Clint Eastwood: Films of the 1990s of Clint Eastwood: …Wolfgang Petersen’s popular action thriller In the Line of Fire (1993).

Sam Smith: Big break and In the Lonely Hour: The breakout single from In the Lonely Hour, “Stay with Me,” a keening falsetto ballad that wistfully implores a one-night stand for affection, became a radio staple following its release in 2014. Smith cited the influences of singers such as Houston and Aretha Franklin, who both propelled their powerful,…

James Gandolfini: …train hijacking; the political satire In the Loop (2009); and Where the Wild Things Are (2009), an adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s children’s book.

When it comes to your finances, are you comfortable acting as captain of your own ship? Or would you feel better with a financial pro holding the wheel? If you’ve decided you would like (or need) to use a financial advisor, you’ll have to identify and choose one. You can start by asking for

Theatre of Fact: Robert Oppenheimer (1964; In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer) re-created the American inquiry into Oppenheimer’s loyalty because of his opposition to the development of the hydrogen bomb.

Gwendolyn Brooks: In the Mecca: …1963, followed in 1968 by In the Mecca, half of which is a long narrative poem about people in the Mecca, a vast, fortresslike apartment building erected on the South Side of Chicago in 1891, which had long since deteriorated into a place of serious neglect and poverty. The second…

Janet Frame: In the Memorial Room (2013)—written in 1974 and also, because of its autobiographical elements, purposely withheld from publication until after Frame’s death—was a roman à clef about her time in France.

Meena Alexander: …also wrote a one-act play, In the Middle Earth (1977); a volume of criticism, Women in Romanticism (1989); a semiautobiographical novel set in Hyderabad, India, Nampally Road (1991); and a memoir, Fault Lines (1993).

Wilson Pickett: …was a smash single, “In the Midnight Hour” (1965). From that moment on, Pickett was a star. With his dazzling good looks and confident demeanour, he stood as a leading exponent of the Southern-fried school of soul singing. His unadorned straight-from-the-gut approach was accepted, even revered, by a civil-rights-minded…

Ambrose Bierce: Legacy and major works: Bierce’s principal books are In the Midst of Life (1892), which includes some of his finest stories, such as “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” “A Horseman in the Sky,” “The Eyes of the Panther,” and “The Boarded Window”; and Can Such Things Be? (1893), which includes “The Damned…

Isabel Allende: …Más allá del invierno (2017; In the Midst of Winter), about the friendships that form after a car accident in Brooklyn, New York, during a blizzard. In Largo pétalo de mar (2019; A Long Petal of the Sea), a man and a woman become exiles following the Spanish Civil War…

Wong Kar-Wai: …Kong for Fayeung ninwa (2000; In the Mood for Love), which concerns the growing attachment between Chow Mo-Wan (Leung) and Su Lizhen (Maggie Cheung), a man and a woman whose spouses are having an affair. The film’s lush score and detailed recreations of 1960s fashions and interiors, as well as…

John Carpenter: Later films: …of an Invisible Man (1992), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), Village of the Damned (1995), Escape from L.A. (1996), Vampires (1998), and The Ward (2010). Although these were not as popular as his earlier movies, some of them developed devoted followers.

Julia Alvarez: Her other novels include In the Name of Salomé (2000), Saving the World (2006), and Afterlife (2020). Alvarez has also written poetry, including that collected in The Other Side (1995) and The Woman I Kept to Myself (2004). Her nonfiction books include Something to Declare: Essays (1998), Once upon…

Daniel Day-Lewis: …adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel; In the Name of the Father (1993), which earned him an Academy Award nomination; and The Crucible (1996), based on Arthur Miller’s play. After appearing in The Boxer (1997), Day-Lewis took a break from acting and worked for a time as a cobbler’s apprentice in…

Abbott and Costello: …included Hold That Ghost (1941), In the Navy (1941), Pardon My Sarong (1942), Lost in a Harem (1944), and The Naughty Nineties (1945). Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)—in which they battled the famous Universal characters of Frankenstein’s monster, Dracula, and the Wolfman—is generally regarded as their best film.

F.S. Flint: Flint’s first volume of poetry, In the Net of the Stars (1909), was a collection of love lyrics, clearly showing the influence of Keats and his contemporary Percy Bysshe Shelley. The same year, he and a group of young poets, all dissatisfied with the state of English poetry, began working…

Hortense Calisher: The novel In the Palace of the Movie King (1993) follows a dissident Russian movie director who finds himself in New York City, while In the Slammer with Carol Smith (1997) describes a world of mental illness and homelessness in Spanish Harlem. Sunday Jews (2003) explores issues…

In the Penal Colony, novella by Franz Kafka, written in 1914 and published in German as In der Strafkolonie in 1919. An allegorical fantasy about law and punishment, it was also viewed as an existential comment on human torment and on strict devotion to an ambiguous task. The tale is

In the Penal Colony, novella by Franz Kafka, written in 1914 and published in German as In der Strafkolonie in 1919. An allegorical fantasy about law and punishment, it was also viewed as an existential comment on human torment and on strict devotion to an ambiguous task. The tale is

Ha Jin: Literary works: …of fiction include the novella In the Pond (1998), the novel The Crazed (2002), and the short-story collections The Bridegroom (2000) and A Good Fall (2009).

outsider art: Definition of terms: …Chicago whose more-than-15,000-page illustrated novel In the Realms of the Unreal came to public notice only after his death. Outsider art further benefited from the addition at the end of the 20th century of figures such as the impressive fibre artist Judith Scott, who had Down syndrome and was deaf;…

Mowgli: …appeared in Kipling’s story “In the Rukh” (1892; collected in Many Inventions, 1893). In this story he is an adult who, from time to time, refers to his unusual childhood.

Jane Goodall: …aspects of her work, notably In the Shadow of Man (1971). She summarized her years of observation in The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior (1986). Goodall continued to write and lecture about environmental and conservation issues into the early 21st century. In 2002 she became a UN Messenger of…

Art Spiegelman: …is my muse,” Spiegelman published In the Shadow of No Towers (2004), a collection of broadsheet-sized meditations on mortality and the far-reaching consequences of that day. In 2008 he released Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!, which repackaged his long out-of-print Breakdowns collection as part of a…

J.M. Synge: …and basing his one-act plays In the Shadow of the Glen (first performed 1903) and Riders to the Sea (1904) on islanders’ stories. In 1905 his first three-act play, The Well of the Saints, was produced.

Anne Hébert: …Les Fous de Bassan (1982; In the Shadow of the Wind; filmed 1987), which won France’s Prix Fémina, one of the narrators is a murdered teenage girl. The novel L’Enfant chargé de songes (1992; Burden of Dreams) won her a third Governor General’s Award. Also in 1992, Hébert saw the…

Canadian literature: Fiction: Ranging from 1920s Toronto (In the Skin of a Lion, 1987) to Italy during World War II (The English Patient, 1992; Booker Prize) and Sri Lanka wracked by civil war (Anil’s Ghost, 2000), Ondaatje’s lyrical, elliptical narratives spotlight a small coterie of people drawn together by a mystery that…

Hortense Calisher: …in New York City, while In the Slammer with Carol Smith (1997) describes a world of mental illness and homelessness in Spanish Harlem. Sunday Jews (2003) explores issues of identity in an eclectic family, which includes an art expert, an atheistic rabbi, an anthropologist, and an agnostic Irish Catholic. In…

Robert Louis Stevenson: Life in the South Seas: …on the South Seas (In the South Seas, 1896; A Footnote to History, 1892) are admirably pungent and perceptive. He was writing first-rate journalism, deepened by the awareness of landscape and atmosphere, such as that so notably rendered in his description of the first landfall at Nuku Hiva in…

Peter Matthiessen: His book In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (1983), about the conflict between federal agents and the American Indian Movement at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1973, was the subject of a prolonged libel suit that blocked all but an initial printing and was not settled until…

William Merritt Chase: , In the Studio (1880–83). His mature style is notable for its bold and spontaneous brushwork and other marks of virtuoso execution.

Julia Alvarez: Alvarez’s second novel, In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), is a fictional account of the lives of the Dominican Mirabal sisters, who were involved in the underground movement to overthrow Trujillo and his government. Her other novels include In the Name of Salomé (2000), Saving the World…

Tommy Lee Jones: …an Iraq War veteran, in In the Valley of Elah (2007).

King Crimson: Formation and early success: …period, releasing the studio albums In the Wake of Poseidon (1970), Lizard (1970), Islands (1971), Larks’ Tongues in Aspic (1973), Starless and Bible Black (1974), and Red (1974).

Frank Sinatra: The Capitol years: …team made for Capitol—such as In the Wee Small Hours (1955), Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! (1956), and Only the Lonely (1958)—are masterpieces.

Frank Bidart: He followed the retrospective In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965–90 (1990) with Desire (1997) and the chapbook Music Like Dirt (2002), both of which were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. The poems of Music Like Dirt were later included in Star Dust (2005), which also features new material,…

Aharon Appelfeld: …fiction included Bagai ha-poreh (1963; In the Wilderness), Badenheim, ʿir nofesh (1979; Badenheim 1939), Ha-Ketonet veha-pasim (1983; Tzili: The Story of a Life), Bartfus ben ha-almavet (1988; The Immortal Bartfuss), Katerinah (1989; Katerina), Mesilat barzel (1991; “The Railway”), and Unto

American literature: The Off-Broadway ascendancy: …dramatized racial confrontation, while Bullins’s In the Wine Time (1968) made use of “street” lyricism. Maria Irene Fornés’s Fefu and Her Friends (1977) proved remarkable in its exploration of women’s relationships. A clear indication of Off-Broadway’s ascendancy in American drama came in 1979 when Sam Shepard, a prolific and experimental…

Maxim Gorky: Last period: …My Childhood), V lyudyakh (1915–16; In the World), and Moi universitety (1923; My Universities). The title of the last volume is sardonic because Gorky’s only university had been that of life, and his wish to study at Kazan University had been frustrated. This trilogy is one of the finest autobiographies…

Britney Spears: Princess of Pop: …Baby One More Time, Oops!…I Did It Again, and In the Zone: Its follow-up, In the Zone (2003), sold nearly three million, partly on the strength of the hit single “Toxic.”

Brandi Carlile: Later albums: Carlile’s later albums included In These Silent Days (2021), which debuted at number one on the Billboard Top Rock and Americana/Folk charts. In 2022 Carlile again received multiple Grammy nominations, including song of the year for “Right on Time” (off In These Silent Days), which also was nominated for…

Ellen Glasgow: Her last novel, In This Our Life (1941), had a similar theme and, although not her best work, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. She had been awarded (1940) the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1943 Glasgow published a collection of critical essays…

Robert Fisk: …the British in Ulster (1975), In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality, 1939–1945 (1983), Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War (2001), The Great War for Civilisation—the Conquest of the Middle East (2005), and The Age of the Warrior: Selected Essays (2008). Fisk’s work was profiled in…

Mavis Gallant: …Balloon: Stories of Paris (1985), In Transit (1988), and Across the Bridge (1993).

Dianne Wiest: …as a retired psychotherapist in In Treatment (2008–10). In addition, she was a cast member of the series Life in Pieces (2015–19), and she costarred with Jeremy Renner in Mayor of Kingstown (2021– ), a drama about a powerful family in a city that is economically dependent on the local…

Kurt Cobain: …released its final studio album, In Utero, in which Cobain railed against his fame. Cobain had long suffered from depression and chronic stomach pain. He treated his issues with drugs: Cobain was a frequent user of heroin in the years after Nirvana’s breakthrough, and he took a variety of painkillers…

in vitro fertilization (IVF), medical procedure in which mature egg cells are removed from a woman, fertilized with male sperm outside the body, and inserted into the uterus of the same or another woman for normal gestation. Although IVF with reimplantation of fertilized eggs (ova) has long been

recombinant DNA: In vitro mutagenesis: Another use of cloned DNA is in vitro mutagenesis in which a mutation is produced in a segment of cloned DNA. The DNA is then inserted into a cell or organism, and the effects of the mutation are studied. Mutations are useful…

Richard Brautigan: In Watermelon Sugar (1968) is about life in iDEATH, a self-sufficient, complacent commune that is surrounded by “the Forgotten Works,” the obsolete remnants of a destroyed civilization. So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away (1982), the final novel published during Brautigan’s life, is the…

In Which We Serve, British war film, released in 1942, that marked the directorial debuts of Noël Coward and David Lean; Coward also produced, wrote, scored, and starred in the film. “This is a story of ship” begins the narration that opens this World War II film. The ship is a British destroyer,

Youssou N’Dour: Peter Gabriel’s international hit “In Your Eyes,” and the group toured with Gabriel as an opening act. In 1988 N’Dour received further exposure as a coheadliner with Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and other top-ranked rock artists on the Human Rights Now! concert tour to benefit Amnesty International. However, it was…

Hendrik Conscience: In’t wonderjaar (1837; “In the Year of Miracles”), a series of historical scenes centred on the eventful year 1566, when the Calvinists of the Spanish Netherlands revolted against the Spanish Catholic rule. With De leeuw van Vlaanderen (1838; The Lion of Flanders), the passionate epic…

telephone: In-band signaling: In the earliest days of the telephone network, signaling was provided by means of direct current (DC) between the telephone instrument and the operator. As long-distance circuits and automatic switching systems were placed into service, the use of DC became obsolete, since long-distance…

inbreeding, the mating of individuals or organisms that are closely related through common ancestry, as opposed to outbreeding, which is the mating of unrelated organisms. Inbreeding is useful in the retention of desirable characteristics or the elimination of undesirable ones, but it often results

water supply system: Filtration: This process is called in-depth filtration, as the impurities are not simply screened out or removed at the surface of the filter bed, as is the case in slow sand filters. In order to enhance in-depth filtration, so-called mixed-media filters are used in some treatment plants. These have a…

home care, health and social services provided to an ill or disabled person in the home that are intended to improve health and quality of life. Home care encompasses different levels of care, from private-duty care (custodial care, or nonmedical in-home care), which involves the provision of

Candice Bergen: …Sweet Home Alabama (2002), and The In-Laws (2003). She was cast as a high-powered lawyer in the series Boston Legal (2005–08) and received two more Emmy nominations. Bergen then returned to films, including Warren Beatty’s Rules Don’t Apply (2016), in which she played Howard Hughes’s secretary, and the romantic comedy…

Arthur Hiller: Films of the 1970s: …continued to earn laughs with The In-Laws (1979), an espionage spoof with over-the-top performances by Arkin and Peter Falk.

gasoline engine: Cylinder block: The in-line engine has a single row of cylinders extending vertically upward from the crankcase and aligned with the crankshaft main bearings. The V type has two rows of cylinders, usually forming an angle of 60° or 90° between the two banks. V-8 engines (eight cylinders)…

roller-skating: Roller sports: The first recorded game of roller hockey took place in London in 1878. Speed roller-skating events began in the 1890s and were popular through the first quarter of the 20th century. Major speed roller-skating events for men, women, and relay teams involve racing counterclockwise around an oval track or on…

roller-skating: Development of the roller skate: …of a new generation of in-line roller skates by hockey-playing brothers Scott and Brennan Olson, the founders of Rollerblade, Inc. They developed in-line skates with four wheels that extended the full length of the boot, giving the skater greater maneuverability (compared with previous in-line skates) and much more speed. The…

endogamy, custom enjoining one to marry within one’s own group. The penalties for transgressing endogamous restrictions have varied greatly among cultures and have ranged from death to mild disapproval. When marriage to an outside group is mandated, it is referred to as exogamy. Endogamy has been

Chief Joseph was a Nez Percé chief who, faced with settlement by whites of tribal lands in Oregon, led his followers in a dramatic effort to escape to Canada. The Nez Percé tribe was one of the most powerful in the Pacific Northwest and in the first half of the 19th century one of the most friendly

fast food: History: The California-based chain In-N-Out Burger is generally credited as the first to implement the modern drive-through—which features two-way speakers—in 1948. The fast-food industry expanded rapidly in the latter half of the 20th century. In the early 21st century there were nearly 200,000 fast-food restaurants in the United States…

Ch’ŏndogyo: …and God are one” (In-Nae-Ch’ŏn); this oneness is realized by individuals through sincere faith in the unity of their own body and spirit and through faith in the universality of God.

mineral deposit: Magmatic cumulates: …produced by such phenomena as in-place crystallization of monomineralic layers on the floor of a magma chamber or density currents carrying mineral grains from the walls and roof of a magma chamber to the floor. Opinion still remains open, but most geologists now agree that in-place crystallization and density currents…

liquid crystal display: Other transmissive nematic displays: For example, in-plane switching (IPS) displays operate by applying a switching voltage to electrodes on a single substrate to untwist the liquid crystal. IPS displays have a viewing angle intrinsically superior to that of TFT TNs; however, the requirement for more electrode circuitry on their substrate can…

yinyang, in Eastern thought, the two complementary forces that make up all aspects and phenomena of life. Yin is a symbol of earth, femaleness, darkness, passivity, and absorption. It is present in even numbers, in valleys and streams, and is represented by the tiger, the color orange, and a broken

Television in the United States: The new technologies: …same year that AOL introduced In2TV. Both services offered shows over the Internet that had originally played on network television (as well as a few direct-to-Internet original programs). NBC Universal began testing Hulu in 2007 and officially launched it in 2008. By 2009 Hulu was offering a wide menu of…

Sarah Forbes Bonetta was a Yoruban woman who was captured as a child by a neighboring kingdom and later taken from western Africa to the United Kingdom by an abolitionist. She had her welfare and education funded by Queen Victoria, with whom she developed a close relationship. There is very little

Subhas Chandra Bose: Escape and activity in exile: …Japanese support, organized the 40,000-strong Indian National Army (INA; also called Azad Hind Fauj [“Free India Army”]) in Japanese-occupied Southeast Asia. The INA was an armed unit distinct from the official British Indian Army, and its goal was the independence of India. On October 21, 1943, Bose declared a provisional…

Italy: Public and private sectors: …l’Energia Elettrica; ENEL), and the State Insurance Fund (Istituto Nazionale delle Assicurazioni; INA). Other principal agencies include the Azienda Nazionale Autonoma delle Strade Statali (ANAS), responsible for some 190,000 miles (350,000 km) of the road network, and the Ente Ferrovie dello Stato (FS; “State Railways”), which controls the majority of…

Tristan da Cunha: Five of them—Tristan da Cunha, Inaccessible, Nightingale, Middle, and Stoltenhoff—are located within 25 miles (40 km) of one another, and the sixth, Gough, lies about 200 miles (320 km) south-southeast of the group. The territory is located approximately 1,300 miles (2,100 km) to the south of St. Helena. Inaccessible, Nightingale,…

John Franklin Enders: …to the development of the Salk vaccine for polio in 1954. Similarly, their production in the late 1950s of a vaccine against the measles led to the development of a licensed vaccine in the United States in 1963. Much of Enders’ research on viruses was conducted at the Children’s Hospital…

vaccine: Vaccine types: Inactivated vaccines are those that contain organisms that have been killed or inactivated with heat or chemicals. Inactivated vaccines elicit an immune response, but the response often is less complete than with attenuated vaccines. Because inactivated vaccines are not as effective at fighting infection as…

nervous system: Inactivation: A series of nerve impulses arriving in rapid succession at the axon terminal is accurately reproduced as a series in the postsynaptic cell because the quanta of neurotransmitter released by each impulse are inactivated as soon as they stimulate the receptor proteins. Neurotransmitter inactivation…

permafrost: Active wedges, inactive wedges, and ice-wedge casts: Ice wedges may be classified as active, inactive, and ice-wedge casts. Active ice wedges are those that are actively growing. The wedge may not crack every year, but during many or most years cracking does occur, and an increment of…

personality disorder: Persons with dependent personality disorder lack energy and initiative and passively let others assume responsibility for major aspects of their lives. Persons with passive-aggressive personality disorder express their hostility through such indirect means as stubbornness, procrastination, inefficiency, and forgetfulness.

Triassic Period: Invertebrates: The inadunates survived the crisis; they did not become extinct until the end of the Triassic and gave rise to the articulates, which still exist today.

Triassic Period: Invertebrates: The inadunates survived the crisis; they did not become extinct until the end of the Triassic and gave rise to the articulates, which still exist today.

10 Organisms Named for David Attenborough: Inambari gnatcatcher: • What: species of gray-colored gnatcatcher. Little is known about this novel species, but it likely eats insects and other small invertebrates.

India: The late 2nd millennium and the reemergence of urbanism: …settlements at sites such as Inamgaon declined; temporary encampments of pastoral nomads indicate a general deterioration in the standard of living.

Issey Miyake: …lifetime achievement, awarded by the Inamori Foundation in Japan; the prize included a diploma, a 20-karat-gold prize medal, and 50 million yen (about $446,000). The organization singled out as seminal the clothing line Miyake developed in 1993 called Pleats Please, which “allows unrestricted body movement while enabling the fabric to…

Ishtar, in Mesopotamian religion, goddess of war and sexual love. Ishtar is considered a member of the special class of Mesopotamian gods called the Anunnaki. Ishtar is the Akkadian counterpart of the West Semitic goddess Astarte. Inanna, an important goddess in the Sumerian pantheon, came to be

Rama II: …wrote a famous version of Inao, a dramatic version of a popular traditional story, as well as episodes of the Ramakien and popular dance dramas such as Sang Thong.

syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone (SIADH), disorder characterized by the excessive excretion of sodium in the urine, thereby causing hyponatremia (decreased sodium concentrations in the blood plasma). SIADH is caused by excessive unregulated secretion of vasopressin (antidiuretic

mango: Physical description: Inarching, or approach grafting (in which a scion and stock of independently rooted plants are grafted and the scion later severed from its original stock), is widely practiced in tropical Asia but is tedious and relatively expensive. In Florida, more efficient methods—veneer grafting and chip…

Inari, in Japanese mythology, god primarily known as the protector of rice cultivation. The god also furthers prosperity and is worshiped particularly by merchants and tradesmen, is the patron deity of swordsmiths and is associated with brothels and entertainers. In Shintō legends Inari is

Lake Inari, largest lake in northern Finland, lying near the Russian border. At an elevation of 389 ft (119 m), it is approximately 50 mi (80 km) long and 25 mi (40 km) wide at its farthest points, has an area of 425 sq mi (1,102 sq km), and is about 200 ft (61 m) deep. The lake is fed by the Ivalo

Achaemenes: …and slain in battle by Inaros, the leader of the second rebellion of Egypt against Achaemenid rule.

lamp shells: Paleontology: The Inarticulata, the most abundant brachiopods of the Cambrian, soon gave way to the Articulata and declined greatly in number and variety toward the end of the Cambrian. They were represented in the Ordovician (about 488 million to 444 million years ago) but decreased thereafter. In…

Mary Hannah Fulton: …her later years she wrote “Inasmuch”: Extracts from Letters, Journals, Papers, etc., a memoir of her work that also included a strong plea for continued support of missionary work in China.

presidency of the United States of America: The general election campaign: …president’s first speech, called the Inaugural Address, is then delivered to the nation.

Kenneth Anger: Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954) was a kaleidoscopic montage of performers, including Nin, in the guise of various deities. Those themes, reflective of Anger’s adherence to the mystical teachings of British occultist Aleister Crowley, would pervade much of his later work. Anger defined himself…

Martin Heidegger: Being and Time: …lead an existence that is inauthentic. Rather than facing up to their own finitude—represented above all by the inevitability of death—they seek distraction and escape in inauthentic modalities such as curiosity, ambiguity, and idle talk. Heidegger characterized such conformity in terms of the notion of the anonymous das Man—“the They.”…

Inazawa, city, northwestern Aichi ken (prefecture), central Honshu, Japan. It lies in the Owari plain, with the Kiso River on its western border. Inazawa was a small rural town during the Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603–1867), producing vegetables for the market of nearby Nagoya (southeast). Increased

InBev, former international brewing company that was founded in 2004 through the merger of the Brazilian Companhia de Bebidas das Américas (AmBev) and the Belgian Interbrew SA. In 2008 it acquired Anheuser-Busch, and the resulting company was named Anheuser-Busch InBev. Interbrew’s history dates to

motorboat: Types.: An inboard motorboat has the engine permanently mounted within the hull, with the drive shaft passing through the hull. An outboard motorboat has a portable, detachable motor, incorporating drive shaft and propeller, that is clamped or bolted to the stern or in a well within the…