Buddy Holly: That’ll Be the Day: …the Crickets’ first single, “That’ll Be the Day,” was released in 1957, their label, Brunswick, did nothing to promote it. Nevertheless, the record had an irrepressible spirit, and by year’s end it had become an international multimillion-seller. Soon after, Holly became a star and an icon. Holly and the…

Dean Martin: …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

Fred Astaire: Later musicals: Easter Parade, Royal Wedding, and The Band Wagon: …steps with Gene Kelly in That’s Entertainment, Part II (1976).

Television in the United States: Reality TV: The program’s imitators included That’s Incredible! (ABC, 1980–84) and Those Amazing Animals (ABC, 1980–81). As home-video technology spread in the 1980s and ’90s, entire shows were designed around content produced by amateurs. ABC introduced America’s Funniest Home Videos (ABC, begun 1990), featuring tapes sent in by home viewers hoping…

Blake Edwards: Later films: Edwards’s next film, That’s Life! (1986), was one of his most personal. Lemmon (playing a character reminiscent of Edwards) starred as a middle-aged man filled with self-doubt and fear of mortality; Andrews, as his wife, confronts the possibility of cancer. Several members of the Edwards and Lemmon families…

Adam Sandler: …twins, and in the raunchy That’s My Boy (2012), he starred as a gregarious boor reconnecting with the son he fathered as a teenager.

Carly Simon: …her plaintive alto—that included “That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be” (1971) and “Anticipation” (1971). The album titled Anticipation earned her a Grammy in 1971 for best new artist. “You’re So Vain,” like the album No Secrets, reached number one on the Billboard chart in 1973. She…

Earth, Wind & Fire: That’s the Way of the World (1975) lifted Earth, Wind & Fire to superstardom, yielding the hit singles “Shining Star” and “Reasons.” Their phenomenal string of 11 consecutive gold albums (sales of 500,000 copies), 8 of which also attained platinum status (sales of 1,000,000 copies),…

Burt Bacharach: …of the year for “That’s What Friends Are For” (cowritten with Sager). In 2009 he was honoured with a Grammy for lifetime achievement, and three years later he and David shared the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Bacharach’s memoir, Anyone Who Had a Heart (cowritten with Robert Greenfield), was…

the Beach Boys: Legacy: …coincided with the release of That’s Why God Made the Radio, the group’s first album in two decades to feature original material. In 2013 the two-disc concert album The Beach Boys Live: The 50th Anniversary Tour was released, followed by numerous archival releases and remastered versions of the band’s early…

South Asian arts: Theoretical developments: …the South and mela or thata in the North.

pandanus: Major species and uses: …especially of those from the thatch screw pine, or pandanus palm (Pandanus tectorius), which is native to Micronesia and Hawaii, and the common screw pine (P. utilis). Fibres are also obtained from the aerial roots.

Blackbeard was one of history’s most famous pirates, who became an imposing figure in American folklore. Little is known of Blackbeard’s early life, and his origins have been left to speculation. He has been widely identified as Edward Teach (or several variations thereof, including Thatch and

River Forest, village, Cook county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. A residential suburb of Chicago, River Forest lies on the Des Plaines River, about 12 miles (19 km) west of the city’s downtown. A sawmill built on the riverbank in 1831 drew settlers to the area. The community was temporarily known as

Margaret Thatcher: Later years: …and Asia, and established the Thatcher Foundation to support free enterprise and democracy, particularly in the newly liberated countries of central and eastern Europe. In 1995 she became a member of the Order of the Garter.

Margaret Thatcher was a British Conservative Party politician and prime minister (1979–90), Europe’s first woman prime minister. The only British prime minister in the 20th century to win three consecutive terms and, at the time of her resignation, Britain’s longest continuously serving prime

Becky Thatcher, fictional character, Tom Sawyer’s sweetheart in the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) by Mark

Margaret Thatcher was a British Conservative Party politician and prime minister (1979–90), Europe’s first woman prime minister. The only British prime minister in the 20th century to win three consecutive terms and, at the time of her resignation, Britain’s longest continuously serving prime

Thatcherism, the political and economic ideas and policies advanced by Margaret Thatcher, Conservative prime minister (1979–90) of the United Kingdom, particularly those involving the privatization of nationalized industries, a limited role for government, free markets, low taxes, individuality,

construction: Primitive building: the Stone Age: The usual roofing material was thatch: dried grasses or reeds tied together in small bundles, which in turn were tied in an overlapping pattern to the light wooden poles that spanned between the rafters. Horizontal thatched roofs leak rain badly, but, if they are placed at the proper angle, the…

grassland: Biota: …grassland consisting of Pennisetum or Hyparrhenia develops and may be kept in this condition indefinitely through burning or through the browsing and grazing of such herbivores as elephants. Other grasses such as Aristida and Chrysopogon are important in drier sites, and Themeda occurs in cooler places at higher altitudes. Herbivorous…

Thaton, town, southern Myanmar (Burma), situated on the Tenasserim plains in the northern part of the narrow coastal strip known as Tenasserim. Once a lively seaport, Thaton, because of silting, is now 10 miles (16 km) from the Gulf of Martaban, an inlet of the Andaman Sea. The town was an early

Pagan: By the time the Thatpyinnyu Temple was built (1144), Mon influence was waning, and a Burman architecture had evolved. Its four stories, resembling a two-staged pyramid, and its orientation are new. Its interior rooms are spacious halls, rather than sparsely lit openings within a mountain mass, as in the…

Thatta, town, Sindh province, Pakistan, just west of the Indus River, inland from Karāchi and the Arabian Sea coast. During the 16th century it was the capital of the Sammā dynasty in Lower Sindh. Incorporated as a municipality in 1854, it has two mosques (notably Jāma Mosque [1647–49], built by

archaea: …been proposed, including Nanoarchaeota and Thaumarchaeota.

sweetener: Thaumatin, a protein extracted and purified from Thaumatococcus danielli, a plant found in western Africa, has found increasing use in Japan since its approval there in 1979. It combines well with monosodium glutamate and is used in typical Japanese seasonings as well as in chewing…

miracle fruit: The unrelated sweet prayer plant (Thaumatococcus daniellii) is also known as miracle fruit for its similar ability to make sour foods taste sweet.

glacial landform: Periglacial landforms: …glaciers, a zone of intense freeze-thaw activity produces periglacial features and landforms. This happens because of the unique behaviour of water as it changes from the liquid to the solid state. As water freezes, its volume increases about 9 percent. This is often combined with the process of differential ice…

meat processing: Cold shortening: Thaw rigor is a similar condition that results when meat is frozen before it enters rigor mortis. When this meat is thawed, the leftover glycogen allows for muscle contraction and the meat becomes extremely tough.

Russia: The Khrushchev era (1953–64): …leadership there was a cultural thaw, and Russian writers who had been suppressed began to publish again. Western ideas about democracy began to penetrate universities and academies. These were to leave their mark on a whole generation of Russians, most notably Mikhail Gorbachev, who later became the last leader of…

Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg: …produced the novel Ottepel (1954; The Thaw), which provoked intense controversy in the Soviet press, and the title of which has become descriptive of that period in Soviet literature. It dealt with Soviet life in a more realistic way than had the officially approved literature of the preceding period. In…

Yemen: Daily life and social customs: …sometimes wear the full-length, loose-fitting thawb—frequently with a jacket over it—but more often the traditional fūṭah, a saronglike wraparound kilt, is worn with a shirt. The turban is a common type of head covering, and a finely woven bamboo hat (shaped somewhat like a fez) called a kofiya (or kofia)…

frostbite: Recognition and treatment: Before thawing, the affected part is hard, cold, white, or bloodless. The skin is rigid and the depth of freezing difficult to determine. Frostbite is rendered more dangerous by the fact that there is no sensation of pain, and the victim may not even know that…

Mecca: City site: South of the city, Mount Thawr (2,490 feet) contains the cave in which the prophet secreted himself from his Meccan enemies during the Hijrah to Medina, the event that marks the beginning of the Muslim calendar.

Baghdad: Districts: …between 1982 and 2003, as Saddam City.

Baghdad: Districts: …between 1982 and 2003, as Saddam City.

trip-hop: …Bristolians, former Massive Attack rapper Tricky (byname of Adrian Thaws; b. Jan. 27, 1968, Bristol) and Portishead, a group formed by Massive protégé Geoff Barrow (b. Dec. 9, 1971, Southmead, Eng). Featuring the forlorn vocals of Martina Topley-Bird alongside Tricky’s croaky, mumbled rhymes, Tricky’s debut album, Maxinquaye (1995), is a…

Celia Laighton Thaxter was an American poet whose work centred thematically on the islands and ocean of her youth. Celia Laighton grew up among the Isles of Shoals off the New Hampshire coast. On Appledore Island her father operated a successful resort hotel that included among its guests Ralph

Joseph Brant was a Mohawk Indian chief who served not only as a spokesman for his people but also as a Christian missionary and a British military officer during the American Revolution (1775–83). Brant was converted to the Anglican church after two years (1761–63) at Moor’s Charity School for

Rockwell Kent: Chase, Robert Henri, and Abbott Thayer. His early works, mostly moody landscapes and seascapes, are highly stylized with dramatic tonal contrasts, as seen in The Road Roller. In the course of a varied career he worked as an architectural draftsman, as a lobsterman and carpenter on the coast of…

Casey at the Bat: Ernest Lawrence Thayer: Thayer was born in 1863 and grew up in Massachusetts. He attended Harvard University, where he studied with the philosopher William James and became president and editor of the university’s humor magazine, The Harvard Lampoon. His classmates called him by the nickname…

judicial restraint: …Harvard law professor James Bradley Thayer (1831–1902), who observed that a legislator might vote against a law because he believed it unconstitutional but nonetheless, if he later became a judge, properly vote to uphold it on the grounds of restraint.

conservatism: Japan: As one American scholar, Nathaniel B. Thayer, described them, the factions

United States Military Academy: History: Sylvanus Thayer (1817–33), who became known as the “father of the military academy” because of his lasting influence upon the West Point physical plant, the library, the curriculum, and the pedagogical method. Under Thayer’s leadership the academy produced military technicians whose skills were adaptable to…

Kiss: Lineup changes and final years: … took over on drums, and Tommy Thayer on lead guitar. The lineup of Simmons, Stanley, Singer, and Thayer endured for the next two decades, which were highlighted by concerts played in arenas worldwide. The group’s final tour, the End of the Road World Tour, began in 2019 and was set…

Islam: Social service: …institution of intertribal revenge (called thaʾr)—whereby it was not necessarily the killer who was executed but a person equal in rank to the slain person—was abolished. The pre-Islamic ethical ideal of manliness was modified and replaced by a more humane ideal of moral virtue and piety.

Young Tunisians: …including Ali Bash Hamba and ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Thaʿālibī (1912), and driving the Young Tunisians underground. At the end of World War I they emerged again as activists in the Tunisian nationalist movement and, led by al-Thaʿālibī, reorganized themselves (1920) into the Destour Party, which remained active until 1957.

Arabic literature: Beginnings: The 9th-century grammarian Thaʿlab of al-Kūfah organized his Qawāʿid al-shiʿr (“The Rules of Poetry”) along syntactic principles, thus illustrating the continuing linkage between the philological demands of textual research and the study of the corpus of early Arabic poetry.

tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), active constituent of marijuana and hashish that was first isolated from the Indian hemp plant (Cannabis sativa) and synthesized in 1965. For the effects of the drug, see

In the early 1980s I interviewed one of Marvin Minsky’s young students, who told me that, as he saw it, his hero, Minsky, one of the founders of artificial intelligence (AI), was “trying to create a computer beautiful enough that a soul would want to live in it.” In the AI world, things have gone

The stock market isn’t monolithic. It’s conveniently divided into sectors that group different companies by the types of business they conduct. The S&P 500 (SPX) and other major stock indexes offer a big-picture view of the entire market, but tracking stock market sectors—such as energy, health

The 1619 Project, a celebrated and controversial multimedia journalism series that reframes U.S. history around African American experiences, particularly slavery and its legacy in contemporary American life. Introduced on August 14, 2019, in a special issue of The New York Times Magazine, The 1619

What if you could calculate the precise amount to withdraw from your retirement accounts? Is there a magical formula that can give you enough to live on while ensuring you never run out of money? That’s the basic—although it’s not exactly magical—concept behind the 4% rule. According to this rule,

As the final show of their American tour, the Rolling Stones held a one-day rock festival at Altamont Speedway in Livermore, California, on December 6, 1969. The free event was intended as a thank-you gesture by the band to their fans and was to feature Santana; the Jefferson Airplane; the Flying

The Ambassadors, oil painting on oak panel created in 1533 by German artist Hans Holbein the Younger. One of the most staggeringly impressive portraits in Renaissance art, this famous painting is full of hidden meanings and fascinating contradictions. The meticulous realism of Holbein’s immaculate

The Annunciation, tempera painting on panel that was created as an altarpiece in 1432–34 by Italian artist Fra Angelico, one of several works that he painted on the same theme. This is the richest and most beautiful of the versions that he painted on panel and was made for the church of the Gesù

The Arcadian Shepherds, oil painting created by French artist Nicolas Poussin in 1627, possibly inspired by a 1623 painting on the same subject by the Italian painter Il Guercino. Poussin returned to the same theme in a work created in 1639. During the 17th century certain artists sought to emulate

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Whether you’re looking to change jobs or switch careers, getting started can feel overwhelming. But there are steps you can take to ease the journey, such as crafting a solid plan. It will take time and persistence, but a detailed road map can help lead you to a more fulfilling role. You can make

Art is made to be seen. In contrast, nature, prodigal and thoughtless, takes no heed of visibility: William Wordsworth celebrates the flowers that “waste their sweetness on the desert air” and the treasures lying hidden in “the dark unfathomed caves of ocean.” But art is diametrically opposed to

The Ballet Class, oil painting created between 1873 and 1876 by French artist Edgar Degas. This painting, one of two of the same scene, shows dancers waiting to be assessed by ballet master Jules Perrot. The first part of the 1870s saw Degas defining his style, and the dance pictures he painted at

The Barber of Seville, comic opera in two acts by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini (libretto in Italian by Cesare Sterbini) that was first performed under the title Almaviva o sia l’inutile precauzione (Almaviva; or, The Useless Precaution) at the Teatro Argentina in Rome on February 20, 1816.

I want to see a world free from poverty. Poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. The Grameen Bank and affiliated institutions are dedicated to providing opportunities that can help improve the socioeconomic condition of people who live in abject

The Battle of San Romano, three tempera paintings on panel created between about 1435 and 1455 by Florentine artist Paolo Uccello, one of the great early masters of Renaissance perspective. This series of paintings are the artist’s best-known work and exhibit both Gothic and Renaissance elements.

Encyclopædia Britannica strives to be an authoritative source on subjects from Aa to ZZ Top, but which movies are the best of all time is, obviously, a personal aesthetic judgment and not one that we at Britannica could comfortably pass on to our readers. Therefore listed here are attempts by some

Many student loan borrowers were excited in August 2022 when the Biden administration announced a plan to forgive between $10,000 and $20,000 in student loan debt for millions. However, the plan was put on hold while the Supreme Court heard arguments, and then scuttled in July 2023 once the court

Credit reporting agencies exert a major influence on consumers’ lives in the United States. The big three credit bureaus—Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax—and the credit scores they calculate affect your economic fate in numerous ways, including which loans and bank accounts you can get, and

The Black Madonna, painting and icon in the chapel of the Virgin Mary in the fortified Baroque Pauline monastery of Jasna Góra, in Częstochowa, Poland, that has been venerated by Christians for some 600 years. The Black Madonna is an exceptionally beautiful symbolic painting of the Virgin Mary

The Blue Boy, oil painting created by English artist Thomas Gainsborough about 1770. The full-length portrait is one of the most recognized paintings in art history. This dazzling portrait won great acclaim when it was first exhibited in 1770, cementing Gainsborough’s reputation as one of the

The Book of Mormon, comedic and deliberately offensive stage musical by Robert Lopez, Trey Parker, and Matt Stone that satirizes religious belief in general and the doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) in particular. The show premiered on Broadway at the Eugene O’Neill

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-and-repertoire

Brokers help you access exchanges. In order to invest in the stock market, you’ll need a broker to get your orders to the stock exchange. The same goes if you want to trade on the futures market or buy and sell options—the broker is your intermediary. Traditional exchanges are similar to what you

The Burial of the Count of Orgaz, large and luminous oil painting that was created about 1586 by the Greek-born artist El Greco. This painting, commissioned for and located in the church of Santo Tomé in Toledo, Spain, is widely considered to be El Greco’s masterpiece. El Greco was active in Rome

the Cars, American rock band that merged 1960s power pop, 1970s glam rock, and music video innovation to become one of the iconic acts in new wave music. The Cars was formed in 1976 in Boston, Massachusetts, by vocalist and guitarist Ric Ocasek, vocalist and bassist Benjamin Orr, guitarist Elliot

The Cat in the Hat, iconic children’s picture book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and published in 1957. Using simple words written in rollicking and repetitive rhyme, the book features a mischievous talking cat who attempts to entertain two siblings on a

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 Club (on Mathew Street) and the Jacaranda and the Blue Angel (on opposite sides of

Paul Adam: …his being prosecuted; his second, Le Thé chez Miranda (1886), written with Jean Moréas, is an early example of Symbolism. Adam also founded two literary reviews in 1886: Led Carcan, with Jean Ajalbert, and the short-lived Le Symboliste, with Moréas and Gustave Kahn. In 1899, with La Force, Adam began…

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The Comedians, Op. 26, incidental music composed by Dmitry Kabalevsky in 1938 to accompany a stage play called Inventor and Comedian at the Central Children’s Theatre of Moscow. The play, centred on a group of traveling entertainers, is seldom seen today, but the lighthearted and energetic songs,

Unless you went to business school—or at least took an accounting or finance course—you’ve probably never given much thought to financial statements such as balance sheets, income statements, or statements of cash flow, right? But now you’ve got some money to invest, you’re looking at a few

the Cure, English post-punk rock group known for its innovative new-wave style, which rests largely on creating moody songs laced with Gothic imagery that embrace melancholic and lovesick themes. The Cure was formed in 1978 and has had various lineup changes. The group’s only constant remains

Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, two of the 19th century’s most enduring thinkers and figures, share more than a place in history. They also share a birthday: Feb. 12, 1809. To mark the bicentennial of their births, Adam Gopnik, longtime staff writer for The New Yorker and a New York Times

The Day the Music Died, February 3, 1959, when an airplane crash resulted in the deaths of American musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson), as well as pilot Roger Peterson. The plane crashed in a cornfield outside Clear Lake, Iowa. The tragedy was memorialized

The Death of General Wolfe, oil painting created in 1770 by American-born artist Benjamin West, depicting the death of British Major General James Wolfe during the 1759 Battle of Quebec. The monumental Neoclassical painting is one of the artist’s best known works as well as one of the most famous

The Death of Marat, oil painting (1793) by French artist Jacques-Louis David depicting the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, a radical activist of the French Revolution, by Charlotte Corday, a supporter of the opposing political party. With The Death of Marat, David transformed traditional history

The Death of Sardanapalus, oil painting created in 1826/27 by French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix. The massive canvas explodes onto the senses with wild movement and sumptuous colour, an orgy of indulgent exoticism. The violence and chaos of the scene shocked contemporary viewers, but the work

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Less than two weeks after being sworn in as president, Harry S. Truman received a long report from Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. “Within four months,” it began, “we shall in all probability have completed the most terrible weapon ever known in human history.” Truman’s decision to use the

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The Effects of Good Government in the City, fresco painted in 1338–40 by Italian artist Ambrogio Lorenzetti. By far one of his most important works, it is part of a cycle of paintings generally known as the Allegories of Good and Bad Government, which were commissioned to adorn the walls of the

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The Entombment of Christ, oil painting created in about 1602–04 by Italian artist Caravaggio. The work was commissioned for a chapel in the Chiesa Nuova (“new church”) in Rome and now is held by the Vatican’s Pinacoteca. The Entombment of Christ, in addition to being one of Caravaggio’s most

The Episcopal Church (TEC), autonomous, mainline Protestant church in the United States and member of the Anglican Communion. The Episcopal Church was formally organized in Philadelphia in 1789 as the successor to the Church of England in the American colonies. In points of doctrine, worship, and

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Although many of the Founding Fathers acknowledged that slavery violated the core American Revolutionary ideal of liberty, their simultaneous commitment to private property rights, principles of limited government, and intersectional harmony prevented them from making a bold move against slavery.