Stephen Sondheim: …two nonmusical mysteries: the film The Last of Sheila (1973), with Anthony Perkins, and the play Getting Away with Murder (1996), with George Furth. He also notably wrote five songs for the movie Dick Tracy (1990), winning an Academy Award for “Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man).” The…

Sir Edward Belcher: …described his Arctic venture in The Last of the Arctic Voyages (1855). He was created a Knight Commander of the Bath in 1867 and he became an admiral in 1872.

André De Toth: Last of the Comanches (1953) was a remake of Zoltan Korda’s Sahara (1943), with Native Americans standing in for the Nazi hordes of the original.

Timothy Findley: The Last of the Crazy People (1967) is about a despairing, obsessive boy whose attempts to cope with his dysfunctional family lead to murder and madness, while The Butterfly Plague (1969) presents a late-1930s Hollywood family whose members embody the world’s ills.

the Pretenders: Later work: …during the recording sessions for Last of the Independents, which was released in 1994 and featured the hit single “I’ll Stand by You.” Although the Pretenders’ subsequent albums—¡Viva el amor! (1999), Loose Screw (2002), Break Up the Concrete (2008), Alone (2016), and Hate for Sale (2020)—were less successful, the band…

André Schwarz-Bart: …Le Dernier des justes (1959; The Last of the Just).

The Last of the Mohicans, the second and most popular novel of the five-volume Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in two volumes in 1826. In terms of narrative order, it is also the second novel in the series, taking place in 1757 during the French and Indian War. The

Michael Mann: …Mann gained additional attention for The Last of the Mohicans (1992), a romantic epic starring Daniel Day-Lewis that was adapted from the James Fenimore Cooper novel of the same name. He found both critical and commercial success with the ensemble crime drama Heat (1995), featuring Al Pacino and Robert De…

The Last of the Mohicans, the second and most popular novel of the five-volume Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in two volumes in 1826. In terms of narrative order, it is also the second novel in the series, taking place in 1757 during the French and Indian War. The

the Flying Burrito Brothers: …group’s albums, including the live Last of the Red Hot Burritos (1972), which also prominently featured bluegrass musicians. Numerous other personnel changes—including the arrival and departure of Leadon, who helped found the Eagles—and the group’s limited commercial appeal outside a small, devoted following contributed to its dissolution by 1973. Kleinow…

Alan Arkin: …adaptation of the Simon’s play Last of the Red Hot Lovers, played a San Francisco detective in the comedy Freebie and the Bean (1974), portrayed Sigmund Freud in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), and appeared opposite Peter Falk in Arthur Hiller’s comedy The In-Laws

Sophie Tucker was an American singer whose 62-year stage career included American burlesque, vaudeville, and nightclub and English music hall appearances. Born somewhere in Russia as her mother was on her way to join her father in the United States, Sophie Kalish grew up in Boston and then in

Claude Lanzmann: …the Sobibor extermination camp; and The Last of the Unjust (2013), a 1975 interview with Benjamin Murmelstein (1905–89), a rabbi and Jewish leader at Theresienstadt who was working for the Nazis under Adolph Eichmann. Theresienstadt, a stopping point for Jews who would eventually be sent to death camps, was meant…

Lofoten: …in Den siste viking (1921; Last of the Vikings, 1923).

Pedro Pascal: Struggles and success: …Miller in the HBO series The Last of Us (2023– ), a dystopian drama based on a video game. The show is largely set after the global outbreak of an infection (zombie-ant fungus; also known as cordyceps) that turns people into zombies. Hoping for a cure and redemption, Miller agrees…

Graham Swift: His subtle, beautifully written Last Orders (1996) won the prestigious Booker Prize. In 2003 he published The Light of Day, which explores a private investigator’s relationship with a client convicted of murdering her husband. Swift’s novel Tomorrow (2007) returns to themes of the family as a woman lies awake,…

Larry McMurtry: …small-town life are examined in The Last Picture Show (1966; film 1971); McMurtry received an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay. The novel was the first in a series that he continued with Texasville (1987), Duane’s Depressed (1999), When the Light Goes (2007), and Rhino Ranch (2009). McMurtry’s frontier epic,…

Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc.: … (1969), Five Easy Pieces (1970), The Last Picture Show (1971), and The Big Chill (1983).

William Butler Yeats: …verse collections, New Poems and Last Poems and Two Plays, appeared in 1938 and 1939 respectively. In these books many of his previous themes are gathered up and rehandled, with an immense technical range; the aged poet was using ballad rhythms and dialogue structure with undiminished energy as he approached…

the Last Poets, spoken-word group, formed in 1968, whose confrontational delivery and socially conscious lyrics in songs such as “When the Revolution Comes” were a forerunner to rap and hip-hop music. The group’s founding members were David Nelson (also known as Dahveed Ben Israel and Dahveed

graphic design: Graphic design in developing nations: …powerful poster series that included The Last Portal of Truth 42, produced just before the 2002 Zimbabwean elections.

Eric Temple Bell: …history of Fermat’s last theorem, The Last Problem (1961). Although rather fanciful and not always historically accurate, these works, particularly Men of Mathematics, continue to attract a wide readership. Under the pen name of John Taine, Bell wrote many books of science fiction, including The Time Stream (1946).

George Santayana: Santayana’s system of philosophy: …perfect expression in a novel, The Last Puritan (1935).

Moon: Principal characteristics of the Earth-Moon system: …waxing gibbous, full, waning gibbous, last quarter, and waning crescent. New moon occurs when the Moon is between Earth and the Sun, and thus the side of the Moon that is in shadow faces Earth. Full moon occurs when the Moon is on the opposite side of Earth from the…

Louise Erdrich: Novels: …of her earlier novels for The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (2001), about the tribulations of a white nun who leaves her convent and then assumes the identity of a priest in order to take up his position on a reservation. In 2020 Erdrich discussed her…

Pawel Pawlikowski: …a feature film director with Last Resort (2000), a drama that chronicled the lives of asylum seekers in an English seaside resort town. The film earned him the 2001 Carl Foreman Award for the most-promising newcomer from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). His follow-up effort—My Summer…

Alison Lurie: The Last Resort (1998) follows a naturalist writer and his wife on a trip to Key West, where they encounter human vanity and sexual desires. Truth and Consequences (2005), which follows two couples courting divorce, revisits Lurie’s invented Corinth University.

Pierce Brosnan: …Ireland, in the inspirational drama The Last Rifleman (2023).

Henry Hathaway: Later work: Although The Last Safari (1967) and Five Card Stud (1968) received tepid responses from filmgoers, Hathaway scored a major hit with True Grit (1969), an adaptation of Charles Portis’s best seller. For his portrayal of the drunken, cantankerous, but endearing U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, Wayne received…

Tom Cruise: (2002), directed by Steven Spielberg; The Last Samurai (2003), in which he played a disaffected U.S. soldier who aligns himself with a samurai community; and the gritty Los Angeles-set Collateral (2004), in which he took on the role of an obdurate contract killer. He reteamed with Spielberg on War of…

Gerard Butler: Last Seen Alive (2022) centres on a man searching for his estranged wife after she mysteriously disappears.

Elizabeth Bowen: …the scene of her novel The Last September (1929), which takes place during the events that preceded Irish independence. When she was 7, her father suffered a mental illness, and she departed for England with her mother, who died when Elizabeth was 12. An only child, she lived with relatives…

Sting: Later work and assessment: In the summer of 2014 The Last Ship, a musical written by Sting and inspired by his childhood in the shipbuilding town of Wallsend, had its off-Broadway debut in Chicago and was praised by critics. It debuted on Broadway that fall, but, as it began to founder, Sting joined the…

Pamela Anderson: Later credits: …Globe nomination—for her performance in The Last Showgirl, about a Las Vegas dancer who learns that her show is closing after 30 years.

Nicholas Sparks: …The Choice (2007; film 2016), The Last Song (2009; film 2010), The Lucky One (2008; film 2012), The Best of Me (2011; film 2014), and The Longest Ride (2013; film 2015). In 2015 he released the novel See Me, about a pair of lovers with troubled pasts. Later works include…

Joy Harjo: Poetry and other writing: Harjo’s first volume of poetry, The Last Song (1975), introduced her remarkable observations and insights into the fragmented history of Indigenous peoples. In her third collection, She Had Some Horses (1983), she wove prayer chants and animal imagery into her verse. The title poem, considered a feminist

Pixies: …release of the candid, hook-laced Last Splash (1993), one of the landmark albums of the 1990s. In 2004 the Pixies reunited for a much-anticipated multicity tour, on which a limited amount of on-site CD recordings of each concert were instantly available to concertgoers. The tour was also captured in the…

Helen Mirren: Later films: …Leo Tolstoy’s wife, Sofya, in The Last Station (2009) earned her a fourth Oscar nomination. She then portrayed a former CIA assassin in the action comedy Red (2010) and, in a bit of cross-gender casting, starred in Julie Taymor’s 2010 film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest as the sorceress…

William Trevor: …Cheating at Canasta (2007); and Last Stories (2018), his final collection. These are typically bleak tales featuring moments of reckoning in which characters can no longer seek refuge in the fantasies and illusions that had previously made their lives bearable.

Frank Perry: Last Summer (1969) was a provocative adaptation of Evan Hunter’s coming-of-age novel about three teenagers (Richard Thomas, Bruce Davison, and Barbara Hershey) who aimlessly drink and engage in sexual experimentation, but things take a cruel and violent turn when a shy, vulnerable girl (Catherine Burns)…

Jacqueline Woodson: Writing career: That work, Last Summer with Maizon (1990), focuses on the relationship between two friends, Margaret and Maizon, during the summer before Maizon leaves for boarding school. The second book in the series, Maizon at Blue Hill (1992), follows Maizon to boarding school, where she is one of…

Robert Aldrich: The 1960s: Aldrich opened the decade with The Last Sunset (1961), a dialogue-heavy western in which Kirk Douglas played a philosophical outlaw who ends up on a cattle drive with the sheriff (Rock Hudson) who has been chasing him. He then helmed the biblical epic Sodom and Gomorrah (1962), with Stewart Granger…

Last Supper, in the New Testament, the final meal shared by Jesus and his disciples in an upper room in Jerusalem, the occasion of the institution of the Eucharist. The story of the Last Supper on the night before Christ’s crucifixion is reported in four books of the New Testament (Matthew

Andrea del Castagno: …first notable works were a Last Supper and, in a single composition above that, a Crucifixion, a Deposition, and a Resurrection—all executed in 1447 for the refectory of the former Convent of Sant’Apollonia in Florence, now known as the Cenacolo di Sant’Apollonia. These monumental frescoes, revealing the influence of Masaccio’s…

Last Supper, one of the most famous artworks in the world, painted by Leonardo da Vinci probably between 1495 and 1498 for the Dominican monastery Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. It depicts the dramatic scene described in several closely connected moments in the Gospels, including Matthew

Paolo Veronese: The later years: …paintings and particularly in the Last Supper commissioned in 1573 by the convent of Saints Giovanni e Paolo aroused the suspicion of the Inquisition’s tribunal of the Holy Office, which summoned Veronese to defend the painting. The tribunal objected to the painting on grounds that it included irreverent elements, inappropriate…

Tintoretto: Career: …form of composition in his Last Supper of San Marcuola (1547), in which the choice of rough and popular types succeeds in endorsing the scene with a portrayal of ordinary everyday reality struck with wonder by the revelation of the miracle.

The Last Supper, Italian Cenacolo, is a wall painting made by Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, probably between 1495 and 1498. Ludovico Sforza, the duke of Milan, commissioned it for the refectory of the Dominican monastery Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. The Last Supper depicts the scene

Bernardo Bertolucci: …best known for his film Last Tango in Paris (1972), the erotic content of which created an international sensation.

Martin Scorsese: Films of the 1980s: Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, and The Color of Money: …version of Nikos Kazantzákis’s epic novel (adapted by Schrader) about the self-doubts of Jesus as he carries out his mission. Willem Dafoe was well cast as Jesus, but some critics had problems with the more unusual casting of Keitel as Judas, Barbara Hershey as Mary Magdalene, and Harry Dean Stanton…

Peter Gabriel: …album, Passion: Music for “The Last Temptation of Christ” (1989), featured a number of African and Middle Eastern artists (several of whom released albums with Real World) and won a Grammy Award. Gabriel’s work also has been marked by an imaginative visual component. His performances with Genesis were noted…

Peter Ackroyd: …London (1982), was followed by The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983), Hawksmoor (1985; winner of the Prix Goncourt and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award), Chatterton (1987), First Light (1989), English Music (1992), The House of Doctor Dee (1993), The Trial of Elizabeth

Arthur C. Clarke: Clarke’s final novel, The Last Theorem (2008), which concerns an alien invasion and a new short proof of Fermat’s last theorem, was completed by Frederik Pohl.

Joan Didion: …Prayer (1977), Democracy (1984), and The Last Thing He Wanted (1996; film 2020) and the essays Salvador (1983), Miami (1987), and Where I Was From (2003). Essays on U.S. politics, including the presidential election of 2000, were collected in Political Fictions (2001). Didion also wrote screenplays with her husband,

Ben Affleck: Roles of the 2010s and beyond: In 2020 Affleck starred in The Last Thing He Wanted, a crime drama based on a novel by Joan Didion, and The Way Back, about an alcoholic who becomes a high-school basketball coach. He later reteamed with Damon, on Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel (2021). The medieval drama was based…

Elizabeth Taylor: Giant, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Suddenly, Last Summer: …wife of a writer in The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) and as an East Coast woman who marries the patriarch of a disintegrating Texas ranching family (played by Rock Hudson) in Giant (1956).

Oscar Hammerstein II: …Awards for the songs “The Last Time I Saw Paris” from Lady Be Good (1941) and “It Might as Well Be Spring” from State Fair (1945). In addition, he received three Tony Awards for South Pacific and one for The King and I.

John Sturges: Bad, Magnificent, and Great: Last Train from Gun Hill (1959) was much better, a crackling western in which Douglas was at his best as an uncompromising sheriff determined to find the men who raped and killed his wife. The World War II drama Never So Few (1959) offered a…

Paul Theroux: Later works: The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari (2013) recounts a harrowing journey up the western coast of Africa, and Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads (2015) relates his meanderings through the poverty-stricken regions of the American South. Figures in a Landscape:…

Elia Kazan: Films, stage work, and writing of the 1960s and ’70s of Elia Kazan: Kazan’s final film, The Last Tycoon (1976), was an adaptation of an unfinished novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, with a screenplay by playwright Harold Pinter. It seemed fitting that Kazan should retire from the screen with an actors’ showcase: Robert De Niro, Robert Mitchum, Jack Nicholson, Tony

The Last Tycoon, unfinished novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published posthumously in 1941. As edited by the literary critic Edmund Wilson, it contained six completed chapters, an abridged conclusion, and some of Fitzgerald’s notes. The work is an indictment of Hollywood, where Fitzgerald had had a

last universal common ancestor (LUCA), microorganism proposed to be the genetic ancestor of all domains of life—namely, the Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya. The idea that all species descend from a common ancestor was first proposed in the 19th century, by naturalists Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and

Robert De Niro: Comedies and later work: …Kline in the buddy comedy Last Vegas (2013).

Martin Scorsese: Films of the 1970s: Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, and New York, New York: …concert into the well-received rockumentary The Last Waltz (1978), with unparalleled performance footage of Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, and other musical luminaries. Next came American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince (1978), in which Prince, a friend of Scorsese who memorably played the gun

Peter Weir: …Hanging Rock (1975), followed by The Last Wave (1977), for which he also cowrote the screenplay and which was reviewed more favourably in the United States than in Australia. The World War I drama Gallipoli (1981), based on a story by Weir and starring Mel Gibson, won eight Australian Film…

John Oliver: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: The HBO series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver premiered in 2014. Covering politics and current events with a comedic voice, the weekly program became known for its deep dives into what Oliver described on NPR’s Fresh Air in…

Alain Robbe-Grillet: …L’Année dernière à Marienbad (1961; Last Year at Marienbad). Ultimately, Robbe-Grillet’s work raises questions about the ambiguous relationship of objectivity and subjectivity.

Argentina: The return of Peronism: …over by another interim president, Raúl Lastiri, who began a purge of leftist influences in the government.

Pieter Lastman was a Dutch painter of biblical and mythological scenes in antique landscapes who had a strong influence on the young Rembrandt, who worked in his Amsterdam studio in 1624. Lastman received his earliest training from a pupil of Cornelis van Haarlem, a painter of the post-Renaissance

Eusebio Pedroza: …1978, Pedroza knocked out Spaniard Cecilio Lastra in the 13th round to claim the WBA featherweight title. He held that title for seven years, during which he made 19 title defenses, a division record. His reign came to an end on June 8, 1985, when he lost a 15-round decision…

Juhani Aho: Aho’s short stories, Lastuja, 8 series (1891–1921; “Chips”), have been most enduring; they are concerned with peasant life, fishing, and the wildlife of the lakelands. In these, as in his reminiscences of childhood, Muistatko—? (1920; “Do You Remember?”), Aho displays a quiet lyricism.

Hinduism: Shaivism: …gives rise to energy, and lasya, the gentle, lyric dance representing tenderness and grace. Holding a drum upon which he beats the rhythm of creation, he dances within a circle of flames that depicts the arc of dissolution. He holds up the palm of one hand in a gesture of…

P.A. de László was a naturalized British painter who gained international fame for his portraits of eminent men. Among his best known subjects were King Edward VII, Kaiser Wilhelm II, U.S. Presidents Theodore R. Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, King George V, Pope Leo XIII, and Benito Mussolini. He

Ladislas I ; canonized 1192; feast day June 27) was the king of Hungary who greatly expanded the boundaries of the kingdom and consolidated it internally; no other Hungarian king was so generally beloved by the people. The son of Béla I of Hungary and the Polish princess Rycheza (Ryksa), Ladislas

The tenacious British middleweight boxer John Wright had no immediate reason to worry when, on familiar ground at the 1948 Olympic Games in London, he faced a young opponent named László Papp. Wright had, after all, amassed a sterling record of amateur performances, and he was heavily favored to

Ladislas V was a boy king of Hungary and of Bohemia (from 1453), who was caught up in the feud between his guardian Ulrich, count of Cilli, and the Hunyadi family of Hungary. Ladislas was the posthumous only son of the Habsburg German king Albert II, who had also been king of Hungary and Bohemia.

Ladislas V was a boy king of Hungary and of Bohemia (from 1453), who was caught up in the feud between his guardian Ulrich, count of Cilli, and the Hunyadi family of Hungary. Ladislas was the posthumous only son of the Habsburg German king Albert II, who had also been king of Hungary and Bohemia.

P.A. de László was a naturalized British painter who gained international fame for his portraits of eminent men. Among his best known subjects were King Edward VII, Kaiser Wilhelm II, U.S. Presidents Theodore R. Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, King George V, Pope Leo XIII, and Benito Mussolini. He

Ladislas I ; canonized 1192; feast day June 27) was the king of Hungary who greatly expanded the boundaries of the kingdom and consolidated it internally; no other Hungarian king was so generally beloved by the people. The son of Béla I of Hungary and the Polish princess Rycheza (Ryksa), Ladislas

Ladislas I ; canonized 1192; feast day June 27) was the king of Hungary who greatly expanded the boundaries of the kingdom and consolidated it internally; no other Hungarian king was so generally beloved by the people. The son of Béla I of Hungary and the Polish princess Rycheza (Ryksa), Ladislas

Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope: Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM), which work in the energy range of 10 keV to 300 GeV (10,000 to 300,000,000,000 electron volts) and are based on highly successful predecessors that flew on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) in the…

vampire: History: …den rätte komma in (2004; Let the Right One In) by John Ajvide Lindqvist, in which the main characters are a perpetually childlike vampire and a young boy she befriends and helps fend off bullies. The book was adapted for film in Sweden in 2008 and in the United States…

Dhar: Dhar’s Lāṭ Masjid, or Pillar Mosque (1405), was built out of the remains of Jain temples. Its name was derived from a toppled iron pillar (13th century) bearing a later inscription recording the visit of the Mughal emperor Akbar in 1598. Dhar houses the Kamal Maula mausoleum and a…

Chow Yun-Fat: …Lat sau san taam (1992; Hard-Boiled). Chow also made several popular action films with director Ringo Lam, including Lung fu fong wan (1987; City on Fire), Ban wo chuang tian ya (1989; Wild Search), and Xia dao Gao Fei (1992; Full Contact).

al-Lāt, North Arabian goddess of pre-Islāmic times to whom a stone cube at aṭ-Ṭāʾif (near Mecca) was held sacred as part of her cult. Two other North Arabian goddesses, Manāt (Fate) and al-ʿUzzā (Strong), were associated with al-Lāt in the Qurʾān (Islāmic sacred scriptures). The Prophet Muḥammad

India: The Deccan: …the Calukyas established itself at Lata in the mid-7th century and played a prominent role in obstructing the Arab advance.

Latacunga, city, north-central Ecuador, in a basin of the Andes Mountains on the upper Patate River at an elevation of 9,055 feet (2,760 metres). Latacunga lies 20 miles (32 km) southwest of the active volcano Cotopaxi and has been seriously damaged by quakes. Although completely destroyed in 1797,

Latakia, city and muḥāfaẓah (governorate), northwestern Syria. The city, capital of the governorate, is situated on the low-lying Raʿs Ziyārah promontory that projects into the Mediterranean Sea. It was known to the Phoenicians as Ramitha and to the Greeks as Leuke Akte. Its present name is a

Latakia: Latakia governorate embraces Syria’s fertile Mediterranean coastal area. It is an important agricultural region, producing abundant crops of tobacco, cotton, cereal grains, and fruits. Area governorate, 887 square miles (2,297 square km). Pop. (2004) city, 383,786; governorate, 879,551; (2021 est.) governorate, 1,346,000.

textile: Knitting machines: The latch needle is composed of a curved hook, a latch, or tumbler, that swings on a rivet just below the hook, and the stem, or butt. It is sometimes called the self-acting needle because no presser is needed; the hook is closed by the pressure…

dementia: …form of dementia, known as limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE), closely resembles Alzheimer disease. Although LATE is also marked by the deterioration of memory and cognition and declines in social skills, patterns of neurocognitive change and the rate of decline in LATE differ from Alzheimer disease. Other major forms of…

Western sculpture: Sculpture in the applied arts: …of red-gloss pottery, known as late A ware, with scenes in relief from Greek mythology and from Roman spectacles, was manufactured in a southern Mediterranean area, probably Egypt.

pregnancy: Abortion: …week of gestation (84 days); late abortion is an abortion that occurs after the 12th completed week but before the beginning of the 20th week of gestation (85–134 days).

Migration period, the early medieval period of western European history—specifically, the time (476–800 ce) when there was no Roman (or Holy Roman) emperor in the West or, more generally, the period between about 500 and 1000, which was marked by frequent warfare and a virtual disappearance of

Stone Age: East and Southeast Asia: In the Late Anyathian, a direct development from the earlier stage, smaller and better-made core and flake artifacts are found. No hand axes or flakes produced by the prepared striking-platform–tortoise-core technique have been found in Myanmar.

Chinese languages: Pre-Classical Chinese: …became still more pronounced in Late Archaic, the language of the two major Confucian and Daoist writers, Mencius (Mengzi) and Zhuangzi, as well as of other important philosophers. The grammar by then had become more explicit in the writing system, with a number of well-defined grammatical particles, and it can…

Precambrian: Archean crustal growth: The late Archean (Neoarchean Era) was an important interval of time because it marks the beginning of the major changeover from Archean to Proterozoic types of crustal growth. The formation of the first major rifts characterized the significant events of this time. The first major rift…

Western painting: Late Baroque and Rococo: Symptomatic of the changing status of the papacy during the 17th century was the fact that the Thirty Years’ War was ended by the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 without papal representation in the negotiations. Concurrently, the influence of Spain also…

late blight, disease of potato and tomato plants that is caused by the water mold Phytophthora infestans. The disease occurs in humid regions with temperatures ranging between 4 and 29 °C (40 and 80 °F). Hot dry weather checks its spread. Potato or tomato plants that are infected may rot within two

Mo Yan: Wan shu de ren (2020; A Late Bloomer) contains 12 novellas.