Joseph P. Kennedy was an American businessman and financier who served in government commissions in Washington, D.C. (1934–37), and as ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40). He was the father of U.S. Pres. John F. Kennedy and Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy. Joseph Kennedy was the son of

Montreal group: …of literary standards in Canada; Leo Kennedy; and Francis Reginald Scott; as well as two kindred spirits from Toronto, E.J. Pratt and Robert Finch. First brought together at McGill University in Montreal, these poets founded the Canadian Mercury (1928–29), a literary organ for young writers,

The Circus: Cast:

United Kingdom: The Napoleonic Wars: The historian Paul Kennedy has written of British and French power in this period:

Robert F. Kennedy was a U.S. attorney general and adviser during the administration of his brother Pres. John F. Kennedy (1961–63) and later a U.S. senator (1965–68). He was the son of Rose and Joseph P. Kennedy. He was assassinated while campaigning for the Democratic Party’s presidential

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is an American environmental lawyer who serves as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2025– ) in the second administration of Pres. Donald Trump. He is a member of the prominent Kennedy political family and a leading figure among vaccine skeptics.

Robert F. Kennedy was a U.S. attorney general and adviser during the administration of his brother Pres. John F. Kennedy (1961–63) and later a U.S. senator (1965–68). He was the son of Rose and Joseph P. Kennedy. He was assassinated while campaigning for the Democratic Party’s presidential

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is an American environmental lawyer who serves as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2025– ) in the second administration of Pres. Donald Trump. He is a member of the prominent Kennedy political family and a leading figure among vaccine skeptics.

Rose Kennedy was an American political figure who, as the matriarch of the Kennedys, a family that created a political dynasty in the United States, drew on her Roman Catholic faith to endure what she characterized as a life of agonies and ecstasies. Though she held no political position herself,

Rose Kennedy: Their oldest daughter, Rosemary, was institutionalized for retardation from early adulthood after undergoing an unsuccessful lobotomy in 1941. Their first son, Joseph P., Jr., a fighter pilot, was killed in 1944 during World War II. In 1948 their daughter Kathleen was killed in a plane crash. Though their…

Ted Kennedy was a U.S. senator representing Massachusetts from 1962 to 2009. He was a prominent figure in the Democratic Party and in liberal politics beginning in the 1960s, and he became one of the most influential and respected members of the Senate during his long tenure in office. A member of

Walter Kennedy was a Scottish poet, remembered chiefly for his flyting (Scots dialect: “scolding”) with his professional rival William Dunbar. The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie, in which the two poets alternate in heaping outrageous abuse on one another, is the outstanding example of this

William Kennedy is an American author and journalist whose novels feature elements of local history, journalism, and supernaturalism. Kennedy graduated from Siena College, Loudonville, New York, in 1949 and worked as a journalist in New York state and in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he also began

William Kennedy is an American author and journalist whose novels feature elements of local history, journalism, and supernaturalism. Kennedy graduated from Siena College, Loudonville, New York, in 1949 and worked as a journalist in New York state and in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he also began

Television in the United States: The Kennedy-Nixon debates: On Sept. 26, 1960, a debate between the two major candidates for the presidency of the United States was presented on television for the first time. CBS produced the debate, under the direction of Don Hewitt, who would go on to be the…

rocket and missile system: Antiship: …antiship missiles, beginning with the AS-1 Kennel. The destruction of an Israeli destroyer by two SS-N-2 Styx missiles fired by Soviet-supplied Egyptian missile boats in October 1967 demonstrated the effectiveness of the Soviet systems, and the Western powers developed their own guided missiles. The resultant systems began entering service in…

Cavalier King Charles Spaniel: …dogs became recognized by the Kennel Club in England as the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. It soon became one of the most popular breeds in England and, much later, North America.

Arthur Edwin Kennelly was a U.S. electrical engineer who made innovations in analytic methods in electronics, particularly the definitive application of complex-number theory to alternating-current (ac) circuits. After working as an office boy for a London engineering society, as an electrician,

E region, ionospheric region that generally extends from an altitude of 90 km (60 miles) to about 160 km (100 miles). As in the D region (70–90 km), the ionization is primarily molecular—i.e., resulting from the splitting of neutral molecules—oxygen (O2) and nitrogen (N2)—into electrons and

Kenner mission, in U.S. history, secret attempt on the part of the Confederacy in 1864 to elicit European recognition in exchange for Southern abolition of slavery. Duncan Farrar Kenner, a prosperous Louisiana sugar planter and Thoroughbred horse breeder, represented his state in the Confederate

Kenner mission: Duncan Farrar Kenner, a prosperous Louisiana sugar planter and Thoroughbred horse breeder, represented his state in the Confederate House of Representatives throughout the war. As the conflict dragged on, he became increasingly convinced that the South could not win without English and French recognition of…

Marietta: Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, established in 1917 and occupying 4.5 square miles (11.7 square km), preserves the site, and thousands of soldiers are buried in the Marietta National and Confederate cemeteries.

Kennet, former district, administrative and historic county of Wiltshire, southern England, in the east-central part of the county, about midway between Bristol and London. Kennet is a rural area of rolling chalk uplands, including Marlborough Downs (about 400 to 950 feet [120 to 290 metres] high)

Avebury: …of a route called the Kennet Avenue (or West Kennet Avenue) into the interior of the great circle. The Kennet Avenue originally consisted of stones 80 feet (25 metres) apart, arranged in pairs (according to their shapes) that faced each other across the 50-foot (15-metre) width of the avenue. It…

Kenneth I was the first king of the united Scots of Dalriada and the Picts and so of Scotland north of a line between the Forth and Clyde rivers. Of his father, Alpin, little is known, though tradition credits him with a signal victory over the Picts by whom he was killed three months later (c.

Kenneth II was the king of the united Picts and Scots (from 971), son of Malcolm I. He began his reign by ravaging the Britons, probably as an act of vengeance, but his name is also included among a group of northern and western kings said to have made submission to the Anglo-Saxon king Edgar in

Kenneth III was the king of the Scots (from 997), son of Dub and grandson of Malcolm I. He succeeded to the throne perhaps after killing his cousin Constantine III (reigned 995–997); he was himself killed at Monzievaird by Malcolm (son of Kenneth II), who became Malcolm II. Gruoch, wife of the

Zambia: Media and publishing: The Zambia Educational Publishing House (formerly the Kenneth Kaunda Foundation) is a government-backed publisher of the works of Zambian authors and school textbooks. The University of Zambia publishes books and journals. Some other publishers are church-supported. Zambian scholars have contributed to knowledge in a wide range…

Saint Kenneth ; feast day October 11) was an Irish abbot, monastic founder, and missionary who contributed to the conversion of the Picts. He is one of the most popular Celtic saints in Scotland (where he is called Kenneth) and in Ireland (where he is called Canice) and patron saint of the diocese

Victoria: Federation and the state of Victoria: …a coalition government led by Jeff Kennett that almost immediately began implementing a liberalizing agenda. Publicly owned trains, trams, and buses were leased to private operators; the government-operated Gas and Fuel Corporation of Victoria was dismantled; and the state-owned electricity company was sold. Refurbished sporting venues, new sports facilities, expanded…

Kennewick, city, Benton county, southeastern Washington, U.S. It lies along the Columbia River, opposite Pasco and immediately southeast of Richland. Laid out in 1892 by the Northern Pacific Irrigation Company, Kennewick is surrounded by farm country producing alfalfa, corn (maize), beans, sugar

Native American: Repatriation and the disposition of the dead: Subsequently known as Kennewick Man (among scientists) or the Ancient One (among repatriation activists), this person most probably lived sometime between about 9,000 and 9,500 years ago, certainly before 5,600–6,000 years ago. A number of tribes and a number of scientists laid competing claims to the remains. Their…

Nechako River: It originates at Kenney Dam and flows eastward for nearly 150 miles (240 km), draining the Nechako Plateau into the Fraser at Prince George, B.C. Stuart River, a 258-mile- (415-kilometre-) long tributary, joins the Nechako midway between Fort Fraser and Prince George, a stretch that is paralleled by…

Emmeline Pankhurst: …its members, Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney, thrown out of a Liberal Party meeting for demanding a statement about votes for women, were arrested in the street for a technical assault on the police and, after refusing to pay fines, were sent to prison.

National Lampoon: Origin, success, and decline: Henry Beard, Robert Hoffman, and Doug Kenney, all of whom had worked on The Harvard Lampoon, a college humour magazine established in 1876. During their tenure at The Harvard Lampoon, Beard, Hoffman, and Kenney were instrumental in publishing several nationally distributed magazine and book parodies, including parodies of Time, Playboy,…

Mary Kenney O’Sullivan was an American labour leader and reformer who devoted her energies to improving conditions for factory workers in many industries through union organizing. Mary Kenney at an early age went to work as an apprentice dressmaker. Later she worked in a printing and binding

Carol Kennicott, fictional character, an idealistic young bride who attempts to bring culture to the small town of Gopher Prairie, Minn., in the novel Main Street (1920) by Sinclair

kenning, concise compound or figurative phrase replacing a common noun, especially in Old Germanic, Old Norse, and Old English poetry. A kenning is commonly a simple stock compound such as “whale-path” or “swan road” for “sea,” “God’s beacon” for “sun,” or “ring-giver” for “king.” Many kennings are

South Africa: Literature: …Kennis van die aand (1973; Looking on Darkness), Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter (1979), and Breyten Breytenbach’s In Africa Even the Flies Are Happy (1977). Also during this time, the government enacted the Publications Act of 1974, which expanded and strengthened existing censorship policies. Many authors went into exile;

vocal music: The 17th–20th centuries: Hugo Wolf’s “Kennst du das Land” (“Do You Know the Land”) faithfully reflects the iambic feet (˘′) of Goethe’s poem, but this prosodic awareness is combined with a sensitivity to the important words in the text. Furthermore, the melody progresses to a musical climax, as Wolf prepares…

Elizabeth Kenny: …formed the basis of the Kenny method, which was later adapted to include physical therapies such as the bending and flexing of joints for rehabilitation.

Elizabeth Kenny was an Australian nurse and health administrator who was known for her alternative approach to polio treatment, known as the Kenny method. Her fight to gain the medical community’s acceptance for her method was the subject of the 1946 film Sister Kenny. Kenny, whose father was an

Enda Kenny is an Irish politician who served as leader of Fine Gael (2002–17) and as taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland (2011–17). Kenny attended the National University of Ireland, Galway, and spent four years working as a teacher. He turned to politics in 1975 upon the death of his father,

Enda Kenny: …the death of his father, Henry Kenny, a long-serving member of the Dáil Éireann (Ireland’s lower legislative house), representing Mayo. Kenny won a comfortable victory in a special election to fill his father’s seat, and at age 24 he was the youngest member of the Dáil. He spent much of…

Saint Kenneth ; feast day October 11) was an Irish abbot, monastic founder, and missionary who contributed to the conversion of the Picts. He is one of the most popular Celtic saints in Scotland (where he is called Kenneth) and in Ireland (where he is called Canice) and patron saint of the diocese

Elizabeth Kenny was an Australian nurse and health administrator who was known for her alternative approach to polio treatment, known as the Kenny method. Her fight to gain the medical community’s acceptance for her method was the subject of the 1946 film Sister Kenny. Kenny, whose father was an

Elizabeth Kenny was an Australian nurse and health administrator who was known for her alternative approach to polio treatment, known as the Kenny method. Her fight to gain the medical community’s acceptance for her method was the subject of the 1946 film Sister Kenny. Kenny, whose father was an

keno, gambling game played with cards (tickets) bearing numbers in squares, usually from 1 to 80. A player marks or circles as many of these numbers as he wishes up to the permitted maximum, after which he hands in, or registers, his ticket and pays according to how many numbers he selected. At

Democritus: …asserted that space, or the Void, had an equal right with reality, or Being, to be considered existent. He conceived of the Void as a vacuum, an infinite space in which moved an infinite number of atoms that made up Being (i.e., the physical world). These atoms are eternal and…

Kenora, town, Kenora district, northwestern Ontario, Canada. It lies along the northern shore of Lake of the Woods, 300 miles (480 km) northwest of Thunder Bay. The Hudson’s Bay Company built a trading post on Old Fort Island (1790), and lumbering in the locality was followed by a gold-mining boom

Kenoran orogeny, a Precambrian thermal event on the Canadian Shield that occurred 2.5 billion years ago (± 150 million years). Rocks affected by the Kenoran event represent some of the oldest rocks in North America and occur in the Superior Province surrounding Hudson Bay on the south and east, the

Archean Eon: …some scholars refer to as Kenorland.

Kenosha, city, seat (1850) of Kenosha county, southeastern Wisconsin, U.S. It lies along Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Pike River, just north of the Illinois state line. Founded in 1835 by settlers from New York, it was first called Pike Creek, then was called Southport for its importance as a

electronics: The vacuum tube era: Coolidge and Fleming’s thermionic valve (a two-electrode vacuum tube) for use in radio receivers. The detection of a radio signal, which is a very high-frequency alternating current (AC), requires that the signal be rectified; i.e., the alternating current must be converted into a direct current (DC) by a…

Kanazawa: Kenroku Garden, formerly on the Maeda estate, is an excellent example of Japanese landscape gardening. Manufacturing developed from Kanazawa’s luxury industries of fine lacquer and Kutani ware porcelain. An ancient silk industry has been expanded to include cotton, woolen, rayon, and nylon textiles. Kanazawa University…

Kanazawa: Kenroku Garden, formerly on the Maeda estate, is an excellent example of Japanese landscape gardening. Manufacturing developed from Kanazawa’s luxury industries of fine lacquer and Kutani ware porcelain. An ancient silk industry has been expanded to include cotton, woolen, rayon, and nylon textiles. Kanazawa University…

Kōshaku Katsura Tarō: His Rikken Dōshikai was at first unsuccessful but eventually became one of the two major political groups in pre-World War II Japan. Katsura’s third premiership lasted only seven weeks (December 1912–February 1913) and ended amidst riots against his oligarchic methods and his program for greater armaments.…

Japan: Constitutional government: …party, the Constitutional Party (Kenseitō), and were allowed to form a government. But their alliance was brittle as long-standing animosities and jealousies enabled antiparty forces among the bureaucracy and oligarchy to force their resignation within a few months.

John Frederick Kensett was an American landscape painter, the leader of the second generation of the Hudson River school artists. Kensett was trained as an engraver by his father, Thomas Kensett, and his uncle, Alfred Daggett, a banknote engraver. In 1838 Kensett went to New York City to work for a

seppuku: …presence of a witness (kenshi) sent by the authority issuing the death sentence. The prisoner was usually seated on two tatami mats, and behind him stood a second (kaishakunin), usually a relative or friend, with sword drawn. A small table bearing a short sword was placed in front of…

Shinran was a Buddhist teacher recognized as the founder of the Jōdo Shinshū (True Pure Land School), which advocates that faith, recitation of the name of the buddha Amida (Amitabha), and birth in the paradise of the Pure Land. For centuries Jōdo Shinshū has been one of the largest schools of

Berlin, town (township), Hartford county, central Connecticut, U.S., on the Mattabesset River, just southeast of New Britain. It includes the villages of East Berlin and Kensington. The first white settler was Richard Beckley of New Haven, who established Beckley’s Quarter in 1660. Formerly called

Kensington and Chelsea, royal borough in inner London, England, part of the historic county of Middlesex. It occupies the north bank of the River Thames west of the City of Westminster. The borough of Kensington and Chelsea, forming part of London’s fashionable West End district, is predominantly

Kensington Gardens, park lying almost completely within the borough of Westminster, London; a small portion is in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It covers an area of 275 acres (111 hectares) and is bordered by the grounds of Kensington Palace (west), Bayswater (north), South Kensington

Thomas W. Dyott: …in 1833 he purchased the Kensington (Pennsylvania) Glass Works, where he employed 400 workers. Here he found an outlet for his Utopian ambitions. No liquor was permitted in Dyottville, or “Temperanceville,” as the factory community was called, although the “doctor’s” own medicines had a high alcoholic content. Workers rose to…

Bridgetown: Northwest of the cathedral is Kensington Oval, a historic cricket ground (1871; original structure demolished and rebuilt 2005–07) that has hosted international matches since 1895, including the International Cricket Council World Cup final in 2007.

Kensington Palace, royal palace in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Its grounds border the extensive Kensington Gardens to the east. The palace was originally built for Sir George Coppin in the 17th century, and it became known as Nottingham House after it was purchased by an earl of

Kensington Stone, supposed relic of a 14th-century Scandinavian exploration of the interior of North America. Most scholars deem it a forgery, claiming linguistically that the carved writing on it is many years out of style; a few scholars, notably Robert A. Hall, Jr., former professor at Cornell

Kent, city, Portage county, northeastern Ohio, U.S., on the Cuyahoga River, immediately northeast of Akron. The site was first settled in about 1805 by John and Jacob Haymaker and was called Riedsburg. It was later named Franklin Mills, and when incorporated as a village in 1867 it was renamed for

Kent, county, northeastern Maryland, U.S. It consists of a coastal plain bordered by the Sassafras River to the north, Delaware to the east, the Chester River to the south, and Chesapeake Bay to the west. The county, named for Kent, Eng., dates to 1642. Chestertown, the county seat, contains

Kent, county, west-central Rhode Island, U.S., lying between Connecticut to the west and Narragansett Bay to the east. The Pawtuxet River flows through the county’s northeastern corner. The county was created in 1750 and named for Kent, Eng. There is no county seat, but the principal towns are

Delaware: …north to south, New Castle, Kent, and Sussex—all established by 1682. Its population, like its industry, is concentrated in the north, around Wilmington, where the major coastal highways and railways pass through from Pennsylvania and New Jersey on the north and east into Maryland on the south and west. The…

Kent, administrative, geographic, and historic county of England, lying at the southeastern extremity of Great Britain. It is bordered to the southwest by East Sussex, to the west by Surrey, to the northwest by Greater London, to the north by the Thames estuary, to the northeast by the North Sea,

Kent, one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, probably geographically coterminous with the modern county, famous as the site of the first landing of Anglo-Saxon settlers in Britain, as the kingdom that received the first Roman mission to the Anglo-Saxons, and for its distinctive social and

Edward Augustus, duke of Kent and Strathern was the fourth son of King George III of Great Britain, and the father of Queen Victoria. He made his career in the army and saw service at Gibraltar, Canada, and the West Indies, where he was renowned as a severe disciplinarian. Like most of his

Kent State University, public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Kent, Ohio, U.S. A larger Kent State University system comprises the main campus in Kent, branch campuses in Ashtabula and East Liverpool, and two-year colleges in Salem and in Geauga, Stark, Trumbull, and Tuscarawas

Kent State shooting, the shooting of unarmed college students at Kent State University, in northeastern Ohio, by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970, one of the seminal events of the anti-Vietnam War movement in the United States. Republican Richard Nixon won election as president of the United

Kent State University, public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Kent, Ohio, U.S. A larger Kent State University system comprises the main campus in Kent, branch campuses in Ashtabula and East Liverpool, and two-year colleges in Salem and in Geauga, Stark, Trumbull, and Tuscarawas

Kent’s Cavern, large limestone cave near Torquay, Devonshire, England, that yielded some of the earliest evidence of human coexistence with extinct animals. The Rev. J. McEnery, who investigated the upper deposits (1825–29), was perhaps first to proclaim this fact. Excavations (1865–80) made by

Kent’s Cavern, large limestone cave near Torquay, Devonshire, England, that yielded some of the earliest evidence of human coexistence with extinct animals. The Rev. J. McEnery, who investigated the upper deposits (1825–29), was perhaps first to proclaim this fact. Excavations (1865–80) made by

Superman, American comic strip superhero created for DC Comics by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster. Superman first appeared in Action Comics, no. 1 (June 1938). Superman’s origin is perhaps one of the best-known stories in comic book history. Indeed, in All Star Superman no. 1 (2005),

Odo of Bayeux was the half brother of William the Conqueror and bishop of Bayeux, Normandy. He probably commissioned the famed Bayeux Tapestry, which pictures the Norman Conquest of England, for the dedication of his cathedral (1077). Odo was the son of Herluin of Conteville by Arlette, who had

Edmund Plantagenet, 1st earl of Kent was the youngest brother of England’s King Edward II, whom he supported to the forfeit of his own life. He received many marks of favour from his brother, whom he steadily supported until the last act in Edward’s life opened in 1326. He fought in Scotland and

Hannah Kent Schoff was an American welfare worker and reformer who was influential in state and national child welfare and juvenile criminal legislation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Schoff married in 1873 and eventually settled in Philadelphia. She attended the first National Congress

James Kent was a jurist whose decisions and written commentaries shaped the inchoate common law in the formative years of the United States and also influenced jurisprudence in England and other common-law countries. As chancellor of the New York Court of Chancery (1814–23), he is said to have made

Ari Aster: Hollywood breakout: Hereditary and Midsommar: …Peele (Get Out [2017]) and Jennifer Kent (The Babadook [2014]), whose films effectively wedded horror’s shock value with artistically ambitious dramatic themes.

Joan Bocher was an English Anabaptist burned at the stake for heresy during the reign of the Protestant Edward VI. Bocher first came to notice about 1540, during the reign of Henry VIII, when she began distributing among ladies of the court William Tyndale’s forbidden translation of the New

Victoria: Lineage and early life: …than her German-born mother, the duchess of Kent, were her half sister, Féodore, and her governess, Louise (afterward the Baroness) Lehzen, a native of Coburg. An important father figure to the orphaned princess was her uncle Leopold, her mother’s brother, who lived at Claremont, near Esher, Surrey, until he became…

Rockwell Kent was a painter and illustrator whose works, though never radically innovative, represented scenes of nature and adventure with such vividness and drama that he became one of the most popular American artists of the first half of the 20th century. Kent studied architecture at Columbia

Thomas Holland, duke of Surrey was a prominent English noble in the reign of Richard II. Son of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent (1350–97), he aided in the arrest and destruction of Richard II’s enemies and was awarded with the dukedom of Surrey in 1397. In 1398 he was created marshal of England

William Kent was an English architect, interior designer, landscape gardener, and painter. He was a principal master of the Palladian architectural style in England and a pioneer in the creation of the “informal” English garden. Kent was said to have been apprenticed to a coach painter at Hull.

Kentaū, city, south-central Kazakhstan. It is located on the slopes of the Qarataū mountain range. Kentaū was formed in 1955 from several settlements and grew rapidly as a city, with a plant for enriching polymetallic ores and reinforced concrete (ferroconcrete), transformer, and excavator works.

Theseum: …hand, the western one a kentauromachia (battle of centaurs). The temple is of Pentelic marble—except for the foundation and the lowest stylobate step, which are of Piraic stone, and the frieze of the cella, which is Parian marble. Fragments of the polychromatic decoration are housed in the British Museum in…

Centaur, in Greek mythology, a race of creatures, part horse and part man, dwelling in the mountains of Thessaly and Arcadia. Traditionally they were the offspring of Ixion, king of the neighbouring Lapiths, and were best known for their fight (centauromachy) with the Lapiths, which resulted from

Uys Krige: …with a book of verse, Kentering (1935; “Turnings”); a play, Magdelena Retief (1938); and a volume of poetic tales, Die palmboom (1940; “The Palm Tree”). He served as a war correspondent with the South African forces in North Africa (1940–41) and was captured at Tobruk. He was sent to Italy…

houseplant: Trees: …the feather palms is the paradise palm (Howea, or Kentia), which combines grace with sturdiness; its thick, leathery leaves can stand much abuse. The parlour palms and bamboo palms of the genus Chamaedorea have dainty fronds on slender stalks; they keep well even in fairly dark places. Similar in appearance…

Saint Kentigern ; feast day January 14) was an abbot and early Christian missionary, traditionally the first bishop of Glasgow and the evangelist of the ancient Celtic kingdom of Cumbria in southwestern Scotland. Little else is known about him except from late, dubious hagiographies. According to

Old English language: …Scotland; Mercian in central England; Kentish in southeastern England; and West Saxon in southern and southwestern England. Mercian and Northumbrian are often classed together as the Anglian dialects. Most extant Old English writings are in the West Saxon dialect; the first great period of literary activity occurred during the reign…

Stan Kenton was an American jazz bandleader, pianist, and composer who commissioned and promoted the works of many modern composer-arrangers. He combined formal education with big-band jazz and produced what became the stage (or concert) band movement of the 1960s and ’70s, involving thousands of

Stan Kenton was an American jazz bandleader, pianist, and composer who commissioned and promoted the works of many modern composer-arrangers. He combined formal education with big-band jazz and produced what became the stage (or concert) band movement of the 1960s and ’70s, involving thousands of