laloux | Victor Laloux
…for which Henri Deglane and Victor Laloux erected, respectively, the Grand Palais and the Gare d’Orsay (renovated as the Musée d’Orsay, 1979–86). These monumental buildings are in a frothy Baroque style, though they incorporate much glass and iron. Reaction to this exuberance was expressed in the work of... |
910a06b85082f738e5062c0e22db8fba | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Mature | Victor Mature | Victor Mature
Nick Bianco (played by Victor Mature) decides to testify against his former mob cronies in order to win release from prison and be reunited with his family. The caveat is that he must reintegrate himself into the mob and risk his life to bring the top criminals to justice.…
They befriend Doc Holliday (Vic... |
673573124fe020b1e06f174131172cb1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-McKusick | Victor McKusick | Victor McKusick
Victor McKusick, in full Victor Almon McKusick, (born Oct. 21, 1921, Parkman, Maine, U.S.—died July 22, 2008, Baltimore, Md.), American physician and genome researcher who pioneered the field of medical genetics.
McKusick was raised on a dairy farm in Maine. He attended Tufts University (1940–43) in M... |
f6d0b8223e8581e9c73b61c0288f4674 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Popa | Victor Popa | Victor Popa
Victor Popa wrote about rural subjects, while G.M. Zamfirescu’s protagonists were typical Bucharest citizens, and D.D. Pătrăscanu wittily described political life.
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b06da6ca24fb580c616c2bcfd7217ccc | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Riqueti-marquis-de-Mirabeau | Victor Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau | Victor Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau
Victor Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, (born Oct. 5, 1715, Pertuis, Fr.—died July 13, 1789, Argenteuil), French political economist, the forerunner and later patron of the Physiocratic school of economic thought. He was the father of the renowned French revolutionary the Comte de Mir... |
89ed9eb55fb32cdedbd1156e49ee5ee2 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Sjostrom | Victor Sjöström | Victor Sjöström
Victor Sjöström, original name Viktor David Sjöström, Sjöström also spelled Seastrom, (born Sept. 20, 1879, Silbodal, Swed.—died Jan. 3, 1960, Stockholm), motion-picture actor and director who contributed significantly to the international preeminence of the Swedish silent film in the post-World War I ... |
69482ebcf481890f4d7819ff6989e54f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Vasarely | Victor Vasarely | Victor Vasarely
Victor Vasarely, Hungarian Győző Vásárhelyi Hungarian form Vásárhelyi Győző, (born April 9, 1908, Pécs, Hungary—died March 15, 1997, Paris, France), Hungarian-born French painter of geometric abstractions who became one of the leading figures of the Op art movement.
Vasarely was trained as an artist in... |
938d4521ced28d10cbe6eac01d699eea | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Weybright | Victor Weybright | Victor Weybright
…was later taken over by Victor Weybright, who subsequently established the highly successful New American Library for the mass promotion of paperbacks in the world market.
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84db27dd79ca42658389b9d4c109ce07 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victoria-wife-of-Frederick-III-of-Prussia | Victoria | Victoria
Victoria, formally Empress Frederick, original name Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise, German Kaiserin Friedrich, originally Viktoria Adelheid Maria Luise, (born November 21, 1840, London, England—died August 5, 1901, Schloss Friedrichshof, Kronberg, Germany), consort of the emperor Frederick III of Germany and e... |
3d1ef4e351d82468b2160853f80c8836 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victorio | Victorio | Victorio
…Chiricahua leaders as Geronimo and Victorio. By the 1870s he had joined Victorio on the Apache reservation at Warm Springs, New Mexico, but in about 1877 they and their followers were moved by the U.S. government to an inhospitable reservation at San Carlos, Ariz. Victorio and many members of his…
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c963cfc9730ba6d54d68223c53a4aff1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victorius-of-Aquitaine | Victorius of Aquitaine | Victorius of Aquitaine
…called Victorian for the astronomer Victorius of Aquitaine, its first calculator (c. ad 465); Dionysian for Dionysius Exiguus, who revised Victorius’ figures in the 6th century; and Great Paschal because of its use in determining the date of Easter.
In 463 ce Victorius (or Victorinus) of Aquitai... |
8b81e83b85eb14d105dc05fa84383f07 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vidkun-Abraham-Lauritz-Jonsson-Quisling | Vidkun Quisling | Vidkun Quisling
Vidkun Quisling, in full Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonsson Quisling, (born July 18, 1887, Fyresdal, Norway—died October 24, 1945, Akershus Fortress, Oslo), Norwegian army officer whose collaboration with the Germans in their occupation of Norway during World War II established his name as a synonym for “t... |
fa224ee48d75f91e563081d4d3844506 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vidyadhara | Vidyādhara | Vidyādhara
Dhanga’s grandson Vidyadhara (reigned 1017–29), often described as the most powerful of the Candella kings, extended the kingdom as far as the Chambal and Narmada rivers. There he came into direct conflict with the Turkic conqueror Maḥmūd of Ghazna when the latter swept down from Afghanistan in…
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af4d97fd2f05f173385b8fce15a5cbc8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vigdis-Finnbogadottir | Vigdís Finnbogadóttir | Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, (born April 15, 1930, Reykjavík, Iceland), Icelandic teacher, cultural figure, and politician who served as president of Iceland from 1980 to 1996. She was the first woman in the world to be elected head of state in a national election.
Finnbogadóttir was born into a wealt... |
c123d9628fad00d6be3f8fa0fd3751c1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vikram-Seth | Vikram Seth | Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth, (born June 20, 1952, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India), Indian poet, novelist, and travel writer known for his verse novel The Golden Gate (1986) and his epic novel A Suitable Boy (1993).
Vikram Seth is an Indian author and poet. He was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata), India, on June 20, 1952. He ... |
b09e740c6cf3e5e0465563d62b60dd77 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Viktor-Amazaspovich-Ambartsumian | Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian | Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian
Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian, (born Sept. 5 [Sept. 18, New Style], 1908, Tbilisi, Georgia, Russian Empire—died Aug. 12, 1996, Byurakan Observatory, near Yerevan, Arm.), Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist best known for his theories concerning the origin and evolution of stars an... |
947ecdd1fe91a088a79c910a55aa52a4 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Viktor-Ivanovich-Chukarin | Viktor Ivanovich Chukarin | Viktor Ivanovich Chukarin
Viktor Ivanovich Chukarin, (born November 9, 1921, Krasnoarmeyskoye, Ukraine, U.S.S.R.—died August 25, 1984, Lviv, Ukraine), first of the great Soviet gymnasts, who won 11 medals in international competition.
Chukarin graduated in 1950 from the Institute of Physical Culture in Lvov (now Lvi... |
eb2fa74094a176f6468465c2800c0913 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Viktor-Meyer | Viktor Meyer | Viktor Meyer
Viktor Meyer, (born Sept. 8, 1848, Berlin—died Aug. 8, 1897, Heidelberg, Baden), German chemist who contributed greatly to knowledge of both organic and inorganic chemistry.
Meyer studied under the analytic chemist Robert Bunsen, the organic chemist Emil Erlenmeyer, and the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff at ... |
f5945726710bd5b4503ab53d30a6ba45 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vilem-Mathesius | Vilém Mathesius | Vilém Mathesius
Vilém Mathesius, (born August 3, 1882, Pardubice, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now in Czech Republic]—died April 12, 1945, Prague, Czech.), Czech linguist and scholar of English language and literature. He was the founder (1926) and president of the Prague Linguistic Circle, famous for its influence on st... |
4af5be29812ee55eb220d427294fc922 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vilhelm-Moberg | Vilhelm Moberg | Vilhelm Moberg
Vilhelm Moberg, (born Aug. 20, 1898, Algutsboda, Swed.—died Aug. 8, 1973, Väddö), Swedish novelist and dramatist, best-known for his novels of the Swedish emigration to America but concerned primarily with the people of the countryside from which he came and with the system that made life so miserable ... |
3636e110fc13ae1dcf88fa6f0264626f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vilhjalmur-Stefansson | Vilhjalmur Stefansson | Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, (born November 3, 1879, Arnes, Manitoba, Canada—died August 26, 1962, Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.), Canadian-born American explorer and ethnologist who spent five consecutive record-making years exploring vast areas of the Canadian Arctic after adapting himself to the Inui... |
9ba8b08f641f3a82e0b4897f8615c3ce | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vilma-Espin-Guillois | Vilma Espín Guillois | Vilma Espín Guillois
Vilma Espín Guillois, (born April 7, 1930, Santiago, Cuba—died June 18, 2007, Havana), Cuban revolutionary and women’s rights activist. As the wife of Raúl Castro, the younger brother of longtime Cuban leader Fidel Castro, she was for decades regarded as the unofficial first lady of Cuba and was t... |
fe73f9f71892f83a9c5a2354e84d797e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vilmos-Zsigmond | Vilmos Zsigmond | Vilmos Zsigmond
…Hungarian-born cinematographers Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond, to bring the heightened cinematic consciousness of the French New Wave to the American screen. Their films frequently exhibited unprecedented political and social consciousness as well.
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0a4212723646e565fbe3fa2d54211fc4 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-dIndy | Vincent d'Indy | Vincent d'Indy
Vincent d’Indy, in full Paul-Marie-Théodore-Vincent d’Indy, (born March 27, 1851, Paris, France—died Dec. 1, 1931, Paris), French composer and teacher, remarkable for his attempted, and partially successful, reform of French symphonic and dramatic music along lines indicated by César Franck.
D’Indy stu... |
d23f71fdc49a6ea7ae6be0b5613e7bd7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-Sherman | Vincent Sherman | Vincent Sherman
Vincent Sherman, byname of Abraham Orovitz, (born July 16, 1906, Vienna, Georgia, U.S.—died June 18, 2006, Los Angeles, California), American director who was especially known for so-called “women’s pictures,” films that were geared to female audiences.
Sherman began his film career as an actor and app... |
23982e71ab2a968c4886a139261ac37a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-van-Gogh/Legacy | Legacy | Legacy
Largely on the basis of the works of the last three years of his life, van Gogh is generally considered one of the greatest Dutch painters of all time. His work exerted a powerful influence on the development of much modern painting, in particular on the works of the Fauve painters, Chaim Soutine, and the German... |
bc0b7a5b41b9d66f0fa1af1cb7542914 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-Voiture | Vincent Voiture | Vincent Voiture
Vincent Voiture, (born Feb. 24, 1597, Amiens, France—died May 26, 1648, Paris), French poet, letter writer, and animating spirit of the group that gathered at the salon of the marquise de Rambouillet.
Voiture completed his education in Paris and early made the acquaintance of the aged poet François de... |
3415ffb0b55e94b605803955d9fb1fe1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincente-Minnelli | Vincente Minnelli | Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli, original name Lester Anthony Minnelli, (born February 28, 1903, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died July 25, 1986, Los Angeles, California), American motion-picture director who infused a new sophistication and vitality into filmed musicals in the 1940s and ’50s.
He was born to Italian-bo... |
4f864953e3cc39d7a451836c1ef7fcfe | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincente-Minnelli/Films-of-the-later-1940s-Meet-Me-in-St-Louis-The-Clock-and-The-Pirate | Films of the later 1940s: Meet Me in St. Louis, The Clock, and The Pirate | Films of the later 1940s: Meet Me in St. Louis, The Clock, and The Pirate
Minnelli then directed Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), regarded by many as one of the greatest film musicals and as Minnelli’s greatest film. It was a lavish adaptation of Sally Benson’s autobiographical stories about a St. Louis, Missouri, family i... |
327d99f6fe60e32cba2b2a77098a5924 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincente-Minnelli/Films-of-the-later-1950s-Lust-for-Life-Gigi-and-Some-Came-Running | Films of the later 1950s: Lust for Life, Gigi, and Some Came Running | Films of the later 1950s: Lust for Life, Gigi, and Some Came Running
Minnelli’s next film was the psychological drama The Cobweb (1955), which starred Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, Gloria Grahame, Lillian Gish, and Oscar Levant. In a private mental institution, the selection of new drapes for the library becomes the ... |
fb2b9430950150ccd29d87c659f51eb3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincenzo-Carducci | Vincenzo Carducci | Vincenzo Carducci
Vincenzo Carducci, Spanish Vicente Carducho, (born 1578, Florence [Italy]—died 1638, Madrid), Italian-born painter.
Carducci was the brother of artist Bartolommeo Carducci, whom he accompanied to Spain in 1585. Vincenzo succeeded his brother in 1609 as court painter to Philip III. Trained by his bro... |
b974ae43e9d4a7395788a447edb22f61 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vinicius-de-Moraes | Vinícius de Moraes | Vinícius de Moraes
Vinícius de Moraes, Moraes also spelled Morais, (born October 19, 1913, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil—died July 9, 1980, Rio de Janeiro), Brazilian poet and lyricist whose best-known song was “A Garota de Ipanema” (“The Girl from Ipanema”), which he cowrote with the composer Antonio Carlos Jobim.
The autho... |
026e72c9f3c7c94d023b281ff8c6ed33 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Viola-Allen | Viola Allen | Viola Allen
Viola Allen, in full Viola Emily Allen, (born October 27, 1869, Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.—died May 10, 1948, New York, New York), American actress, especially famous for her Shakespearean roles and for her roles in Frances Eliza Burnett’s Little Lord Fauntleroy and Bronson Howard’s Shenandoah, both extreme... |
5404fcdf00d233e1f376f96967bc158a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Violet-Martin | Violet Martin | Violet Martin
Violet Martin grew up in a genteel Protestant literary family living on a country estate, Ross House, in somewhat straitened finances. After her father’s death in 1872, the family lived in Dublin, where she attended Alexandra College. Edith Somerville’s father was a British army lieutenant…
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6c0cc6a055fdd216333138e94418981a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Virginia-Kirkus | Virginia Kirkus | Virginia Kirkus
Virginia Kirkus, married name Virgina Kirkus Glick, (born Dec. 7, 1893, Meadville, Pa., U.S.—died Sept. 10, 1980, Danbury, Conn.), American critic, editor, and writer, remembered for her original book review for booksellers, Kirkus Reviews.
Kirkus attended private schools and in 1916 graduated from Vas... |
c6ec7ad0f28097b58377d7b8acbd9710 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Virginia-Louisa-Minor | Virginia Louisa Minor | Virginia Louisa Minor
Virginia Louisa Minor, (born March 27, 1824, Caroline county, Va., U.S.—died Aug. 14, 1894, St. Louis, Mo.), American activist who was a tireless and shrewd campaigner for woman suffrage.
Little is known of Minor’s early life. In 1843 she married Francis Minor, a distant cousin and a lawyer, and ... |
aa50c13ebc13dfb4e36f3814705fd51f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Virginia-Woolf | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf, original name in full Adeline Virginia Stephen, (born January 25, 1882, London, England—died March 28, 1941, near Rodmell, Sussex), English writer whose novels, through their nonlinear approaches to narrative, exerted a major influence on the genre.
She was best known for her novels, esp... |
c7eb2fbc8570e33280f1d04e8172eff5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Virginia-Woolf/Legacy | Legacy | Legacy
Woolf’s experiments with point of view confirm that, as Bernard thinks in The Waves, “we are not single.” Being neither single nor fixed, perception in her novels is fluid, as is the world she presents. While Joyce and Faulkner separate one character’s interior monologues from another’s, Woolf’s narratives move ... |
1aff02223832d4704153575465650350 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Viriathus | Viriathus | Viriathus
…under the brilliant leadership of Viriathus; however, after Viriathus was assassinated about 140 bce, Decius Junius Brutus led a Roman force northward through central Portugal, crossed the Douro River, and subdued the Gallaeci. Julius Caesar governed the territory for a time. In 25 bce Caesar Augustus founde... |
dcdc1efa8155b606c3ca0f15924a9b08 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vissarion-Grigoryevich-Belinsky | Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky | Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky
Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky, (born May 30 [June 11, New Style], 1811, Sveaborg, Fin., Russian Empire—died May 26 [June 7], 1848, St. Petersburg, Russia), eminent Russian literary critic who is often called the “father” of the Russian radical intelligentsia.
The son of a provincial ... |
92fcc2072e2f8a6ed92120e931084706 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vitaly-Ginzburg | Vitaly Ginzburg | Vitaly Ginzburg
Vitaly Ginzburg, in full Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, (born October 4 [September 21, Old Style], 1916, Moscow, Russia—died November 8, 2009, Moscow), Russian physicist and astrophysicist, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2003 for his pioneering work on superconductivity. He shared the award with A... |
3ec931c9bdb2e05a9b7ea393393ced09 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vito-Genovese | Vito Genovese | Vito Genovese
Vito Genovese, byname Don Vitone, (born Nov. 27, 1897, Rosiglino, Italy—died Feb. 14, 1969, Springfield, Mo., U.S.), one of the most powerful of American crime syndicate bosses from the 1930s to the 1950s and a major influence even from prison, 1959–69.
Genovese immigrated from a Neapolitan village to N... |
60b7b6dfc7b5e68136a3ae3c05f030ab | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vittorino-da-Feltre | Vittorino da Feltre | Vittorino da Feltre
Vittorino da Feltre, original name Vittore dei Ramboldini, (born 1378, Feltre [Italy]—died February 2, 1446, Mantua), Italian educator who is frequently considered the greatest humanist schoolmaster of the Renaissance.
After 20 years as a student and teacher at the University of Padua, Vittorino wa... |
0467aeec05ca4b26fbf421257173d182 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vittorio-Orlando | Vittorio Orlando | Vittorio Orlando
Vittorio Orlando, in full Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, (born May 19, 1860, Palermo, Italy—died December 1, 1952, Rome), Italian statesman and prime minister during the concluding years of World War I and head of his country’s delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference.
Educated at Palermo, Orlando ma... |
8678070a3432d79e453295f57d3dc7e8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vittorio-Podrecca | Vittorio Podrecca | Vittorio Podrecca
…of the Little Ones of Vittorio Podrecca, which introduced the marionette pianist and the soprano with heaving bosom that have been widely copied ever since.
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451bccbfdd5c1165cd92281fb9dda297 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Viv-Richards | Viv Richards | Viv Richards
Viv Richards, in full Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, (born March 7, 1952, St. John’s, Antigua), West Indian cricketer, arguably the finest batsman of his generation.
The son of Malcolm Richards, Antigua’s leading fast bowler, Viv Richards followed in a family tradition that included two brothers who... |
73e5fa606202c1bfbad860cacda711f5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vivien-Leigh | Vivien Leigh | Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh, original name Vivian Mary Hartley, (born November 5, 1913, Darjeeling, India—died July 8, 1967, London, England), British actress who achieved motion picture immortality by playing two of American literature’s most celebrated Southern belles, Scarlett O’Hara and Blanche DuBois.
The daughter... |
f7e09cd9f406538ea0040c19bc6250b7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vladimir-Kuts | Vladimir Kuts | Vladimir Kuts
Vladimir Kuts, (born Feb. 7, 1927, Aleksino, Ukraine, U.S.S.R.—died Aug. 16, 1975, Moscow, Russia), Soviet distance runner who held the world record in the 5,000-metre race (1954–55, 1957–65), the 10,000-metre race (1956–60), and the three-mile race (1954).
An officer in the Soviet army and a member of ... |
0b9d74df903c3d602ea6ab1257b65a55 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vladimir-Mikhaylovich-Komarov | Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov | Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov, (born March 16, 1927, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.—died April 24, 1967, Kazakhstan), Soviet cosmonaut, the first man known to have died during a space mission.
Komarov joined the Soviet air force at the age of 15 and was educated in air force schools, becoming a... |
7249c52fa972bf9bcf1853c2fe0aa596 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vladimir-Nabokov | Vladimir Nabokov | Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov, in full Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, (born April 22, 1899, St. Petersburg, Russia—died July 2, 1977, Montreux, Switzerland), Russian-born American novelist and critic, the foremost of the post-1917 émigré authors. He wrote in both Russian and English, and his best works, including... |
8d23c8dc67046a63769b1e4ad8ae0abc | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vladimir-Putin | Vladimir Putin | Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin, in full Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, (born October 7, 1952, Leningrad, Russia, U.S.S.R. [now St. Petersburg, Russia]), Russian intelligence officer and politician who served as president (1999–2008, 2012– ) of Russia and also was the country’s prime minister (1999, 2008–12).
Putin studi... |
4fb73f4b8cfd633f35f1e983f8165310 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vladimir-tsar-of-Bulgaria | Vladimir | Vladimir
Boris’s eldest son and heir, Vladimir (889–893), abandoned his father’s policy and became the instrument of a pagan reaction and a leader of the opponents of Slavic letters and literature. Boris then returned to active politics. With the aid of loyal boyars and the army, Boris drove his son from…
When his elde... |
7a6d578daa6cb2220fb08aaca2964506 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vladimir-Vidric | Vladimir Vidrić | Vladimir Vidrić
…writers of that time include Vladimir Vidrić and Vladimir Nazor. The leading figure of the early Modernist phase until World War I was Antun Gustav Matoš. He edited the anthology Mlada hrvatska lirika (1914; “The Young Croatian Lyric”), which marked the zenith of such verse. Between the wars, avant-gar... |
12f1ee9efa710af1c5940ca65a27f87f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vladislav-II | Vladislav II | Vladislav II
Vladislav II (ruled 1140–73) participated in the campaigns of Emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa) in Italy. He was named king and crowned by the emperor at Milan in 1158.
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a67f7d528351e90feeccade2b93959e1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vladko-Macek | Vladko Maček | Vladko Maček
Vladko Maček, also called Vladimir Maček, (born July 20, 1879, Jastrebarsko, near Zagreb, Cro.—died May 15, 1964, Washington, D.C., U.S.), nationalist and leader of the Croatian Peasant Party who opposed Serbian domination of Yugoslavia. He served as deputy prime minister in the Yugoslav government from 1... |
5382c60cf13b45f5fca006a610be75d3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vojislav-Marinkovic | Vojislav Marinković | Vojislav Marinković
Vojislav Marinković, (born May 13 [May 1, old style], 1876, Belgrade, Serbia—died Sept. 18, 1935, Belgrade), influential statesman and eloquent spokesman for Serbia and later Yugoslavia in the early 20th century.
Marinković entered the Serbian Parliament as a Progressive (1906), represented Serbia... |
36d85f9888d5226eb7287c706081ae7d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vojislav-Seselj | Vojislav Seselj | Vojislav Seselj
…power at the expense of Vojislav Seselj’s Serbian Radical Party (Srpska Radikalna Stranka; SRS), then the largest neofascist party in Serbia. Although the SPS had won 65 percent of the vote in elections to the Serbian assembly in 1990, deteriorating economic conditions and perceived threats to Serbian ... |
1e1af9529e38430bf52d1a8868ca6287 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vologeses-III | Vologeses III (or II) | Vologeses III (or II)
Vologeses III (or II), (died ad 147, ?), one of the rival claimants to the throne of the Parthian king Pacorus II.
He first presented himself as the ruler of Parthia in 105/106 and seems to have been able to persist in his claim throughout the reign of Osroes (c. 109/110–c. 128/129). On the deat... |
7b39f784559142d04a4ad958bef1c9e0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vsevolod-Vyacheslavovich-Ivanov | Vsevolod Ivanov | Vsevolod Ivanov
Vsevolod Ivanov, in full Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich Ivanov, (born February 24 [February 12, Old Style], 1895, Lebyazhye, Russia—died August 15, 1963, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.), Soviet prose writer noted for his vivid naturalistic realism, one of the most original writers of the 1920s.
Ivanov was born int... |
fb1ad7ebf924dc72e5c9de5b7a50050f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vyasa | Vyasa | Vyasa
Vyasa, (Sanskrit: “Arranger” or “Compiler”) also called Krishna Dvaipayana or Vedavyasa, (flourished 1500 bce?), legendary Indian sage who is traditionally credited with composing or compiling the Mahabharata, a collection of legendary and didactic poetry worked around a central heroic narrative. In India his bi... |
a0a35eb21eb21ac517b822704f4161f4 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vytautas-the-Great | Vytautas the Great | Vytautas the Great
Vytautas the Great, Lithuanian Vytautus Didysis, Polish Witold Wielki, (born 1350, Lithuania—died Oct. 27, 1430, Trakai, Lith.), Lithuanian national leader who consolidated his country’s possessions, helped to build up a national consciousness, and broke the power of the Teutonic Knights. He exerc... |
a2ecb5e7bc273bbfb62966f2755f0eb9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/W-A-Dwiggins | W.A. Dwiggins | W.A. Dwiggins
W.A. Dwiggins, in full William Addison Dwiggins, (born June 19, 1880, Martinsville, Ohio, U.S.—died Dec. 25, 1956, Hingham, Mass.), American typographer, book designer, puppeteer, illustrator, and calligrapher, who designed four of the most widely used Linotype faces in the United States and Great Britai... |
1719d21e24820f78f603761d02b68b86 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/W-F-Albright | W.F. Albright | W.F. Albright
W.F. Albright, in full William Foxwell Albright, (born May 24, 1891, Coquimbo, Chile—died Sept. 19, 1971, Baltimore, Md., U.S.), American biblical archaeologist and Middle Eastern scholar, noted especially for his excavations of biblical sites.
The son of American Methodist missionaries living abroad, A... |
331b03382da344e1c70990de72d53acf | https://www.britannica.com/biography/W-H-Shiers | W. H. Shiers | W. H. Shiers
Shiers, as mechanics. They landed at Darwin, Northern Territory, on December 10. Afterward, the brothers were knighted and received a £10,000 prize.
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e8c1075e7c469dd4a65b280e393d08a3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/W-H-Zachariasen | W. H. Zachariasen | W. H. Zachariasen
Zachariasen published The Atomic Arrangement in Glass, a classic paper that had perhaps the most influence of any published work on glass science. Zachariasen’s work placed the understanding of glass structure and its relationship to composition on its modern footing. The principles of his atomic…
…in... |
f74c9d2e31f623b61756085e3132fba7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/W-Jason-Morgan | W. Jason Morgan | W. Jason Morgan
Parker of Britain and W. Jason Morgan of the United States resolved these issues. McKenzie and Parker showed with a geometric analysis that, if the moving slabs of crust were thick enough to be regarded as rigid and thus to remain undeformed, their motions on a sphere would lead…
…the 1960s the American... |
518c1bb030d5940eb82ead177983d939 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/W-K-Kellogg | W. K. Kellogg | W. K. Kellogg
W. K. Kellogg, (born April 7, 1860, Battle Creek, Mich., U.S.—died Oct. 6, 1951, Battle Creek), American industrialist and philanthropist who founded (1906) the W.K. Kellogg Company to manufacture cereal products as breakfast foods. His cereals have found widespread use throughout the United States.
Kel... |
3db64e07756157312075e2b21eeeff29 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/W-S-Merwin | W.S. Merwin | W.S. Merwin
W.S. Merwin, in full William Stanley Merwin, (born September 30, 1927, New York, New York, U.S.—died March 15, 2019, Haiku, Hawaii), American poet and translator known for the spare style of his poetry, in which he expressed his concerns about the alienation of humans from their environment.
After graduati... |
779ad3b194d60b236c20d4c2ba467ce5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/W-S-Van-Dyke/Powell-and-Loy-Eddy-and-MacDonald | Powell and Loy, Eddy and MacDonald | Powell and Loy, Eddy and MacDonald
Manhattan Melodrama was the first film to pair Powell and Loy, and they became one of Hollywood’s most popular on-screen duos. They next worked on The Thin Man (1934), which was Van Dyke’s deft adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s popular detective novel. It wisely downplayed the book’s r... |
53c0701677395a424a7cee08b46c7ff3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Waclaw-Potocki | Wacław Potocki | Wacław Potocki
Wacław Potocki, (born 1621, Wola Łużeńska, Poland—died July 9, 1696, Łużna), Polish poet well known for his epic poetry and for his collection of epigrams.
Potocki, a country squire with little formal education, wrote most of his verse (about 300,000 lines) to please himself. A Unitarian, he was given a... |
078022e4dc5d5a34e2746b929f4ec736 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walafrid-Strabo | Walafrid Strabo | Walafrid Strabo
Walafrid Strabo, (born c. 808, Swabia—died Aug. 18, 849, Reichenau, Franconia [now in Germany]), Benedictine abbot, theologian, and poet whose Latin writings were the principal exemplar of German Carolingian culture.
Walafrid received a liberal education at the abbey of Reichenau on Lake Constance. Af... |
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