Mexico: Colonial period, 1701–1821: United as the Army of the Three Guarantees (independence, union, preservation of Roman Catholicism), the combined troops of Iturbide and Guerrero gained control of most of Mexico by the time Juan O’Donojú, appointed Spanish captain general, arrived in the viceregal capital. Without money, provisions, or troops, O’Donojú felt…

Virginia Woolf: Late work: …publicly a diatribe against war, Three Guineas (1938) proposes answers to the question of how to prevent war. Woolf connected masculine symbols of authority with militarism and misogyny, an argument buttressed by notes from her clippings about aggression, fascism, and war.

Charles Walters: …Walters directed his first nonmusical, Three Guys Named Mike (1951); Jane Wyman starred as a stewardess being courted by three men, one of whom was portrayed by Van Johnson. Although not as popular as Walters’s earlier productions, the film was a modest hit.

War of the Three Henrys, (1587–89), the last of the Wars of Religion in France in the late 16th century, fought between the moderate but devious King Henry III, the ultra-Roman Catholic Henri I de Lorraine, 3e duc de Guise, and the Huguenot leader Henry of Bourbon, king of Navarre and heir

Good Friday: …an earthquake in Peru, the Three Hour Service, a prayerful meditation on Jesus’ “Seven Last Words on the Cross,” was introduced to the Catholic liturgy by the Jesuits. It takes place between noon and 3 pm. Similar services occur in the Eastern Orthodox tradition, where no Communion is celebrated on…

Good Friday: …an earthquake in Peru, the Three Hour Service, a prayerful meditation on Jesus’ “Seven Last Words on the Cross,” was introduced to the Catholic liturgy by the Jesuits. It takes place between noon and 3 pm. Similar services occur in the Eastern Orthodox tradition, where no Communion is celebrated on…

the Cure: Formation and early years: …and released its first album, Three Imaginary Boys, in 1979. The record features “10:15 Saturday Night” and other tracks inspired by 1970s punk. Several songs from Three Imaginary Boys (including the one mentioned above) were placed on the band’s first North American release, Boys Don’t Cry (1980), along with the…

Antoku: …that was one of the Three Imperial Regalia, the symbols of Imperial authority, supposedly brought to earth when the first Japanese emperor descended from heaven.

Triratna, in Buddhism the Triratna comprises the Buddha, the dharma (doctrine, or teaching), and the sangha (the monastic order, or community). One becomes a Buddhist by saying the words “I go to the Buddha for refuge, I go to the Doctrine for refuge, I go to the Order for refuge.” In Jainism the

Three Kingdoms, (220–280 ce), trio of warring Chinese states—Wei, Shu-Han, and Wu—that followed the demise of the Han dynasty (206 bce–220 ce). In 25 ce, after a brief period of disruption, the great Han empire had been reconstituted as the Dong (Eastern) Han. However, by the end of the 2nd

Romance of the Three Kingdoms, novel traditionally attributed to the 14th-century Chinese writer Luo Guanzhong. Spanning more than a century of Chinese history that includes the era of the Three Kingdoms, this epic saga of the last days of the Han dynasty is a compilation of history and legend

Three Kingdoms period, in Korean history, the period (from c. 57 bce to 668 ce) when the country was divided into the kingdoms of Silla, Goguryeo, and Baekje. The first kingdom on the Korean peninsula was Gojoseon (Old Joseon), established in the Taedong River basin, in the northern part of the

English Civil Wars, (1642–51), fighting that took place in the British Isles between supporters of the monarchy of Charles I (and his son and successor, Charles II) and opposing groups in each of Charles’s kingdoms, including Parliamentarians in England, Covenanters in Scotland, and Confederates in

David O. Russell: In 1999 Three Kings—a comedic heist adventure set in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War—was released. The plot revolves around four U.S. soldiers (George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, and Spike Jonze) who abandon their posts to search for stolen Kuwaiti gold but end up sacrificing…

king cake, a sweet, ring-shaped pastry that is served from Epiphany through Shrove Tuesday in the Christian calendar. It is particularly associated with Mardi Gras, the festive pre-Lenten season in the United States, and it is usually baked with a symbolic trinket hidden inside, often to represent

Epiphany, (from Greek epiphaneia, “manifestation”), Christian holiday commemorating the first manifestation of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, represented by the Magi, and the manifestation of his divinity, as it occurred at his baptism in the Jordan River and at his first miracle, at Cana in

Battle of the Three Kings, (Aug. 4, 1578), defeat dealt the invading Portuguese armies of King Sebastian by the Saʿdī sultan of Morocco, ʿAbd al-Malik. Sebastian wished to subject Muslim Morocco to Christian rule. Allied with the deposed Moroccan sultan, al-Mutawakkil, he landed at Tangier weighed

three laws of robotics, rules developed by science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov, who sought to create an ethical system for humans and robots. The laws first appeared in his short story “Runaround” (1942) and subsequently became hugely influential in the sci-fi genre. In addition, they later found

Alfred Döblin: …drei Sprünge des Wang-lun (1915; The Three Leaps of Wang-lun), is set in China and describes a rebellion that is crushed by the tyrannical power of the state. Wallenstein (1920) is a historical novel, and Berge, Meere und Giganten (1924; “Mountains, Seas, and Giants”; republished as Giganten in 1932) is…

Bernard Bosanquet: …History of Aesthetic (1892) and Three Lectures on Aesthetic (1915). Both reflect his belief that aesthetics can reconcile the natural and the supernatural worlds. As elsewhere in his work, Bosanquet revealed his distaste for the materialism of his day and favoured the neo-Hegelian antidote, which held that everything considered to…

Edmund Burke: Political life: …French government (notably in “Three Letters Addressed to a Member of the Present Parliament on the Proposals for Peace, with the Regicide Directory of France” [1796–97]).

Walt Disney: First animated cartoons: …1933 Disney produced a short, The Three Little Pigs, which arrived in the midst of the Great Depression and took the country by storm. Its treatment of the fairy tale of the little pig who works hard and builds his house of brick against the huffing and puffing of a…

Gertrude Stein: Her first published book, Three Lives (1909), the stories of three working-class women, has been called a minor masterpiece. The Making of Americans, a long composition written in 1906–11 but not published until 1925, was too convoluted and obscure for general readers, for whom she remained essentially the author…

Louis Auchincloss: …number of short-story anthologies, notably Three Lives (1993), The Anniversary and Other Stories (1999), and Manhattan Monologues (2002), all of which explore moral dilemmas of the upper class. Without straying far from the world of the wealthy, Auchincloss published Her Infinite Variety (2000), a novel set in 1930s New York…

Julia O’Faolain: O’Faolain’s novel Godded and Codded (1970; also published as Three Lovers) concerns a young Irish woman’s sexual adventures in Paris. O’Faolain probed women’s roles in Women in the Wall (1975), a fictional account of Queen Radegund, who in the 6th century founded a monastery in Gaul. No…

Brazilian literature: Modernismo and regionalism: …in As três Marias (1939; The Three Marias) she evoked the claustrophobic condition of women victimized by a rigid patriarchal system. Jorge Amado, a socialist and a best-selling novelist, focused on the oppressed proletariat and Afro-Brazilian communities in novels such as Cacáu (1933; “Cacao”) and Jubiabá (1935; Eng. trans. Jubiabá).…

Stefan Zweig: …Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Drei Meister, 1920; Three Masters) and of Friedrich Hölderlin, Heinrich von Kleist, and Friedrich Nietzsche (Der Kampf mit dem Dämon, 1925; Master Builders). He achieved popularity with Sternstunden der Menschheit (1928; The Tide of Fortune), five historical portraits in miniature. He wrote full-scale, intuitive

history of the Low Countries: Consolidation of territorial states (1384–1567): …permanent consultation committee called the three members of Flanders on which was bestowed decisive powers in most political matters, including taxation, legislation, and justice; it also wielded a strong influence in international relations. During the repeated periods of revolt or of absence of the count, the three members automatically extended…

Leonard Nimoy: Another directorial effort—the comedy Three Men and a Baby—was the most lucrative film released in 1987. Known for his engagement with aficionados of Star Trek, Nimoy made frequent appearances at science fiction conventions and was convinced by director J.J. Abrams to make an appearance in his 2009 Star Trek…

Ted Danson: Career: …a Baby (1987), its sequel Three Men and a Little Lady (1990), and Made in America (1993).

Shirley Booth: …her first Broadway success with Three Men on a Horse (1935). Booth gradually developed a reputation as one of Broadway’s finest actresses and appeared in more than 40 plays during the following two decades, including Excursion (1937), The Philadelphia Story (1939), My Sister Eileen (1940), Tomorrow the World (1943), and…

Three Mile Island accident, accident in 1979 at the Three Mile Island nuclear power station that was the most serious in the history of the American nuclear power industry. The Three Mile Island power station was named after the island on which it was situated in the Susquehanna River near

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: In 1983 her Symphony No. 1 (1982; originally titled Three Movements for Orchestra) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music, making her the first woman to be so honoured. The Peanuts® Gallery (1996), for piano and orchestra, consists of sketches of Charles M. Schulz’s comic-strip characters and was…

The Three Musketeers, novel by Alexandre Dumas père, published in French as Les Trois Mousquetaires in 1844. SUMMARY: A historical romance, it relates the adventures of four fictional swashbuckling heroes who lived under the French kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV, who reigned during the 17th and

Richard Lester: These included the all-star swashbucklers The Three Musketeers (1973), The Four Musketeers (1974), and Royal Flash (1975), the revisionist Robin and Marian (1976), the bittersweet historical romance Cuba (1979), and the lavish comic-book derivations Superman II (1980) and Superman III (1983).

George Sidney: Bathing Beauty and Anchors Aweigh: …director had more success with The Three Musketeers (1948), a lively adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas classic, with Turner playing Lady de Winter and Kelly as D’Artagnan; others in the cast included Van Heflin, June Allyson, Gig Young, and Vincent Price. The Red Danube (1949) was another unlikely project for…

Charlie Sheen: Acting stardom in the 1980s and ’90s: …and adventure movies, such as The Three Musketeers (1993), a screen adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Sheen played Aramis alongside Sutherland (Athos), Chris O’Donnell (D’Artagnan), Oliver Platt (Porthos), and Tim Curry (Cardinal Richelieu). In 1994 Sheen

Andalusia: …at a point along the Three Notch Trail (used by Andrew Jackson on his way to New Orleans in 1813). Renamed Andalusia in 1844, probably for the Spanish province, it developed after the arrival in 1899 of the Central of Georgia and the Louisville and Nashville railroads.

Tracey Ullman: …in a BBC sketch-comedy show, Three of a Kind, which costarred Lenny Henry. It ran for three seasons until 1983. Ullman then starred in another sitcom, Girls on Top (1985–86), about four utterly different girls sharing a flat in London. Two of her costars were Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French,…

Sanguan, in Chinese Daoism, the Three Officials: Tianguan, official of heaven who bestows happiness; Diguan, official of earth who grants remission of sins; and Shuiguan, official of water who averts misfortune. The Chinese theatre did much to popularize Tianguan by introducing a skit before each

Jerry Lewis: Three on a Couch (1966) cast him as an artist trying to woo a psychiatrist (Janet Leigh); The Big Mouth (1967) saw him searching for treasure; and Which Way to the Front? (1970) was a World War II comedy. He also directed the comic mystery…

Georges Duby: …de France, the extraordinarily rich The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined (1978) explored the origins and medieval development of the three estates in French society and was the product of his early seminars at the Collège. A consideration of an idea that played an important role in the history of…

Three Pagodas Pass, mountain pass in the Tenasserim Mountain Range on the Myanmar (Burma)-Thailand border, 100 miles (160 km) southeast of Moulmein, Myanmar. The pass, at an elevation of 925 feet (282 m), links southeastern Myanmar and western Thailand. For centuries it was the chief link between

United States: The 2020 U.S. election: the Oath Keepers, and the Three Percenters—responded to the president’s plea that they come to Washington to participate in a “Save America March.” On January 6, hundreds surrounded the Capitol. Thousands more attended a rally near the White House, at which Trump repeated his false claims regarding the election. He…

Giorgione: Works: The Three Philosophers (c. 1510) is one of the works Michiel saw and specifically identified as being by Giorgione. He stated, however, that it was completed by the Venetian painter Sebastiano del Piombo after the master’s death. The composition and colour are so fully Giorgione’s…

George Santayana: Early life and career: …essays, gathered into two volumes: Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe (1910); and Winds of Doctrine (1913), in which the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley and the philosophies of Henri Bergson, a French evolutionary philosopher, and of Bertrand Russell are trenchantly discussed.

Arnold Schoenberg: Evolution from tonality of Arnold Schoenberg: …pieces that constitute his opus 11, the first composition ever to dispense completely with “tonal” means of organization. Such pieces, in which no one tonal centre exists and in which any harmonic or melodic combination of tones may be sounded without restrictions of any kind, are usually called atonal, although…

counterpoint: The 20th century: Stravinsky’s Three Pieces for String Quartet (No. 1) suggests four keys at the same time: G, B, D, and A♭. In this particular work each instrument is limited throughout the piece to a few notes assigned to it. Thus each part is absolutely individual and, except…

Philip Kapleau: That year he published The Three Pillars of Zen, a seminal work that has since been translated into several languages. The following year Kapleau founded the Rochester Zen Center, which became one of the major focal points of Zen education in America. He taught at the center for nearly…

Louise Penny: Three Pines and Armand Gamache: …basis for the TV show Three Pines (2022– ), which starred Alfred Molina as Inspector Gamache.

Three Places in New England, composition for orchestra by American composer Charles Ives, completed and much revised in the first decades of the 20th century and published in its best-known version in 1935. Its three movements portray scenes from the composer’s native New England and feature much

art criticism: Critical response to early avant-garde art: …1908, in his essay “The Three Plastic Virtues,” poet and critic Guillaume Apollinaire argued that “the three plastic virtues, [of] purity, unity, and truth” had “triumphantly vanquished over nature” in Cubism. His assertion was the final stamp of approval on the new School of Paris led by Picasso. Pure…

George Bernard Shaw: First plays: Shaw’s next collection of plays, Three Plays for Puritans (1901), continued what became the traditional Shavian preface—an introductory essay in an electric prose style dealing as much with the themes suggested by the plays as the plays themselves. The Devil’s Disciple (performed 1897) is a play set in New Hampshire…

Athol Fugard: …later published under the title Three Port Elizabeth Plays (1974). Boesman and Lena, filmed in 1973 with Fugard as Boesman, played to a wider audience than any previous South African play; another film adaptation was released in 2000.

Three Principles of the People, the ideological basis of the political program of the Chinese Nationalist leader Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925), championing the principles of nationalism, democracy, and socialism. The principles were originally formulated as slogans for Sun’s revolutionary student group,

China: New directions in national policy, 1958–61: …inauguration in 1958 of “Three Red Banners”—i.e., the general line of socialist construction, the Great Leap Forward, and the rural people’s communes—are still not fully known. Undoubtedly, a complex mixture of forces came into play. Mao personally felt increasingly uncomfortable with the alliance with the Soviet Union and with…

Triratna, in Buddhism the Triratna comprises the Buddha, the dharma (doctrine, or teaching), and the sangha (the monastic order, or community). One becomes a Buddhist by saying the words “I go to the Buddha for refuge, I go to the Doctrine for refuge, I go to the Order for refuge.” In Jainism the

Taoism: Syncretism: …origin was that of the Three Religions (sanjiao). Its composite moral teachings are represented by popular tracts, the so-called “books on goodness” (shanshu), which have been in extremely wide circulation since the Ming dynasty (1368–1644).

United Kingdom: The politics of war: …restrained the speaker while the Three Resolutions (1629), condemning the collection of tonnage and poundage as well as the doctrine and practice of Arminianism, were introduced. Parliament broke up in pandemonium, with both king and members shocked by the “carriage of diverse fiery spirits.”

Alasdair MacIntyre: After Virtue and later works: …Justice? Which Rationality? (1988) and Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry (1990) that justification of such large-scale viewpoints must proceed historically: in order to assess the rationality of adherence to large-scale viewpoints—MacIntyre called them “traditions”—one must look to the history of their development. Traditions are often so different from each…

Trois-Rivières, city, Mauricie–Bois-Francs region, southern Quebec province, Canada. It lies on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, at the mouth of the Saint-Maurice River. Trois-Rivières was founded in 1634 by the French explorer Samuel de Champlain and named for the three channels at the

Three Rivers, district, administrative and historic county of Hertfordshire, southeast England, in the southwestern corner of the county. Three Rivers district is essentially a dormitory suburban area on the northwest border of Greater London. Rickmansworth is the district seat. The district’s

Pittsburgh Pirates: …60 years, to play in Three Rivers Stadium, where the power hitting of Willie Stargell and Dave Parker helped them clinch the NL Eastern Division six times and win World Series championships in 1971 and 1979. In the mid-1980s the Pirates acquired sluggers Barry Bonds and Bobby Bonilla, and the…

Third Cinema: …Ruiz’s Tres tristes tigres (1968; Three Sad Tigers), which provided a variety of options for social change in its examination of the Santiago underworld through a single handheld camera, emphasizing the city’s atmosphere of entrapment. The Third Cinema approach spread worldwide through international exposure, especially in Europe, overcoming the obstacles…

Vietnam Veterans Memorial: …the commissioning of a traditional statue depicting three servicemen with a flag to stand at the entrance to the memorial. After Lin’s monument was dedicated on November 13, 1982, however, it became a popular and moving tourist attraction.

Three Sisters, Russian drama in four acts by Anton Chekhov, first performed in Moscow in 1901 and published as Tri sestry in the same year. The Prozorov sisters (Olga, Masha, and Irina) yearn for the excitement of Moscow; their dreary provincial life is enlivened only by the arrival of the Imperial

Jacopo Palma: …in such works as the Three Sisters. That work, along with many of his later paintings, shows the influence of Lorenzo Lotto. Sixty-two of Palma’s works remained unfinished at his death and were finished by his pupils. Presumably, this accounts for the variable quality of his work.

milpa, symbiotic and symbolic interplanting of beans, corn (maize), and squash in Mesoamerican and North American Indigenous agricultural tradition. These three crops have long been viewed as the most important food plants to many people groups, and ancient communities found that planting the three

May Sinclair: …and published several novels, including The Three Sisters (1914), which is based loosely on the lives of the Brontë sisters and examines the repressiveness of Victorian and Edwardian society. That was to be the first of what are categorized as her psychological novels, or works that investigated psychological concepts such…

Deirdre: …Three Sorrows of Storytelling (Tri Truaighe Scéalaigheachta). The older version, preserved in The Book of Leinster (c. 1160), is more starkly tragic, less polished, and less romantic than the later version. It describes a Druid’s foretelling, at Deirdre’s birth, that many men would die on her account. Raised in…

law of three stages, theory of human intellectual development propounded by the French social theorist Auguste Comte (1798–1857). According to Comte, human societies moved historically from a theological stage, in which the world and the place of humans within it were explained in terms of gods,

Philip K. Dick: … winner; television series 2015–19), and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), the protagonists must determine their own orientation in an “alternate world.” Beginning with The Simulacra (1964) and culminating in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968; adapted for film as Blade Runner [1982]), the illusion centres on artificial…

the Three Stooges, American comedy team noted for violent anarchic slapstick and comedy routines rooted in the burlesque tradition. Six men were members of the team throughout the years: Shemp Howard (original name Samuel Horwitz; b. March 17, 1895, New York, New York, U.S.—d. November 23, 1955,

the Three Stooges: The movie The Three Stooges, in which a new cast inhabited the familiar roles, was released in 2012.

Jean Negulesco: Film noirs and Johnny Belinda: …other credits that year were Three Strangers, an offbeat noir with Lorre, Greenstreet, and Fitzgerald as joint holders of a sweepstakes ticket, and Humoresque, a romantic drama that starred Garfield (as a violinist who hungers for success) and Joan Crawford (as the wealthy but unstable patron who falls for him).

halfway house: Contemporary halfway houses: …study conducted in 2000, the three-strikes law in California, enacted in 1994 by the legislature and citizen initiative, in its first six years snared over 50,000 “strikers,” each eligible for at least a doubling of their normal sentence, with 5,887 “third strikers” sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

Gustave Flaubert: Later years of Gustave Flaubert: …Pécuchet, in order to write Trois Contes, containing the three short stories “Un Coeur simple,” a tale about the drab and simple life of a faithful servant; “La Légende de Saint Julien l’Hospitalier”; and “Hérodias.” This book, through the diversity of the stories’ themes, shows Flaubert’s talent in all its…

American literature: Miller, Williams, and Albee: …with a complex autobiographical drama, Three Tall Women (1994).

José Carreras: As one of the “Three Tenors” (together with the Italian singer Luciano Pavarotti and the Spanish singer Plácido Domingo), Carreras helped find a larger popular audience for opera.

George Miller: …2022 Miller directed and cowrote Three Thousand Years of Longing, an adaptation of a short story by A.S. Byatt. It centers on a scholar (Tilda Swinton) who discovers a jinni (Idris Elba) and is offered three wishes.

Lionel Richie: …100 number one hit: “Three Times a Lady,” a sentimental ballad in waltz time. The song was written and sung by Richie, who had been inspired by the celebration of his parents’ 37th wedding anniversary. In 1979 the group scored another number one hit with Richie’s love song “Still.”…

Yaacov Agam: Examples of Agam’s works include Three Times Three Interplay (1970–71) and The Thousand Gates (1972) in the gardens of Israel’s presidential palace in Jerusalem. He also designed an enormous musical fountain situated in the Quartier de la Défense, Paris (1975), and the world’s largest menorah (32 feet [9.75 metres]) in…

Guillermo Cabrera Infante: …he acquired international renown with Tres tristes tigres (1964; Three Trapped Tigers), winner of the Bibliotheca Breve Prize given by the Spanish publisher Seix Barral. In the manner of James Joyce’s Ulysses, this highly successful novel chronicles the adventures of several young characters in Havana’s prerevolutionary nightlife. It is a…

aesthetics: Major concerns of 18th-century aesthetics: …forward by James Harris in Three Treatises (1744) and subsequently made famous by Charles 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…

San-lun, school of Chinese Buddhism derived from the Indian Mādhyamika school. See

Ntozake Shange: …Mississippi Meets the Amazon (1977), Three Views of Mt. Fuji (1987), and The Love Space Demands: A Continuing Saga (1992).

Agnes de Mille: …The Harvest According (1952), and Three Virgins and a Devil (1941).

Clara Bow: …the Mob (1928; now lost), Three Week Ends (1928; now lost), Dangerous Curves (1929), and The Saturday Night Kid (1929).

Elinor Glyn: Three Weeks (1907), the story of a Balkan queen’s adulterous relationship with an Englishman, caused a sensation. It was widely read and condemned. His Hour (1910), one of her best romances, was set in the court of St. Petersburg and was executed in a keenly…

Three Weeks, (“Between the Straits”), in Judaism, a period of mourning running from the 17th day of Tammuz, the fourth month of the Jewish religious year, to the 9th day of Av (Tisha be-Av), the fifth month (variously, about June to August). The observance commemorates the days between the first

Nicholas Sparks: …in his only nonfiction work, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004), in which he and his brother, Micah, share their own emotional responses to the deaths of their parents and sister.

number game: Graphs and networks: …involves the problem of the three wells. Here (Figure 14) A, B, and C represent three neighbours’ houses, and R, S, and T three wells. It is desired to have paths leading from each house to each well, allowing no path to cross any other path. The proof that the…

Magi, in Christian tradition, the noble pilgrims “from the East” who followed a miraculous guiding star to Bethlehem, where they paid homage to the infant Jesus as king of the Jews (Matthew 2:1–12). Christian theological tradition has always stressed that Gentiles as well as Jews came to worship

Lucille Clifton: …Come Cross the Water (1973), Three Wishes (1976), and My Friend Jacob (1980). She also wrote an award-winning series of books featuring events in the life of Everett Anderson, a young Black boy. These include Some of the Days of Everett Anderson (1970), Everett Anderson’s Goodbye (1983), and One of…

Weird Sisters, the creatures who prophesy the destinies of the main characters in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The term Weird Sisters was first used by Scots writers as a sobriquet for the Fates of Greek and Roman mythology. Through its appearance in Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles, the expression passed

Fernand Léger: Three Women (1921) is considered to be the masterpiece of Léger’s mechanical period.

Robert Altman: M*A*S*H and the 1970s: …producer, director, and writer for Three Women (1977). A mystical investigation into the nature of identity (based on a dream Altman had), with Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, and Janice Rule, it polarized critics. Altman and his production company, Lion’s Gate Films, also played an important role in supporting the career…

Sylvia Plath: Other works: It also contains Three Women, a radio play in verse that Plath wrote in 1962. The Bell Jar was reissued in Great Britain under her own name in 1966, and it was published in the United States for the first time in 1971. Johnny Panic and the Bible…

Shailene Woodley: Later roles: Big Little Lies: …sexuality in the limited series Three Women, based on a bestseller of the same name by Lisa Taddeo.

Leonora Carrington: …of three women, such as Three Women Around the Table (1951); they are presumed to be paintings of herself, Varo, and Kati Horna, another friend. Carrington flourished in Mexico and painted fantastical compositions that portrayed metamorphoses. In 1946 she married Hungarian photographer Emerico Weisz and bore two children (1946 and…