Brash, confident, and strong-willed, Australian Dawn Fraser became a dominant figure in women’s swimming during the 1950s and ’60s, despite a penchant for Olympic misadventures that frequently drew the ire of coaches and officials. Fraser was the clear favourite for the gold medal in the 100-metre

Eohippus, (genus Hyracotherium), extinct group of mammals that were the first known horses. They flourished in North America and Europe during the early part of the Eocene Epoch (56 million to 33.9 million years ago). Even though these animals are more commonly known as Eohippus, a name given by

zombie: History: …about the ills of consumerism—with Dawn of the Dead (1978), in which a handful of living people attempt to escape the undead by hiding in a shopping mall. He followed up with a number of related films over the next several decades: Day of the Dead (1985), Land of the…

Zack Snyder: Career: He followed up Dawn of the Dead by directing and contributing to the script for 300, a stylishly violent historical epic about the Battle of Thermopylae starring Gerard Butler as the Spartan king Leonidas. Snyder quickly gained a reputation for his aesthetic eye and cinematography, blending moody darkness…

Ahmed Haşim: In 1909 he joined the Fecr-i âti (“Dawn of the Future”) literary circle but gradually drew apart from this group and developed his own style. Haşim, following the French masters, strove to develop the Turkish Symbolist movement. In a 1924 article on Turkish literature for the French publication Mercure de…

Keri Russell: The Americans and The Diplomat: …Jane Austen, and the action-drama Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014). In 2016 she appeared with Matthew McConaughey in Free State of Jones, set during the American Civil War.

Emmanuel Roblès: Dawn on Our Darkness), a novel set in Sardinia and concerning a man caught between love and duty. Le Vésuve (1961; Vesuvius) and Un Printemps d’Italie (1970; “A Springtime in Italy”) are love stories set in wartime Italy. His later novels include Venise en hiver…

Howard Hawks: Early life and work: The Dawn Patrol (1930), another film about flying, was Hawks’s first true sound film. It was based on a story by John Monk Saunders, whose work had also formed the basis for William Wellman’s Wings (1927), and starred Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., as…

Edmund Goulding: The 1930s: …splash, but Goulding’s remake of The Dawn Patrol (1938) was a major hit. Errol Flynn gave one of his best performances as the squadron leader who cannot bear to see inexperienced pilots sent on dangerous missions; Basil Rathbone and David Niven provided fine support. Goulding’s version of the film, which…

dawn redwood, (Metasequoia glyptostroboides), ancient conifer from central China, the only living species of its genus. The dawn redwood holds an interesting place in the history of paleobotany as one of the few living plants known first as a fossil—a true living fossil. Its fossilized foliage and

Bangkok: History of Bangkok: During these years Wat Arun, noted for its tall spire, Wat Yan Nawa, and Wat Bowon Niwet were completed, Wat Pho was further enlarged, and Wat Sutat was begun. There were, however, few other substantial buildings and fewer paved streets; the river and the network of interconnected canals…

Bernard Patrick O’Dowd: In Dawnward? (1903), his first book of verse, he expressed strong political convictions. The Silent Land followed in 1906, and the philosophical Dominions of the Boundary in 1907. In an important prose pamphlet “Poetry Militant” (1909), O’Dowd, a political and philosophical radical, argued that the poet…

Daur, Mongol people living mainly in the eastern portion of Inner Mongolia autonomous region and western Heilongjiang province of China and estimated in the early 21st century to number more than 132,000. They are one of the official ethnic minorities of China. Their language, which varies widely

Dawson, city, western Yukon, Canada. It lies at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers, near the boundary with the U.S. state of Alaska, 165 miles (265 km) south of the Arctic Circle. The community, named for George M. Dawson, the geologist-explorer, developed after the gold strike at

Dawson, city, western Yukon, Canada. It lies at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers, near the boundary with the U.S. state of Alaska, 165 miles (265 km) south of the Arctic Circle. The community, named for George M. Dawson, the geologist-explorer, developed after the gold strike at

Dawson Creek, city, northeastern British Columbia, Canada. The city lies along Dawson Creek near the Alberta border. It has the Mile “Zero” post marking the beginning of the Alaska Highway and is a terminus of the British Columbia Railway from Vancouver (741 miles [1,193 km] south-southwest) and

Dawson River, river in eastern Queensland, Australia. It rises in the Carnarvon Range and flows southeast, northeast, and north for about 400 miles (640 km) through a 50-mile-wide valley to join the Fitzroy River near Duaringa. The Dawson Valley Irrigation Project (inaugurated 1923) comprises

Dawson’s Creek, American television drama series that depicts the interactions of a group of teens in the fictional town of Capeside, Massachusetts, and, later, Boston. The series debuted on January 20, 1998, and ran for six seasons (1998–2003) and 128 episodes. It became one of the flagship shows

Piltdown man, (Eoanthropus dawsoni), proposed species of extinct hominin (member of the human lineage) whose fossil remains, discovered in England in 1910–12, were later proved to be fraudulent. Piltdown man, whose fossils were sufficiently convincing to generate a scholarly controversy lasting

Washington Nationals: …catcher Gary Carter and outfielders Andre Dawson and Tim Raines, the Expos advanced to their first postseason appearance two years later during the strike-shortened 1981 season. That year they won their first-round series against the Philadelphia Phillies before losing to the eventual world champion Los Angeles Dodgers as the result…

Piltdown man: …series of discoveries in 1910–12, Charles Dawson, an English lawyer and amateur geologist, found what appeared to be the fossilized fragments of a cranium, a jawbone, and other specimens in a gravel formation at Barkham Manor on Piltdown Common near Lewes in Sussex. Dawson took the specimens to Arthur Smith…

George Geoffrey Dawson was an English journalist, editor of The Times from 1912 to 1919 and from 1923 until his retirement in 1941. He changed his surname from Robinson to Dawson following an inheritance in 1917. Dawson was educated at Eton College and at Magdalen College, Oxford, and was elected a

Kansas City Chiefs: Early years in Dallas and the move to Kansas City: The Texans brought in quarterback Len Dawson (like Stram, a future Hall of Famer) before the 1962 season, and Dallas went 11–3 that year, defeating the Houston Oilers in the AFL championship game.

Sir John William Dawson was a Canadian geologist who made numerous contributions to paleobotany and extended the knowledge of Canadian geology. During his term as superintendent of education for Nova Scotia (1850–53), Dawson studied the geology of all parts of the province, making a special

bryophyte: General features: …feet) in height (the moss Dawsonia) or, if reclining, reach lengths of more than 1 metre (3.3 feet; the moss Fontinalis). They are generally less than 3 to 6 cm (1.2 to 2.4 inches) tall, and reclining forms are usually less than 2 cm (0.8 inch) long. Some, however, are…

dawsonite, a carbonate mineral, NaAlCO3 (OH)2, that is probably formed by the decomposition of aluminous silicates. Of low-temperature, hydrothermal origin, it occurs in Montreal, where it was first discovered; near Monte Amiata, Tuscany, Italy; and in Algiers. In the oil shale near Green River,

Ẓāhirīyah: …the 9th century by one Dāwūd ibn Khalaf, though nothing of his work has survived. From Iraq, it spread to Iran, North Africa, and Muslim Spain, where the philosopher Ibn Ḥazm was its chief exponent; much of what is known of early Ẓāhirī theory comes through him. Although it was…

Dax, town, Landes département, Nouvelle-Aquitaine région, southwestern France. It lies on the left bank of the Adour River, 88 miles (142 km) southwest of Bordeaux and 50 miles (80 km) north of the Pyrenees frontier with Spain. The town is a spa resort whose thermal springs and mud baths have been

China: 4th and 3rd millennia bce: …4th and 3rd millennia, the Daxi and Qujialing cultures shared a significant number of traits, including rice production, ring-footed vessels, goblets with sharply angled profiles, ceramic whorls, and black pottery with designs painted in red after firing. Characteristic Qujialing ceramic objects not generally found in Daxi sites include eggshell-thin goblets…

Chang’an, ancient site, north-central China. Formerly the capital of the Han, Sui, and Tang dynasties, it is located near the present-day city of

Beijing: Transportation: A new international airport, Daxing, opened south of the city centre in 2019.

Daxue, brief Chinese text generally attributed to the ancient sage Confucius (551–479 bc) and his disciple Zengzi. For centuries the text existed only as a chapter of the Liji (“Collection of Rituals”), one of the Wujing (“Five Classics”) of Confucianism. When Zhu Xi, a 12th-century philosopher,

Daxue Mountains, great mountain range in western Sichuan province, southwestern China. These enormously high and rugged mountains were formed around the eastern flank of the ancient stable block of the Plateau of Tibet; their formation occurred during successive foldings that took place in the

Daxue Mountains, great mountain range in western Sichuan province, southwestern China. These enormously high and rugged mountains were formed around the eastern flank of the ancient stable block of the Plateau of Tibet; their formation occurred during successive foldings that took place in the

day, time required for a celestial body to turn once on its axis; especially the period of the Earth’s rotation. The sidereal day is the time required for the Earth to rotate once relative to the background of the stars—i.e., the time between two observed passages of a star over the same meridian

Michelangelo: The Medici Chapel: The immensely massive Day and Dusk are relatively tranquil in their mountainous grandeur, though Day perhaps implies inner fire. Both female figures have the tall, slim proportions and small feet considered beautiful at the time, but otherwise they form a contrast: Dawn, a virginal figure, strains upward along…

James Blish: …or, Faust Aleph-Null (1968) and The Day After Judgement (1971), a fantasy in which Satan and his demons conquer Earth.

Jake Gyllenhaal: Films: Donnie Darko, Brokeback Mountain, and Zodiac: …appeared in the disaster film The Day After Tomorrow as the son of Dennis Quaid’s character. Though the movie received only tepid reviews, it was a box-office hit. Gyllenhaal was especially busy in 2005. His credits from that year include Jarhead, about U.S. Marines serving in the Persian Gulf War,…

Michael Rumaker: A Day and a Night at the Baths (1979) and My First Satyrnalia (1981) are semiautobiographical accounts of initiation into New York’s homosexual community. His later novels included To Kill a Cardinal (1992), which was inspired by the ACT UP protest at St. Patrick’s Cathedral…

Sam Wood: Films with the Marx Brothers: …with the Marx Brothers on A Day at the Races. Although not as critically acclaimed as their earlier effort, the comedy was a huge box-office hit. Part of its success was attributed to the fact that the material had been polished through numerous live public performances prior to filming (although…

Robert Lowell: Later works: …a second Pulitzer Prize, and Day by Day (1977). His translations include Phaedra (1963) and Prometheus Bound (1969); Imitations (1961), free renderings of various European poets; and The Voyage and Other Versions of Poems by Baudelaire (1968).

fighter aircraft: A day fighter is an airplane in which weight and space are saved by eliminating the special navigational equipment of the night fighter. The air supremacy, or air superiority, fighter must have long-range capability, to enable it to travel deep into enemy territory to seek out…

History of film: France: …narratives (La Nuit américaine [Day for Night], 1973), and literary adaptations (L’Histoire d’Adèle H. [The Story of Adele H.], 1975; Le Dernier Métro [The Last Metro], 1980).

the Tragically Hip: The Hip in the 1990s: Day for Night is a murky, moody, and mysterious record. Comanager Gregg told the band to re-record it; they told him to butt out. It ended up yielding six Canadian singles, including two of the Hip’s most beloved songs, “Grace, Too” and “Nautical Disaster.”

gecko: …and dirty whites predominating, though Phelsuma, a genus made up of the day geckos of Madagascar, is bright green and active in the daytime. The banded gecko (Coleonyx variegatus), the most widespread native North American species, grows to 15 cm (6 inches) and is pinkish to yellowish tan with darker…

heron: Herons are subdivided into typical herons, night herons, and tiger herons. Typical herons feed during the day. In breeding season some develop showy plumes on the back and participate in elaborate mutual-courtship posturing. Best known of the typical herons are the very large, long-legged and long-necked, plain-hued, crested members…

Nayantara Sahgal: In her fourth novel, The Day in Shadow (1971), for example, the heroine is an educated divorcée struggling in India’s male-dominated society.

Jean Renoir: Early years: …Partie de campagne (released 1946; A Day in the Country), which he finished with great difficulty. A masterpiece of impressionist cinema, this film presents all the poetry and all the charm of the pictorial sense that is, far more than his technique, the basis of his art as a filmmaker.…

Margaret Drabble: …20th century were collected in A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman (2011). She also edited the Oxford Companion to English Literature (1985, 2000).

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band: Composition and design: …in the epic piece “A Day in the Life,” which ultimately came to be revered as one of the greatest songs in the Beatles’ discography. The track combines Lennon’s breathtaking, wistful vocals with discordant orchestral music and, for the middle eight (eight bars in the middle of a conventionally…

Terry McMillan: Later works and career: McMillan’s other novels include A Day Late and a Dollar Short (2001); The Interruption of Everything (2005); Getting to Happy (2010), a sequel to Waiting to Exhale; Who Asked You? (2013); and I Almost Forgot About You (2016). McMillan edited Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American

Berea College v. Kentucky: …the Kentucky legislature passed the Day Law, which prohibited African American and white students from receiving an education at the same school or in schools that were located less than 25 miles (40 km) apart. Insofar as Berea College was the only integrated educational institution in Kentucky, it was clearly…

day-care centre, institution that provides supervision and care of infants and young children during the daytime, particularly so that their parents can hold jobs. Such institutions appeared in France about 1840, and the Société des Crèches was recognized by the French government in 1869. Day-care

A. Alvarez: …unconscious on Hampstead Heath; and Day of Atonement (1991), a psychological thriller.

American literature: The 17th century: …doggerel verse of Calvinistic belief, The Day of Doom (1662). There was some poetry, at least, of a higher order. Anne Bradstreet of Massachusetts wrote some lyrics published in The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America (1650), which movingly conveyed her feelings concerning religion and her family. Ranked still…

Australian literature: Literature from 1940 to 1970: Martin Boyd’s Day of My Delight (1965) defines his family in its historical and moral context, while Hal Porter’s The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony (1963) is a résumé of post-Edwardian Australia as seen in a country town (an audacious but convincing variant on the bush orientation…

Nayantara Sahgal: She also wrote Day of Reckoning: Stories (2015).

Day of Reconciliation, public holiday observed in South Africa on December 16. The holiday originally commemorated the victory of the Voortrekkers (southern Africans of Dutch, German, or Huguenot descent who made the Great Trek) over the Zulus at the Battle of Blood River in 1838. Before the

Day of Reconciliation, public holiday observed in South Africa on December 16. The holiday originally commemorated the victory of the Voortrekkers (southern Africans of Dutch, German, or Huguenot descent who made the Great Trek) over the Zulus at the Battle of Blood River in 1838. Before the

Day of the Dead, holiday in Mexico, also observed to a lesser extent in other areas of Latin America and in the United States, honouring dead loved ones and making peace with the eventuality of death by treating it familiarly, without fear and dread. The holiday is derived from the rituals of the

George A. Romero: …Dead (1978) and continuing with Day of the Dead (1985), Land of the Dead (2005), Diary of the Dead (2007), and Survival of the Dead (2009). The Dead series was rife with social commentary, with allusions to the Cold War, consumerism, and class conflict. In addition to zombies, Romero’s films…

Mike Nichols: Early films: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate, and Carnal Knowledge: …on to the big-budget film The Day of the Dolphin (1973), which starred George C. Scott as a scientist whose trained talking dolphins are kidnapped by extremists, who plan to use the animals to assassinate the president. A curious addition to Nichols’s filmography, it tried unsuccessfully to blend comedy, thriller,…

Stanley Kubrick: Early life and films: …was released by RKO as Day of the Fight (1951). Kubrick left Look, began auditing classes at Columbia University, became a voracious reader, and turned to full-time filmmaking.

Mickey Spillane: …a new book series with Day of the Guns (1964), which centred on the international agent Tiger Mann. Among his other books are The Last Cop Out (1973) and the children’s book The Day the Sea Rolled Back (1979).

Fred Zinnemann: Last films: …suspenseful but chilly political thriller The Day of the Jackal (1973), from Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 best-selling novel of the same name about a plot to assassinate French Pres. Charles de Gaulle. Edward Fox played the meticulously prepared assassin. Julia (1977), a much warmer film based on a portion of playwright…

Carlos the Jackal: …a copy of Frederick Forsyth’s The Day of the Jackal, and Carlos was soon dubbed “Carlos the Jackal” by the media.

John Schlesinger: Films of the late 1960s and ’70s: …the United States to film Day of the Locust (1975), based on Nathanael West’s novel about the savagery lurking behind the facade of the Hollywood dream machine. Despite a strong cast that included Burgess Meredith, Karen Black, Donald Sutherland, and Geraldine Page, the film, in the eyes of many

The Day of the Locust, novel by Nathanael West, published in 1939, about the savagery lurking beneath the surface of the Hollywood dream. It is one of the most striking examples of the “Hollywood novel”—those that examine the unattainable fantasies nurtured by the Hollywood movie industry. Tod

Leonardo Sciascia: Mafia Vendetta), a study of the Mafia. Other mystery novels followed, among them A ciascuno il suo (1966; A Man’s Blessing), Il contesto (1971; Equal Danger), and Todo modo (1974; One Way or Another). Sciascia also wrote historical analyses, plays, short stories, and essays on…

James Joyce: Early life: …he published an essay, “The Day of the Rabblement,” attacking the Irish Literary Theatre (later the Abbey Theatre, in Dublin) for catering to popular taste.

Spain: Festivals and holidays: October 12 is the Day of the Virgin of El Pilar and also the day on which the “discovery” of America is celebrated (a counterpart to the celebration of Columbus Day in the United States); it has been called at different times the Day of the Race (Día de…

The Raj Quartet: …Jewel in the Crown (1966), The Day of the Scorpion (1968), The Towers of Silence (1971), and A Division of the Spoils (1975), is set in India during the years leading up to that country’s independence from the British raj (sovereignty). The story examines the role of the British in…

The Day of the Triffids, post-apocalyptic science fiction novel that was created by English science fiction writer John Wyndham and published in 1951. Though it initially received only moderate acclaim, The Day of the Triffids later became a science fiction classic (as well as a low-budget movie in

Spain: Festivals and holidays: October 12 is the Day of the Virgin of El Pilar and also the day on which the “discovery” of America is celebrated (a counterpart to the celebration of Columbus Day in the United States); it has been called at different times the Day of the Race (Día de…

Day of Reconciliation, public holiday observed in South Africa on December 16. The holiday originally commemorated the victory of the Voortrekkers (southern Africans of Dutch, German, or Huguenot descent who made the Great Trek) over the Zulus at the Battle of Blood River in 1838. Before the

Carl Theodor Dreyer: …Le Fanu; Vredens dag (1943; Day of Wrath) is a drama of witch-hunting and religious persecution, set in 17th-century Denmark, that won international recognition and substantially contributed to the revival of the Danish cinema; Tvä människor (1945; Two People); and Ordet (1955; The Word), winner of the Grand Prize at…

The Day the Earth Caught Fire, British apocalyptic science-fiction film, released in 1961, that was made during the height of the Cold War and reflected common fears about the nuclear arms race and possible harmful effects of nuclear weapons testing. Newspaper reporter Peter Stenning (played by

Kathy Bates: Films: …Failure to Launch (2006); and The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), a remake of the 1951 classic. In 2008 Bates took a supporting role in Revolutionary Road, portraying a real estate agent in 1950s suburbia. She subsequently appeared in the sports drama The Blind Side (2009); the romantic comedies…

The Day the Earth Stood Still, American science-fiction film, released in 1951, that is considered a classic of the genre and that reflects the fears and anxiety of the Cold War era and nascent atomic age. A flying saucer lands in Washington, D.C., carrying Klaatu (played by Michael Rennie) and his

Bruce Willis: …Out of Death (2021), and A Day to Die (2022).

So you’re ready to jump into the financial markets. Maybe it’s your first 401(k) plan, or there’s a company whose products you use and you’d like to own a few shares. But you hear so many terms—day trading, stock trading, investing, buy and hold—and now you’re confused and intimidated. Let’s cut to

tourism: Day-trippers and domestic tourism: While domestic tourism could be seen as less glamorous and dramatic than international traffic flows, it has been more important to more people over a longer period. From the 1920s the rise of Florida as a destination for American tourists has…

history of photography: Photojournalism: Examples are Man’s A Day with Mussolini, first published in the Münchner Illustrierte Presse (1931) and then, with a brilliant new layout, in Picture Post; Smith’s Spanish Village (1951) and Nurse Midwife (1951) in Life; and Eisenstaedt’s informal, penetrating portraits of famous Britons, also in Life. Images by…

Jacqueline Woodson: Writing career: …Pecan Pie Baby (2010), and The Day You Begin (2018); the latter was illustrated by renowned Mexican-American artist Rafael López. Later works include The Year We Learned to Fly (2022), with illustrations by López, and The World Belonged to Us (2022), illustrated by Colombian artist Leo Espinoza.

Stephen Dobyns: … (2002), Winter’s Journey (2010), and The Day’s Last Light Reddens the Leaves of the Copper Beech (2016).

Rudyard Kipling: Legacy of Rudyard Kipling: …Handicap (1891), Many Inventions (1893), The Day’s Work (1898), Traffics and Discoveries (1904), Actions and Reactions (1909), Debits and Credits (1926), and Limits and Renewals (1932). While his later stories cannot exactly be called better than the earlier ones, they are as good—and they bring a subtler if less dazzling…

Arthur L. Day was a U.S. geophysicist known for his studies of the properties of rocks and minerals at very high and very low temperatures. He investigated hot springs and earthquakes, the absolute measurement of high temperatures, and physical and chemical problems regarding volcanoes. Day was

Arthur L. Day was a U.S. geophysicist known for his studies of the properties of rocks and minerals at very high and very low temperatures. He investigated hot springs and earthquakes, the absolute measurement of high temperatures, and physical and chemical problems regarding volcanoes. Day was

Benjamin Henry Day was an American printer and journalist who founded the New York Sun, the first of the “penny” newspapers in the United States. Starting in 1824 as a printer’s apprentice of the Springfield (Massachusetts) Republican, Day moved to New York City and opened his own printing business

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: …as well as fellow actors Charlie Day, Kaitlin Olson, and Danny DeVito, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is an irreverent dark comedy about a group of friends who own and operate a dive bar in South Philadelphia. In its 16th season as of 2023, the series became the longest-running live-action…

Clarence Day was an American writer whose greatest popular success was his autobiographical Life with Father. Educated at St. Paul’s School, Concord, New Hampshire, and at Yale University (A.B., 1896), Day became a member of the New York Stock Exchange in 1897 and joined his father’s brokerage firm

Clarence Day was an American writer whose greatest popular success was his autobiographical Life with Father. Educated at St. Paul’s School, Concord, New Hampshire, and at Yale University (A.B., 1896), Day became a member of the New York Stock Exchange in 1897 and joined his father’s brokerage firm

Kate Moss: …her—taken by the British photographer Corinne Day—were published in the youth style magazine The Face. At that time the fashion industry was populated by supermodels who were famous for their statuesque and curvaceous frames and traditionally glamorous images. With her more natural look, street style, and slight build—at five feet…

Doris Day was an American singer and motion-picture actress whose performances in movie musicals of the 1950s and sex comedies of the early 1960s made her a leading Hollywood star. While still a teenager, she changed her last name to Day when she began singing on radio. She worked as a vocalist in

Dorothy Day was an American journalist and Roman Catholic reformer, cofounder of the Catholic Worker newspaper, and an important lay leader in its associated activist movement. While a student at the University of Illinois on a scholarship (1914–16), Day read widely among socialist authors and soon

John Day was an Elizabethan dramatist whose verse allegory The Parliament of Bees shows unusual ingenuity and delicacy of imagination. Day was expelled from the University of Cambridge in 1593 for theft, and after 1598 he became a playwright for the theatre proprietor and manager Philip Henslowe.

Foreign Correspondent: …of Fisher’s daughter, Carol (Laraine Day). When it is announced that Van Meer had to leave abruptly for a conference in Amsterdam, Jones is immediately suspicious and travels to the Netherlands. He is surprised when Van Meer fails to recognize him, and, seconds later, the elderly diplomat is shot…

Sandra Day O’Connor was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006. She was the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court. A moderate conservative, she was known for her dispassionate and meticulously researched opinions. Sandra Day grew up on a large family

Stephen Day was the founder of the first printing press in England’s North American colonies. Day himself does not seem to have been a printer. He was a locksmith in Cambridge, Eng., and, in 1638, contracted with the Reverend Jose Glover, a wealthy dissenting clergyman, to set up the first printing

Stockwell Day is a Canadian politician who served as leader of the Canadian Alliance party (2000–02), a forerunner of the Conservative Party of Canada. Day grew up in Montreal and in Ottawa, where he attended high school. He then lived in a number of other provinces and held various jobs, including