Daniel François Malherbe: …Die Meulenaar (1936; “The Miller”); Saul (1933–37), a biblical trilogy; and En die wawiele rol (1945; “And the Wagon Wheels Roll On”), which describes the Great Trek. He served as professor of literature at the University of Bloemfontein (1922–42).

Charles Heavysege: Saul, his major work, is a drama of 135 scenes containing the remarkable character of the fallen angel Malzah, who has been compared by critics to Shakespeare’s Caliban. Other works include Count Filippo (1860), an “Italian” tragedy; Jephthah’s Daughter (1865), a biblical drama; and The…

Saul was the first king of Israel (c. 1021–1000 bce). According to the biblical account found mainly in 1 Samuel, Saul was chosen king both by the judge Samuel and by public acclamation. Saul was similar to the charismatic judges who preceded him in the role of governing. His chief contribution,

Italian literature: Reform of the tragic theatre: …at his most profound in Saul (1782) and Mirra (1786). Alfieri’s influence in the Romantic period and the Risorgimento was immense, and, like Carlo Goldoni, he wrote an important autobiography, which gives a revealing account of his struggles to provide Italy with a corpus of drama comparable to that of…

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda: …life of Alfonso X, and Saúl (1849), a biblical drama, achieved popular success. Her novels, such as Sab (1841), an antislavery work, are now almost completely forgotten. Twice widowed and with many lovers, she has been the subject of several biographies.

László Nemes: Holocaust drama Saul fia (2015; Son of Saul), won an Academy Award for best foreign-language film.

Jean de La Taille: …in 1572, including his tragedy Saül le Furieux (1562) and De l’art de la tragédie, the most important piece of French dramatic criticism of its time. La Taille wrote for the limited audience of a lettered aristocracy, depreciated the native drama, and insisted on the Senecan model. In his preface…

St. Paul the Apostle was one of the leaders of the first generation of Christians, often considered to be the most important person after Jesus in the history of Christianity. In his own day, although he was a major figure within the very small Christian movement, he also had many enemies and

Rembrandt: The myth of Rembrandt’s fall: …might be called the “Saul-Paul model”—according to which the subject’s life suddenly undergoes a radical change in direction as the result of a crisis or conversion.

Louis-Claude de Saulces de Freycinet was a French naval officer and cartographer who explored portions of Australia and islands in the Pacific Ocean. In 1800 he joined Captain Nicolas Baudin on a voyage of exploration to southern and southwestern coastal Australia and Tasmania. After his return to

Saule, in Baltic religion and mythology, the sun goddess, who determines the well-being and regeneration of all life on earth. According to Baltic myth, Saule, the sun, rides each day through the sky on a chariot with copper wheels, drawn by horses who neither tire nor rest nor sweat. Toward

Dievs: They associate with Saules meita, the daughter of the sun, and when she is sinking into the sea with only her crown still visible, Dieva dēli come to her rescue.

military aircraft: Fighters: …designed by the French engineer Raymond Saulnier. This regulated a machine gun’s fire so as to enable the bullets to pass between the blades of the spinning propeller. The interrupter itself was not new: a German patent had been taken out on such a device by the Swiss engineer Franz…

Sault Sainte Marie, city, seat of Algoma district, south-central Ontario, Canada, on the north bank of St. Marys River, between Lakes Superior and Huron, opposite Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, U.S. The site was known to French explorers after the explorations of Étienne Brûlé (1622); it was named

Sault Sainte Marie, city, seat (1826) of Chippewa county, at the northeastern end of the Upper Peninsula, northern Michigan, U.S. It is situated at the rapids of the St. Marys River. The rapids, harnessed for hydroelectric power generation, connect Lake Superior with Lake Huron, which lies 21 feet

Saint Marys River: Marie Canals (or Soo Canals), containing five locks, provide a bypass for the heavy shipping. Four of the five locks are on the U.S. side and are operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Large islands divide the river into a series of lakes (Nicolet, George, and…

Ojibwe: …Lake Winnipeg are called the Saulteaux. When first reported in the Relations of 1640, an annual report by the Jesuit missionaries in New France, the Ojibwe occupied a comparatively restricted region near the St. Mary’s River and in the Upper Peninsula of the present state of Michigan; they moved west…

Claudius Salmasius was a French classical scholar who, by his scholarship and judgment, acquired great contemporary influence. Salmasius studied at Paris (1604–06), where he became a Calvinist, and at Heidelberg (1606–09), where he discovered the Palatine manuscript of the Greek Anthology. In 1610

James Saumarez, 1st Baron of Saumarez was a British admiral who fought with consistent success in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars and scored perhaps his greatest victory on July 12, 1801, when he routed a superior Franco-Spanish fleet off Algeciras, Spain. Entering the navy at the age

Saumur, town, Maine-et-Loire département, Pays de la Loire région, western France, on the Loire River. It is known for its cavalry school and for its wines. The town, dominated by the château of the dukes of Anjou, is located on rising ground between the Loire River and its tributary the Thouet, 2

Arthur, constable de Richemont: Early career.: …his brother to sign the Treaty of Saumur with France in October 1425.

sauna, bath in steam from water thrown on heated stones, popular in gymnasiums and health clubs, with some units available for home use. The sauna may derive from baths described by Herodotus, who tells that the inhabitants of Scythia in central Eurasia threw water and hempseed on heated stones to

Dalip Singh Saund was the first Asian American, first Indian American, and first Sikh to be elected to the U.S. Congress. Before serving, he helped change a law so that Indians could become U.S. citizens. Saund was born in Chhajjal Wadi, in the Punjab province of northern India, which at the time

South Asian arts: Classical Sanskrit kāvya (200–1200): …of the Buddha”) and the Saundarānanda (“Of Sundarī and Nanda”). Compared with later examples, they are fairly simple in style but reveal typical propensities of writers in this genre: a great predilection for descriptions of nature scenes, for grand spectacles, amorous episodes, and aphoristic observations. The resources of the Sanskrit…

Edith Rebecca Saunders was a British botanist and plant geneticist known for her contributions to the understanding of trait inheritance in plants and for her insights on flower anatomy. Noted British geneticist J.B.S. Haldane described her as the mother of British plant genetics. Saunders attended

George Saunders is an American writer best known for his debut novel, Lincoln in the Bardo (2017), which won the Booker Prize. Saunders was born in Amarillo, Texas, and grew up in Chicago. He received a B.S. from the Colorado School of Mines in 1981 and an M.F.A. from Syracuse University in 1988.

Jennifer Saunders is an English actress who was perhaps best known for creating and starring in the television sitcom Absolutely Fabulous. Saunders attended London’s Central School of Speech and Drama with the intention of becoming a teacher. After graduation she saw an audition notice for the

Howard Hawks: Early life and work: …based on a story by John Monk Saunders, whose work had also formed the basis for William Wellman’s Wings (1927), and starred Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., as pilots stationed in France during World War I. The aerial footage (much of it shot from a plane piloted by Hawks)…

Benjamin Franklin was an American printer and publisher, author, inventor and scientist, and diplomat. One of the foremost of the Founding Fathers, Franklin helped draft the Declaration of Independence and was one of its signers, represented the United States in France during the American

origins of agriculture: Wheat: Sir Charles Saunders, its discoverer, followed five principles of plant breeding: (1) the use of plant introductions; (2) a planned crossbreeding program; (3) the rigid selection of material; (4) evaluation of all characteristics in replicated trials; and (5) testing varieties for local use. Marquis was…

Omaha: 1935 Triple Crown: Jockey Willie Saunders bided his time until the backstretch, where he guided Omaha to the outside and charged into the lead. They were ahead by two lengths at the top of the homestretch, as a challenge by Roman Soldier materialized. It was short-lived, for, despite the…

history of the blind: The blind during the Enlightenment: English mathematician Nicholas Saunderson (1682–1739) was someone who lived that debate. Having lost his sight at the age of one from smallpox, Saunderson went to the University of Cambridge to study mathematics, although he did not attend the university as a student. Rather, he used the library…

North Kingstown: Hamilton, Lafayette, Quonset Point, Saunderstown, Slocum, and Wickford (the administrative centre).

arched harp: …survives as the Burmese harp, saung gauk. Modern African harps often have cloth rings on the neck that produce a buzzing tone colour as the strings vibrate against them.

textual criticism: Reaction against the genealogical method: In 1841 H. Sauppe in his Epistola Critica ad G. Hermannum had emphasized the diversity of transmissional situations and the difficulty or actual impossibility of classifying the manuscripts in all cases. In 1843 Lachmann’s pupil O. Jahn, in his edition of Persius, had repudiated the strict application…

Christopher Sower was a German-born American printer and Pietist leader of the Pennsylvania Germans. Sower migrated with his wife and son Christopher to Germantown, Pa., in 1724. He was an artisan skilled in many crafts, was profoundly religious, and found his true career in 1738 as the first

Savara, tribe of eastern India. They are distributed mainly in the states of Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, and Bihār, with total numbers of about 310,000, most of whom are in Orissa. Most Savara have become Hinduized and generally speak the Oriya language. Their traditional form of Munda

Carlos Saura was a Spanish film director who analyzed the spirit of Spain in tragedies and flamenco-dance dramas. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) Saura grew up in Madrid and began directing feature films while teaching at the Official School of Cinematography

Saura sect, Hindu sect, widely dispersed throughout India in the Gupta and medieval periods, whose members worshipped Surya, the Sun, as the supreme deity. The Vedas (the sacred scriptures of Hinduism) contain a number of hymns to Surya as well as to a number of other solar deities, and the

Carlos Saura was a Spanish film director who analyzed the spirit of Spain in tragedies and flamenco-dance dramas. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) Saura grew up in Madrid and began directing feature films while teaching at the Official School of Cinematography

Kathiawar Peninsula, peninsula in southwestern Gujarat state, west-central India. It is bounded by the Little Rann (marsh) of Kachchh (Kutch) to the north, the Gulf of Khambhat to the east, the Arabian Sea to the southwest, and the Gulf of Kachchh to the northwest. From the northeast an ancient

Actinidiaceae: The genus Saurauia (about 300 species) grows throughout the range of the family, while Actinidia (some 30 species) is dominantly East Asian and includes the kiwi fruit (A. chinensis). The genus Clematoclethra (about 20 species) is distributed throughout central and western China. The leaves of the family…

lizard, (suborder Sauria), any of more than 5,500 species of reptiles belonging in the order Squamata (which also includes snakes, suborder Serpentes). Lizards are scaly-skinned reptiles that are usually distinguished from snakes by the possession of legs, movable eyelids, and external ear

match: In 1831 Charles Sauria of France incorporated white, or yellow, phosphorus in his formula, an innovation quickly and widely copied. In 1835 Jànos Irinyi of Hungary replaced potassium chlorate with lead oxide and obtained matches that ignited quietly and smoothly.

Saurimo, city, northeastern Angola. Located at an elevation of 3,557 feet (1,084 metres) above sea level, it is a garrison town and local market centre. Saurimo was formerly named after Henrique de Carvalho, a Portuguese explorer who visited the region in 1884 and contacted the Lunda peoples there

saurischian, any member of one of the two major lineages of dinosaurs, including birds and all dinosaurs more closely related to birds than to Triceratops. In 1888 paleontologist Harry G. Seeley, a former student of Richard Owen, separated dinosaurs into two groups based primarily on the form of

saurischian, any member of one of the two major lineages of dinosaurs, including birds and all dinosaurs more closely related to birds than to Triceratops. In 1888 paleontologist Harry G. Seeley, a former student of Richard Owen, separated dinosaurs into two groups based primarily on the form of

fruit: Animal dispersal: Fossil evidence indicates that saurochory, dispersal by reptiles, is very ancient. The giant Galapagos tortoise is important for the dispersal of local cacti and tomatoes, and iguanas are known to eat and disperse a number of smaller fruits, including the iguana hackberry (Celtis iguanaea). The name alligator apple, for…

chuckwalla, (genus Sauromalus), any of five species of stocky, slightly flattened lizards belonging to the subfamily Iguaninae (family Iguanidae), found on arid, rocky hills of southwestern North America. The common chuckwalla (S. ater), which occurs in the southwestern United States, reaches 50 cm

sauropod, any member of the dinosaur subgroup Sauropoda, marked by large size, a long neck and tail, a four-legged stance, and a herbivorous diet. These reptiles were the largest of all dinosaurs and the largest land animals that ever lived. Sauropods shared a body plan consisting of: a small head

sauropod, any member of the dinosaur subgroup Sauropoda, marked by large size, a long neck and tail, a four-legged stance, and a herbivorous diet. These reptiles were the largest of all dinosaurs and the largest land animals that ever lived. Sauropods shared a body plan consisting of: a small head

dinosaur: Sauropodomorpha: Included in this group are the well-known sauropods, or “brontosaur” types, and their probable ancestral group, the prosauropods. All were plant eaters, though their relationship to theropods, along with the fact that the closest relatives of dinosaurs were evidently carnivorous, suggests that they evolved…

dinosaur: Sauropodomorpha: Included in this group are the well-known sauropods, or “brontosaur” types, and their probable ancestral group, the prosauropods. All were plant eaters, though their relationship to theropods, along with the fact that the closest relatives of dinosaurs were evidently carnivorous, suggests that they evolved…

sauropterygian, any of the aquatic reptiles found as fossils from the Mesozoic Era (251 million to 66 million years ago). Sauropterygians include the nothosaurs, the pistosaurs, and the plesiosaurs, all of which were remarkably well adapted to life in the water. The largest of these creatures were

sauropterygian, any of the aquatic reptiles found as fossils from the Mesozoic Era (251 million to 66 million years ago). Sauropterygians include the nothosaurs, the pistosaurs, and the plesiosaurs, all of which were remarkably well adapted to life in the water. The largest of these creatures were

Piperales: Families: Saururaceae, the lizard’s-tail family, is native to North America and Southeast Asia. It includes five genera and six species, most of them aromatic herbs with creeping rhizomes (horizontal stems). The plants generally inhabit wet areas.

lizard’s tail, member of the lizard’s-tail family (Saururaceae), found in marshy areas of eastern North America. The plant has creeping stems, or runners. Erect branches about 60 to 150 centimetres (2 to 5 feet) tall bear heart-shaped leaves on long stalks. Small, white flowers grow in a spike with

saury, any of four species of long, slim marine fishes of the family Scomberesocidae (order Atheriniformes). Sauries are small—up to about 35 cm (14 inches) long—and are characterized by beaklike but weakly toothed jaws and a row of small finlets behind the dorsal and anal fins. Found in tropical

sausage, meat product made of finely chopped and seasoned meat, which may be fresh, smoked, or pickled and which is then usually stuffed into a casing. Sausages of fish or poultry are also made. The word sausage, from the Latin salsus (“salted”), refers to a food-processing method that had been

Dachshund, dog breed of hound and terrier ancestry developed in Germany to pursue badgers into their burrows. The Dachshund (whose name means “badger dog” in German) is a long-bodied, characteristically lively dog with a deep chest, short legs, tapering muzzle, and long ears. Usually reddish brown

Seth Rogen: Rogen cowrote the animated comedy Sausage Party (2016), about a foulmouthed wiener, which he also voiced. The next year he reteamed with Franco in The Disaster Artist, which followed the filming of The Room (2003), a notoriously bad movie that became a cult favourite. He then appeared as the love…

sausage tree, (Kigelia africana), tropical tree, the only species of its genus (family Bignoniaceae). It grows 6 to 12 metres (20 to 40 feet) tall and bears sausagelike fruits, 30 to 60 cm (1 to 2 feet) long, which hang down on long, cordlike stalks. It is native to Africa. The tree’s flowers,

Sausalito, city, Marin county, western California, U.S. It lies along San Francisco Bay just north of San Francisco across the Golden Gate Bridge. It was founded in 1838 by William Richardson, who had received a Mexican land grant called Rancho Sausalito, named by Spanish explorers for its little

Blaise Cendrars was a French-speaking poet and essayist who created a powerful new poetic style to express a life of action and danger. His poems Pâques à New York (1912; “Easter in New York”) and La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France (1913; “The Prose of the Trans-Siberian

history of Mesopotamia: The Hurrian and Mitanni kingdoms: …domain of the Mitanni king Saustatar (Saushatar) stretched from the Mediterranean all the way to the northern Zagros Mountains, in western Iran, including Alalakh, in northern Syria, as well as Nuzi, Kurrukhanni, and Arrapkha. The northern boundary dividing Mitanni from the Hittites and the other Hurrian states was never fixed,…

Albertine-Adrienne Necker de Saussure was a Swiss woman of letters and author of a long-influential study on the education of women. She was the daughter of a distinguished Swiss naturalist, and she married a noted botanist who was the nephew and namesake of Louis XVI’s finance minister, Jacques

Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist whose ideas on structure in language laid the foundation for much of the approach to and progress of the linguistic sciences in the 20th century. While still a student, Saussure established his reputation with a brilliant contribution to comparative

Horace Bénédict de Saussure was a Swiss physicist, geologist, and early Alpine explorer who developed an improved hygrometer to measure atmospheric humidity. Saussure became professor of physics and philosophy at the Academy of Geneva in 1762 and in 1766 developed what was probably the first

Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure was a Swiss chemist and plant physiologist whose quantitative experiments on the influence of water, air, and nutrients on plants laid the foundation for plant biochemistry. Saussure was the son of the geologist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, whom he assisted in a number

saussuritization: …characteristic assemblage of minerals called saussurite; the typical assemblage formed includes zoisite, chlorite, amphibole, and carbonates. Residual fluids present during the late stages of magmatic crystallization can react with previously formed plagioclase feldspar to form saussurite; the saussurite will be spread through the plagioclase or located near its outer margin.…

saussuritization, process by which calcium-bearing plagioclase feldspar is altered to a characteristic assemblage of minerals called saussurite; the typical assemblage formed includes zoisite, chlorite, amphibole, and carbonates. Residual fluids present during the late stages of magmatic

history of Mesopotamia: The Hurrian and Mitanni kingdoms: …domain of the Mitanni king Saustatar (Saushatar) stretched from the Mediterranean all the way to the northern Zagros Mountains, in western Iran, including Alalakh, in northern Syria, as well as Nuzi, Kurrukhanni, and Arrapkha. The northern boundary dividing Mitanni from the Hittites and the other Hurrian states was never fixed,…

Bordeaux wine: Sauternes and Barsac: The natural sweet wines, fruity with enduring rich flavour, of this district are usually considered among the world’s finest. To achieve their quality the grapes are left until overripe on the vines before harvesting, thus producing the ripeness known as pourriture noble,…

Sautrāntika, ancient school of Buddhism that emerged in India about the 2nd century bc as an offshoot of the Sarvāstivāda (“All-Is-Real Doctrine”). The school is so called because of its reliance on the sutras, or words of the Buddha, and its rejection of the authority of the Abhidharma, a part of

Marcelino de Sautuola was a Spanish amateur geologist and archaeologist who excavated Altamira Cave (named a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 1985), near Santillana, in northern Spain, which contains the earliest known (c. 13,000–20,000

Marcelino de Sautuola was a Spanish amateur geologist and archaeologist who excavated Altamira Cave (named a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 1985), near Santillana, in northern Spain, which contains the earliest known (c. 13,000–20,000

pottery: Faience, or tin-glazed ware: …probably modelled by the sculptor Charles Gabriel Sauvage, called Lemire (1741–1827), and some were sometimes taken from models by Paul-Louis Cyfflé (1724–1806). At Lunéville, not far away, Cyfflé worked in a pleasant but sentimental vein and used a semiporcelain biscuit body known as terre-de-Lorraine, which was intended to resemble the…

Erasmus: The wandering scholar: …Brussels, notably the grand chancellor, Jean Sauvage. Through Sauvage he was named honorary councillor to the 16-year-old archduke Charles, the future Charles V, and was commissioned to write Institutio principis Christiani (1516; The Education of a Christian Prince) and Querela pacis (1517; The Complaint of Peace). These works expressed Erasmus’s…

Jean-Pierre Sauvage is a French chemist who was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on molecular machines. He shared the prize with Scottish-American chemist Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Dutch chemist Bernard Feringa. Sauvage received his doctorate from the Louis Pasteur University

internal medicine: …which was built upon by François Boissier de Sauvages, who in 1763 published the first methodical nosology, or description of disease symptoms. Sauvages emphasized symptomatology as the basis for disease classification, since there was no information then available about the causes of diseases.

Jean-Philippe Rameau: …best and most celebrated pieces, Les Sauvages, later used in his opéra ballet Les Indes galantes (first performed 1735). The following year, at the age of 42, he married a 19-year-old singer, who was to appear in several of his operas and who was to bear him four children.

Jean-Luc Godard: Later work and awards of Jean-Luc Godard: …qui peut (la vie) (Every Man for Himself), a story of three young Swiss people and their problems of work and love. In the 1980s he was involved in film projects at home as well as in California and Mozambique. His most notable work of the decade was his…

Albert Sauveur was a Belgian-born American metallurgist whose microscopic and photomicroscopic studies of metal structures make him one of the founders of physical metallurgy. Sauveur emigrated to the United States and embarked on a career of metallurgic research that culminated in his appointment

acoustics: Early experimentation: …out by the French physicist Joseph Sauveur, who provided a legacy of acoustic terms used to this day and first suggested the name acoustics for the study of sound.

Sava River, river in the western Balkans. Its basin, 36,960 square miles (95,720 square km) in area, covers much of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and northern Serbia. It rises in the Triglav group of the Julian Alps as two rivers, the Sava Bohinjka and the Sava Dolinka, which join at Radovljica. It

St. Sava ; feast day January 14) was a monk, founder, and first archbishop of the independent Serbian Orthodox Church. His policy of recognizing the jurisdiction of the patriarch of Constantinople (now Istanbul) ensured the adherence of Serbian Christianity to Eastern Orthodoxy. Sava was a Serbian

rocket and missile system: From liquid to solid fuel: …Soviet solid-fueled ICBM was the SS-13 Savage, which became operational in 1969. This missile could carry a 750-kiloton warhead more than 5,000 miles. Because the Soviet Union deployed several other liquid-fueled ICBMs between 1962 and 1969, Western specialists speculated that the Soviets experienced engineering difficulties in producing solid propellants.

Roberto Bolaño: …was Los detectives salvajes (1998; The Savage Detectives), which tells the story of a circle of radical Mexican poets known as the “visceral realists.” The book begins as a diary of a young poet new to the group, but it then telescopes into a chronicle of the adventures of the…

A. Alvarez: …was arguably the best seller The Savage God (1971), a study of suicide. Other nonfiction works include Night: Night Life, Night Language, Sleep and Dreams (1994), his meditation on night and its power; The Writer’s Voice (2005), reflections on writing; and Pondlife: A Swimmer’s Journal (2013), in which daily swims…

Julianne Moore: Movies of the early 21st century: …murdered by her son) in Savage Grace (2007). She gave more-subdued performances as a woman in love with her gay best friend (played by Colin Firth) in fashion designer Tom Ford’s directorial debut, A Single Man (2009); a woman who cheats on her lesbian partner in The Kids Are All…

Nicholas Ray: Later films: The documentary-like The Savage Innocents (1960)—an international production shot in Greenland, Canada, and England—was something of a departure for Ray. It chronicled the struggles of an Inuit (Anthony Quinn) to keep his family alive under the most challenging conditions imaginable. With King of Kings (1961)

Niue, internally self-governing island state in free association with New Zealand. It is the westernmost of the Cook Islands but is administratively separate from them. Niue lies some 1,340 miles (2,160 km) northeast of Auckland, New Zealand, and 240 miles (385 km) east of the Vavaʿu Group of

Dan Savage: …syndicated sex-advice newspaper column “Savage Love.” He gained additional fame after writing numerous books and for creating (in 2010) the It Gets Better Project, an Internet-based effort to support and inspire lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youths.

Ken Russell: …The Boy Friend (1971) and Savage Messiah (1972) before he again achieved a commercial success with Tommy (1975), a film based on a rock opera. His later films include Lisztomania (1975), Altered States (1980), Crimes of Passion (1984), Whore (1991), and the musical horror-comedy

Émile Zola: Les Rougon-Macquart: Le Ventre de Paris (1873; The Belly of Paris) examines the structure of the Halles, the vast central market-place of Paris, and its influence on the lives of its workers. The 10 steel pavilions that make up the market are compared alternately to a machine, a palace, and an entire…

Pieman River: …receives the Donaldson, Whyte, and Savage rivers at Hardwicke Bay on the Indian Ocean. It was long thought that the river was named for one Alexander Pierce, but it is now widely believed that the honour belongs to another convict, Thomas Kent, who is thought to have been a baker.…

Detour: …a scheming femme fatale (Ann Savage) who wants Roberts to try to claim an inheritance owed to the dead man.

Augusta Savage was an American sculptor and educator who battled racism to secure a place for African American women in the art world. Augusta Fells began modeling figures from the red-clay soil of her native Florida at an early age. When just 15 years old, she married John T. Moore in 1907 and had

Augusta Savage was an American sculptor and educator who battled racism to secure a place for African American women in the art world. Augusta Fells began modeling figures from the red-clay soil of her native Florida at an early age. When just 15 years old, she married John T. Moore in 1907 and had

Dan Savage is an American writer who rose to prominence in the 1990s via his frank and ribald syndicated sex-advice newspaper column “Savage Love.” He gained additional fame after writing numerous books and for creating (in 2010) the It Gets Better Project, an Internet-based effort to support and