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548c43a73ebe23aba9778bfaa6795948 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tha-Block-Is-Hot | Tha Block Is Hot | Tha Block Is Hot
Lil Wayne’s first solo LP, Tha Block Is Hot, arrived later in 1999 and sold more than a million copies, but two subsequent releases, Lights Out (2000) and 500 Degreez (2002), were less popular with the public.
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bfaa6767ed5f2de9c515f853a87fff62 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/thane-feudal-lord | Thane | Thane
Thane, also spelled Thegn, in English history before the Norman Conquest (1066), a free retainer or lord, corresponding in its various grades to the post-Conquest baron and knight. The word is extant only once in the laws before the time of King Aethelstan (d. 939).
The thane became a member of a territorial nob... |
664f26714f92d788a419ea645e54ddd8 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/That-Hideous-Strength | That Hideous Strength | That Hideous Strength
That Hideous Strength, in full That Hideous Strength: A Modern Fairy-Tale for Grown-Ups, third novel in a science-fiction trilogy by C.S. Lewis, published in 1945. It is a sequel to Lewis’s Perelandra (1943); the first novel in the trilogy is Out of the Silent Planet (1938). The central character... |
d79b7b73d6cf6f6269e3e7a7ea96c5d5 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/That-Summer | That Summer | That Summer
The novella That Summer was initially printed in The Penguin New Writing (1943–44) and then as a stand-alone work and again as part of a story collection (1946). It delves into the dynamics of male friendship in the singular, isolating New Zealand environment and, like much of…
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355292009b760cc263c72fe4dfa84971 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Thats-Amore | That’s Amore | That’s Amore
…hit songs such as “That’s Amore” (1953), “Memories Are Made of This” (1955), and “Everybody Loves Somebody” (1964). Simultaneously, he kept his acting career alive, beginning with the World War II drama The Young Lions (1958), in which he starred with Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift
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8c00a6f7454b85335f0271b2a3946299 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-42nd-Parallel | The 42nd Parallel | The 42nd Parallel
by John Dos Passos, comprising The 42nd Parallel (1930), covering the period from 1900 up to World War I; 1919 (1932), dealing with the war and the critical year of the Treaty of Versailles; and The Big Money (1936), which moves from the boom of the 1920s to the bust…
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054dde7927b13122e4d3ee5f96bb66c2 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Abominable-Dr-Phibes | The Abominable Dr. Phibes | The Abominable Dr. Phibes
…1970s, and such movies as The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) and Theatre of Blood (1973) remain fan favourites. Shortly thereafter Price cut back substantially on his acting to devote himself to his other passions in life: fine art and gourmet cooking. In 1951 he established the Vincent Price G... |
9400cc1a513417b67a5ce4d9fcd0e0fb | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Abominable-Snowman | The Abominable Snowman | The Abominable Snowman
The Abominable Snowman, also called The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas, British horror film, released in 1957, that was one of the first in a long series of movies produced by Hammer Films and starring Peter Cushing.
English botanist John Rollason (played by Cushing) is conducting research ... |
5a42ce6fe18afcacc02aad2673cea85d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Addams-Family-film-by-Sonnenfeld | The Addams Family | The Addams Family
…the drolly dolorous Morticia in The Addams Family (1991) and its sequel, Addams Family Values (1993), to Cuban immigrant Carmela Perez in The Perez Family (1995) to a Buffalo Bills-obsessed housewife in the dark indie Buffalo ’66 (1998). In 1996 she directed Bastard out of Carolina, a film that event... |
f645f20b82bc5bb9d7a0a5e933a560c8 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Adventures-of-Baron-Munchausen-film-by-Gilliam | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Gilliam’s next film, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), was plagued by so many budget problems and production setbacks that it inspired talk of a “Gilliam curse.” Nevertheless, it emerged as one of his most visually stunning works.
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278bd8ba10eda2e7f5ee2f4bd8922078 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Adventures-of-Robin-Hood | The Adventures of Robin Hood | The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Adventures of Robin Hood, American romantic adventure film, released in 1938, that is considered one of the great cinematic adventures and starred Errol Flynn in what became the defining role of his career.
The film tells the tale of Robin Hood, with Flynn as the legendary bandit tryin... |
c20d5587062f2cac861cb8f16bff8bb7 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Adventures-of-Sherlock-Holmes | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, American mystery-detective film, released in 1939, that was the second to feature the popular pairing of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as the classic Arthur Conan Doyle characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, respectively. It was ostensibly based... |
02003001d17f13c8e4841868d85ed204 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Age-of-Innocence | The Age of Innocence | The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence, novel by Edith Wharton, published in 1920. The work presents a picture of upper-class New York society in the late 19th century. The story is presented as a kind of anthropological study of this society through references to the families and their activities as tribal. Winner... |
38addade072d1338bbf75af877e5f942 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Americanization-of-Emily | The Americanization of Emily | The Americanization of Emily
The Americanization of Emily, American comedy-drama film, released in 1964, that was noted for Paddy Chayefsky’s biting script about the absurdities of war.
James Garner portrayed Charles Madison, a cowardly aide to an unstable admiral (played by Melvyn Douglas). Hoping to gain publicity f... |
7b7330879cd5c7561c94362f36bcf894 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Andy-Griffith-Show | The Andy Griffith Show | The Andy Griffith Show
The Andy Griffith Show, American television comedy series that aired on CBS from 1960 to 1968. During its entire run, the show rated no worse than seventh in the seasonal Nielsen ratings and held the number one spot when it ended.
The Andy Griffith Show takes place in the fictitious Mayberry, No... |
b7c0558f857def167f3388d9aea99cda | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Angriest-Man-in-Brooklyn | The Angriest Man in Brooklyn | The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
…terminal diagnosis in the comedy The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014). Boulevard (2014), in which he played a closeted gay man who befriends a male prostitute, was released after his death.
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54fc02b58dc102f88c07083aa5037f3b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Armies-of-the-Night | The Armies of the Night | The Armies of the Night
…or “fiction as history” in The Armies of the Night and Miami and the Siege of Chicago (both 1968) that Mailer discovered his true voice—grandiose yet personal, comic yet shrewdly intellectual. He refined this approach into a new objectivity in the Pulitzer Prize-winning “true life novel” The Ex... |
c749bb2ecd11de290ac853b244bb590e | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Arrival-of-the-Queen-of-Sheba | The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba | The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, sinfonia for two oboes and strings by George Frideric Handel that premiered in London on March 17, 1749, as the first scene of Act III in the oratorio Solomon. One of the last of Handel’s many oratorios, Solomon is rarely performed in its entirety, b... |
32af3f5bd23426708e843abf3118f43f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Art-of-Fiction-essay-by-James | The Art of Fiction | The Art of Fiction
The Art of Fiction, critical essay by Henry James, published in 1884 in Longman’s Magazine. It was written as a rebuttal to “Fiction as One of the Fine Arts,” a lecture given by Sir Walter Besant in 1884, and is a manifesto of literary realism that decries the popular demand for novels that are satu... |
e65a64e7981e662bf5d12591f272943b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Art-of-Fugue | The Art of Fugue | The Art of Fugue
The Art of Fugue, German Die Kunst der Fuge, also called The Art of the Fugue, formally The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080, monothematic cycle of approximately 20 fugues written in the key of D minor, perhaps for keyboard instrument, by Johann Sebastian Bach. The number and the order of the fugues remain cont... |
5c74a96b73d03314eb8d727be425a95f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Art-of-Grammar | The Art of Grammar | The Art of Grammar
…wrote an influential treatise called The Art of Grammar, in which he analyzed literary texts in terms of letters, syllables, and eight parts of speech.
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30c3220fcf89c1d4d31c8cf951ae34a1 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Art-of-Playing-on-the-Violin | The Art of Playing on the Violin | The Art of Playing on the Violin
His theoretical writings, particularly The Art of Playing on the Violin (1751), had considerable influence, and the latter work remains an important reference on the performance of late Baroque music.
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9f327c9aad10f1b3371fc910198d5ee8 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Art-of-Preserving-All-Kinds-of-Animal-and-Vegetable-Substances-For-Several-Years | The Art of Preserving All Kinds of Animal and Vegetable Substances For Several Years | The Art of Preserving All Kinds of Animal and Vegetable Substances For Several Years
…which appeared that year as L’Art de conserver, pendant plusieurs années, toutes les substances animales et végétales (The Art of Preserving All Kinds of Animal and Vegetable Substances for Several Years). He used the money to establi... |
0cdc38e74b582020478bdb21ee617273 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Art-of-Theatre | The Art of Theatre | The Art of Theatre
In his book The Art of the Theatre (1905) he outlined his concept of a “total theatre” in which the stage director alone would be responsible for harmonizing every aspect of the production—acting, music, colour, movement, design, makeup, and lighting—so that it might achieve its most unified effect. ... |
8f63ec8cb99f239ead3319ff8bb88f80 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Art-of-War-by-Sunzi | The Art of War | The Art of War
…the Chinese classic Bingfa (The Art of War), the earliest known treatise on war and military science.
…rules of guerrilla tactics in The Art of War, advocating deception and surprise. In the Napoleonic era the Prussian officer and scholar Carl von Clausewitz argued that the erosion of the enemy’s will t... |
6827b8f53bab6b8407ebba840d672900 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Art-Spirit | The Art Spirit | The Art Spirit
Henri’s book, The Art Spirit (1923), embodying his conception of art as an expression of love for life, continues to be popular among artists and art students.
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3d20e483226889006dd6c3cf860c1ad3 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Art-Work-of-the-Future | The Art Work of the Future | The Art Work of the Future
…Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft (The Art Work of the Future), Eine Mitteilung an meine Freunde (A Communication to My Friends), and Oper und Drama (Opera and Drama). The latter outlined a new, revolutionary type of musical stage work—the vast work, in fact, on which he was engaged. By 1852…
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1862c8a9c677b46ea3c13813f7df7162 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Artamonov-Business | The Artamonov Business | The Artamonov Business
In Delo Artamonovykh (1925; The Artamonov Business), one of his best novels, he showed his continued interest in the rise and fall of prerevolutionary Russian capitalism. From 1925 until the end of his life, Gorky worked on the novel Zhizn Klima Samgina (“The Life of Klim Samgin”). Though he…
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b046bad3c79aaff26d7c5ebd5fae4332 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Artful-Dodger | The Artful Dodger | The Artful Dodger
The Artful Dodger, byname of Jack Dawkins, fictional character in Charles Dickens’s novel Oliver Twist (1837–39). The Artful Dodger is a precocious streetwise boy who introduces the protagonist Oliver to the thief Fagin and his gang of children, who work as thieves and pickpockets.
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852589e315724c6b968eb5f7aba113c6 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Artists-Parents-and-Children | The Artist’s Parents and Children | The Artist’s Parents and Children
“The Artist’s Parents and Children” (1806; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg) reflects not only his constant search for truth but also his admiration for the early German masters, through whose work he was made aware of the expressive power of line and colour. His interest in the…
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53137fdf7cdf3253670bdc038471b607 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Artists-Sister-Mme-Pontilion-Seated-on-the-Grass | The Artist’s Sister, Mme Pontilion, Seated on the Grass | The Artist’s Sister, Mme Pontilion, Seated on the Grass
, The Artist’s Sister, Mme Pontillon, Seated on the Grass, 1873; and The Artist’s Sister Edma and Their Mother, 1870). Delicate and subtle, exquisite in colour—often with a subdued emerald glow—they won her the admiration of her Impressionist colleagues. Like that... |
83ddbc461a6a7d3c7b979350c53e23be | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Asiatics | The Asiatics | The Asiatics
Prokosch’s first novel, The Asiatics (1935), was the picaresque story of a young American who travels from Beirut, Lebanon, across vivid Asian landscapes to China, encountering a variety of distinctive individuals along the way; it won wide acclaim and was translated into 17 languages. His other novels of…... |
81a87ca7530e418361c04f1f646ad55d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Assemblies-of-al-Hariri | The Assemblies of al-Ḥarīrī | The Assemblies of al-Ḥarīrī
…Maqāmāt, published in English as The Assemblies of al-Harîrî (1867, 1898).
…al-Ḥarīrī of Basra (Iraq), whose Maqāmāt, closely imitating al-Hamadhānī’s, is regarded as a masterpiece of literary style and learning.
His 50 maqāmahs, which tell the adventures of Abū Zayd al-Sarūjī, with a wealt... |
079b851329086defe30561fc37ff5960 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Astronomical-Journal | The Astronomical Journal | The Astronomical Journal
In 1849 he founded The Astronomical Journal, which was modeled on the German journal Astronomische Nachrichten and was the first journal of professional astronomical research published in the United States. Publication lapsed in 1861 because of financial difficulties and the outbreak of the Civ... |
2e5c5ae62024eda4bdb1c21018f768e1 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Autobiography-Fukuzawa-Yukichi | The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi | The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi
Writing in his The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi (Eng. trans. 1934; numerous subsequent editions and reprintings) shortly before his death in 1901, Fukuzawa declared that the abolition of all feudal privileges by the Meiji government and Japan’s victory over China in the Sino-J... |
7eefb59177e5ba4907045c879a10b004 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Awful-Truth | The Awful Truth | The Awful Truth
The Awful Truth, American screwball comedy film, released in 1937, that is widely considered a classic of the genre.
In this adaptation of a play of the same name by Arthur Richman, Cary Grant and Irene Dunne portrayed Jerry and Lucy Warriner, a married couple who agree to a divorce when each mistakenl... |
1abfbcd22de2d77f7019676fe874fc03 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Badlanders | The Badlanders | The Badlanders
The Badlanders is a clever western remake of the urban noir classic The Asphalt Jungle (1950); Alan Ladd and Borgnine portrayed robbers who do not dare turn their backs on each other. In 1959 Daves returned to Warner Brothers, and that year he directed the…
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3fec425878e3e4bcb4cecf7d82022fbd | https://www.britannica.com/topic/the-Bangles | The Bangles | The Bangles
…bands as the Go-Go’s and the Bangles, and in the 1990s a new generation of vocal acts interpreted the style with added funkiness. Moreover, latter-day performers such as En Vogue, Janet Jackson, and the British act the Spice Girls (whose success sparked another explosion of girl groups, especially in Asia)... |
893f77cacf3cd78a54d037d33346ee9b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Barkleys-of-Broadway | The Barkleys of Broadway | The Barkleys of Broadway
…slated to return for Walters’s The Barkleys of Broadway (1949), about a husband-and-wife musical comedy team. However, an unstable Garland was forced to leave the project, which led to the reuniting of Astaire and Ginger Rogers, who had not performed together in a decade. Despite being a box-o... |
c4642b42247bb185159856a362b1fe7d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Bat-novel-by-Nesbo | Bat, The | Bat, The
The Bat), follows Hole, a recovering alcoholic, to Australia for a murder investigation. Nesbø’s second Hole novel, Kakerlakkene (1998; “Cockroaches”; The Cockroaches), takes the detective through the seamy underworld of Bangkok. Rødstrupe (2000; “Robin”; The Redbreast) details the role of fascism in Norway. I... |
e21d77189b2697d9142dbd9ecc37ad71 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Battle-Hymn-of-the-Republic | The Battle Hymn of the Republic | The Battle Hymn of the Republic
…best known for her “Battle Hymn of the Republic.”
…the tune for the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”:
In her Reminiscences (1899), Julia Ward Howe told the story of how she came to write “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Returning from a visit to an army camp near Washington in the compan... |
6686c5a18cb2f13c82b37d0d0dcab858 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Battle-of-Brunanburh | The Battle of Brunanburh | The Battle of Brunanburh
The Battle of Brunanburh, Brunanburh also spelled Brunnanburh, Old English poem of 73 lines included in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle under the year 937. It relates the victory of the Saxon king Athelstan over the allied Norse, Scots, and Strathclyde Briton invaders under the leadership of Olaf Gu... |
ae26370591b71b73f757bd7ff659bc53 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Beach | The Beach | The Beach
…his first big-budget Hollywood film, The Beach (2000), which featured a screenplay by Hodge based on Alex Garland’s popular novel about a seemingly utopian community on a remote Thai island. Despite starring Leonardo DiCaprio, it earned mixed reviews and failed to find an audience. In 2002 Boyle had a sleepe... |
0de89b15949c19a69f4f6b7bad030fb7 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Bear-and-the-Dragon | The Bear and the Dragon | The Bear and the Dragon
>The Bear and the Dragon (2000), The Teeth of the Tiger (2003), Dead or Alive (2010), and Command Authority (2013) are subsequent novels.
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9e983aa8d28b32d56b3e390061fac538 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Bear-by-Faulkner | The Bear | The Bear
The Bear, novelette by William Faulkner, early versions of which first appeared as “Lion” in Harper’s Magazine of December 1935 and as “The Bear” in The Saturday Evening Post in 1942 before it was published that same year as one of the seven chapters in the novel Go Down, Moses. Critical interpretations of th... |
999f31d11eb544e65ffa79952645954b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Beast-in-the-Jungle | The Beast in the Jungle | The Beast in the Jungle
The Beast in the Jungle, short story by Henry James that first appeared in The Better Sort (1903). Despite its slow pace, implausible dialogue, and excessively ornate style, it is a suspenseful story of despair, with powerful images of fire, ice, and hunting.
“The Beast in the Jungle” concerns ... |
b2fb0858fdf7cedd94ccb677ce04cc16 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Beggars-Opera-painting-by-Hogarth | The Beggar’s Opera | The Beggar’s Opera
…by his first dated painting, The Beggar’s Opera (1728), a scene from John Gay’s popular farce, which emphasized Hogarth’s prevailing interests: his involvement with the theatre and with down-to-earth, comic subjects. Closely attentive to realistic detail, he recorded the scene exactly as it appeared... |
79c2dd4b89038790069c9a565e394477 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Bellboy | The Bellboy | The Bellboy
…his own films, beginning with The Bellboy (1960). Many of his pictures employed the formula of loose strings of gags and routines centred on Lewis’s bungling character in a new job, such as the title character in The Bellboy, a Hollywood messenger in The Errand Boy (1961), and a handyman…
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2902d8a2e4ebfe80fa4cd7d390d5c4f5 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Berlin-Stories | The Berlin Stories | The Berlin Stories
The Berlin Stories, collection of two previously published novels written by Christopher Isherwood, published in 1946. Set in pre-World War II Germany, the semiautobiographical work consists of Mr. Norris Changes Trains (1935; U.S. title, The Last of Mr. Norris) and Goodbye to Berlin (1939).
Isherwo... |
7f3966119537b05a5cc3e750837e8dee | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Beverly-Hillbillies | The Beverly Hillbillies | The Beverly Hillbillies
The Beverly Hillbillies, American television show that was one of the most popular situation comedies of the 1960s. The Beverly Hillbillies debuted in 1962 on CBS and aired for nine seasons (1962–71), remaining at or near the top of the Nielsen ratings for its entire run.
As encapsulated in the... |
18e385d4dfe3c982ef85f1a1445230c8 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Big-Heat | The Big Heat | The Big Heat
The Big Heat, American crime film, released in 1953, that was called the “definitive film noir” by critic Pauline Kael. It is also regarded as one of the highlights of director Fritz Lang’s career.
Homicide detective Dave Bannion (played by Glenn Ford) is investigating the suicide of a fellow police offic... |
18baadbf627ea095222efed56fcc5264 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Big-Parade-film-by-Chen-Kaige | The Big Parade | The Big Parade
…next year by Dayuebing (The Big Parade), which depicts young soldiers training for a military parade in Beijing. Haizi wang (1987; King of the Children) is the story of a young teacher sent to a squalid rural school “to learn from the peasants.” Chen’s fourth film, Bienzou bienchang (1991;…
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75a6040bc9de6479a44a98386405866f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Big-Sick | The Big Sick | The Big Sick
…her performance in Michael Showalter’s The Big Sick (2017). Hunter then returned to television for the HBO series Here and Now (2018), a drama about a multiracial family, and in 2019 she had a recurring role in another HBO show, Succession, about a family that owns a global media empire.…
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1aff2467212bdcea2e3a0e844672dd80 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Big-Trail | The Big Trail | The Big Trail
One of 1930’s biggest hits, The Big Trail was a western epic with young John Wayne in his first starring role as the head of a wagon train on the Oregon Trail and was filmed in an early widescreen process. Women of All Nations (1931) was yet another go-round with…
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a41e012f70f8cb04724172c7331e1e38 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Bill-Cosby-Show | The Bill Cosby Show | The Bill Cosby Show
The Bill Cosby Show (1969–71), Julia (1968–71), and The Flip Wilson Show (1970–74) were among the first programs to feature African Americans in starring roles since the stereotyped presentations of Amos ’n’ Andy and Beulah (ABC, 1950–53). Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In was
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efb264a7aaf0fafbc1a9092853ac249f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Bionic-Woman | The Bionic Woman | The Bionic Woman
The Bionic Woman, American television show, a spin-off of science-fiction thriller The Six Million Dollar Man, about a bionically enhanced secret agent. The show aired for three seasons, first from 1976 to 1977 on ABC and then from 1977 to 1978 on NBC.
The show’s eponymous character, Jamie Sommers (pl... |
fd93ef556d34ec9d55afb6810c268201 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Birth-of-Tragedy | The Birth of Tragedy | The Birth of Tragedy
The Birth of Tragedy, in full The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music, book by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1872 as Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik. A speculative rather than exegetical work, The Birth of Tragedy examines the origins and develop... |
7b12e29ae5f4dad3530000e6c2b6e91a | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Birthday-Party-play-by-Pinter | The Birthday Party | The Birthday Party
The Birthday Party, drama in three acts by Harold Pinter, produced in 1958 and published in 1959. Pinter’s first full-length play established his trademark “comedy of menace,” in which a character is suddenly threatened by the vague horrors at large in the outside world. The action takes place entir... |
ccb064a590998cf4324f140103dbe535 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Blank-Slate-The-Modern-Denial-of-Human-Nature | The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature | The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
…evolutionary approach to cognition in The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (2002), also a Pulitzer Prize finalist. The book dismisses tabula rasa notions of human mental development, citing a large body of research indicative of the determinist role play... |
93910e1d391258db26bce829b727cfb8 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Blind-Side | The Blind Side | The Blind Side
…mother in the sports drama The Blind Side; she won numerous accolades for her performance, including an Academy Award for best actress. Another maternal role followed in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), a film about a boy coping with the death of his father in the September 11 attacks.…
…includ... |
5e23161846a82c1c7e2ecb09afa9795f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Blue-Stockings | The Blue-Stockings | The Blue-Stockings
The Blue-Stockings, comedy in five acts by Molière, produced and published in 1672 as Les Femmes savantes. The play is sometimes translated as The Learned Ladies.
Molière ridiculed the intellectual pretensions of the French bourgeoisie in this subtle, biting satire of dilettantes. The central charac... |
bb9c56faa1079d2d02cec9434d6e9c49 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Blueprint-3 | The Blueprint 3 | The Blueprint 3
The following year he released The Blueprint 3, which bore the sound of some of his most frequent producers, including West and Timbaland. The album generated such hits as “Empire State of Mind,” a musical love letter to New York City adorned with soaring guest vocals by Alicia Keys, and…
…on the rapper... |
b81fc4252975734527eb675920e77fb1 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Book-of-Genesis-Illustrated-by-R-Crumb | The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb | The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
In October 2009 Crumb released The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb. The work, begun in 2004, was originally intended as a parody of the first book of the Bible. However, as Crumb delved deeper into the source material, he decided to adhere to the literal text to creat... |
e91608b626b8a8858e386c187dbadbf7 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Book-of-Lamentations | The Book of Lamentations | The Book of Lamentations
…novel, Oficio de tinieblas (1962; The Book of Lamentations), re-creates an Indian rebellion that occurred in the city of San Cristóbal de las Casas in the 19th century, but Castellanos sets it in the 1930s, when her own family suffered from the reforms brought about by Lázaro Cárdenas del Rio…... |
c3207f8b23323cc79ed2a7b1614febfd | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Book-of-the-Dean-of-Lismore | The Book of the Dean of Lismore | The Book of the Dean of Lismore
The Book of the Dean of Lismore, miscellany of Scottish and Irish poetry, the oldest collection of Gaelic poetry extant in Scotland. It was compiled between 1512 and 1526, chiefly by Sir James MacGregor, the dean of Lismore (now in Argyll and Bute council area), and his brother Duncan.
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ff0b3ec2887c22cc321815658ffaf83b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Book-of-Thoth | The Book of Thoth | The Book of Thoth
…achievement was the publication of The Book of Thoth (1944), in which he interpreted a new tarot card deck, called the Thoth, that he had designed in collaboration with the artist Frieda Harris.
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598a8ef68d057ccae1d2ce13500b41da | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Book-on-Games-of-Chance | The Book on Games of Chance | The Book on Games of Chance
…Liber de ludo aleae (The Book on Games of Chance) presents the first systematic computations of probabilities, a century before Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat. Cardano’s popular fame was based largely on books dealing with scientific and philosophical questions, especially De subtilitat... |
1a1e3628a7ad3ae734be88cf1a361c0b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Borrowers-fictional-characters | The Borrowers | The Borrowers
The Borrowers, a race of tiny people in the Borrowers series of novels for children by British author Mary Norton. Secretive and resourceful, the Borrowers live concealed in the houses of full-sized human beings, subsisting on bits of food and cleverly using odds and ends that they “borrow” and fashion i... |
4b85ef22d3d709014622755882685210 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/the-Box-Tops | The Box Tops | The Box Tops
Louis, Missouri; the Box Tops, from Memphis, Tennessee; and Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, from Detroit, Michigan. Other performers who were regarded as blue-eyed soul singers included Laura Nyro in the 1960s, Robert Palmer and the Average White Band in the 1970s, and in the 21st…
…the teenage lead si... |
d2e95e0b28b7b57c4554fb5ab740b566 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Boxtrolls | The Boxtrolls | The Boxtrolls
…Happiness, and the animated romp The Boxtrolls. Colette then starred as the cancer-stricken best friend of Drew Barrymore’s character in the sentimental drama Miss You Already (2015) and as the mother of a family threatened by a demon during the holidays in the horror comedy Krampus (2015). She appeared ... |
b7112eb1bc7aa30a26faf99d8d3fcecf | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Boys-Who-Stole-the-Funeral | The Boys Who Stole the Funeral | The Boys Who Stole the Funeral
The Boys Who Stole the Funeral (1979) is a sequence of 140 sonnets about a pair of boys who surreptitiously remove a man’s body from a Sydney funeral home for burial in his native Outback. Murray’s poetry collections Dog Fox Field (1990), The Rabbiter’s Bounty…
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2f4658e3613629fa8efec4d367ee5b56 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Bread-of-Time-Toward-an-Autobiography | The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography | The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography
…look that he achieved in The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography (1994, reissued 2001), a series of autobiographical essays that one critic called both elegant and tough-minded. Among his later books of poetry are the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection The Simple Truth (199... |
924dfb1fbfc0d6312d81a57587549cc2 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Bridge-at-Remagen | The Bridge at Remagen | The Bridge at Remagen
The Bridge at Remagen, American war film, released in 1969, that earned acclaim for its gripping battle sequences and fine cast.
Based on actual events, the film is set in the waning days of World War II as U.S. forces race to capture a strategic bridge at Remagen, Germany. Although German Maj. P... |
91593c8bf4fa3d7cb15b8c7bcaeef27d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Bridges-at-Toko-Ri | The Bridges at Toko-Ri | The Bridges at Toko-Ri
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954), from a Michener novel, was a popular Korean War tale starring William Holden as a navy bomber pilot recalled to active duty, much to the dismay of his wife (played by Grace Kelly). Robson next made A Prize of Gold…
…in the Korean War drama The Bridges at Toko-Ri (19... |
7711266cec582c288711c1a25828d47a | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Brill-Building-Assembly-Line-Pop-1688332 | The Brill Building: Assembly-Line Pop | The Brill Building: Assembly-Line Pop
Located at 1619 Broadway in New York City, the Brill Building was the hub of professionally written rock and roll. As the 1960s equivalent of Tin Pan Alley, it reemphasized a specialized division of labour in which professional songwriters worked closely with producers and artists-... |
757534e5698e81281ca42bfef687c1be | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Brook-Kerith | The Brook Kerith | The Brook Kerith
…at epic effect he produced The Brook Kerith (1916), an elaborate and stylish retelling of the Gospel story that is surprisingly effective despite some dull patches. He continued his attempts to find a prose style worthy of epic theme in Héloïse and Abélard (1921). His other works included A Story-Tell... |
f4a63ef520ccdb5baefa1254259d5a36 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Burnt-Orange-Heresy | The Burnt Orange Heresy | The Burnt Orange Heresy
His later films included The Burnt Orange Heresy (2019), about an art heist, and the horror thriller Alone (2020).
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ff49102b19e7408ae7def4c0e0fc06c3 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Cairo-Trilogy | The Cairo Trilogy | The Cairo Trilogy
…Al-Thulāthiyyah (1956–57; “Trilogy”), known as The Cairo Trilogy. Its three novels—Bayn al-qaṣrayn (1956; Palace Walk), Qaṣr al-shawq (1957; Palace of Desire), and Al-Sukkariyyah (1957; Sugar Street)—depict the lives of three generations of different families in Cairo from World War I until after the... |
58a5d5b19b68168341eea3d829c5a045 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Call-of-the-Wild-motion-picture | The Call of the Wild | The Call of the Wild
…films from the mid-1930s were The Call of the Wild (1935), a major box-office success that starred Gable as the Yukon-conquering hero of Jack London’s novel of the same name; The President Vanishes (1934), a cautionary political tale that is memorable chiefly for providing one of Rosalind Russell’... |
b8fcd57f87be1727b76177e5185bb4a7 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Case-Is-Altered | The Case Is Altered | The Case Is Altered
…two dramatic novels about London, The Case Is Altered (1932) and The Invaders (1934). Additional publications included a semifictional memoir, Museum Pieces (1952), and three volumes of family and personal memoirs, Double Lives (1943), At Home (1958), and Autobiography of William Plomer (1975). Bet... |
a10accec400a62d3c6672765f3c60a4d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Case-of-the-Episcopal-Churches-in-the-United-States-Considered | The Case of the Episcopal Churches in the United States Considered | The Case of the Episcopal Churches in the United States Considered
In his pamphlet of 1782, The Case of the Episcopal Churches in the United States Considered, White noted that, before the Revolution, Americans went to England for ordination, and he suggested that if the American church could not obtain bishops from En... |
ecd7df7d35d24fd6762bef2232f4b281 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Castle-play-by-Klima | The Castle | The Castle
Zámek (1964; The Castle) depicts elitist intellectuals in a castle who murder their visitors; it was considered a parable on communist morality. Porota (1969; The Jury) portrays a dilemma of responsibility versus despotism; it was the last of his plays to be freely performed in Czechoslovakia. Klíma’s…
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d30c19d44ba20f35eed11ab520a797d3 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Cavern-1688336 | The Cavern | The Cavern
In the early 1960s Liverpool, England, was unique among British cities in having more than 200 active pop groups. Many played youth clubs in the suburbs, but some made the big time in cellar clubs such as the Cavern (on Mathew Street) and the Jacaranda and the Blue Angel (on opposite sides of Steel Street) i... |
499ff68bfa6c0b0e318b7670398a8eb9 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Cenci | The Cenci | The Cenci
The Cenci, verse tragedy in five acts by Percy Bysshe Shelley, published in London in 1819 and first staged privately by the Shelley Society in 1886. Modeled after Shakespearean tragedy, it is noted for its powerful characters, evocative language, and moral ambiguities. It is based on an incident in Renaissa... |
bb5787521c84430ca55a3e10790d8d9a | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Charterhouse | The Charterhouse | The Charterhouse
The Charterhouse, one of his few topographical views, dates from the same year as Cornard Wood and in the subtle effect of light on various surfaces proclaims Dutch influence. In the background to Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, he anticipates the realism of the great English landscapist…
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3e9d8b40db83d66de92ee83cf0db8f7d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Children-of-Men | The Children of Men | The Children of Men
…beyond the mystery genre in The Children of Men (1992; film 2006), which explores a dystopian world in which the human race has become infertile. Her final work, Death Comes to Pemberley (2011)—a sequel to Pride and Prejudice (1813)—amplifies the class and relationship tensions between Jane Austen’... |
d9fabd2789749e2c612d7d299e87b662 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Chinese-Wall | The Chinese Wall | The Chinese Wall
…included Die chinesische Mauer (1947; The Chinese Wall) and the bleak Als der Krieg zu Ende war (1949; When the War Was Over). Reality and dream are used to depict the terrorist fantasies of a responsible government prosecutor in Graf Öderland (1951; Count Oederland), while Don Juan oder die Liebe…
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a743324b71e5f8e8ea78934f0024ba97 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Christmas-Song | The Christmas Song | The Christmas Song
His most familiar, “The Christmas Song”—cowritten with Robert Wells and better known by its opening line, “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire”—was made famous by Nat King Cole in 1946 and subsequently recorded in more than 1,700 versions.
…section) in 1946 for “The Christmas Song,” a holiday standard... |
5b50ed1bdefcb4b914beaa8175aefe1e | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Chronic | The Chronic | The Chronic
…and on his landmark album The Chronic (both 1992). Snoop’s prominent vocals on the hit singles “Dre Day” and “Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ Thang” fueled a rapid ascent to stardom. His own album Doggystyle (1993) became the first debut record to enter the Billboard 200 chart at number one.
That year his solo debut, Th... |
0ed5d722335bb2fb6c9852936cf830ed | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Citadel-college-South-Carolina | The Citadel | The Citadel
The Citadel, in full The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, public military college located in Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. All undergraduate daytime students, known as cadets, are required to participate in one of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps programs. The college offers bachelor... |
74dfd845b2583c63ef33e61017047e72 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Club-British-intellectual-group | The Club | The Club
…he was elected to the Club, the brilliant circle that the painter Sir Joshua Reynolds had formed round the writer and lexicographer Dr. Samuel Johnson. Although Johnson’s biographer, James Boswell, openly detested Gibbon, and it may be inferred that Johnson disliked him, Gibbon took an active part in the Club... |
0b253c146b6e29f37ce042a9a06011ef | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-College-Board | The College Board | The College Board
The College Board, originally College Entrance Examination Board, not-for-profit association of over 6,000 universities, colleges, schools, and other educational institutions, best known for its college entrance examination, the SAT (formerly called the Scholastic Assessment Test and, before that, th... |
6160cb618b71961a1548c21fc5e7d50b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Command-of-the-Air | The Command of the Air | The Command of the Air
…is Il dominio dell’aria (1921; The Command of the Air, 1942). He challenged the violent opposition it aroused until strategic air power became an accepted part of military thinking. Although technological developments have made some of his ideas obsolete, his theory of the important role of stra... |
e30a2c05c43fb155d722fa8eb5c5687e | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Concert-painting-by-Titian | The Concert | The Concert
On the other hand, The Concert has been one of the most debated portraits, because since the 17th century it was thought to be most typical of Giorgione. The pronounced psychological content as well as the notable clarity of modelling in the central figure led 20th-century critics to favour…
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f4638701e0868bef9a9b90afb10c580b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Cosby-Show | The Cosby Show | The Cosby Show
The Cosby Show, American television situation comedy that ranked as the most popular family comedy (i.e., about family issues and aimed at a family audience) of the 1980s. As the keystone of Thursday-night television for eight seasons (1984–92) on NBC, the show was credited with reviving the sitcom genr... |
a221f4f17932f16ee69d3344cb1ddd5a | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Cotillion-or-One-Good-Bull-Iis-Half-the-Herd | The Cotillion; or, One Good Bull Iis Half the Herd | The Cotillion; or, One Good Bull Iis Half the Herd
…and wrote his fourth novel, The Cotillion; or, One Good Bull Is Half the Herd (1971), which, from his strong black nationalist perspective, examined class division among African Americans in two communities in New York. The novel, though it received mixed reviews, ea... |
015f138cda9d49261f7742857aa15d53 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Crisis-in-the-German-Social-Democracy | The Crisis in the German Social-Democracy | The Crisis in the German Social-Democracy
…Die Krise der Sozialdemokratie [The Crisis in the German Social-Democracy]), she is known for her book Die Akkumulation des Kapitals (1913; The Accumulation of Capital). In this work she returned to Marx’s economic analysis of capitalism, in particular the accumulation of capi... |
d96b2965197b1f5b51a3eb88a9c1dcdd | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Crossing-of-Antarctica | The Crossing of Antarctica | The Crossing of Antarctica
…and recorded this feat in The Crossing of Antarctica (1958; with Fuchs) and No Latitude for Error (1961). On his expedition of Antarctica in 1967, he was among those who scaled Mount Herschel (10,941 feet [3,335 metres]) for the first time. In 1977 he led the first jet boat expedition…
…expl... |
934c18e71a40f7fdf1ff2b6120e6160b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Cunning-Man-opera-by-Rousseau | The Cunning-Man | The Cunning-Man
…and one of his operas, Le Devin du village (1752; “The Village Soothsayer”), attracted so much admiration from the king (Louis XV) and the court that he might have enjoyed an easy life as a fashionable composer, but something in his Calvinist blood rejected that type of worldly glory. Indeed,…
…France,... |
3b4a0c92a295f23918531fd529e61dc5 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Damnation-of-Theron-Ware | The Damnation of Theron Ware | The Damnation of Theron Ware
…his New York State novels, The Damnation of Theron Ware (1896; English title Illumination), the story of the decline and fall of a Methodist minister, brought him his greatest fame. Three other novels, March Hares (1896), Gloria Mundi (1898), and The Market Place (1899), are about English ... |
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