quasicrystal: Quasiperiodicity: Dov Levine and Paul Steinhardt, physicists at the University of Pennsylvania, proposed a resolution of this apparent conflict. They suggested that the translational order of atoms in quasicrystalline alloys might be quasiperiodic rather than periodic. Quasiperiodic patterns share certain characteristics with periodic patterns. In particular,…

Jack Levine was a painter who was prominent in the American Social Realist school of the 1930s. Trained first at the Jewish Welfare Center in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and later at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Levine also studied at Harvard University from 1929 to 1931. From 1935

James Levine was an American conductor and pianist, especially noted for his work with the Metropolitan Opera (Met) of New York City. He was considered the preeminent American conductor of his generation. As a piano prodigy, Levine made his debut in 1953 with the Cincinnati Orchestra in Ohio. He

Gold Star Studios and the “Wall of Sound”: …of percussion—and he encouraged engineer Larry Levine to swamp everything in echo, seeking to convey intense emotion through texture, atmosphere, and rhythm.

Philip Levine was an American poet of urban working-class life. He won numerous prestigious awards and served as U.S. poet laureate (2011–12). Levine was of Russian Jewish descent and began working in Detroit’s automobile factories at age 14. He studied at Wayne University (now Wayne State

personality: Deviation from trait theory: …anthropologists, such as the American Robert LeVine, to remark that modern personality trait theory is ethnocentric. For example, the folk-psychological concepts and the trait matrices derived from factor analyses include culture-specific assumptions about personal experiences, such as the distinctions between mind and body, natural and supernatural, and intellect and morality,…

Freaks and Geeks: Cast and characters: …ventriloquist Neal Schweiber, played by Samm Levine, and lanky, awkward Bill Haverchuck, played by Martin Starr.

Sherrie Levine is an American conceptual artist known for remaking famous 20th-century works of art either through photographic reproductions (termed re-photography), drawing, watercolour, or sculpture. Her appropriations are conceptual gestures that question the Modernist myths of originality and

The Silence of the Lambs: …the meantime, Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine) kidnaps Catherine Martin (Brooke Smith), the daughter of a U.S. senator.

Argentina: Military government, 1966–73: General Roberto Marcelo Levingston replaced Onganía, but inflation returned and terrorist acts increased; Levingston was overthrown in March 1971 and replaced by General Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, who promised to reestablish democratic elections by the end of 1973.

patch dynamics: History of patch dynamics: …developed by American mathematical ecologist Richard Levins and others in the 1970s, and with the theory of island biogeography, developed by American ecologist Robert MacArthur and American biologist E.O. Wilson in the 1960s. (The former theory proposed that the collective activities of several distinct but interacting populations drive the ecological…

Hebrew literature: Romanticism: …the Enlightenment proper began with Isaac Baer Levinsohn in the Ukraine and with Mordecai Aaron Ginzberg (Günzburg), in Lithuania. In the 1820s an orthodox reaction set in, coinciding with the rise of a Romanticist Hebrew school of writers. A.D. Lebensohn wrote fervent love songs to the Hebrew language, and his…

dance criticism: The 20th century: The Russian writer André Levinson provided early assessments of the Diaghilev troupe, working first for several publications in St. Petersburg and then, after 1918, in Paris. Levinson gained an international reputation through his criticism of ballet as well as other dance forms, exemplified by Fuller, Duncan, and the…

chairperson: Arthur Levinson (2011– ) of Apple Inc.; Christine Lagarde, managing director and chairman of the board (2011–19) of the International Monetary Fund; and Jamie Dimon, who became both CEO (2006– ) and chairman (2007– ) of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Other executives with multiple roles…

Barry Levinson is an American film director and screenwriter known for his versatility. Levinson worked as a comedy writer for Carol Burnett and Mel Brooks in the 1970s. During that time he also cowrote the screenplay for the crime drama …And Justice for All, which earned him an Academy Award

human behaviour: Personality and social development: The American psychologist Daniel J. Levinson also divides adult life into qualitatively distinct periods. Confining his study to men, Levinson identified five eras within their lives that are not stages of biological, psychological, or social development but that together constitute a life-cycle structure. The eras are (1) preadulthood…

Salmon Oliver Levinson was a lawyer who originated and publicized the “outlawry of war” movement in the United States. Levinson practiced law in Chicago from 1891 and became noted for his skill in reorganizing the finances of distressed corporations. In an article in the New Republic, March 9,

levirate, custom or law decreeing that a widow should, or in rare cases must, marry her dead husband’s brother. The term comes from the Latin levir, meaning “husband’s brother.” The “brother” may be a biological sibling of the deceased or a person who is socially classified as such. Where the

Lévis, city, Chaudière-Appalaches region, southern Quebec province, Canada. It is located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, opposite the city of Quebec, with which it is linked by ferry. The settlement, founded in 1647, was formerly called Aubigny in honour of the Duke of Richmond (who

Lévis, city, Chaudière-Appalaches region, southern Quebec province, Canada. It is located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, opposite the city of Quebec, with which it is linked by ferry. The settlement, founded in 1647, was formerly called Aubigny in honour of the Duke of Richmond (who

comet: Dynamics: In 1996 American astronomer Harold Levison introduced a new taxonomy that involved a quantity called the Tisserand parameter:

lovage, (Levisticum officinale), perennial herb of the parsley family (Apiaceae) native to southern Europe. It is cultivated for its stalks and foliage, which are used for herbal tea, as a vegetable, and to flavour foods, particularly meats. Its rhizomes (underground stems) are used as a

Elijah Bokher Levita was a German-born Jewish grammarian whose writings and teaching furthered the study of Hebrew in European Christendom at a time of widespread hostility toward the Jews. Levita went to Italy early in life and in 1504 settled at Padua. There he wrote a manual of Hebrew (1508)

Isaak Ilyich Levitan was a Lithuanian-born Jewish painter who was one of Russia’s most influential landscape artists and the founder of what has been called the “mood landscape.” Levitan’s childhood and youth were marked by poverty and the death of his parents; his mother died when he was 15 years

levitation, rising of a human body off the ground, in apparent defiance of the law of gravity. The term designates such alleged occurrences in the lives of saints and of spiritualist mediums, generally during a séance; levitation of furniture and other objects during a séance has also been

Jerry Lewis was an American comedian, actor, and director whose unrestrained comic style made him one of the most popular performers of the 1950s and ’60s. Lewis was born into a vaudeville family, and at age 12 he developed a comedy act in which he mimed to records. He dropped out of high school in

Levite, member of a group of clans of religious functionaries in ancient Israel who apparently were given a special religious status, conjecturally for slaughtering idolaters of the golden calf during the time of Moses (Ex. 32:25–29). They thus replaced the firstborn sons of Israel who were

John Green: Young adult books: …Grayson, Will Grayson (2010), with David Levithan. The novel relates the story of two extremely different teenagers who are both named Will Grayson. Their lives become intertwined after they meet. Green’s next book, The Fault in Our Stars, was published in 2012 and was turned into a film in 2014.…

Leviticus, third book of the Latin Vulgate Bible, the name of which designates its contents as a book (or manual) primarily concerned with priests (members of the priestly tribe of Levi) and their duties. Although Leviticus is basically a book of laws, it also contains some narrative text (chapters

PDE-5 inhibitor: …as Viagra) and vardenafil (Levitra). PDE-5 inhibitors work by blocking, or inhibiting, the action of phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE-5), an enzyme naturally present in the corpus cavernosum, the spongy erectile tissue of the penis. Under normal circumstances, sexual arousal in the male stimulates neurons in the corpus cavernosum to release nitric…

Dmitry Grigoryevich Levitsky was a Ukrainian Russian artist who was the foremost portraitist of the era of Catherine the Great and conveyor of the ideals of the Enlightenment in the Russian Empire. The son of a priest who was also a master of Ukrainian gravure printing, Levitsky inherited both his

Ivan Levitsky was a Ukrainian Realist novelist of the postserfdom reform period. He drew upon his background as a seminary student and, later, a provincial teacher, to depict the educated and lower classes in some of the earliest social novels in Ukrainian literature. His works include Prichepa

United States: Postwar domestic reorganization: …pioneered by the firm of Levitt and Sons, Inc., and other developers. All this activity created millions of new jobs. The Serviceman’s Readjustment Act of 1944, known as the G.I. Bill of Rights, also helped ease military personnel back into civilian life. It provided veterans with loans, educational subsidies, and…

Helen Levitt was an American street photographer and filmmaker whose work captures the bustle, squalor, and beauty of everyday life in New York City. Levitt began her career in photography at age 18 working in a portrait studio in the Bronx. After seeing the works of French photographer

Michael Levitt is an American British Israeli chemist who was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for developing accurate computer models of chemical reactions that were able to use features of both classical physics and quantum mechanics. He shared the prize with American-Austrian chemist

Steven D. Levitt is an American economist whose work has been influential in many social science disciplines, including political economy, sociology, political science, the economics of crime, and the study of law. In 2003 he received the John Bates Clark Medal, which is awarded annually by the

Steven D. Levitt is an American economist whose work has been influential in many social science disciplines, including political economy, sociology, political science, the economics of crime, and the study of law. In 2003 he received the John Bates Clark Medal, which is awarded annually by the

Willingboro, township, Burlington county, western New Jersey, U.S. It lies midway between Camden and Trenton (both in New Jersey) on Rancocas Creek, just upstream from the creek’s mouth in the Delaware River. English Quakers settled there about 1677. The community, which originally included what is

Levittown, unincorporated residential community in Hempstead town (township), Nassau county, western Long Island, New York, U.S. Developed between 1946 and 1951 by the firm of Levitt and Sons, Inc., Levittown was an early example of a completely preplanned and mass-produced housing complex. More

Levittown, extensive, unincorporated suburban housing development in Bucks county, eastern Pennsylvania, U.S., near the big bend of the Delaware River, approximately midway between Philadelphia and Trenton, New Jersey. It was built between 1951 and 1958 by Levitt & Sons, Inc., who repeated there

Sara Adler was a Russian-born American actress, one of the most celebrated figures in the American Yiddish theatre. Sara Levitzky was born of a well-to-do Jewish family. She studied singing at the Odessa Conservatory for a time and then joined a Yiddish theatre troupe managed by Maurice Heine, whom

Lefká Mountains, highest and most precipitous massif in western Crete (Modern Greek: Kríti), located a few miles south of the Cretan capital, Chaniá, in the nomós (department) of Chaniá, Greece. The limestone peaks have been hollowed out by erosion into high plains such as the Omalós (1,650–3,300

Leucas, Greek island in the Ionian Sea (Modern Greek: Ióvio Pélagos). It constitutes a dímos (municipality) and with the island of Meganísi forms the perifereiakí enótita (regional unit) of Levkás in the Ionian Islands (Iónia Nisiá) periféreia (region), western Greece. The 117-square-mile

Leucas: The chief town, Levkás, lies at the northeastern corner, which in antiquity was separated by a marshy isthmus. It was formerly called Amaxíkhi or Santa Maura; the latter is also the Venetian name for the island. Most of the population inhabit the wooded east coast and its valleys.

Leucas, Greek island in the Ionian Sea (Modern Greek: Ióvio Pélagos). It constitutes a dímos (municipality) and with the island of Meganísi forms the perifereiakí enótita (regional unit) of Levkás in the Ionian Islands (Iónia Nisiá) periféreia (region), western Greece. The 117-square-mile

Abdülcelil Levnî was the most accomplished and famous Ottoman painter of the early 18th-century “Tulip Period.” He went as a young man to Constantinople, where he studied at the academy of painting at the Topkapı Palace. He later became chief court painter to the Ottoman sultan Mustafa II, and he

drug use: Opium, morphine, heroin, and related synthetics: …comparable to morphine in potency; levorphanol (Levo-Dromoran) is an important synthetic with five times the potency of morphine. These synthetics exhibit a more favorable tolerance factor than the more potent of the opiates, but in being addictive they fall short of an ideal analgesic. Of this entire series, codeine has…

levodopa, Organic compound (L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine) from which the body makes dopamine, a neurotransmitter deficient in persons with parkinsonism. When given orally in large daily doses, levodopa can lessen the effects of the disease. However, it becomes less effective over time and causes

atropine: …mixture of D- and L-hyoscyamine in plants such as belladonna, henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), jimsonweed (Datura stramonium), the mandrake Mandragora officinarum, and Scopolia, all of the family Solanaceae. Atropine forms a series of well-crystallized salts, of which the sulfate is principally used in medicine. Both atropine and

Levon I was the king of Armenia (reigned 1199–1219), who rallied the Armenians after their dispersion by the Seljuq Turks and consolidated the kingdom in Cilicia, southeastern Asia Minor. Through his friendly relations with the German emperors Frederick I Barbarossa and Henry VI, he was crowned by

Levon I was the king of Armenia (reigned 1199–1219), who rallied the Armenians after their dispersion by the Seljuq Turks and consolidated the kingdom in Cilicia, southeastern Asia Minor. Through his friendly relations with the German emperors Frederick I Barbarossa and Henry VI, he was crowned by

levonorgestrel, synthetic progestogen (any progestational steroid, such as progesterone) that is used as a form of contraception in women. Levonorgestrel is the mirror compound (enantiomer) of norgestrel, which was synthesized in the early 1960s by American scientist Herschel Smith at the

optical activity: …a negative specific rotation is levorotatory, designated by the prefix l or (-).

drug use: Opium, morphine, heroin, and related synthetics: …comparable to morphine in potency; levorphanol (Levo-Dromoran) is an important synthetic with five times the potency of morphine. These synthetics exhibit a more favorable tolerance factor than the more potent of the opiates, but in being addictive they fall short of an ideal analgesic. Of this entire series, codeine has…

Rascal Flatts: The members were lead vocalist Gary LeVox (original name Gary Wayne Vernon, Jr.; b. July 10, 1970, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.), bassist Jay DeMarcus (in full Stanley Wayne DeMarcus, Jr.; b. April 26, 1971, Columbus), and guitarist Joe Don Rooney (b. September 13, 1975, Baxter Springs, Kansas).

Delphine Seyrig: …in Les Lèvres rouges (1971; Daughters of Darkness), and in Luis Buñuel’s Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972; The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie).

Vasil Levski was a Bulgarian revolutionary leader in the struggle for liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule. Initially a monk (1858–64), Vasil Kunchev soon dedicated himself to the work of freeing Bulgaria and for his courage was nicknamed Levski (“Lionlike”). Levski united the two legions of

Levuka, port town on the east coast of Ovalau island and capital of Lomaiviti province, central Fiji, South Pacific. Settled by a U.S. adventurer in 1822, the area was the centre of a cotton boom during the American Civil War (1861–65), when world cotton supplies were disrupted. Levuka was chosen

Barbara Boxer is an American politician whose ardent support for myriad progressive causes, including environmentalism and reproductive rights, while representing California as a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives (1983–93) and Senate (1993–2017) contributed to her reputation as one of

Bernard-Henri Lévy is a French philosopher, journalist, filmmaker, and public intellectual who was a leading member of the Nouveaux Philosophes (New Philosophers). Lévy spent his childhood in Morocco and France, where his family finally settled in 1954. His father was the wealthy founder of a

Eugene Levy: American Pie and Schitt’s Creek: …teamed up with his son, Dan Levy, to create and star in the sitcom Schitt’s Creek, which also featured his daughter, Sarah Levy. The show depicts the Rose family: Johnny Rose (Eugene Levy); his wife, Moira Rose (O’Hara); and their children, David Rose (Dan Levy) and Alexis Rose (Annie Murphy).…

David Levy was an Israeli politician who was a leader of Israel’s Sephardic Jews and who held numerous government offices. After attending primary and secondary schools in Morocco, Levy emigrated to Israel with his family in 1957. When he was in his 20s, Levy decided that politics, particularly the

David H. Levy is a Canadian astronomer and science writer who discovered—along with Carolyn Shoemaker and Eugene Shoemaker—the fragmented comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1993. Levy developed an interest in astronomy at an early age, but in college he studied English literature, receiving a bachelor’s

Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham was an English newspaper proprietor who virtually created the London Daily Telegraph. He was educated at University College school. His father, Joseph Moses Levy, acquired the Daily Telegraph and Courier in 1855, a few months after it was founded by Colonel

Fromental Halévy was a French composer whose five-act grand opera La Juive (1835; “The Jewess”) was, with Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots, the prototype of early French grand opera. Halévy studied at the Paris Conservatoire from the age of 10 and won the Prix de Rome in 1819 for his cantata

Eugene Levy is a Canadian actor and writer, especially known for playing comedic characters who are well-meaning but often dim-witted. He notably portrayed Noah Levenstein in the American Pie movies and cocreated and starred in the hit TV series Schitt’s Creek (2015–20). Levy is one of three

human intelligence: Hemispheric studies: …brain’s two hemispheres, the psychologist Jerre Levy and others found that the left hemisphere is superior in analytical tasks, such as are involved in the use of language, while the right hemisphere is superior in many forms of visual and spatial tasks. Overall, the right hemisphere tends to be more…

Joseph Moses Levy was an English newspaperman, founder of the London newspaper Daily Telegraph. Levy was educated at Bruce Castle school and in Germany. He acquired a printing shop on Fleet Street in London and, in 1855, became proprietor of the Sunday Times (which he kept for a year) and the Daily

Julien Levy was an American art dealer, who was known for launching the careers of some of the most significant artists of the 20th century and whose gallery exhibited the Surrealists in New York City for the first time. Levy came from a prominent Jewish family with roots in the rabbinate,

Julien Levy was an American art dealer, who was known for launching the careers of some of the most significant artists of the 20th century and whose gallery exhibited the Surrealists in New York City for the first time. Levy came from a prominent Jewish family with roots in the rabbinate,

photoengraving: The halftone process: Two brothers, Max and Louis Levy, of Philadelphia, in 1890 produced the first commercial halftone screens. The Levy brothers coated selected plates of high-quality optical glass with a lacquer, in which parallel lines were cut. The ruled lines were then etched with hydrofluoric acid and filled with an opaque…

sociology: Social stratification: Addressing the contemporary world, Marion Levy theorized in Modernization and the Structures of Societies (1960) that underdeveloped nations would inevitably develop institutions that paralleled those of the more economically advanced nations, which ultimately would lead to a global convergence of societies. Challenging the theory as a conservative defense of…

photoengraving: The halftone process: Two brothers, Max and Louis Levy, of Philadelphia, in 1890 produced the first commercial halftone screens. The Levy brothers coated selected plates of high-quality optical glass with a lacquer, in which parallel lines were cut. The ruled lines were then etched with hydrofluoric acid and filled with…

Paul Lévy was a French mining engineer and mathematician noted for his work in the theory of probability. After serving as a professor at the École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, Paris, from 1910 to 1913, Lévy joined the faculty (1914–51) of the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines, Paris. He also

Paul Lévy was a French mining engineer and mathematician noted for his work in the theory of probability. After serving as a professor at the École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, Paris, from 1910 to 1913, Lévy joined the faculty (1914–51) of the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines, Paris. He also

Paulette Goddard was an American actress known for her spirited persona and for her association with Charlie Chaplin. Goddard worked as a fashion model in her early teens, and at age 16 she appeared as a chorus girl in the Broadway revue No Foolin’. Within the next four years, she married,

Lucien Lévy-Bruhl was a French philosopher whose study of the psychology of primitive peoples gave anthropology a new approach to understanding irrational factors in social thought and primitive religion and mythology. Lévy-Bruhl was professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne from 1899 to 1927. His

Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham was an English newspaper proprietor who virtually created the London Daily Telegraph. He was educated at University College school. His father, Joseph Moses Levy, acquired the Daily Telegraph and Courier in 1855, a few months after it was founded by Colonel

Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham was an English newspaper proprietor who virtually created the London Daily Telegraph. He was educated at University College school. His father, Joseph Moses Levy, acquired the Daily Telegraph and Courier in 1855, a few months after it was founded by Colonel

levyne, mineral in the zeolite family, similar in composition and structure to chabazite

levyne, mineral in the zeolite family, similar in composition and structure to chabazite

Lew Grade, Baron Grade of Elstree: …he went on to build Lew and Leslie Grade Ltd., which became the largest talent agency in Europe in the years after World War II.

Fanny Lewald: …the encouragement of her cousin August Lewald, a journalist and editor. The novels Clementine (1842) and Jenny (1843) describe circumscribed lives built around family virtues. Die Familie Darner, 3 vol. (1888; “The Darner Family”), and Von Geschlecht zu Geschlecht, 8 vol. (1863–65; “From Generation to Generation”), are realistic novels about…

Fanny Lewald was a popular German novelist and feminist who wrote mainly on family, marriage, and social problems. She first began writing at the age of 30 with the encouragement of her cousin August Lewald, a journalist and editor. The novels Clementine (1842) and Jenny (1843) describe

India: Subsistence and technology: …some contemporary sites, such as Lewan and Tarakai Qila in the Bannu basin, were large-scale factories, producing many types of tools from carefully selected stones collected and brought in from neighbouring areas. These same sites also appear to have been centers for the manufacture of beads of various semiprecious stones.

Louis Lewandowski was a Jewish cantor, chorus conductor, and composer of synagogue music. By the age of 12 Lewandowski was singing with a Berlin choir; he studied violin and piano and was admitted to Berlin University and the Academy of Fine Arts (the first Jew to be admitted). From 1840 he

Lewanika was a Southern African king of the Lozi, from the Luyana lineage, one of a restored line of Lozi kings that recovered control of Barotseland (Bulozi) in the decades following the 1851 death of the Kololo conqueror, Sebetwane. Fearful of attack from the Portuguese (in Angola to the west)

Shillong, city, capital of Meghalaya state, northeastern India. The city is located in the east-central part of the state on the Shillong Plateau, at an elevation of 4,990 feet (1,520 metres). Shillong first became prominent in 1864, when it succeeded Cherrapunji as the district headquarters. In

John Lowin was an English actor, a colleague of William Shakespeare. Lowin was the son of a carpenter. He worked as a goldsmith’s apprentice for eight years and then joined the Earl of Worcester’s Men as an actor in 1602. By 1603 he was a member of the King’s Men. He is known to have specialized in

Lewes, town (parish), Lewes district, administrative county of East Sussex, historic county of Sussex, southeastern England. It lies at a gap in the South Downs and along the River Ouse where it is still tidal. A castle was built there in the 11th century, and its ruins still dominate the town,

Lewes, district, administrative county of East Sussex, historic county of Sussex, England. The mainly rural district occupies a large part of east-central Sussex to the east and north of Brighton and Hove. The town of Lewes is the district’s administrative centre, in addition to being the county

Lewes, city, Sussex county, southeastern Delaware, U.S. It lies at the mouth of Delaware Bay just west of Cape Henlopen (state park), where it is protected by Delaware Breakwater (built 1828–35). Founded in 1631 by Dutch colonists, it was the first white settlement along the Delaware River.

Lewes River, former name for the upper course of the Yukon River in Yukon, Canada. It flows from Tagish Lake on the British Columbia border northward through Lake Marsh past Whitehorse for about 340 miles (550 km) to join the Pelly River at Selkirk. A main artery for prospectors during gold-rush

John de Balliol: …after his capture in the Battle of Lewes (May 14, 1264). About that time (perhaps in 1263) he began to support several students at Oxford, apparently as penance for a quarrel with the Bishop of Durham. After his death, his widow completed his endowment of scholars, and their house was…

George Henry Lewes was an English biographer, literary critic, dramatist, novelist, philosopher, actor, scientist, and editor, remembered chiefly for his decades-long liaison with the novelist Mary Ann Evans (better known by her pseudonym, George Eliot). After a desultory education, Lewes spent two

Albert Lewin was an American film producer, screenwriter, and director who was best known for his literary adaptations, notably The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945). Lewin attended New York University (B.A., 1915) and Harvard University (M.A, 1916). He served in the military during World War I and

Kurt Lewin was a German-born American social psychologist known for his field theory of behaviour, which holds that human behaviour is a function of an individual’s psychological environment. Lewin studied in Germany at Freiburg, Munich, and Berlin, receiving his doctorate from the University of

William Terriss was one of England’s leading actors of the later Victorian stage. After scoring his first success as Doricourt in The Belle’s Stratagem, a comedy by Hannah Cowley, he appeared at the principal London theatres from 1868 until his death. At the Royal Court Theatre in 1878, Terriss

Erich von Manstein was perhaps the most talented German field commander in World War II. The son of an artillery general, he was adopted by General Georg von Manstein after the untimely death of his parents. Manstein began his active career as an officer in 1906 and served in World War I on both

Monica Lewinsky is an American activist, public speaker, and writer, who, while a White House intern in 1995–96, had a relationship with U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton that became a scandal and led to his impeachment. (Read Monica Lewinsky’s Britannica essay on cyberbullying.) Lewinsky, who was raised in