Marcel Arland was a French writer who first achieved wide literary recognition in 1929 when his novel L’Ordre earned him the prestigious Prix Goncourt. Arland received his baccalauréat in 1918 and attended classes at the Sorbonne, where he earned a licence-ès-lettres (equivalent to a B.A.) before

airport: Unit terminals: , Heathrow, Arlanda Airport near Stockholm, Barajas Airport near Madrid), or terminals serving different airlines (e.g., Paris’s Charles de Gaulle, John F. Kennedy, Dallas–Fort Worth). The successful operation of unit terminal airports has often required the design of rapid and efficient automatic people movers such as those…

balloon: …Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, marquis d’Arlandes, sailed over Paris in a Montgolfier balloon. They burned wool and straw to keep the air in the balloon hot; their flight covered 5.5 miles (almost 9 km) in about 23 minutes. In December of that year the physicist Jacques Charles,…

Arlberg: tunnel, at the northern end of the Rhaetian Alps, in western Austria. The pass (at 5,882 feet [1,793 m]) forms a divide between the Danube and Rhine river systems. The region is a noted winter sports area, and the Arlberg technique in skiing was perfected…

Arlberg, mountain pass and tunnel, at the northern end of the Rhaetian Alps, in western Austria. The pass (at 5,882 feet [1,793 m]) forms a divide between the Danube and Rhine river systems. The region is a noted winter sports area, and the Arlberg technique in skiing was perfected there by Hannes

Hannes Schneider: …came to be called the Arlberg technique, based on the snowplow, stem, and stem Christiania turns. He helped popularize skiing in the United States.

Harlequin, one of the principal stock characters of the Italian commedia dell’arte; often a facile and witty gentleman’s valet and a capricious swain of the serving maid. In the early years of the commedia (mid-16th century), the Harlequin was a zanni (a wily and covetous comic servant), and he was

Ferruccio Busoni: Two other short operas, Arlecchino and Turandot, composed at Zürich, attempted to revive the commedia dell’arte in modern form. Busoni’s piano works include an immense concerto with choral finale; six sonatinas, which contain the essence of his musical thought; and the great Fantasia Contrappuntistica on an unfinished fugue by…

Harold Arlen was an American composer, arranger, pianist, and vocalist who contributed such popular songs as “Over the Rainbow,” “Blues in the Night,” “Come Rain or Come Shine,” “I Love a Parade,” and “Stormy Weather” to Hollywood movies and Broadway musicals. Arlen was most prolific from 1929

Michael Arlen was a British author whose novels and short stories epitomized the brittle gaiety and underlying cynicism and disillusionment of fashionable post-World War I London society. The son of an Armenian merchant, Arlen was brought up in England, to which his father had escaped to avoid

Harlequin, one of the principal stock characters of the Italian commedia dell’arte; often a facile and witty gentleman’s valet and a capricious swain of the serving maid. In the early years of the commedia (mid-16th century), the Harlequin was a zanni (a wily and covetous comic servant), and he was

Arles, city, Bouches-du-Rhône département, Provence–Alpes–Côte d’Azur région, southeastern France. It is situated on the Camargue plain where the Rhône River divides to form its delta, northwest of Marseille. Already important in the days of the Ligurian tribes, Arles became a leading city of the

Council of Arles, (314 CE), the first representative meeting of Christian bishops in the Western Roman Empire. It was convened at Arles in southern Gaul in August 314 by Emperor Constantine I, primarily to deal with the problem of the Donatists, a schismatic Christian group in North Africa.

Burgundy: History of Burgundy: …the 13th century as the kingdom of Arles—the name Burgundy being increasingly reserved for the county of Burgundy (Cisjurane Burgundy) and for the duchy of Burgundy.

Francesco Cilea: His first important work, L’Arlesiana (1897), after Alphonse Daudet, was the vehicle for the tenor Enrico Caruso’s first success. Cilea’s best-known work, Adriana Lecouvreur, followed in 1902. Cilea was director of the Naples Conservatory from 1916 to 1935. In addition to operas he composed some chamber music.

Georges Bizet: …music for Alphonse Daudet’s play L’Arlésienne (1872), which is marked by a delicacy and tenderness quite new to his music. Besides the happiness of his marriage, which was crowned by the birth of a son in July of this same year, his letters show that he was deeply stirred by…

Arletty was a French actress with a distinguished international reputation for her film characterizations. Arletty worked for a time in a factory and as a secretary before becoming an artist’s model and chorus girl. In 1920 she joined the Théâtre des Capucines and appeared there in innumerable

Sandra Oh: …to film the HBO comedy Arli$$. She played the character Rita Wu, an assistant to a sports agent, for all seven seasons that the show aired. Meanwhile, Oh was cast in minor parts in films such as Bean (1997) and The Red Violin (1998). Supporting roles in the popular movies…

School Board of Nassau County v. Arline: The case centred on Gene Arline, an elementary school teacher in Nassau county, Florida, who had recurring lapses of tuberculosis. After a third bout with the disease, school board officials terminated her employment in 1979. Arline filed suit, claiming that because her dismissal constituted discrimination on the basis of…

Arlington, town (township), Middlesex county, east-central Massachusetts, U.S. It is a northwestern suburb of Boston. Settled in 1635 as part of Cambridge, it was known as Menotomy (from an Algonquian word meaning “swift waters”) until separately incorporated as West Cambridge in 1807. It was

Arlington, city, Tarrant county, northern Texas, U.S., between Fort Worth (west) and Grand Prairie and Dallas (east). Caddo Indians, the first known settlers in the region, were the victims of westward expansion. An early white settlement (1840), on an Indian council site, was called Bird’s Fort.

Arlington, urban county in northern Virginia, U.S., lying across the Potomac River (southwest) from Washington, D.C., and adjoining the city of Alexandria (south). Arlington is connected to Washington by five bridges—Francis Scott Key, Arlington Memorial, George Mason, Theodore Roosevelt, and

Arlington: … at Arlington (1895) and the Arlington Baptist College (1939). Six Flags Over Texas, a large amusement park, is located there, and the city is home to the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball and the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. Lake Arlington, a 2,275-acre (921-hectare) reservoir that provides…

Arlington Central School District Board of Education v. Murphy, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on June 26, 2006, ruled (6–3) that parents who prevail in legal disputes with their school districts under the 1990 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) are not entitled to

Arlington Heights, village, Cook county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. It lies about 30 miles (50 km) northwest of downtown Chicago. Settled in 1836, it was known as Dunton for William Dunton, the original settler, until 1874, when the present name was adopted. A rail connection with Chicago was

Arlington National Cemetery: Its central feature is Arlington House, a mansion that was constructed in 1802 in a Classical Revival style and modeled after the Theseum in Athens, Greece. The house, which is situated along the prominent ridges overlooking Washington, is operated by the National Park Service and serves as a memorial…

Arlington National Cemetery, U.S. national burial ground in Arlington county, Virginia, on the Potomac River directly opposite Washington, D.C. Located on the antebellum plantation of George Washington Parke Custis, the adopted son of George Washington, the first president of the United States, the

Henry Bennet, 1st earl of Arlington was the secretary of state under King Charles II of England from 1662 to 1674 and a leading member of Charles’s “Cabal” ministry. Besides directing foreign policy for 12 years, Arlington, by creating the nucleus of a “court party” (the future Tories) in the House

Henry Bennet, 1st earl of Arlington was the secretary of state under King Charles II of England from 1662 to 1674 and a leading member of Charles’s “Cabal” ministry. Besides directing foreign policy for 12 years, Arlington, by creating the nucleus of a “court party” (the future Tories) in the House

Arlington: Lake Arlington, a 2,275-acre (921-hectare) reservoir that provides drinking water for the city, is also a popular recreation site. Inc. 1884. Pop. (2010) 365,438; Fort Worth–Arlington Metro Division, 2,136,022; Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington Metro Area, 6,371,773; (2020) 394,266; Fort Worth–Arlington–Grapevine Metro Division, 2,507,421; Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington Metro Area,…

George Arliss was an actor noted for his portrayal of historic personages in many motion pictures. Arliss began his acting career in 1887 but did not have his first substantial success until he appeared with Mrs. Patrick Campbell in London during the 1900–01 season. In 1902 he played in The Second

Roberto Arlt was a novelist, short-story writer, dramatist, and journalist who pioneered the novel of the absurd in Argentinian literature. A first-generation descendant of German immigrants, Arlt felt alienated from Argentine society. The world of his novels El juguete rabioso (1926; “The Rabid

Harold Arlen was an American composer, arranger, pianist, and vocalist who contributed such popular songs as “Over the Rainbow,” “Blues in the Night,” “Come Rain or Come Shine,” “I Love a Parade,” and “Stormy Weather” to Hollywood movies and Broadway musicals. Arlen was most prolific from 1929

Malcolm Turnbull: …Turnbull became associated with the Australian Republican Movement (ARM), serving as its chairman from 1993 to 2000. He was one of the chief supporters of the unsuccessful referendum in 1999 that would have replaced the British-appointed governor-general with an Australian president as chief of state.

United States: The George W. Bush administration: …mortgages, most of which were adjustable-rate mortgages (ARM) at low, so-called teaser, interest rates that ballooned after a few years. The rates for many of those ARMs jumped at the same time that overbuilding undercut the housing market; foreclosures mounted, and investment banks that under recent deregulation had been allowed…

Patrice Tlhopane Motsepe: …a successful multifaceted mining company, African Rainbow Minerals (ARM).

arm, in zoology, either of the forelimbs or upper limbs of ordinarily bipedal vertebrates, particularly humans and other primates. The term is sometimes restricted to the proximal part, from shoulder to elbow (the distal part is then called the forearm). In brachiating (tree-swinging) primates the

chemoreception: Specialized chemosensory structures: …sensilla are often borne on tentacles.

cephalopod: Locomotion: …aided by lateral expansions (swimming keels) on the outer surface of the third pair of arms. Some squids (Onychoteuthis, Thysanoteuthis) are able to “fly” for several hundred feet, driven into the air by powerful thrusts from their jets and gliding on their expanded fins and arm keels. This normally…

automation: The robot manipulator: …into two sections: (1) an arm-and-body, which usually consists of three joints connected by large links, and (2) a wrist, consisting of two or three compact joints. Attached to the wrist is a gripper to grasp a work part or a tool (e.g., a spot-welding gun) to perform a process.…

United States: Civil rights legislation: …own political party in the National Union Convention, which met in Philadelphia in August 1866; and in August and September he visited many Northern and Western cities in order to defend his policies and to attack the Republican leaders. At the president’s urging, every Southern state except Tennessee overwhelmingly rejected…

brachiation, in animal behaviour, specialized form of arboreal locomotion in which movement is accomplished by swinging from one hold to another by the arms. The process is highly developed in the gibbon and siamang, which are anatomically adapted for it in the length of their forelimbs, their long

Luwian: …god had the same name, Arma, in both languages. The presence of Luwian magical rituals in the Hittite capital indicates that Luwians had a certain reputation as magicians. The Luwians assimilated the general characteristics of Hittite civilization, making it difficult to determine distinctly Luwian cultural traits. The art of the…

Carabiniere, one of the national police forces of Italy. Originally an elite military organization in the Savoyard states, the corps became part of the Italian armed forces at the time of national unification (1861). For almost 140 years the Carabinieri were considered part of the army, but in 2000

Carabiniere, one of the national police forces of Italy. Originally an elite military organization in the Savoyard states, the corps became part of the Italian armed forces at the time of national unification (1861). For almost 140 years the Carabinieri were considered part of the army, but in 2000

Spanish Armada, the great fleet sent by King Philip II of Spain in 1588 to invade England in conjunction with a Spanish army from Flanders. England’s attempts to repel this fleet involved the first naval battles to be fought entirely with heavy guns, and the failure of Spain’s enterprise saved

Spanish Armada, the great fleet sent by King Philip II of Spain in 1588 to invade England in conjunction with a Spanish army from Flanders. England’s attempts to repel this fleet involved the first naval battles to be fought entirely with heavy guns, and the failure of Spain’s enterprise saved

Spanish Armada, the great fleet sent by King Philip II of Spain in 1588 to invade England in conjunction with a Spanish army from Flanders. England’s attempts to repel this fleet involved the first naval battles to be fought entirely with heavy guns, and the failure of Spain’s enterprise saved

pill bug: A. nasatum, native to northern Europe, has been introduced into North America. Armadillo officinalis (family Armadillidae), which attains lengths of 19 millimetres (0.75 inch), is native to southern Europe.

pill bug: The common pill bug Armadillidium vulgare (family Armadillididae) is about 17 millimetres (0.7 inch) long. The gray body, with its platelike segments, somewhat resembles a miniature armadillo, an armoured mammal that also curls into a ball when disturbed. A. vulgare occurs in dry, sunny places, in…

armadillo, (family Dasypodidae), any of various armoured mammals found mainly in tropical and subtropical regions of Central and South America. Most of the 20 species inhabit open areas, such as grasslands, but some also live in forests. All armadillos possess a set of plates called the carapace

armadillo lizard, (species Cordylus cataphractus), a southern African member of the family Cordylidae, known for its defensive body posture. This lizard is about 25 cm (10 inches) long. When danger threatens, it forms a ball by rolling on its back and taking its tail in its mouth. Protected by

pill bug: Armadillo officinalis (family Armadillidae), which attains lengths of 19 millimetres (0.75 inch), is native to southern Europe.

Skunk Hour: It is modeled on “The Armadillo,” a poem by Elizabeth Bishop; both poets dedicated their respective poems to each other. Composed of eight six-line stanzas, “Skunk Hour” is one in a series of confessional poems that characterized Lowell’s verse from the 1950s.

Lucine Amara was an American operatic soprano, prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera (Met) in New York. She was regarded as one of the finest lyric sopranos of her generation. Amara studied singing in San Francisco, where she sang in the chorus of the San Francisco Opera (1945–46) and made her

Armageddon, (probably Hebrew: “Hill of Megiddo”), in the New Testament, place where the kings of the earth under demonic leadership will wage war on the forces of God at the end of history. Armageddon is mentioned in the Bible only once, in the Revelation to John, or the Apocalypse of St. John

J.J. Abrams: …movies: Gone Fishin’ (1997) and Armageddon (1998).

Kurt Vonnegut: Posthumous works: Vonnegut’s posthumously published works include Armageddon in Retrospect (2008), a collection of fiction and nonfiction that focuses on war and peace, and a number of previously unpublished short stories, assembled in Look at the Birdie (2009) and While Mortals Sleep (2011). We Are What We Pretend to Be (2012) comprised…

Anne Hathaway: WeCrashed and The Idea of You: …2022 include the family drama Armageddon Time, which centers on a six grader’s coming-of-age and addresses issues of privilege and racism.

Armagh: …consolidated the former district of Armagh with the former districts of Banbridge and Craigavon to form the new single district of Armagh City, Banbridge, and Craigavon. The former district of Armagh was located south of Lough (lake) Neagh and bordered by the former districts of Dungannon to the northwest, Craigavon…

Armagh, city, Armagh City, Banbridge, and Craigavon district, southern Northern Ireland. The hill fort of Ard Mhacha, around which modern Armagh city developed, became important in the 4th century. In the 5th century St. Patrick established his principal church in Ireland on the hill fort site,

Armagh, former (until 1973) county, Northern Ireland. It was bounded by Lake Neagh (north), former County Tyrone (northwest), former County Down (east), and by the Republic of Ireland (south and west). In late prehistoric times and at the dawn of history, Armagh was an important populated area in

Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, district, southeastern Northern Ireland. It is bounded to the north by Lough Neagh, to the northeast by the Lisburn and Castlereagh City district, to the east and south by the Newry, Mourne and Down district, and to the southwest by the republic of Ireland. The

Ireland: Conversion: A 9th-century record, the Book of Armagh, includes a work by Patrick himself, the Confessio (“Confession,” a reply to charges made by British ecclesiastics), in which he describes his life at a Roman villa in Britain, his capture by Irish raiders, and his seven years of slavery in Ireland.…

brandy: …finest of all brandies, and Armagnac, from the Gers region. The sherry-producing centres of Spain and the port-producing centres of Portugal are also known for brandy. Greek brandy includes Metaxa, sweetened and usually darkened with caramel, and ouzo, colourless and flavoured with anise or licorice. American brandy, produced mainly in…

Armagnac, historic region of southwestern France, now contained in the département of Gers. It is a region of hills reaching a height of 1,000 feet (300 m) and is drained by the Gers and other rivers, which descend fanwise from the Lannemezan Plateau. On the slopes of its hills grow the grapes from

Jean de France, duc de Berry: …the Orléanist, later called the Armagnac, faction. After he was attacked by the Burgundians (1412), he resumed his role as mediator in the peace of Auxerre in 1412 and of Pontoise in 1413. Berry also helped deliver Charles VI’s unsuccessful cession plan (the retirement of two rival popes for the…

Armagnac: …made it possible for Count Bernard VII to play a major role in France’s internal conflicts of the early 15th century. The Armagnac party was formed in opposition to the Burgundians as a result of the murder of Louis, duke of Orléans (brother of the mad king Charles VI), by…

Ayi Kwei Armah is a Ghanaian novelist whose work deals with corruption and materialism in contemporary Africa. Armah was educated in local mission schools and at Achimota College before going to the United States in 1959 to complete his secondary education at Groton School and his bachelor’s degree

amesha spenta: Spenta Armaiti (Beneficent Devotion), the spirit of devotion and faith, guides and protects the believer. She presides over Earth. Haurvatāt (Wholeness or Perfection) and Ameretāt (Immortality) are often mentioned together as sisters. They preside over water and plants and may come to the believer as…

ArmaLite rifle, any of several lightweight, small-caliber assault rifles designed by the American manufacturer ArmaLite, Inc. The first ArmaLite rifle, the AR-10, was a 7.62-millimetre, gas-operated weapon with a length of 40.5 inches (102.9 cm) and a weight of 8.8 pounds (4.0 kg). It did not

South Africa: The National Party and apartheid: …to South Africa in 1964, Armaments Corporation of South Africa (Armscor) was created to produce high-quality military equipment.

Vlach, any of a group of Romance-language speakers who live south of the Danube in what are now southern Albania, northern Greece, the Republic of Macedonia, and southwestern Bulgaria. Vlach is the English-language term used to describe such an individual. The majority of Vlachs speak Aromanian,

Giorgio Armani is an Italian fashion designer whose signature style of relaxed yet luxurious ready-to-wear and elegant, intricately beaded evening wear helped introduce ease and streamlined modernity to late 20th-century and early 21st-century dressing. The son of a shipping manager, Armani

Armant, ancient town in Upper Egypt, near Thebes on the west bank of the Nile River. It was the seat of a sun cult and was a crowning place of kings. The war god Mont was worshiped there in hawk-headed human form and also in his epiphany, the bull Buchis. Armant was probably the original home of

Julio Cortázar: …the Game”), was followed by Las armas secretas (1958; “The Secret Weapons”). Some of those stories were translated into English as End of the Game, and Other Stories (1967). The main character of “El perseguidor” (“The Pursuer”), one of the stories in Las armas secretas, embodies many of the traits…

Havana: City layout: …of the 19th century, the Plaza de Armas in Old Havana was the centre of Cuban life. Its most famous building, completed in 1793, is the Palace of the Captains General, an ornate structure that housed the Spanish colonial governors and, from 1902, three Cuban presidents. The building is now…

motion-picture technology: History: When this so-called Latham loop was applied to cameras and projectors with intermittent movement, the growth and shrinkage of the loops on either side of the shutter adjusted for the disparity between the stop-and-go motion at the aperture and the continuous movement of the reels (see Figure 6).

History of film: Edison and the Lumière brothers: …a state-of-the-art projector, developed by Thomas Armat of Washington, D.C., which incorporated a superior intermittent movement mechanism and a loop-forming device (known as the Latham loop, after its earliest promoters, Grey Latham and Otway Latham) to reduce film breakage, and in early 1896 Edison began to manufacture and market this…

armatole, any of the Greeks who discharged certain military and police duties under Ottoman authority in districts known as armatoliks. This police organization had its origins in Byzantine times, when armatolismos was a form of feudalism under which military and police duties were rendered in

armatole, any of the Greeks who discharged certain military and police duties under Ottoman authority in districts known as armatoliks. This police organization had its origins in Byzantine times, when armatolismos was a form of feudalism under which military and police duties were rendered in

armatole, any of the Greeks who discharged certain military and police duties under Ottoman authority in districts known as armatoliks. This police organization had its origins in Byzantine times, when armatolismos was a form of feudalism under which military and police duties were rendered in

armatole, any of the Greeks who discharged certain military and police duties under Ottoman authority in districts known as armatoliks. This police organization had its origins in Byzantine times, when armatolismos was a form of feudalism under which military and police duties were rendered in

Joan Armatrading is a British singer-songwriter, the first Black woman in the United Kingdom to make an impact performing her own compositions. First touted by the critics in the 1970s, she maintained a devoted audience into the 21st century. As a child, Armatrading emigrated with her family from

Joan Armatrading is a British singer-songwriter, the first Black woman in the United Kingdom to make an impact performing her own compositions. First touted by the critics in the 1970s, she maintained a devoted audience into the 21st century. As a child, Armatrading emigrated with her family from

electric motor: Direct-current commutator motors: …supply is connected to the armature terminals such that a current enters at the positive terminal. This current interacts with the magnetic flux to produce a counterclockwise torque, which in turn accelerates the rotor. When the rotor has turned about 120°, the connection from the supply to the armature coil…

armature, in sculpture, a skeleton or framework used by an artist to support a figure being modeled in soft plastic material. An armature can be made from any material that is damp-resistant and rigid enough to hold such plastic materials as moist clay and plaster, which are applied to and shaped

Armavir, city, Krasnodar kray (region), southwestern Russia. It lies along the left bank of the Kuban River. Founded in 1839, Armavir became a town in 1914. It is a rail junction on the line from Rostov-na-Donu to Baku. A branch line runs southwestward from Armavir to the Black Sea coast at Tuapse.

Peter Armbruster was a German physicist who led the discovery of atomic elements 107 through 112. Armbruster studied physics at the Technical Universities of Stuttgart and Munich (1952–57). He received a doctorate from the Technical University of Munich in 1961. Armbruster then studied fission and

Andrew Bird: …success continued with the sprawling Armchair Apocrypha (2007), which sold more than 100,000 copies—a considerable number for an independent release. In 2009 Bird released Noble Beast, and its debut at number 12 on the Billboard album chart marked a career high. He returned with Break It Yourself (2012), which found…

Armco Inc., American corporation first incorporated, as the American Rolling Mill Company, on Dec. 2, 1899. It was newly incorporated on June 29, 1917, and was subsequently renamed (using an acronym of the original) in 1948 and 1978 to reflect its diversified interests. Headquarters are in

Armco Inc., American corporation first incorporated, as the American Rolling Mill Company, on Dec. 2, 1899. It was newly incorporated on June 29, 1917, and was subsequently renamed (using an acronym of the original) in 1948 and 1978 to reflect its diversified interests. Headquarters are in

macular degeneration: Age-related macular degeneration: The most common form of macular degeneration is age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and the incidence of this disease increases dramatically with age, affecting approximately 14 percent of those over age 80. AMD is the most common cause of vision loss in the…

Hartmann von Aue: narrative poems (Erec, Gregorius, Der arme Heinrich, Iwein), two shorter allegorical love poems (Büchlein I and II), and 16 lyrics (13 love songs and three Crusading songs). The lyrical poems and the two Büchlein appear to have been written first, followed by the narrative poems—his most important works—in the…

Melvin Van Peebles: …the western Posse (1993) and Armed (2018), Mario cowrote, directed, and starred in the feature Baadasssss! (2003), about the making of Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song.

Carlos the Jackal: …network, which he dubbed the Organization of the Armed Arab Struggle (OAAS) in 1978. Carlos married Magdalena Kopp, a West German member of the OAAS, in 1979, and her arrest by French police in 1982 triggered a series of reprisals. Throughout the spring and summer of that year, France was…

scorpaeniform: Reproduction: The European hook-nose (A. cataphractus) lays up to 2,400 eggs inside the hollow rhizoid (stalk) of the kelp Laminaria in a compact, membrane-covered mass. Incubation is prolonged, possibly as long as 12 months.

armed force, constituent element of a country’s combined military services. Modern armed forces are commonly divided into specialized branches dealing with land, naval, and air warfare. The oldest battle accounts show the Egyptian king Thutmose III (1479–26 bce) using specialized infantry, chariot,

Elvis Costello: Forming the Attractions: …the Attractions—This Year’s Model (1978), Armed Forces (1979), and Get Happy!! (1980)—Costello and Lowe developed a distinctive guitar and keyboard mix that was influenced by a variety of 1960s artists, including Booker T. and the MG’s. The most notable work of this early period—rockers such as “This Year’s Girl” and…

Armed Forces Day, public holiday observed in Egypt on October 6, celebrating the day in 1973 when combined Egyptian and Syrian military forces launched a surprise attack on Israel and crossed into the Sinai Peninsula, which marked the beginning of the October (Yom Kippur) War. (Read Britannica’s