Alain Mabanckou: Novels: With Verre cassé (2005; Broken Glass), a comic reflection on French and Congolese cultures and Mabanckou’s second novel to be translated into English, he found a considerable English-language audience. His next fictional offering, Mémoires de porc-épic (2006; Memoirs of a Porcupine), won the Prix Renaudot. It puts a new…

Kristallnacht, the night of November 9–10, 1938, when German Nazis attacked Jewish persons and property. The name Kristallnacht refers ironically to the litter of broken glass left in the streets after these pogroms. The violence continued during the day of November 10, and in some places acts of

John Ford: His plays are: The Broken Heart; The Lover’s Melancholy (1628); ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore; Perkin Warbeck; The Queen; The Fancies, Chaste and Noble; Love’s Sacrifice; and The Lady’s Trial (1638). There are a few contemporary references to Ford, but nothing is known of his personal life, and…

Broken Hill, mining city, west-central New South Wales, Australia. It lies on the eastern flank of the Main Barrier Range, 30 miles (50 km) east of the states’ boundary with South Australia. Known as the Silver City, Broken Hill is situated on one of the world’s richest deposits of silver, lead,

Kabwe, town, central Zambia. It is an important transportation and mining centre north of Lusaka on the Great North Road, situated at an elevation of 3,879 feet (1,182 metres). The Rhodesian Broken Hill Development Company (formed 1903) was instrumental in opening the region to foreign mining

Kabwe cranium, fossilized skull of an extinct human species (genus Homo) found near the town of Kabwe, Zambia (formerly Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia), in 1921. It was the first discovered remains of premodern Homo in Africa and until the early 1970s was considered to be 30,000 to 40,000 years

Brandi Carlile: Later albums: …Random House published Carlile’s memoir, Broken Horses, in which she shared her experiences growing up with a father with alcohol use disorder and her feelings about sexuality, faith, and the importance of music in her life. The book debuted at number one on The New York Times best-seller list.

N.K. Jemisin: …continuing the mortal-versus-god saga are The Broken Kingdoms (2010) and The Kingdom of Gods (2011). Three short stories set in the world of the Inheritance Trilogy were collected in Shades in Shadow (2015).

graph: …most common graph is a broken-line graph, where the independent variable is usually a factor of time. Data points are plotted on such a grid and then connected with line segments to give an approximate curve of, for example, seasonal fluctuations in sales trends. Data points need not be connected…

Ernst Lubitsch: Transition to sound: …Lieutenant, the sombre antiwar drama Broken Lullaby (1932; also released as The Man I Killed), with Lionel Barrymore, was praised for its brilliant camera work, but with his next effort the director returned to his tried-and-true operetta format, reuniting Chevalier and MacDonald in One Hour with You (1932). Thereafter he…

Heinrich von Kleist: …verse, Der zerbrochene Krug (The Broken Pitcher), was unsuccessfully produced by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Weimar. The play employs vividly portrayed rustic characters, skillful dialogue, earthy humour, and subtle realism in its depiction of the fallibility of human feeling and the flaws inherent in human justice. It ranks…

Semitic languages: Nouns and adjectives: …constitute the class of “broken” plurals, while the remaining nouns, which use a long-vowel ending to mark plurality, are called the “sound” type. In the other Semitic languages, the sound method of plural formation predominates, though residual traces in the remaining Semitic languages, as in Syriac ḥemrā, plural of…

Arundhati Roy: Nonfiction works: …Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers (2009), Broken Republic: Three Essays (2011), and Capitalism: A Ghost Story (2014). My Seditious Heart (2019) is a collection of her nonfiction spanning 20 years.

broken rhyme, a rhyme in which one of the rhyming elements is actually two words (i.e., “gutteral” with “sputter all”). A broken rhyme may also involve a division of a word by the break between two lines in order to end a line with a rhyme provided by the first part of the word, as in the second

rice: Rice processing and uses: Broken rice is used in brewing, distilling, and in the manufacture of starch and rice flour. Hulls are used for fuel, packing material, industrial grinding, fertilizer manufacture, and in the manufacture of an industrial chemical called furfural. The straw is used for feed, livestock bedding,…

Toronto: Cultural life: Cowboy Junkies, Barenaked Ladies, Broken Social Scene, Drake, and Feist.

Kobayashi Makoto: …discovery of the origin of broken symmetry, which created at least six quarks moments after the big bang.

heaves, chronic disorder of the lungs of horses and cows, characterized by difficult breathing and wheezy cough. The symptoms are worsened by vigorous exercise, sudden weather changes, and overfeeding. Heaves resulting from bronchitis may be associated with the feeding of dusty or moldy hay. In

broken windows theory, academic theory proposed by James Q. Wilson and George Kelling in 1982 that used broken windows as a metaphor for disorder within neighbourhoods. Their theory links disorder and incivility within a community to subsequent occurrences of serious crime. Broken windows theory

broken-backed line, in poetry, a line truncated in the middle. The term is used especially of John Lydgate’s poetry, many lines of which have nine syllables and appear to lack an unstressed syllable at the medial break or

agency: Broker (German Mäkler, French courtier, Italian mediatore): The broker is a business agent who is completely independent of his principal. In the area of employment brokerage or placement services, most European countries have passed special regulatory legislation to protect the interests of those persons using…

A broker-dealer is typically a firm whose business is buying and selling stocks, bonds, and funds for itself and for others. Broker-dealers thus perform both the work of brokers, who buy and sell securities for the accounts of their clients, and dealers, who buy and sell securities for their own

brokerage, process in which individuals called brokers act as intermediaries between individuals or groups who do not have direct access to each other. The broker provides a link between those segmented or isolated groups or individuals so that access to goods, services, or information is enabled.

Kentucky Derby: History: …jockeys of the winning horse, Brokers Tip, and the runner-up, Head Play, engaged in horseback fisticuffs as their mounts galloped toward the finish line, in what would become known as the “Fighting Finish.”) Race relations in the United States have also been reflected in African Americans’ participation in the Derby.…

Western sculpture: Central Europe: …of Matyás Bernard Braun and Ferdinand Maximilián Brokoff, with their dynamism and expressive gestures, were truly Bohemian in spirit.

Brokopondo, town, central Suriname. It is located along the Suriname River, between the Pheda Dam to the north and the Afobaka Dam to the south. Aluminum is produced from bauxite in Brokopondo, using hydroelectric power generated by the dams. The town has an airstrip. Pop. (2004)

Suriname: Resources and power: The Brokopondo Dam and a hydroelectric power plant on the Suriname River produce electricity for the bauxite-refining operations in Paranam. The dam impounds the 600-square-mile (1,550-square-km) W.J. van Blommestein Lake.

Josh Brolin: Early life: …director and wildlife activist, and James Brolin, an actor. He grew up on a horse ranch in the Templeton, California, area. In the early 1980s, he moved to Santa Barbara and attended high school there. A rebellious teenager, he stole car radios and began drinking and doing drugs. His parents…

Josh Brolin is an American actor who made his film debut in the cult classic The Goonies (1985) and later appeared in such acclaimed movies as No Country for Old Men (2007) and Milk (2008). Brolin is the eldest of two sons born to Jane Cameron Agee, a casting director and wildlife activist, and

Josh Brolin is an American actor who made his film debut in the cult classic The Goonies (1985) and later appeared in such acclaimed movies as No Country for Old Men (2007) and Milk (2008). Brolin is the eldest of two sons born to Jane Cameron Agee, a casting director and wildlife activist, and

’Brom-ston was a Tibetan Buddhist, member of the school of the 11th-century reformer Atīśa. He translated much of the Buddhist sacred literature, including Tantra texts, into classic Tibetan and possibly (c. 1060) made the definitive arrangement of the Kanjur and Tanjur, the two basic Tibetan

Bydgoszcz, city, one of two capitals (with Toruń) of Kujawsko-Pomorskie województwo (province), northern Poland, near the confluence of the Brda and Vistula rivers. Beginning as a frontier stronghold, Bydgoszcz was seized by the Teutonic Knights in the 13th century; it received town rights in 1346.

Poland: John II Casimir Vasa: >Bydgoszcz) in 1657.

Bydgoszcz Canal, canal in north-central Poland that links the Vistula River basin with that of the Oder River. The canal extends for 27 km (17 miles) between Nakło and the inland port city of Bydgoszcz. Construction of the 19-metre- (62-foot-) wide canal and its eight locks was completed in 1774

bromegrass, (genus Bromus), genus of approximately 160 annual and perennial grasses in the family Poaceae, found in temperate and cool climates. More than 40 species are found in the United States, a number of which are imporant forage grasses. Several species, including cheatgrass (Bromus

Alexander Brome was a Royalist poet who wrote drinking songs and satirical verses against the Rump Parliament in England. Brome was probably an attorney in the Lord Mayor’s Court or the Court of King’s Bench. Izaak Walton wrote an introductory eclogue to Brome’s Songs and Other Poems (1661), a

Richard Brome was an English dramatist generally deemed the most considerable of the minor Jacobean playwrights. Nothing is known of Brome’s origins. As early as 1614, he is known to have been in Ben Jonson’s service, probably acting as Jonson’s secretary and domestic. The relationship developed

bromegrass, (genus Bromus), genus of approximately 160 annual and perennial grasses in the family Poaceae, found in temperate and cool climates. More than 40 species are found in the United States, a number of which are imporant forage grasses. Several species, including cheatgrass (Bromus

Bromeliaceae, the pineapple family of the flowering plants (order Poales), with more than 3,000 species across 56 genera. All but one species are native to the tropical New World and the West Indies. Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) and the edible fruit of the pineapple (Ananas comosus) are the

Bromeliaceae, the pineapple family of the flowering plants (order Poales), with more than 3,000 species across 56 genera. All but one species are native to the tropical New World and the West Indies. Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) and the edible fruit of the pineapple (Ananas comosus) are the

Louis Bromfield was an American novelist and essayist. The son of a farmer, Bromfield studied journalism at Columbia University and was decorated for his service in the French army, which he joined at the outbreak of World War I. After the war he worked as a music critic in New York City for a few

halogen: Oxidation: fluorides, chlorides, bromides, iodides, and astatides. Many of the halides may be considered to be salts of the respective hydrogen halides, which are colourless gases at room temperature and atmospheric pressure and (except for hydrogen fluoride) form strong acids in aqueous solution. Indeed, the general term salt…

bromine (Br), chemical element, a deep red noxious liquid, and a member of the halogen elements, or Group 17 (Group VIIa) of the periodic table. atomic number 35 atomic weight [79.901, 79.907] melting point −7.2 °C (19 °F) boiling point 59 °C (138 °F) specific gravity 3.12 at 20 °C (68 °F)

Dionysus, in Greco-Roman religion, a nature god of fruitfulness and vegetation, especially known as a god of wine and ecstasy. The occurrence of his name on a Linear B tablet (13th century bce) shows that he was already worshipped in the Mycenaean period, although it is not known where his cult

Bromley, outer borough of London, England, on the southeastern perimeter of the metropolis. Most of the borough is part of the historic county of Kent, but its westernmost extensions belong historically to Surrey. Bromley is the largest in area of the London boroughs. The present borough of Bromley

alstonite, a barium and calcium carbonate mineral, CaBa(CO3)2, with minor amounts of strontium. It is colourless or light gray or pink in appearance and is also transparent or translucent. Its crystal structure is orthorhombic and is identical to that of aragonite, with barium and calcium in

isomerism: Enantiomers: …one possible result would be bromochlorofluoroiodomethane (CBrClFI). The mirror images of this molecule are not superimposable. There are definitely two enantiomers of this molecule.

Parkinson disease: Treatment: …brain, such as pergolide and bromocriptine, and agents that slow the degradation of dopamine, such as selegiline. In addition, the antiviral agent amantadine can reduce certain symptoms of the disease.

chemical compound: Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy: …the proton NMR spectrum of bromoethane, the hydrogen atoms of the CH3 group appear at about 1.6 ppm and the hydrogens of the CH2 group at about 3.3 ppm. Atoms in a molecule have different chemical shifts because they experience slightly different local magnetic fields owing to the presence of…

bromine: Production and use: tetrabromoethane (C2H2Br4) and bromoform (CHBr3), which are used as liquids in gauges because of their high specific gravity. Until the development of barbiturates in the early 20th century, bromides of potassium, sodium, calcium, strontium, lithium, and ammonium were used widely in medicine because

methyl bromide, a colourless, nonflammable, highly toxic gas (readily liquefied) belonging to the family of organic halogen compounds. It is used as a fumigant against insects and rodents in food, tobacco, and nursery stock; smaller amounts are used in the preparation of other organic compounds.

stock: Gillyflowers, or common stock (Matthiola incana), are biennials native to southwestern Europe and western Asia. It is one of the most important species used by the floral and horticultural industries. The plants feature narrowly oval deep green leaves and produce 60- to 80-cm (25- to 30-inch) spikes…

Lennart Torstenson: …Denmark (1643), resulting in the Treaty of Brömsebro in 1645, through which Sweden gained Jämtland and Härjedalen counties from Norway and the islands of Gotland and Ösel in the Baltic Sea.

Rüdesheim: The Brömserburg, an early castle of the archbishops of Mainz, was rebuilt as a residence about 1200 and later belonged to the knights of Rüdesheim; it now houses historical collections and a wine museum. Half-timber houses, narrow streets, and old inns give the town a medieval…

Bromsgrove: district, administrative and historic county of Worcestershire, west-central England.

Bromsgrove, town and district, administrative and historic county of Worcestershire, west-central England. The town of Bromsgrove has surviving half-timbered houses, including the Hop Pole Inn (1572). Parts of the grammar school were constructed in 1533, and there are several Georgian houses on

liver function test: …substances as hippuric acid and Bromsulphalein. Other diagnostic measures of liver function are based on the following: X-ray, following the opacification of liver structures with a radiopaque substance; biopsy; the administration of a radioactive compound that is absorbed to different degrees by healthy and diseased liver cells; and the mapping…

bromegrass, (genus Bromus), genus of approximately 160 annual and perennial grasses in the family Poaceae, found in temperate and cool climates. More than 40 species are found in the United States, a number of which are imporant forage grasses. Several species, including cheatgrass (Bromus

bromegrass: Rescue grass (B. catharticus), a winter annual introduced from South America into the United States as a forage and pasture grass, and smooth brome (B. inermis), a perennial native to Eurasia and introduced into the northern United States as a forage plant and soil binder,…

bromegrass: Cheatgrass, ripgut grass (B. diandrus), and foxtail brome (B. rubens) are dangerous to grazing animals; spines on their spikelets or bracts can puncture the animals’ eyes, mouths, and intestines, leading to infection and possible death.

bromegrass: …forage and pasture grass, and smooth brome (B. inermis), a perennial native to Eurasia and introduced into the northern United States as a forage plant and soil binder, are economically important bromegrasses. The common weed chess (B. secalinus), sometimes known as cheat, is found along roadsides and in grain fields.…

bromegrass: diandrus), and foxtail brome (B. rubens) are dangerous to grazing animals; spines on their spikelets or bracts can puncture the animals’ eyes, mouths, and intestines, leading to infection and possible death.

bromegrass: The common weed chess (B. secalinus), sometimes known as cheat, is found along roadsides and in grain fields. Cheatgrass, ripgut grass (B. diandrus), and foxtail brome (B. rubens) are dangerous to grazing animals; spines on their spikelets or bracts can puncture the animals’ eyes, mouths, and intestines, leading…

bromegrass: Several species, including cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum), are invasive species in areas outside their native range.

bromine: Production and use: Silver bromide (AgBr), an important component of photographic film, is, like silver chloride and iodide, light sensitive. Traces of potassium bromate (KBrO3) are added to wheat flour to improve baking. Other bromine compounds of significance include hydrogen bromide (HBr), a colorless gas used as a…

bronchus, any of the large airway passages of the lower respiratory tract that diverge from the trachea (windpipe) and connect to the lungs. The trachea divides in an inverted Y into the two stem (or main) bronchi, one each for the left and right lung. The right main bronchus has a larger diameter,

asthma, a chronic disorder of the lungs in which inflamed airways are prone to constrict, causing episodes of wheezing, chest tightness, coughing, and breathlessness that range in severity from mild to life-threatening. Asthma affects about 7–10 percent of children and about 7–9 percent of adults,

bronchiectasis, an abnormal expansion of the bronchial tubes in the lungs as a result of infection or obstruction. Usually the disorder occurs as the result of a preexisting lung disease, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis. Certain inherited

respiratory disease: Diseases of the smaller bronchi and bronchioles: It is in the smaller bronchi that major obstruction commonly occurs in asthma: these bronchi contain smooth muscle in their walls, and the muscle may contract, causing airway obstruction. The small radicles of the bronchial tree, the bronchioles, are commonly involved in infective processes such…

respiratory syncytial virus: Severe bronchiolitis and pneumonia caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) occurs most commonly in the elderly and in young children. An estimated 60 to 70 percent of children have been infected with RSV by age one, and nearly all children have been infected by age two.…

bronchitis, inflammation of all or part of the bronchial tree (the bronchi), through which air passes into the lungs. The most obvious symptoms are a sensation of chest congestion and a mucus-producing cough. Under ordinary circumstances, the sensitive mucous membranes lining the inner surfaces of

asthma: Treatment and management of asthma: …anti-inflammatory agents, which suppress inflammation; bronchodilators, which relax smooth muscle constriction and open the airways; and leukotriene receptor antagonists (LTRAs; sometimes called leukotriene modifiers), which interrupt the chemical signaling within the body that leads to constriction and inflammation. These medications may be taken on a long-term daily basis to maintain…

oxygen therapy: Side effects: Bronchopulmonary dysplasia, a chronic disorder affecting infants, is characterized by absent or abnormal repair of lung tissue following high-pressure or excessive oxygen administration.

human respiratory system: Pulmonary segments: …subdivided into smaller units, the pulmonary segments. There are 10 segments in the right lung and, depending on the classification, eight to 10 segments in the left lung. Unlike the lobes, the pulmonary segments are not delimited from each other by fissures but by thin membranes of connective tissue containing…

Cleveland Guardians, American professional baseball team based in Cleveland that plays in the American League (AL). Since it began playing as a major league team in Cleveland in 1901, it has won six AL pennants and two World Series titles, the first in 1920 and the second in 1948. It changed its

bronchoscopy, medical examination of the bronchial tissues using a lighted instrument known as a bronchoscope. The procedure is commonly used to aid the diagnosis of respiratory disease in persons with persistent cough or who are coughing up blood, as well as in persons who have abnormal chest

bronchus, any of the large airway passages of the lower respiratory tract that diverge from the trachea (windpipe) and connect to the lungs. The trachea divides in an inverted Y into the two stem (or main) bronchi, one each for the left and right lung. The right main bronchus has a larger diameter,

Clint Eastwood: First directorial efforts: The gentle good humor pervading Bronco Billy (1980) was far removed from the mayhem of his westerns and cop movies; Eastwood was deft as the proprietor of a two-bit Wild West show who gives shelter to, then falls in love with, a runaway heiress (Locke). Firefox (1982) was a high-tech…

Phoenix Mercury: …Mercury hired former WNBA player Sandy Brondello as head coach. In her first season with the team Phoenix rolled to a league-best 29–5 record and swept the Chicago Sky in the finals to claim a third championship, with Taurasi winning her second finals MVP award. In 2015 Phoenix went 20–14…

Battleship Potemkin, Soviet silent film, released in 1925, that was director Sergey M. Eisenstein’s tribute to the early Russian revolutionaries and is widely regarded as a masterpiece of international cinema. The film is based on the mutiny of Russian sailors against their tyrannical superiors

Vsevolod Ivanov: In 1927 he reworked Armoured Train 14–69— which had been severely criticized for neglecting the role of the Communist Party in the partisan movement—into a play, correcting this flaw. The drama enjoyed immediate success and has become one of the classics of the Soviet repertory. In his works composed…

Urie Bronfenbrenner was a Russian-born American psychologist best known for having developed human ecology theory (ecological systems theory), in which individuals are seen as maturing not in isolation but within the context of relationships, such as those involving families, friends, schools,

Seagram Company Ltd.: Edgar M. Bronfman, Jr., succeeded his father in 1989 and began selling the company’s liquor businesses to competitors while purchasing entertainment companies such as MCA (including Universal Pictures) and Polygram NV. Seagram merged with French media companies Canal Plus and Vivendi in 2000. By 2002…

Akan languages: are Asante (Ashanti), Fante (Fanti), Brong (Abron), and Akuapem. The Akan cluster is located primarily in southern Ghana, although many Brong speakers live in eastern Côte d’Ivoire. Altogether speakers of Akan dialects and languages number more than seven million. Written forms of Asante and Akuapem (both formerly considered to be…

Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart was a French botanist whose classification of fossil plants, which drew surprisingly accurate relations between extinct and existing forms prior to Charles Darwin’s principles of organic evolution, earned him distinction as the founder of modern paleobotany. Brongniart

Alexandre Brongniart was a French mineralogist, geologist, and naturalist, who first arranged the geologic formations of the Tertiary Period (66.4 to 1.6 million years ago) in chronological order and described them. (The Tertiary Period was later replaced with the Paleogene and Neogene periods;

Père-Lachaise Cemetery: …site was designed by architect Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart and further developed by urban planner Nicolas Frochot. Initially, because of its location on the outskirts of the city (it was incorporated into the Ville de Paris in 1860), Père-Lachaise was used for reburials from older cemeteries. In order to advertise the cemetery…

Władysław Broniewski was a Polish poet of exceptional emotional power and impact. Broniewski, born into the intelligentsia, left high school in 1915 to join the Polish legions under the command of Józef Piłsudski, and he fought in the front lines. He was interned by the Germans in 1917 and released

Jacob Bronowski was a Polish-born British mathematician and man of letters who eloquently presented the case for the humanistic aspects of science. While Bronowski was still a child, his family immigrated to Germany and then to England, where he became a naturalized British subject. He won a

Paul Bronsart von Schellendorf was a soldier, military writer, and minister of war who helped reform the Prussian army of the 1880s. Entering the army in 1849, Bronsart became a protégé of the Prussian chief of the general staff, Helmuth von Moltke, held high staff appointments during the

Leon Trotsky was a communist theorist and agitator, a leader in Russia’s October Revolution in 1917, and later commissar of foreign affairs and of war in the Soviet Union (1917–24). In the struggle for power following Vladimir Ilich Lenin’s death, however, Joseph Stalin emerged as victor, while

disco: Influence on pop, new wave, house, and techno: …were the Pet Shop Boys, Bronski Beat, and Wham!, as well as the latter group’s breakout solo star, George Michael. In Chicago and Detroit, disco mutated into house and techno, respectively. One of house’s creators, Frankie Knuckles, was a deejay who had first made his name spinning disco.

Tom Hardy: …year with his next film, Bronson, a fictionalized biography of Charles Bronson, a man known as Britain’s most notorious and violent prisoner. Hardy’s tour de force performance, which featured him frequently stripping down both literally and emotionally, was widely praised and led to his return to Hollywood with scene-stealing roles…

Charles Bronson was an American motion-picture and television actor who was best known for his portrayal of tough guys. Bronson was one of 15 children of a Lithuanian coal miner and became a miner himself at age 16. He served in the U.S. Army Air Forces as an aircraft gunner during World War II.

Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted was a Danish physical chemist known for a widely applicable acid-base concept identical to that of Thomas Martin Lowry of England. Though both men introduced their definitions simultaneously (1923), they did so independently of each other. Brønsted was also an authority

Brønsted-Lowry theory, a theory, introduced independently in 1923 by the Danish chemist Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted and the English chemist Thomas Martin Lowry, stating that any compound that can transfer a proton to any other compound is an acid, and the compound that accepts the proton is a base.

Brønsted-Lowry theory, a theory, introduced independently in 1923 by the Danish chemist Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted and the English chemist Thomas Martin Lowry, stating that any compound that can transfer a proton to any other compound is an acid, and the compound that accepts the proton is a base.

Mordecai Ardon was an eminent Israeli painter who combined jewel-like, brilliantly coloured forms with virtuoso brushwork. He created modern, semiabstract paintings that are deeply moving. Ardon emigrated from his native Poland to Germany, spending the years 1921–25 at the Weimar Bauhaus, where he

Pablo Bronstein is an Argentine-born artist whose works often reflect his interest in architecture. Bronstein was four years old when his family moved from Buenos Aires to London. He drew compulsively, always creating images of castles and villas. After a brief matriculation in architecture school,

55 Days at Peking: Producer Samuel Bronston had grand ambitions for 55 Days at Peking, and the film represents the epic moviemaking that characterized the golden age of Hollywood. The battle sequences are stunning in their scope, and Beijing was re-created in elaborate and enormous sets. Although these features drew…