Sweden: The early Vasa kings (1523–1611): …conflict that ended with the Peace of Knäred in 1613. By the terms of the peace, Sweden had to renounce its claim on the territories in the far north of Scandinavia and pay a new large ransom for the fortress of Älvsborg, taken by the Danes during the war. Charles…

Knaresborough, town (parish), Harrogate borough, administrative county of North Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, northern England. It lies on the left bank of the River Nidd where the river has cut a deep gorge in limestone. Knaresborough Castle was founded there in 1070 but was destroyed

Cicero: …was employed as valet to Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen, British ambassador to neutral Turkey from 1939. He photographed secret documents from the embassy safe and turned the films over to the former German chancellor Franz von Papen, at that time German ambassador in Ankara. For this service the Hitler government…

Karl Ove Knausgaard is a Norwegian writer whose six-volume autobiographical novel, Min kamp (2009–11; My Struggle, 2012–18), proved to be a runaway best seller in Norway and also captivated a large and growing number of English-language readers. Some consider him the greatest Norwegian writer since

Karl Ove Knausgaard is a Norwegian writer whose six-volume autobiographical novel, Min kamp (2009–11; My Struggle, 2012–18), proved to be a runaway best seller in Norway and also captivated a large and growing number of English-language readers. Some consider him the greatest Norwegian writer since

Melania Trump is a Slovenian American former fashion model who served as first lady of the United States during the administrations (2017–21; 2025– ) of her husband, Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th U.S. president. Melania Trump is only the second foreign-born first lady, after Louisa Adams.

all fours: …owes its modern name of jack to this game. Originally, all fours was regarded as a lower-class game—it was much played by African Americans on slave plantations—but in the 19th century it broadened its social horizons and gave rise to more-elaborate games such as cinch (see below), pitch, smear, and…

cribbage: The cut and the deal: …of that suit—formerly called “knave noddy,” an unmistakable link with the earlier game—is worth one point to the holder for “his nob” but is not scored until later. This is followed by the two stages of scoring, the play and the showing.

Jack of Diamonds, group of artists founded in Moscow in 1910 whose members were for the next few years the leading exponents of avant-garde art in Russia. The group’s first exhibition, held in December 1910, included works by the French Cubists Albert Gleizes, Henri Le Fauconnier, and André Lhote;

Melania Trump is a Slovenian American former fashion model who served as first lady of the United States during the administrations (2017–21; 2025– ) of her husband, Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th U.S. president. Melania Trump is only the second foreign-born first lady, after Louisa Adams.

food processor: …variety of food-preparation functions including kneading, chopping, blending, and pulverizing.

Karl Ludwig von Knebel was a German poet who was a close friend of J.W. von Goethe and was one of the most talented of the Weimar circle of Neoclassicists. After serving in the Prussian army, Knebel became tutor to Prince Konstantine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. While traveling with the prince and his

olivine: Chemical composition: …intermediate in the series is knebelite (FeMnSiO4). Tephroite and knebelite come from manganese and iron ore deposits, from metamorphosed manganese-rich sedimentary rocks, and from slags.

Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton was a British politician, poet, and critic, chiefly remembered, however, as a prolific novelist. His books, though dated, remain immensely readable, and his experiences lend his work an unusual historical interest. Bulwer-Lytton was the youngest

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st earl of Lytton was a British diplomat and viceroy of India (1876–80) who also achieved, during his lifetime, a reputation as a poet. Lytton, son of the 1st Baron Lytton, began his diplomatic career as unpaid attaché to his uncle Sir Henry Bulwer, then minister at

Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd earl of Lytton was a British governor of Bengal (1922–27) and chairman of the League of Nations mission to Manchuria, which produced the so-called Lytton Report (1932), condemning Japan’s aggression there. (See Lytton Commission.) Bulwer-Lytton was

St. Nicholas Day: Traditions: In Germany, Knecht Ruprecht serves as St. Nicholas’s servant and gives children who do not know their prayers sticks, stones, or coal. The terrifying devil-like Krampus is common in many central European counties and carries chains, bells, and sometimes a large basket with which to threaten naughty…

knee, hinge joint that is formed by the meeting of the thigh bone (femur) and the larger bone (tibia) of the lower leg. The knee is the largest joint in the body and has to sustain the greatest stresses, since it supports the entire weight of the body above it. The rounded ends, or condyles, of the

bald cypress: …conical woody projections called “knees” above the waterline. The presumed function of the knees is still poorly understood; they may help oxygenate the roots or provide support in the soft muddy soil. The flat needlelike leaves are arranged alternately in two ranks along small twigs. The trees are deciduous,…

knee injuries, the common afflictions of the knee, a relatively fragile joint, as it is exposed to stress in daily activities and sports. Tearing of cartilages or menisci (crescent-shaped disks of cartilage found between the bones) occurs when the knee receives a blow to the side while the leg is

knee injuries, the common afflictions of the knee, a relatively fragile joint, as it is exposed to stress in daily activities and sports. Tearing of cartilages or menisci (crescent-shaped disks of cartilage found between the bones) occurs when the knee receives a blow to the side while the leg is

osteoarthritis: …procedures such as hip or knee replacement or joint debridement (the removal of unhealthy tissue) may be necessary to relieve more severe pain and improve joint function. Injections of a joint lubricant consisting of hyaluronic acid, a substance normally found in synovial fluid, can help relieve pain and joint stiffness…

knee-jerk reflex, sudden kicking movement of the lower leg in response to a sharp tap on the patellar tendon, which lies just below the kneecap. One of the several positions that a subject may take for the test is to sit with knees bent and with one leg crossed over the other so that the upper foot

knee: …the femur; the kneecap, or patella, rests upon the ends of the femur and serves to prevent the tibia from moving too far forward when the leg is bent. The articulating (meeting) surfaces of the femur and tibia condyles are very smooth and are separated by a slight gap.

desk: The kneehole desk was developed in England in the early 18th century. Its top was supported by two banks of cupboards, or drawers, separated by a space for the legs of the person seated at the desk. Larger versions—known as library tables or partners’ desks—enabled two…

religious symbolism and iconography: Gestural and physical movements: …of the heavenly gods; by kneeling, the realm of the underworld. This apparently was the original meaning of kneeling before it became an expression of humility. The bow as an intimated genuflection generally indicates respect. The kiss and the embrace—and sometimes also the actions of breathing or spitting upon someone…

Wilhelm Lehmbruck: …powerful with sculptures such as Kneeling Woman (1911). The harmonious repose of this figure’s angular, elongated limbs and her melancholy facial expression suggest a resigned pessimism, an attitude that characterizes Lehmbruck’s mature works.

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

Sir Godfrey Kneller, Baronet was a painter who became the leading Baroque portraitist in England during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Kneller studied in Amsterdam under Ferdinand Bol, one of Rembrandt’s pupils, before going to Italy in 1672. His Elijah of that year gives evidence of a

Kneset ha-Gedola, (“Men of the Great Assembly”), assembly of Jewish religious leaders who, after returning (539 bc) to their homeland from the Babylonian Exile, initiated a new era in the history of Judaism. The assembly dates from the Persian period, of which very little factual history is known.

Knesset, unicameral parliament of Israel and supreme authority of that state. On February 16, 1949, the Constituent Assembly—elected in January of that year to prepare the country’s constitution—ratified the Transition Law and reconstituted itself as the First Knesset. On the same day, Chaim

Serbia: Conquest by the Ottoman Turks: Led by the Serb knez, or prince, Lazar Hrebeljanović (he did not claim Dušan’s imperial title), a combined army of Serbs, Albanians, and Hungarians met Murad’s forces in battle. On St. Vitus’s Day (Vidovdan), June 28 (June 15, Old Style), 1389, at Kosovo Polje, the Serbs and their allies…

Potemkin (Russian battleship), Russian battleship built for the Black Sea fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy. It is best remembered for a 1905 mutiny by its sailors, one of the events of the Russian Revolution in the same year. The mutineers took the ship to Odesa, Ukraine, but the mutiny

Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin was a Polish poet, playwright, and translator, a court poet of the princely Czartoryski family. Kniaźnin was educated in a Jesuit college and entered the noviate. When the order was disbanded, he was attached in 1783 to the Czartoryskis, for whom he produced lyric

Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin was a Polish poet, playwright, and translator, a court poet of the princely Czartoryski family. Kniaźnin was educated in a Jesuit college and entered the noviate. When the order was disbanded, he was attached in 1783 to the Czartoryskis, for whom he produced lyric

Martin Scorsese: Films of the 1990s: GoodFellas, Cape Fear, and Casino: (especially by Sharon Stone, Alan King, James Woods, Don Rickles, and Dickie Smothers). Kundun (1997) followed; it was a respectful, handsomely mounted biography of the 14th Dalai Lama that proceeded at a stately pace, unspooling through the remarkable events of his life, commencing with the Dalai Lama’s discovery as…

air warfare: Strategic bombing: …Luftwaffe used a system called Knickebein, in which bombers followed one radio beam broadcast from ground stations on the continent until that beam was intersected by another beam at a point over the target. Lead bombers dropped incendiary bombs, which set fires that guided other bombers carrying high explosives as…

Kurt Weill: His operetta Knickerbocker Holiday appeared in 1938 with a libretto by Maxwell Anderson, followed by the musical play Lady in the Dark (1941; libretto and lyrics by Moss Hart and Ira Gershwin), the musical comedy One Touch of Venus (1943; with S.J.

Knickerbocker school, group of writers active in and around New York City during the first half of the 19th century. Taking its name from Washington Irving’s Knickerbocker’s History of New York (1809), the group, whose affiliation was more a regional than an aesthetic matter, sought to promote a

Cholly Knickerbocker, pseudonym of a series of society and gossip columnists, especially those who wrote for the New York American and its successor, the New York Journal-American. The first journalist to write under the byline of Cholly Knickerbocker was John W. Keller, in a society column for the

Diedrich Knickerbocker, persona invented by American writer Washington Irving to narrate the burlesque A History of New York (1809). An eccentric 25-year-old scholar, Knickerbocker relates this comic history of Dutch settlers in the American colony of New Amsterdam, satirizing Dutch-American

dress: The 19th century: …consisting of Norfolk jacket and knickerbockers became popular. The name was taken from the nom de plume Diedrich Knickerbocker, which was adopted by Washington Irving for the comic history of New York that he wrote in 1809. In Irving’s history, the Knickerbockers were a family of Dutch settlers in 17th-century…

social science: Economics: …figures as Wilhelm Roscher and Karl Knies in Germany tended to dismiss the assumptions of timelessness and universality regarding economic behaviour that were axiomatic among the German followers of Smith, and they strongly insisted upon the developmental character of capitalism, evolving in a long series of stages from other types…

Evel Knievel was an American motorcycle daredevil who captivated audiences with his death-defying stunts. As a youth, Knievel was often jailed for stealing hubcaps and motorcycles, including a Harley-Davidson motorcycle at age 13. His brushes with the law led to a popular belief that the police

Evel Knievel was an American motorcycle daredevil who captivated audiences with his death-defying stunts. As a youth, Knievel was often jailed for stealing hubcaps and motorcycles, including a Harley-Davidson motorcycle at age 13. His brushes with the law led to a popular belief that the police

knife, tool or implement for cutting, the blade being either fixed to the handle or fastened with a hinge so as to clasp into it. Knives form the largest class of cutting implements known collectively as cutlery. Cutting tools and weapons used for hunting and defense were first made from stones and

Jo Nesbø: Harry Hole books: …12th Hole book, Kniv (Knife), was published in 2019. It was followed in 2023 by Blodmåne (“Blood Moon”;Killing Moon), in which Hole tracks a serial killer who targets young women in Oslo.

knife case, leather or wooden container for cutlery, placed in pairs on a sideboard or buffet in the dining room. The knife case first appeared in the 17th century and was originally covered with leather and elaborate gilt. Typically, it was a box with a serpentine front and sloping lid, the

dermatome: Knife dermatomes, which are handheld instruments, require a high degree of technical skill and may not produce consistent results. Drum dermatomes are cylindrical in shape and have an oscillating blade that is operated manually. A special adhesive material applied to the drum determines the thickness,…

Joan Plowright: Film and TV: …a cameo in the thriller Knife Edge (2009), which was her last feature film. She subsequently retired from acting because of macular degeneration, which ultimately led to a loss of eyesight.

knifefish, any of certain New World fishes of the suborder Gymnotoidei, order Gymnotiformes. Knifefishes comprise, at most, about 50 species of Central and South American fishes found in quiet lakes and lagoons. They are placed in three families: Gymnotidae (often called gymnotid “eels”);

Knife in the Water, Polish psychological thriller film, released in 1962, that was director Roman Polanski’s acclaimed first feature-length movie; it was also the first Polish movie to be nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign-language film. Knife in the Water features only three

Seine Series: …may be equivalent to the Knife Lake Series; if so, the term Knife Lake Series would have priority over Seine Series.

agricultural technology: Primary tillage equipment: The rotary plow’s essential feature is a set of knives or tines rotated on a shaft by a power source. The knives chop the soil up and throw it against a hood that covers the knife set. These machines can create good seedbeds, but their high…

Salman Rushdie: 2022 attempt on life: In 2024 Rushdie released Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, a memoir of the attack and his subsequent recovery. The following year his assailant was found guilty of attempted murder; Rushdie testified at the trial.

notopterid, any of about eight species of air-breathing, freshwater fishes constituting the family Notopteridae, found in quiet waters from Africa to Southeast Asia. Notopterids are long-bodied, small-scaled fishes with a small dorsal fin (if present) and a long, narrow anal fin that runs along

knifefish, any of certain New World fishes of the suborder Gymnotoidei, order Gymnotiformes. Knifefishes comprise, at most, about 50 species of Central and South American fishes found in quiet lakes and lagoons. They are placed in three families: Gymnotidae (often called gymnotid “eels”);

perciform: Annotated classification: Family Oplegnathidae (knifejaws) Pliocene to present. Strongly resemble Scorpidae and Kyphosidae, but incisiform teeth of young become fused in adult to form a parrotlike beak to upper and lower jaws; these fishes are not related to true parrot fishes (Scaridae); several species of shorefishes mostly in tropics…

Adolf Franz Friedrich, Freiherr von Knigge was a German writer, best-known for his work Über den Umgang mit Menschen (1788; “On Social Intercourse with People”), a practical guide to happiness and success, written in a pleasant and easy style. Belonging to a bankrupt family of the landed

chess: Knight: Each player has two knights, and they begin the game on the squares between their rooks and bishops—i.e., at b1 and g1 for White and b8 and g8 for Black. The knight has the trickiest move, an L-shape of two steps: either two squares…

knight, now a title of honour bestowed for a variety of services, as in the British system of nobility and peerage, but originally in the European Middle Ages a formally professed cavalryman. The first medieval knights were professional cavalry warriors, some of whom were vassals holding lands as

Tom Cruise: …starred in the action thrillers Knight and Day (2010) and Jack Reacher (2012). In the latter he played a former U.S. Army investigator, a role he reprised in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016). After appearing as a 1980s rock idol in the musical Rock of Ages (2012), he was…

knight bachelor, most ancient, albeit lower ranking, form of English knighthood, with its origin dating to the reign of Henry III in the 13th century. The feudalization of England that followed the Norman Conquest of 1066 integrated the knights, then around 5,000 in number, into the new system.

Hospitallers, a religious military order that was founded at Jerusalem in the 11th century and that, headquartered in Rome, continues its humanitarian tasks in most parts of the modern world under several slightly different names and jurisdictions. The origin of the Hospitallers was an 11th-century

Shota Rustaveli: …the author of Vepkhvistqaosani (The Knight in the Panther’s Skin, or The Lord of the Panther-Skin), the Georgian national epic.

John S. Knight: …Ridder Newspapers group (later renamed Knight Ridder, Inc.). Other papers owned by the group include The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Kansas City Star, the San Jose Mercury News, and the St. Paul Pioneer Press. By the early 21st century Knight Ridder newspapers had won more than 80 Pulitzer Prizes.

Christian Bale: In director Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups (2015), his existentially confused wastrel wanders Los Angeles, engaging in sexual dalliances and probing his familial relationships. Bale then played a journalist in The Promise (2016), about a love triangle during the Armenian Genocide.

Francis Beaumont: The Knight of the Burning Pestle parodies a then popular kind of play—sprawling, episodic, with sentimental lovers and chivalric adventures. It opens with The Citizen and his Wife taking their places on the stage to watch “The London Merchant”—itself a satire on the work of…

Guinevere: …charette, she was rescued by Lancelot (a character whom Chrétien had earlier named as one of Arthur’s knights) from the land of Gorre, to which she had been taken by Meleagant (a version of the story that was incorporated in the 13th-century prose Vulgate cycle). Chrétien presented her as one…

John S. Knight: …Ridder Newspapers group (later renamed Knight Ridder, Inc.). Other papers owned by the group include The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Kansas City Star, the San Jose Mercury News, and the St. Paul Pioneer Press. By the early 21st century Knight Ridder newspapers had won more than 80 Pulitzer Prizes.

John S. Knight: …Ridder Newspapers group (later renamed Knight Ridder, Inc.). Other papers owned by the group include The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Kansas City Star, the San Jose Mercury News, and the St. Paul Pioneer Press. By the early 21st century Knight Ridder newspapers had won more than 80 Pulitzer Prizes.

Television in the United States: Quality dramas: …A-Team (1983–87), Riptide (1984–86), and Knight Rider (1982–86), the latter of which featured a talking car that fought crime, helped ease NBC out of third place in the first half of the decade. Then a pair of very traditional nuclear family sitcoms—The Cosby Show and Family Ties—achieved the top two…

knight service, in the European feudal system, military duties performed in return for tenures of land. The military service might be required for wars or expeditions or merely for riding and escorting services or guarding the castle. To obtain such service, a lord could either enfeoff (grant a

Templar, member of the Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, a religious military order of knighthood established at the time of the Crusades that became a model and inspiration for other military orders. Originally founded to protect Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land, the order

Knight v. Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court, on January 22, 1968, issued a per curiam (unsigned) order affirming without explanation a lower court’s ruling that had upheld as constitutional a New York state law requiring all

Chrétien de Troyes: …wife of his overlord Arthur; Yvain, a brilliant extravaganza, combining the theme of a widow’s too hasty marriage to her husband’s slayer with that of the new husband’s fall from grace and final restoration to favour. Perceval, which Chrétien left unfinished, unites the religious theme of the Holy Grail with…

The Knight’s Tale, one of the 24 stories in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. This chivalric romance was based on Giovanni Boccaccio’s Teseida, and though it was not originally written as part of the Canterbury collection, Chaucer adapted it to fit the character of the Knight. In the tale

Bob Knight was an American collegiate basketball coach whose 902 career National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) coaching victories are among the most in men’s basketball history. Knight played basketball and football in high school, and he was a reserve on the Ohio State University national

Bob Knight was an American collegiate basketball coach whose 902 career National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) coaching victories are among the most in men’s basketball history. Knight played basketball and football in high school, and he was a reserve on the Ohio State University national

history of publishing: General periodicals: …of magazine in Britain were Charles Knight, publisher for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, with his weekly Penny Magazine (1832–46) and Penny Cyclopaedia (1833–58); the Chambers brothers, William and Robert, with Chambers’s (Edinburgh) Journal (1832–1956), which reached a circulation of 90,000 in 1845; and teetotaler John Cassell,…

The Brady Bunch: …Greg (Barry Williams), Peter (Christopher Knight), and Bobby (Mike Lookinland); the girls, Marcia (Maureen McCormick), Jan (Eve Plumb), and Cindy (Susan Olsen); and Alice Nelson (Ann B. Davis), the wisecracking live-in housekeeper. While the initial season’s stories sometimes touched on the difficulties of

Albrecht Dürer: Development after the second Italian trip: …of his copperplate engravings: the Knight, Death and Devil, St. Jerome in His Study, and Melencolia I—all of approximately the same size, about 24.5 by 19.1 cm (9.5 by 7.5 inches). The extensive, complex, and often contradictory literature concerning these three engravings deals largely with their enigmatic, allusive, iconographic details.…

yacht: Kinds of sailboats: Knight, a barrister and journalist. A voyage around the world (1895–98) sailed single-handedly by the naturalized American captain Joshua Slocum in the 11.3-metre Spray demonstrated the seaworthiness of small craft. Thereafter in the 20th century, notably after World War II, smaller racing and recreational craft…

Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton was an American botanist known for her lasting contributions to the study of mosses. Elizabeth Knight grew up for the most part in Cuba, where her family owned a sugar plantation. She attended schools in Cuba and New York and in 1875 graduated from Normal (now

children’s literature: Contemporary times: …Lassie Come Home (1940), by Eric Knight, survived adaptation to film and television. In the convention of the talking animal, authentic work was produced by Ben Lucien Burman, with his wonderful “Catfish Bend” tales (1952–67). The American-style, wholesome, humorous family story was more than competently developed by Eleanor Estes, with…

Etheridge Knight was an African American poet who emerged as a robust voice of the Black Arts movement with his first volume of verse, Poems from Prison (1968). His poetry combined the energy and bravado of African American “toasts” (long narrative poems that were recited in a mixture of street

Frank Hyneman Knight was an American economist who is considered the main founder of the “Chicago school” of economics. Knight was educated at the University of Tennessee and at Cornell University, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1916. He then taught at the University of Iowa (1919–27) and at the

Gladys Knight is an American singer and actress known as the “Empress of Soul,” who was the lead vocalist for the popular rhythm-and-blues (R&B) group Gladys Knight and the Pips. She established a successful solo career in both gospel and R&B music and also acted in films and television shows.

Gladys Knight and the Pips, American vocal group that was among the most popular rhythm-and-blues and soul groups of the 1960s and ’70s and that was unique in having a female lead singer and male backup singers. The principal members were Gladys Knight (b. May 28, 1944, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.),

Gowin Knight was an English scientist and inventor whose work in the field of magnetization led to significant improvements in the magnetic compass. In 1744 Knight exhibited powerful bar magnets before the Royal Society of London, proving that he had discovered a greatly improved method of

28 Notable Women Cricketers: Heather Knight: Heather Knight took over as captain of the England women’s team in 2016 when Charlotte Edwards retired and led it to victory in the 2017 women’s ODI World Cup at home. She was named a Wisden Cricketer of the Year that year and…

28 Notable Women Cricketers: Heather Knight: Heather Knight took over as captain of the England women’s team in 2016 when Charlotte Edwards retired and led it to victory in the 2017 women’s ODI World Cup at home. She was named a Wisden Cricketer of the Year that year and…

Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment: …the mediumship of—the school’s leader, JZ Knight. Ramtha’s school draws more than 3,000 students from more than 20 countries.

John S. Knight was a widely respected American journalist and publisher who developed Knight Newspapers, one of the major newspaper chains in the United States. Knight’s father moved to Akron, Ohio, to become advertising manager of the Akron Beacon Journal, a daily newspaper that he came to control

John S. Knight was a widely respected American journalist and publisher who developed Knight Newspapers, one of the major newspaper chains in the United States. Knight’s father moved to Akron, Ohio, to become advertising manager of the Akron Beacon Journal, a daily newspaper that he came to control

Sarah Kemble Knight was an American colonial teacher and businesswoman whose vivid and often humorous travel diary is considered one of the most authentic chronicles of 18th-century colonial life in America. Sarah Kemble was the daughter of a merchant. Sometime before 1689 she married Richard

Margaret E. Knight was a prolific American inventor of machines and mechanisms for a variety of industrial and everyday purposes. Knight demonstrated a knack for tools and invention from an early age, and she was said to have contrived a safety device for controlling shuttles in powered textile

Sister Rosetta Tharpe: She toured with gospel singer Marie Knight, whose subdued vocal approach provided an effective contrast to Tharpe’s more emotive phrasing. The duo made several successful recordings together, including “Beams of Heaven” (1947) and “He Watches Me” (1948). Their decision to release a number of straightforward blues singles backfired, however, alienating…

Marva Collins was an American educator who broke with a public school system she found to be failing inner-city children and established her own rigorous system and practice to cultivate her students’ independence and accomplishment. Marva Knight attended the Bethlehem Academy, a strict school that

Gladys Knight and the Pips: ), Merald (“Bubba”) Knight (b. 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).