Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, American comedy-drama film, released in 1967, about a white couple who are forced to confront their liberal political beliefs when their daughter announces her engagement to a Black man. Directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, and

the Guess Who, Canadian rock group that was the most successful band in Canada in the late 1960s and early 1970s and that country’s first rock superstars. The principal members were Chad Allan (original name Allan Kobel; b. c. 1945), Randy Bachman (b. September 27, 1943, Winnipeg, Manitoba,

Sequoyah was the creator of the Cherokee writing system (see Cherokee language). Sequoyah was probably the son of a Virginia fur trader named Nathaniel Gist. Reared by his Cherokee mother, Wuh-teh of the Paint clan, in the Tennessee country, he never learned to speak, read, or write English. He was

NP-complete problem: …if its solution can be guessed and verified in polynomial time; nondeterministic means that no particular rule is followed to make the guess. If a problem is NP and all other NP problems are polynomial-time reducible to it, the problem is NP-complete. Thus, finding an efficient algorithm for any NP-complete…

Colm Tóibín: Other writings and achievements: …2011 Tóibín published a memoir, A Guest at the Feast. That same year he won the Irish PEN Award for his contribution to Irish literature. Though Tóibín is known primarily as a novelist, he is also accomplished as a short-story writer—collections include Mothers and Sons (2006) and The Empty Family…

astronaut: Astronaut training: …aboard the space shuttle as payload specialists, and teacher Christa McAuliffe was a “teacher in space” payload specialist on the doomed Challenger mission. The first U.S. astronaut to orbit Earth, John Glenn, returned to space as a shuttle payload specialist in October 1998. Most payload specialists made only one spaceflight.

S.Y. Agnon: …novel, Ore’aḥ Nataʿ Lalun (1938; A Guest for the Night), describes the material and moral decay of European Jewry after World War I. His third and perhaps greatest novel, ʿTmol shilshom (1945; “The Day Before Yesterday”), examines the problems facing the westernized Jew who immigrates to Israel. This is neither…

Atom Egoyan: Guest of Honour (2019) centres on the relationship between a woman wrongly convicted of sexual misconduct and her father. Egoyan also directed the documentary Citadel (2006), which follows his wife, actress Arsinée Khanjian, as she returns to her homeland of Lebanon for the first time…

Sam Wood: Later films: …turned to lighter fare with Guest Wife (1945), a romantic comedy starring Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche. Heartbeat (1946) was a failed remake of a French comedy (Battements de coeur [1940; Beating Heart]) about a pickpocket (Rogers) and a diplomat (Jean-Pierre Aumont) who fall in love. Wood fared better with…

guest worker, foreign national who is permitted to live and work temporarily in a host country. Most guest workers perform manual labour. The term guest worker is most commonly associated with its German translation, Gastarbeiter, designating the mainly Turkish workers admitted to West Germany

The True Story Behind Feud: Capote vs. the Swans: C.Z. Guest: She was given the nickname “C.Z.” at a young…

Christopher Guest is a multitalented American-British actor, writer, producer, director, and musician best known for his satirical faux-documentary-style comedies, including This Is Spinal Tap (1984), Best in Show (2000), and A Mighty Wind (2003). Guest’s British-born father, Lord Peter

Edgar A. Guest was a British-born U.S. writer whose sentimental verses were widely read. Guest’s family moved to the United States in 1891. Four years later he went to work for the Detroit Free Press as a police reporter and then as a writer of daily rhymes, which became so popular that they were

Edgar A. Guest was a British-born U.S. writer whose sentimental verses were widely read. Guest’s family moved to the United States in 1891. Four years later he went to work for the Detroit Free Press as a police reporter and then as a writer of daily rhymes, which became so popular that they were

Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds, PLC, major British group of engineering companies. The group has a variety of manufacturing interests, with an emphasis on the production of components for the automotive field. Headquarters are in Warley, Eng. The company was established in 1900 as Guest, Keen and

Gladys Knight and the Pips: September 4, 1942, Atlanta), William Guest (b. June 2, 1941, Atlanta—December 24, 2015, Detroit, Michigan), and Edward Patten (b. August 2, 1939, Atlanta—d. February 25, 2005, Livonia, Michigan).

ancient Greek civilization: The world of the tyrants: …small-scale ventures exploiting relationships of xenia (hospitality), there was something like free internationalism. Not that the old xenia ties disappeared—on the contrary, they were solidified, above all by the tyrants themselves.

liquid crystal display: Reflective displays: …reflective device, known as a guest-host reflective display, relies on dissolving “guest” dye molecules into a “host” liquid crystal. The dye molecules are selected to have a colour absorption that depends on their orientation. Variations in an applied electric voltage change the orientation of the host liquid crystal, and this…

Jean-Étienne Guettard was a French geologist and mineralogist who was the first to survey and map the geologic features of France and to study the exposed bedrock of the Paris Basin. He was also the first to recognize the volcanic nature of the Auvergne region of central France. The keeper of the

Marion Cotillard: Gueule d’ange (2018; Angel Face) centres on an alcoholic mother and her young daughter. Cotillard later lent her voice to the family comedy Dolittle (2020). Her credits from 2021 included the unconventional musical Annette, in which she played an opera singer.

Geuzen, the largely Calvinist Dutch guerrilla and privateering forces whose military actions initiated the Netherlands’ revolt against Spanish rule (1568–1609). The term was first applied derisively to the lesser nobility who, together with some of the great Netherlands magnates, in 1566 petitioned

beer: Types of beer: Lambic and gueuze beers are produced mainly in Belgium. The wort is made from malted barley, unmalted wheat, and aged hops. The fermentation process is allowed to proceed from the microflora present in the raw materials (a “spontaneous” fermentation). Different bacteria (especially lactic acid bacteria) and yeasts…

Antonio de Guevara was a Spanish court preacher and man of letters whose didactic work Reloj de príncipes o libro aureo del emperador Marco Aurelio (1529; Eng. trans. by Lord Berners, The Golden Boke of Marcus Aurelius, 1535, and by Sir Thomas North, The Diall of Princes, 1557, frequently reprinted

Che Guevara was a theoretician and tactician of guerrilla warfare, a prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution (1956–59), and a guerrilla leader in South America. After his execution by the Bolivian army, he was regarded as a martyred hero by generations of leftists worldwide, and his

Luis Vélez de Guevara was a Spanish poet, playwright, and novelist who ranks high among the followers of Lope de Vega and displays a gift for creating character. His fantastic satirical novel, El diablo cojuelo (1641; “The Crippled Devil”), became well-known from its adaptation by the French

Germaine Guèvremont was a French-Canadian novelist who skillfully recreated the enclosed world of the Quebec peasant family. Grignon, educated in Quebec and at Loretto Abbey, Toronto, married Hyacinthe Guèvremont, a Sorel, Que., druggist; they had a son and three daughters. She worked on Le

Lamine Guèye was one of the most important Senegalese politicians before that country gained independence. As early as World War I, Guèye made radical demands for genuine assimilation of Africans into French culture and institutions. In the early 1920s he became the first African lawyer from French

basketry: Uses: …onto the edge; and the gufa of the Tigris, which is round like the coracle and made of plaited reeds caulked with bitumen.

Chinese painting: Three Kingdoms (220–280) and Six Dynasties (220–589): …with the spirit of nature; gufa yongbi (“structural method in use of the brush”), referring to the structural power and tension of the brushstroke in both painting and calligraphy, through which the vital spirit is expressed; yingwu xianxing (“fidelity to the object in portraying forms”); suilei fucai (conforming to kind…

basketry: Uses: …onto the edge; and the gufa of the Tigris, which is round like the coracle and made of plaited reeds caulked with bitumen.

India: Neolithic agriculture in the Indus valley and Baluchistan: …Neolithic” stage is reported at Gufkral, another site in the Kashmir region, which has been dated by radiocarbon to the 3rd millennium and later.

Armenia: Relief: …east, the Somkhet, Bazum, Pambak, Gugark, Areguni, Shakhdag, and Vardenis ranges of the Lesser Caucasus lie across the northern sector of Armenia. Elevated volcanic plateaus (Lory, Shirak, and others), cut by deep river valleys, lie amid these ranges.

Guggenheim Collection, in Venice, private collection of post-1910 paintings and sculpture formed by the American art collector Peggy Guggenheim and housed in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Grand Canal, her former home. It is considered to be one of the best collections of post-1910 modern art

Guggenheim Museum, international museum that collects and exhibits modern and contemporary art in New York City and other locations under the aegis of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The Guggenheim’s component museums are the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City; the Peggy Guggenheim

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, art museum in Bilbao, Spain. It opened in 1997 as a cooperative venture between the Guggenheim Foundation and the Basque regional administration of northwestern Spain. The museum complex, designed by Frank O. Gehry, consists of interconnected buildings whose extraordinary

Benjamin Guggenheim was an American industrialist and the father of Peggy (Marguerite) Guggenheim (1898–1979), an important art collector and patron of Abstract Expressionist artists in New York City. Although Benjamin Guggenheim led the life of a successful business executive, he is remembered

Daniel Guggenheim was an American industrialist and philanthropist who oversaw the expansion of his family’s vast mining empire in the early 20th century. In 1891 his father, Meyer Guggenheim, consolidated about a dozen of the family’s mining operations into a trust known as the Colorado Smelting

An Inconvenient Truth: Production notes and credits:

Peggy Guggenheim was an American art collector who was an important patron of the Abstract Expressionist school of artists in New York City. Peggy’s father was Benjamin Guggenheim, a son of the wealthy mining magnate Meyer Guggenheim, and one of her uncles was Solomon R. Guggenheim, who founded the

Meyer Guggenheim was an American industrialist and philanthropist who developed worldwide mining interests that, when merged with the American Smelting and Refining Company in 1901, dominated the industry for the next three decades and laid the foundation for the present U.S. mining industry. After

Peggy Guggenheim was an American art collector who was an important patron of the Abstract Expressionist school of artists in New York City. Peggy’s father was Benjamin Guggenheim, a son of the wealthy mining magnate Meyer Guggenheim, and one of her uncles was Solomon R. Guggenheim, who founded the

Meyer Guggenheim: …sixth son of Meyer Guggenheim, Simon Guggenheim (1867–1941), established in memory of his son the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to award fellowships to aid artists and scholars studying abroad.

Solomon Guggenheim was a businessman and art collector. He became a partner in his father’s Swiss embroidery import business. He also worked in the family mining industry and was a director of many family companies. After retiring from business in 1919, he devoted his time to collecting modernist

Solomon Guggenheim was a businessman and art collector. He became a partner in his father’s Swiss embroidery import business. He also worked in the family mining industry and was a director of many family companies. After retiring from business in 1919, he devoted his time to collecting modernist

children’s literature: Heritage and fairy tales: …multitalented James Krüss, and especially Josef Guggenmos, whose lyric simplicity at times recalls Blake. Guggenmos also has to his credit a translation of A Child’s Garden of Verses, in itself an original work of art.

British West Africa: Sir Gordon Guggisberg, who served as governor from 1919 to 1929, introduced indirect rule by restoring the Asante king to his title.

Domenico Guglielmini was a mathematician and hydrologist, considered a founder of the Italian school of hydraulics, which dominated the science in the 17th and early 18th centuries. His field observations of the flow of rivers resulted in the earliest qualitative understanding of the equilibrium

William de Hauteville was a Norman adventurer, the eldest of 12 Hauteville brothers, a soldier of fortune who led the first contingent of his family from Normandy to southern Italy. He undertook its conquest and quickly became count of Apulia. William and his brothers Drogo and Humphrey responded

William II was the last Norman king of Sicily; under a regency from 1166, he ruled in person from 1171. He became known as William the Good because of his policy of clemency and justice toward the towns and the barons, in contrast with his father, William I the Bad. After the regency of his mother,

William I was the Norman king of Sicily, an able ruler who successfully repressed the conspiracies of the barons of his realm. His epithet was bestowed on him by his hapless enemies. He patronized science and letters and showed religious tolerance; among those who frequented his court were many

William of Champeaux was a French bishop, logician, theologian, and philosopher who was prominent in the Scholastic controversy on the nature of universals (i.e., words that can be applied to more than one particular thing). After studies under the polemicist Manegold of Lautenbach in Paris, the

Palace Museum, in Beijing, museum housed in the main buildings of the former Imperial Palaces (see also Forbidden City). It exhibits valuable objects from Chinese history. The palace consists of many separate halls and courtyards. The outer buildings of the palace became a museum in 1914, although

African art: Nupe: The gugu masquerader wears a cloth mask decorated with cowrie shells, but sometimes Yoruba masks are used. The ndako gboya appears to be indigenous; a spirit that affords protection from witches, it is controlled by a small secret society that cleanses communities by invitation. The mask…

India: Successor states: The Rajput dynasty of the Guhilla had its center in Mewar (with Chitor as its base). The Capa family was associated with the city of Anahilapataka (present-day Patan) and are involved in early Rajput history. In the Haryana region the Tomara Rajputs (Tomara dynasty), originally feudatories of the Gurjara-Pratiharas, founded…

diatomaceous earth, light-coloured, porous, and friable sedimentary rock that is composed of the siliceous shells of diatoms, unicellular aquatic plants of microscopic size. It occurs in earthy beds that somewhat resemble chalk, but it is much lighter than chalk and will not effervesce in acid.

Xie He: The “Six Principles” introduce Xie’s Gu Huapin Lu (“Classified Record of Painters of Former Times”), which rates 27 painters in three classes of descending merit, each with three subdivisions. The “Six Principles” have inevitably acquired new and even different meanings through the ages, but generally they may be paraphrased as…

Vajrayana, form of Tantric Buddhism that developed in India and neighbouring countries, notably Tibet. Vajrayana, in the history of Buddhism, marks the transition from Mahayana speculative thought to the enactment of Buddhist ideas in individual life. The term vajra (Sanskrit: “thunderbolt,” or

Guhyasamāja-tantra, (“The Mystery of Tathāgatahood [Buddhahood]”), oldest and one of the most important of all Buddhist Tantras. These are the basic texts of the Tantric—an esoteric and highly symbolic—form of Buddhism, which developed in India and became dominant in Tibet. The Tantric form stands,

graphical user interface (GUI), a computer program that enables a person to communicate with a computer through the use of symbols, visual metaphors, and pointing devices. Best known for its implementation in Apple Inc.’s Macintosh and Microsoft Corporation’s Windows operating system, the GUI has

guei, in indigenous Chinese religion, a troublesome spirit that roams the world causing misfortune, illness, and death. Guei are spirits of individuals who were not properly buried or whose families neglected the proper memorial offerings; they lack the means to ascend to the spirit world, hence

gui, type of Chinese vessel produced during the Shang (18th–12th century bc) and Zhou (c. 1111–255 bc) dynasties. There were many varieties of the gui, which was a wide-mouthed container for food, but the typical bronze form consisted of a ring base and an ample, bowl-shaped body with slightly

San: …groups, the !Kung and the |Gui, seem to be similar, in that both groups believe in two supernatural beings, one of which is the creator of the world and of living things whereas the other has lesser powers but is partly an agent of sickness and death. The !Kung and…

Chinese jade: The earliest examples: …the Longshan culture, are ceremonial gui and zhang blades and axes, as well as an increasing variety of ornamental arc-shaped and circular jade pendants, necklaces, and bracelets (often in animal form), together with the significant appearance of mask decoration; all these forms link the Neolithic jades to those of the…

Khoisan languages: Phonology: The | Gui system of 90 consonants, the Ju system of 105 consonants, and the !Xóõ system of 126 consonants are the largest in the world. By contrast, Nama—which, like | Gui, is a Khoe language—has only 32 consonants, and Hadza has a modest 54. While…

Callixtus II was the pope from 1119 to 1124. A son of Count William I of Burgundy, he was appointed archbishop of Vienne, in Lower Burgundy, in 1088. He became well known as a spokesman of a reform party within the church and as a foe of the policy of the Holy Roman emperor Henry V. When Pope

Guy II was a duke of Spoleto, who was claimant to the throne of the Holy Roman Empire in the chaotic end of the Carolingian era. His father, Guy I, duke of Spoleto, had come to Italy in the entourage of Lothar I and had successfully expanded his family’s power in central and southern Italy.

romance: The theme of separation and reunion: …and the anonymous mid-13th-century Anglo-Norman Gui de Warewic. Finally, there are many examples of the “persecuted heroine” theme; in one variety a person having knowledge of some “corporal sign”—a birthmark or mole—on a lady wagers with her husband that he will seduce her and offer proof that he has done…

linglong ware, Chinese porcelain made in the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911/12) dynasties and characterized by pierced ornamentation. Linglong ware was generally limited to small objects such as cups, brush pots, and covered jars. The decoration was sometimes biscuit (unglazed porcelain),

Gui River, northern tributary of the Xi River, southern China. Its upper course is also called the Li River. The Gui River rises in the Mao’er Mountains to the north of Guilin in the northern part of the Zhuang Autonomous Region of Guangxi and flows southward to join the Xi at Wuzhou on the border

Zhang Yimou: Gui lai (2014; Coming Home) featured Gong as a woman whose marriage is destroyed when her husband is imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution. Zhang later codirected Wang chao de nu ren: Yang Guifei (2015; Lady of the Dynasty), about the tragic love affair between concubine Yang Guifei and…

Gui River, northern tributary of the Xi River, southern China. Its upper course is also called the Li River. The Gui River rises in the Mao’er Mountains to the north of Guilin in the northern part of the Zhuang Autonomous Region of Guangxi and flows southward to join the Xi at Wuzhou on the border

China: Literature and scholarship: …the most admired master was Gui Youguang, whose most famous writings are simple essays and anecdotes about everyday life—often rather loose and formless but with a quietly pleasing charm, evoking character and mood with artless-seeming delicacy. The iconoclasm of the final Ming decades was mirrored in a literary movement of…

Zhu Youlang was a claimant to the Ming throne after the Manchu forces of Manchuria had captured the Ming capital at Beijing and established the Qing dynasty (1644–1911/12). A grandson of the Ming emperor Shenzong (reigned 1572–1620, reign name Wanli), Zhu was given the title of the prince of Gui.

Nélida Piñon: Her first novel, Guia-mapa de Gabriel Arcanjo (1961; “Guide Map of Archangel Gabriel”), examines themes that are consistent throughout the rest of her works. In an extended dialogue between the female protagonist, Mariella, and the archangel Gabriel, they speak about her longing to live outside the Christian dogma.…

bush dog, (Speothos venaticus), small stocky carnivore of the family Canidae found in the forests and savannas of Central and South America. The bush dog has short legs and long hair and grows to a shoulder height of about 30 cm (12 inches). It is 58–75 cm long (22.8–29.5 inches), exclusive of its

Guiana Current, surface oceanic current, a northwest-flowing branch of the Atlantic South Equatorial Current along the northern coast of South America. North of the Equator, the Atlantic North Equatorial Current and Amazon and Orinoco rivers contribute to the Guiana Current. As a result of river

Guiana Highlands, plateau and low-mountain region of South America located north of the Amazon and south of the Orinoco River. Comprising a heavily forested plateau, they cover the southern half of Venezuela, all of the Guianas except for the low Atlantic coastal plain, the northern part of Brazil,

Colombia: Relief: …eroded rocks of the ancient Guiana Shield are exposed, producing a broken topography of low, isolated mountains, tablelands, and buttes with rapids in the streams. This slightly higher ground forms the watershed between the Amazon and Orinoco systems. Some 60 miles (100 km) south of Villavicencio the elongated, forested La…

European Space Agency: ESA also operates the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), a launch base in French Guiana.

The Guianas, region of South America, located on the continent’s north-central coast and covering an area of about 181,000 square miles (468,800 square km). It includes the independent nations of Guyana and Suriname and French Guiana, an overseas département of France. The region is bounded on the

French Guiana: Government and society: …principal political parties are the Guianese Socialist Party and the Union for a Popular Movement. Other political parties include the Movement for Decolonization and Social Emancipation, the Guiana Democratic Forces, and Walwari, a leftist party whose founder Christiane Taubira served as minister of justice in the administration of French President…

Clement (III) was an antipope from 1080 to 1100. Of noble birth, Guibert served at the German court (c. 1054–55) and became imperial chancellor for Italy (1058–63). As such he supported the election of Bishop Peter Cadalus of Parma as antipope Honorius II (1061). His appointment by Henry IV of

French literature: Prose fiction: …Claire (1980; Camera Lucida) and Hervé Guibert’s Vice (1991). Gay writing, already becoming more political and more polemic, found an important collective focus in the AIDS crisis, most notably in Guibert’s best-selling A l’ami qui ne m’a pas sauvé la vie (1990; To the Friend Who Did Not Save My…

Clement (III) was an antipope from 1080 to 1100. Of noble birth, Guibert served at the German court (c. 1054–55) and became imperial chancellor for Italy (1058–63). As such he supported the election of Bishop Peter Cadalus of Parma as antipope Honorius II (1061). His appointment by Henry IV of

Anselm Of Saint Mary was a genealogist and friar whose history of the French royal family and nobility is a valuable source of detailed and unusual information. Anselm entered the order of the Discalced Hermits of St. Augustine in 1644 and, remaining in their monastery (Couvent des Petits Pères),

Francesco Guicciardini was a Florentine statesman, diplomat, and historian, author of the most important contemporary history of Italy, Storia d’Italia. Guicciardini was born of an aristocratic Florentine family that played a prominent role under Lorenzo de’ Medici (the Magnificent). From 1498 to

Lord Byron: Life and career: But a chance meeting with Countess Teresa Gamba Guiccioli, who was only 19 years old and married to a man nearly three times her age, reenergized Byron and changed the course of his life. Byron followed her to Ravenna, and she later accompanied him back to Venice. Byron returned to…

guidance counseling, the process of helping individuals discover and develop their educational, vocational, and psychological potentialities and thereby to achieve an optimal level of personal happiness and social usefulness. The concept of counseling is essentially democratic in that the

guidance counseling, the process of helping individuals discover and develop their educational, vocational, and psychological potentialities and thereby to achieve an optimal level of personal happiness and social usefulness. The concept of counseling is essentially democratic in that the

morality police, law enforcement body in Iran created in 2005 to enforce regulations on modest dress (ḥijāb) and chaste behavior (ʿifāf). The term “morality police” is informally applied to the body by international commentators, but it is officially called Gasht-e Ershad (Persian: “Guidance

rocket and missile system: Tactical guided missiles: But it was in their guidance systems that these missiles gained their distinction, since the ability to make down-course corrections in order to seek or “home” onto a target separated guided missiles from purely ballistic weapons such as free-flight rockets and artillery shells.

Judaism: Other Jewish thinkers, c. 1050–c. 1150: …al-hidāyah ilā farā’iḍ alqulūb (“Guidance to the Duties of the Heart”), which combines a theology influenced by Saʿadia with a moderate mysticism inspired by the teachings of the Sufis. The commandments of the heart—that is, those relating to thoughts and sentiments—are contrasted with the commandments of the limbs—that is,…

rocket and missile system: Design principles: …generally expressed as launch-point errors, guidance/en-route errors, or aim-point errors. Both launch- and aim-point errors can be corrected by surveying the launch and target areas more accurately. Guidance/en-route errors, on the other hand, must be corrected by improving the missile’s design—particularly its guidance. Guidance/en-route errors are usually measured by a…

Youssou N’Dour: …release of his solo album The Guide (Wommat) (1994) that N’Dour was catapulted to global stardom.

gastronomy: The great French chefs: … (1924), Ma Cuisine (1934), and Le Guide culinaire (1921), written in collaboration with Gilbert—in which he codified the French cuisine in its modern form, setting down thousands of menus and clarifying the principles of French gastronomy. With the great hotel entrepreneur César Ritz, he established a string of the world’s…

guide dog, dog that is professionally trained to guide, protect, or aid its master. Systematic training of guide dogs originated in Germany during World War I to aid blinded veterans. Seeing Eye dog, a moniker often used synonymously with guide dog, refers to a guide dog trained by The Seeing Eye,

Alonso Carrió de Lavandera: …ciegos caminantes (1775; El Lazarillo: A Guide for Inexperienced Travellers Between Buenos Aires and Lima) was originally attributed to Don Calixto Bustamente, Carrió’s Indian guide and traveling companion. Investigation revealed that Carrió had used a pseudonym to avoid punishment for having been critical of the Spanish regime. Critics have praised…

Gene Kelly: Films of the 1960s and beyond: Kelly also directed the comedy A Guide for the Married Man (1967), which starred Walter Matthau as the title character being tutored on how to efficiently cheat on his wife. That same year Kelly returned to France to play an American piano player in Jacques Demy’s tribute to Hollywood musicals…

Salomon Maimon: …an unorthodox commentary on Maimonides’ Moreh nevukhim (The Guide for the Perplexed) that earned him the hostility of fellow Jews. At 25 he traveled to Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), and wandered over Europe until he settled in Posen, Pol., as a tutor. His material insecurity ended in 1790, when…

index fossil, any animal or plant preserved in the rock record of the Earth that is characteristic of a particular span of geologic time or environment. A useful index fossil must be distinctive or easily recognizable, abundant, and have a wide geographic distribution and a short range through