Rachel Weisz: …films include the crime comedy Beautiful Creatures (2000), the war picture Enemy at the Gates (2001), About a Boy (2002; based on a novel by Nick Hornby), and the suspense film Runaway Jury (2003). In The Constant Gardener, which was based on a novel by John le Carré, Weisz’s character…

Fred Rogers: … (2018) and the feature film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), starring Tom Hanks.

Stephen Foster: …Light Brown Hair,” and “Beautiful Dreamer.”

Twiggy: …an award-winning debut single, “Beautiful Dreams,” in 1967. Formally retiring from modeling in 1970 to pursue a film career, she was featured in the romantic musical The Boy Friend (1971), for which she won two Golden Globe awards. In 1975 she published a best-selling autobiography, Twiggy, and was featured…

Max Bruch: …orchestra—such as Schön Ellen (1867; Beautiful Ellen) and Odysseus (1872). These were favourites with German choral societies during the late 19th century. These works failed to remain in the concert repertoire, possibly because, despite his sound workmanship and effective choral writing, he lacked the depth of conception and originality needed…

Zulfikar Ghose: Brazilian—comprising The Native (1972), The Beautiful Empire (1975), and A Different World (1978)—presents the picaresque adventures, often violent or sexually perverse, of a man who goes through several reincarnations. Ghose’s other novels include Crump’s Terms (1975), Hulme’s Investigations into the Bogart Script (1981), A New History of Torments

Ben Elton: Published novels and other works: …Andrew Lloyd Webber, he wrote The Beautiful Game (2000) about a football (soccer) team in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, and Love Never Dies (2010), a sequel to The Phantom of the Opera. He also wrote the popular jukebox musical We Will Rock You (2002) in collaboration with and inspired…

Timothy Hutton: …Fitzgerald; Ted Demme’s romantic comedy Beautiful Girls (1996); and the thriller Playing God (1997), in which he took the part of the villain. Hutton also appeared in John Sayles’s Sunshine State (2002). His later films included All the Money in the World (2017), Beautiful Boy (2018), and The

theatre music: Offenbach: …and La Belle Hélène (1864; Beautiful Helen). The character of Offenbach’s operettas established several musical precedents, including the burlesque of Italian opera, the romantic ballad in 38 or 68 metre, and the drinking song and the ensemble de perplexité (“ensemble of confusion”). In England, Arthur Sullivan followed in Offenbach’s wake…

aesthetics: Post-Hegelian aesthetics: … in his Vom musikalisch-Schönen (1854; On the Beautiful in Music). With this work modern musical aesthetics was born, and all the assumptions made by Batteux and Hegel concerning the unity (or unity in diversity) of the arts were thrown in doubt.

Indonesia: Cultural institutions: The Beautiful Indonesia in Miniature Park (Taman Mini Indonesia Indah; “Taman Mini”), in Jakarta, is a “living museum” that highlights the current diversity of Indonesia’s peoples and lifestyles. The park contains furnished and decorated replicas of houses of various ethnic groups in Indonesia; each of these…

Jared Leto: 30 Seconds to Mars: …vanity project, its second album, A Beautiful Lie (2005), reached platinum status. Thereafter the ensemble toured frequently, playing to large and enthusiastic crowds, and its subsequent albums (This Is War [2009]), Love Lust Faith + Dreams [2013], and America [2018]) cemented Leto’s status as a rock star and made 30…

Canadian literature: Fiction: Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers (1966) probes the relationship between sainthood, violence, eroticism, and artistic creativity. Mavis Gallant’s stories depict isolated characters whose fragile worlds of illusion are shattered (The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant, 1996). In her collection of stories Across the Bridge (1993), she probes the…

Oscar Hijuelos: In Beautiful María of My Soul; or, The True Story of María García y Cifuentes, the Lady Behind a Famous Song (2010), Hijuelos returned to the story of Maria, the muse of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, in order to examine the meaning of…

A Beautiful Mind, American biographical film, released in 2001, that told the story of American Nobel Prize winner John Nash, whose innovative work on game theory in mathematics was in many ways overshadowed by decades of mental illness. Parts of the film, which is set largely on the campus of

Neil Diamond: …the 1970s, including Serenade (1974), Beautiful Noise (1976), Love at the Greek (1977), You Don’t Bring Me Flowers (1978; featuring a duet with Barbra Streisand on the title track), and September Morn (1979).

Edmund White: Fictional works and plays: …Boy’s Own Story (1982) and The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988). The Married Man (2000) draws upon White’s own romantic experience in its tale of an older HIV-positive furniture expert and his love affair with a younger man who ultimately dies of AIDS. Fanny: A Fiction (2003) is a historical…

Ta-Nehisi Coates: Books: …his first book, the memoir The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood. The critically acclaimed work was followed by Between the World and Me (2015), which became a bestseller. It was written in the form of a letter from Coates to his teenage son…

Pink: …to her solo career with Beautiful Trauma (2017), featuring the hit song “What About Us.” Her tour in support of that album was chronicled in the documentary P!nk: All I Know So Far (2021); an accompanying soundtrack was also released. Hurts 2B Human, her eighth studio album, appeared in 2019.

Elizabeth Jane Howard: Her first novel, The Beautiful Visit (1950), won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. It was followed by The Long View (1956), The Sea Change (1959), After Julius (1965), and Something in Disguise (1969). The last two were later adapted as television plays for which Howard wrote the scripts.…

Sally Rooney: Other works: Her novel Beautiful World, Where Are You, published in 2021, follows four protagonists whose lives grow intertwined. Interspersed throughout the narrative are email exchanges between characters, who share both mundane gossip and major existential questions. In 2024 Rooney published Intermezzo, which focuses on two brothers with very…

Carole King: Two years later, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, a look at her career as a singer-songwriter, began a lengthy run on Broadway, and it opened in London’s West End in 2015. King performed all the songs, in order, from her album Tapestry in London’s Hyde Park in 2016,…

aesthetics: The nature and scope of aesthetics: …in the language of the beautiful and the ugly. A problem is encountered at the outset, however, for terms such as beautiful and ugly seem too vague in their application and too subjective in their meaning to divide the world successfully into those things that do, and those that do…

Céline Dion: Superstardom and My Heart Will Go On: …(1991), from the Disney animated feature of the same name. Before long, Dion’s evident vocal talent and emotionally driven songs had made her a worldwide phenomenon, even as some critics dismissed her music as schmaltzy and overly polished. With The Colour of My Love (1993), she scored another hit single…

Céline Dion: Superstardom and My Heart Will Go On: …with Peabo Bryson on “Beauty and the Beast” (1991), from the Disney animated feature of the same name. Before long, Dion’s evident vocal talent and emotionally driven songs had made her a worldwide phenomenon, even as some critics dismissed her music as schmaltzy and overly polished. With The Colour…

Jean Cocteau: Filmmaking in the 1940s: …also as a director in La Belle et la bête, a fantasy based on the children’s tale, and Orphée (1949), a re-creation of the themes of poetry and death that he had dealt with in his play.

Léa Seydoux: Later roles: …year she played Belle in La Belle et la bête (Beauty and the Beast) and Loulou de la Falaise, the muse of fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, in the biopic Saint Laurent. She appeared as the psychologist Madeleine Swann, the latest love interest of James Bond (or “Bond girl”), in…

Disney Company: Continuing expansion: ABC, Pixar, Marvel Entertainment, and Lucasfilm: …in Wonderland (2010), Cinderella (2015), Beauty and the Beast (2017), Aladdin (2019), Mulan (2020), Cruella (2021), and Peter Pan & Wendy (2023).

the Go-Go’s: Mainstream success: …and released their first album, Beauty and the Beat (1981). The record—whose iconic cover art featured a washed-out image of the quintet wrapped in towels and wearing white face-creamed masks—peaked at number one on the Billboard album chart. It remains the only such record by an all-female band who wrote…

The Weeknd: Breakthrough and albums: …My Face,” were featured on Beauty Behind the Madness (2015). In 2016 The Weeknd won Canada’s Juno Award for artist of the year for the second consecutive year, as well as four other Junos, including album of the year. He also won Grammy Awards for best R&B performance for “Earned…

beauty bush, (Kolkwitzia amabilis), ornamental flowering shrub of the Linnaea clade in the family Caprifoliaceae, native to central China. It is the only member of its genus. The beauty bush has deciduous oval leaves and can reach a maximum height of about 3 m (10 feet). Its paired bell-like

Ornette Coleman: …simultaneously improvising jazz quartets, and Beauty Is a Rare Thing (1961), in which he successfully experimented with free metres and tempos, also proved influential.

Alexandrian laurel, (Calophyllum inophyllum), evergreen plant (family Calophyllaceae) cultivated as an ornamental throughout tropical areas. Alexandrian laurel ranges from East Africa to Australia and is often cultivated near the ocean; it is resistant to salt spray and has a leaning habit. Dilo, a

Beauty Looking Back, ink and colour painting on silk created in 1690 by Japanese printmaker Hishikawa Moronobu, the first great master of ukiyo-e, a style of Japanese print and painting developed during the Tokugawa period. Ukiyo-e was a popular pictorial expression of the world of the Kabuki

third wave of feminism: Foundations: …her first book, the best-selling The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women. In 1991 Susan Faludi published Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, also a significant bestseller.

Anne Carson: Poetry: …beauty, desire, and marriage in The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos (2001). For the work, Carson became the first woman to win the T.S. Eliot Prize. Decreation (2005), composed of poetry, essays, and opera, reflects on jealousy. The middle section of the opera libretto, called…

cosmetic, any of several preparations (excluding soap) that are applied to the human body for beautifying, preserving, or altering the appearance or for cleansing, colouring, conditioning, or protecting the skin, hair, nails, lips, eyes, or teeth. See also makeup; perfume. The earliest cosmetics

quark: Binding forces and massive quarks: …the “charm” (c) and “bottom” (b) quarks and their associated antiquarks, achieved through the creation of mesons, strongly suggests that quarks occur in pairs. This speculation led to efforts to find a sixth type of quark called “top” (t), after its proposed flavour. According to theory, the top quark…

Kevin Bacon: Breakthrough in Footloose and later film career: …a haughty hair stylist in Beauty Shop (2005). His portrayal of a Marine officer who escorts the body of Marine killed in Iraq to his home in Wyoming in Taking Chance (2009) earned Bacon a Screen Actors Guild Award for outstanding performance by a male actor in a television movie…

four-o’clock, (Mirabilis jalapa) ornamental perennial plant, of the family Nyctaginaceae, native to tropical America. Four-o’clock is a quick-growing species up to one metre (three feet) tall, with oval leaves on short leafstalks. The stems are swollen at the joints. The plant is called

Ayi Kwei Armah: In his first novel, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968), Armah showed his deep concern for greed and political corruption in a newly independent African nation. In his second novel, Fragments (1970), a young Ghanaian returns home after living in the United States and is disillusioned by…

Beauvais, town, capital of Oise département, Hauts-de-France région, northern France, at the juncture of the Thérain and Avelon rivers, north of Paris. Capital of the Bellovaci tribe, it was first called Caesaromagus, after its capture by Julius Caesar in 52 bce, and later Civitas de Bellovacis. In

Beauvais: The cathedral of Saint-Pierre was ambitiously conceived as the largest in Europe; the apse and transept have survived several collapses, and the choir (157 feet [48 metres]) remains the loftiest ever built. The whole dates from the 10th to the 16th century, with the Romanesque church…

Beauvais tapestry, any product of the tapestry factory established in 1664 in Beauvais, Fr., by two Flemish weavers, Louis Hinart and Philippe Behagle. Although it was under the patronage of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the finance minister to Louis XIV, and was subsidized by the state, the Beauvais

Antoine Le Pautre: …in 1654 to design the Hôtel de Beauvais on the rue François Miron in Paris. This is considered his masterwork because of his ingenious treatment of the irregular building site, in which no side of the building is parallel to any other.

restaurant: The owner, Antoine Beauvilliers, a leading culinary writer and gastronomic authority, later wrote L’Art du cuisinier (1814), a cookbook that became a standard work on French culinary art. Beauvilliers achieved a reputation as an accomplished restaurateur and host, and the French aphorist and gastronomic chronicler Jean-Athelme Brillat-Savarin,…

Biloxi: Beauvoir, the home of former Confederate president Jefferson Davis for the last 12 years of his life, is 5 miles (8 km) west; it was heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The hurricane also destroyed both the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art and its new…

Simone de Beauvoir was a French writer and feminist, a member of the intellectual fellowship of philosopher-writers who have given a literary transcription to the themes of existentialism. She is known primarily for her treatise Le Deuxième Sexe, 2 vol. (1949; The Second Sex), a scholarly and

Jim Morrison: Forming the Doors: …his poetry at the local Beaux Arts coffeehouse. He subsequently transferred to Florida State University and then to the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied film. There he met Ray Manzarek, who played the organ in the rock group that the two formed in 1965 with guitarist Robby…

aesthetics: Major concerns of 18th-century aesthetics: …Batteux in a book entitled Les Beaux Arts réduits à un même principe (1746; “The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle”). This diffuse and ill-argued work contains the first modern attempt to give a systematic theory of art and aesthetic judgment that will show the unity of the phenomena…

Valenciennes: …University of Valenciennes and the Museum of Fine Arts, which displays works by such masters as Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony Van Dyck, as well as notable local painters, including Antoine Watteau and Henri Harpignies. Pop. (1999) 41,278; (2014 est.) 43,787.

Dijon: … (town hall) and contains the Musée des Beaux Arts. The magnificent tombs of Philip the Bold (1342–1404) and John the Fearless (1371–1419), dukes of Burgundy, are found there. A psychiatric hospital now stands on the site of the Chartreuse de Champmol, a Carthusian monastery founded by Philip the Bold in…

children’s literature: Overview: …1937, in their introduction to Beaux livres, belles histoires, the compilers Marguerite Gruny and Mathilde Leriche wrote: “Children’s literature in France is still poor, despite the earnest efforts of the last decade.”

The Beaux’ Stratagem, five-act comedy by George Farquhar, produced and published in 1707. Farquhar finished the play on his deathbed and died on the night of its third performance. The story concerns Archer and Aimwell, two penniless antic rakes from London who decide that in order to end their

Cecilia Beaux was an American painter, considered one of the finest portrait painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Beaux was left by her widowed father to be reared by relatives in New York City and later West Philadelphia. She was educated at home and for two years at a Philadelphia

Cecilia Beaux was an American painter, considered one of the finest portrait painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Beaux was left by her widowed father to be reared by relatives in New York City and later West Philadelphia. She was educated at home and for two years at a Philadelphia

Paul Cézanne: Early life and work: …Gustave Courbet, and the official Académie des Beaux-Arts, which rejected from its annual exhibition—and thus from public acceptance—all paintings not in the academic Neoclassical or Romantic styles. In 1863 the emperor Napoleon III decreed the opening of a Salon des Refusés to counter the growing agitation in artistic circles over…

École des Beaux-Arts, school of fine arts founded (as the Académie Royale d’Architecture) in Paris in 1671 by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, minister of Louis XIV; it merged with the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (founded in 1648) in 1793. The school offered instruction in drawing, painting,

Vancouver: The SS Beaver, which was the first steamboat to operate on the Pacific Ocean north of San Francisco (1836), was assembled there after arriving under sail from England with engines and paddle wheels as deck cargo.

Beaver, a small Athabaskan-speaking North American First Nations (Indian) band living in the mountainous riverine areas of northwestern Alberta and northeastern British Columbia, Canada. In the early 18th century they were driven westward into that area by the expanding Cree, who, armed with guns,

beaver, (genus Castor), either of two species of amphibious rodents native to North America, Europe, and Asia. Beavers are the largest rodents in North America and Eurasia and the second largest rodents worldwide. Their bodies extend up to 80 cm (31 inches) long and generally weigh 16–30 kg (35–66

history of flight: General aviation: …rugged example known as the Beaver, built by De Havilland’s Canadian firm. With a big radial engine of 450 horsepower (or more), the high-wing Beaver could carry six to seven people (often more), or about 1,700 pounds (770 kg) of payload (usually more). The Beaver’s moderate size allowed pilots to…

Beaver, county, western Pennsylvania, U.S., bordered to the west by Ohio and West Virginia. It consists of a hilly region on the Allegheny Plateau drained by the Ohio and Beaver rivers. Other waterways include Ambridge Reservoir, Brush Creek, and Raccoon Creek, which runs through Raccoon Creek

Gerhart Hauptmann: Der Biberpelz (1893; The Beaver Coat) is a successful comedy, written in a Berlin dialect, that centres on a cunning female thief and her successful confrontation with pompous, stupid Prussian officials.

beaver: Beavers often construct a dam a short distance downstream from the lodge to deter predators. The dam impedes the flow of the stream and increases the depth of the water that surrounds the lodge. Dams also create additional wetland habitat for fish and waterfowl and contain or impede the…

Beaver Island, largest of an island group in northeastern Lake Michigan, U.S., about 35 miles (55 km) north-northwest of the resort city of Charlevoix, Michigan. It extends about 13 miles (21 km) in length and 2 to 7 miles (3 to 11 km) in width and is administered as part of Charlevoix county.

beaver: …beavers may instead construct bank lodges, and in large rivers and lakes they excavate bank dens with an underwater entrance beneath tree roots or overhanging ledges. Each lodge is occupied by an extended family group of up to eight individuals: an adult pair, young of the year (kits), and yearlings…

water hemlock: …in North America is the common water hemlock (C. maculata), also known as cowbane or musquash root, which grows to about 2.5 metres (8 feet) tall. It has divided leaves and clusters of white flowers.

North Canadian River, main tributary of the Canadian River in the south-central United States. It rises in a high plateau in Union county, New Mexico, and flows east through the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles past Oklahoma City, joining the Canadian River in Eufaula Reservoir, below Eufaula, Okla.

Oregon, constituent state of the United States of America. Oregon is bounded to the north by Washington state, from which it receives the waters of the Columbia River; to the east by Idaho, more than half the border with which is formed by the winding Snake River and Hells Canyon; to the south by

prickly pear: engelmannii) and the beaver tail cactus (O. basilaris), commonly occur in the southwestern United States.

Native American: The Iroquoians of Huronia: …west, the Haudenosaunee took the Beaver Wars to the large Algonquin population to their north and east, to the Algonquian territory to their west and south, and to the French settlements of Huronia. They fought the alliances of these parties for the remainder of the 17th century, finally accepting a…

Bruce Beaver was an Australian poet, novelist, and journalist noted for his experimental forms and courageous self-examination, both of which made him one of the major forces in Australian poetry during the 1960s and ’70s. At the age of 17 Beaver underwent the first of several periods of

Bruce Beaver was an Australian poet, novelist, and journalist noted for his experimental forms and courageous self-examination, both of which made him one of the major forces in Australian poetry during the 1960s and ’70s. At the age of 17 Beaver underwent the first of several periods of

The Guinness Book of World Records: …by British engineer and industrialist Sir Hugh Beaver, the managing director of the Guinness Brewery, to solve trivia questions among bar patrons. During the early 1950s Beaver was involved in a dispute during a shooting party about the fastest game bird in Europe; however, the answer could not be found…

Jodie Foster: Later credits: Nyad and True Detective: …Foster directed and appeared in The Beaver, a drama about a depressed man (played by Mel Gibson) who finds a remedy of sorts in a hand puppet. She also helmed the Wall Street thriller Money Monster (2016), about a financial pundit (George Clooney) who is taken hostage. Foster directed episodes…

Erie: …the opening (1844) of the Erie Extension (or Beaver-Erie) Canal and with railway construction in the 1850s. Manufactures are now well diversified and include locomotives, plastics, electrical equipment, metalworking and machinery, hospital equipment, paper, chemicals, and rubber products. Erie is Pennsylvania’s only port on the St. Lawrence Seaway and is…

Sir Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook was a financier in Canada, politician and newspaper proprietor in Great Britain, one of three persons (the others were Winston Churchill and John Simon) to sit in the British cabinet during both World Wars. An idiosyncratic and successful journalist, he

Jefferson River, river, most westerly of the Missouri River’s three headstreams, rising in the Gravelly Range in southwestern Montana, U.S., near the Continental Divide and Yellowstone National Park (where it is known as Red Rock River). It flows west through Red Rock Pass and Upper and Lower Red

Dillon: …between several divisions of the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, for which it is headquarters, in an area of old mining camps. (This history is reflected in the Beaverhead County Museum in Dillon.) Nearby Bannack, now a ghost town and site of Montana’s first major gold strike (1862), was once a bustling…

Louise Beavers was an African American film and television actress known for her character roles. Beavers first drew attention as part of an act known as the Lady Minstrels. Despite her theatrical abilities and inclinations, she went to Hollywood not as a performer but as the maid of actress

Beaverton, city, Washington county, northwestern Oregon, U.S., in the Tualatin Valley, immediately west of Portland. The area was originally home to the Atfalati (mispronounced Tualatin) band of Kalapuya (Calapooya) Indians, most of whom had died from settler-borne diseases by the time their land

Mike Judge: That series, Beavis and Butt-Head (1993–97; 2011), became a massive hit and a cultural phenomenon. The show was split between segments of music videos with overlaid commentary from the titular duo—a pair of imbecilic teenagers obsessed with television, sex, and casual violence—and vignettes of their misadventures around…

Mike Judge: …for the Judge-directed hit film Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996). He later cowrote Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (2022).

Beawar, city, central Rajasthan state, northwestern India. It lies in an upland region adjacent to the Aravalli Range, about 35 miles (55 km) southwest of Ajmer. Formerly also called Nayanagar, the city was founded in 1835 and grew rapidly in prosperity because of its advantageous position between

Kevin Rudd: Political career: …party leader, defeating former head Kim Beazley by a vote of 49–39.

Laurales: Lauraceae: Bebeerine, a highly poisonous alkaloid produced as a secondary compound, has been extracted from several species of Ocotea, as well as from greenheart. Ocotea venenosa is a source of a poison used for the tips of arrows by Brazilian natives. Because alkaloids are present in…

greenheart, (Chlorocardium rodiei), valuable South American timber tree of the laurel family (Lauraceae). A large tree, it grows to a height of 40 metres (130 feet) and is native to the Guianas. The bark and fruits contain bebeerine, an alkaloid formerly used to reduce fever. Greenheart wood, which

August Bebel was a German Socialist, cofounder of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) of Germany and its most influential and popular leader for more than 40 years. He is one of the leading figures in the history of western European socialism. Bebel was the son of a Prussian noncommissioned officer.

Francis Bebey was a Cameroonian-born writer, guitarist, and composer, one of the best-known singer-songwriters of Africa. He is sometimes called the father of world music. Bebey began performing with a band while a teenager in Cameroon. In the mid-1950s he traveled to Paris to study at the

Carlo Cassola: …La ragazza di Bube (Bebo’s Girl; film, 1964). These austere novels portray with sympathy and restraint individuals—especially women—whose lives are bleak and unfulfilled. Cassola’s later concern with the environment and the threat of nuclear war was reflected in essays and in the novel Il paradiso degli animali (1979; “Animals’…

bebop, the first kind of modern jazz, which split jazz into two opposing camps in the last half of the 1940s. The word is an onomatopoeic rendering of a staccato two-tone phrase distinctive in this type of music. When it emerged, bebop was unacceptable not only to the general public but also to

Bangka Belitung: Geography: …2,300 feet (700 metres), and Bebuluh Hill, which rises to about 2,150 feet (655 metres), in the southeast. In central Belitung, Mount Tajem stretches above 1,640 feet (500 metres). The province is drained by many small rivers, most notably the Kampa, Baturusa, Kepo, Kurau, Layang, and Kambu, all on Bangka,…

cybercrime: Spam, steganography, and e-mail hacking: …a type of scam called business e-mail compromise (BEC), an e-mail sent to a business appears to be from an executive at another company with which the business is working. In the e-mail, the “executive” asks for money to be transferred into a certain account. The FBI has estimated that…

Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), a state of matter in which separate atoms or subatomic particles, cooled to near absolute zero (0 K, − 273.15 °C, or − 459.67 °F; K = kelvin), coalesce into a single quantum mechanical entity—that is, one that can be described by a wave function—on a near-macroscopic

becard, any of many tropical American birds belonging to the family Cotingidae (order Passeriformes) that usually builds its large ball nest on an exposed branch near a colony of stinging wasps. The 15 species of becards (comprising the genera Platypsaris and Pachyramphus) are rather plain, small

Diane Keaton: Nicholson; The Family Stone (2005); Because I Said So (2007); and Morning Glory (2010), in which she and Harrison Ford portrayed TV anchors with clashing personalities. She returned to less frothy fare with the dramedy Darling Companion (2012) before starring in the multigenerational-family farce The Big Wedding (2013) and the

BITNET, computer network of universities, colleges, and other academic institutions that was a predecessor to the Internet. BITNET members were required to serve as an entry point for at least one other institution wishing to join, which ensured that no redundant paths existed in the network. As a

BITNET, computer network of universities, colleges, and other academic institutions that was a predecessor to the Internet. BITNET members were required to serve as an entry point for at least one other institution wishing to join, which ensured that no redundant paths existed in the network. As a

Kate DiCamillo: Her first novel, Because of Winn-Dixie (2000; film 2005), was published after a young editor spotted it in the “slush pile,” a publishing house’s collection of manuscripts sent unsolicited by aspiring authors. The novel—which tells the story of 10-year-old India Opal Buloni, a girl coping with the loss…