Search results for "z"
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:John Albert Torres [Torres, John Albert]

Chapter 5 Romance Jay-Z would regularly appear on pop star’s tracks and records. The reason this was done was to appeal to a wider audience. Rap music fans would like ...
( Category: Biographies March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Samy Swayd

– J – JABAL AL-A‘LA. Mountainous region in northwestern Syria, also known as Jabal al-Sumaq. It has been populated by small communities of Druzes since the beginning of the Druze ...
( Category: Middle East March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2004-11-08 | Author:Janice Weaver [Weaver, Janice]

N Numbers The fear of the number thirteen is so widespread that we have coined a special term — triskaidekaphobia — to describe it. People the world over refuse to ...
( Category: Education & Reference March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-14 | Author:Scott J. Miller

– N – NAGAI KAFÛ (1879–1959). Nagai Kafû, given name Sôkichi, was the half-brother of Takami Jun. He attended a foreign-language college studying Chinese but dropped out to pursue the ...
( Category: Asian March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-14 | Author:Albert Moran & Chris Keating

– N – NARROWCASTING. This is the process of identifying or selecting a specific portion of the overall broadcasting audience—valuable from an advertising point of view—and designing programming especially to ...
( Category: Performing Arts March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-14 | Author:Martin Folly & Niall Palmer

– L – LA FOLLETTE, ROBERT M. (1855–1925). Politician Robert M. La Follette, who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1885–91), governor of Wisconsin (1901–6), and ...
( Category: Americas March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-14 | Author:Ooi Keat Gin

– L – LABUAN. Strategically commanding Brunei Bay, the 92-square-kilometer island of Labuan has a population of 83,500 (2005 est.). Its annexation in 1847 by the British was intended to ...
( Category: Asia March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2003-03-14 | Author:Paul D. Buell

— D — DA ZONGZHENG FU . “Imperial Office of Clan Affairs.“ Although theoretically a relatively minor office for settling disputes between members of the imperial clan, this agency was ...
( Category: Asia March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-14 | Author:Alberto Mira

– M – MAR ADENTRO / THE SEA INSIDE (2004). Alejandro Amenábar’s follow-up to his extraordinary box-office hit The Others showed a definite change of direction, shifting from fantasy plots ...
( Category: Performing Arts March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-14 | Author:Stuart D. B. Picken

– M – MACHINE TOOL INDUSTRY. Among Japan’s 2,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (chu-sho kigyo), the machine tool industry ranks fourth in the world production of machine tools behind the ...
( Category: Education & Reference March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-14 | Author:Mark Gilbert & K. Robert Nilsson

LEONE, GIOVANNI (1908–2001). Born in Naples, Giovanni Leone was a convinced Fascist who fought bravely in World War II and campaigned on behalf of the monarchy during the 1946 referendum. ...
( Category: Europe March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-14 | Author:Stanislav J. Kirschbaum

- CH - CHALUPKA, JÁN (1791–1871). Playwright and brother of Samo Chalupka, he studied at the University of Jena. He is best known for writing satirical plays in which he ...
( Category: Europe March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-14 | Author:Dabney Townsend

– J – JAPANESE AESTHETICS. See CHINESE AND JAPANESE AESTHETICS. JE NE SAIS QUOI. Je ne sais quoi literally means “I know not what.” It came to be used in ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2004-03-14 | Author:Duncan Richter

-M- MALCOLM, NORMAN ADRIAN (1911-1990). A friend and student of Wittgenstein’s who became a well-known philosopher in his own right, working mostly on the philosophy of mind and epistemology. Malcolm ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-14 | Author:Ming K. Chan & Shiu-hing Lo

– P – PATTEN, CHRISTOPHER (1944– ). Christopher Patten was the last British governor of Hong Kong, serving from July 1992 though June 1997. As governor, Patten used democratization reform ...
( Category: Asia March 24,2020 )