Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), U.S. regulatory commission established by Congress in 1934 after the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency investigated the New York Stock Exchange’s operations. The commission’s purpose was to restore investor confidence by ending misleading sales

butyl alcohol: …structures: normal (n-) butyl alcohol, secondary (sec-) butyl alcohol, isobutyl alcohol, and tertiary (t-) butyl alcohol.

rye, (Secale cereale), cereal grass (family Poaceae) and its edible grain that is chiefly used to make rye bread and rye whiskey. It is high in carbohydrates and dietary fibre and provides small quantities of protein, potassium, and B vitamins. Rye is also used as livestock feed, as a pasture

television: Colour television: …de France developed SECAM (système électronique couleur avec mémoire). Both were basically the NTSC system, with some subtle modifications. By 1970, therefore, North America and Japan were using NTSC; France, its former dependencies, and the countries of the Soviet Union were using SECAM; and Germany, the United Kingdom, and…

secant, one of the six trigonometric functions, which, in a right triangle ABC, for an angle A, issec A = length of hypotenuse length of side adjacent angle A .(The other five trigonometric functions are sine [sin], cosine [cos], tangent [tan], cosecant [csc], and cotangent [cot].) From the

Andres Serrano: …image was exhibited at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 1988, as part of that institution’s Awards in the Visual Arts series, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Many viewers found the image profane and irreverent and further objected…

Pietro Angelo Secchi: …his survey of stellar spectra, Secchi concluded that stars could be arranged in four classes according to the type of spectra they display. These divisions were later expanded into the Harvard classification system, which is based on a simple temperature sequence. Secchi proved that prominences seen during a solar eclipse…

Secchi disk, in oceanography, circular plate about 30 centimetres (one foot) in diameter, painted a flat white and designed to measure water transparency. It is first lowered into the water until the disk is just barely perceptible, then lowered further until it is no longer visible, and finally

Pietro Angelo Secchi was an Italian Jesuit priest and astrophysicist, who made the first survey of the spectra of stars and suggested that stars be classified according to their spectral type. Secchi entered the Society of Jesus in 1833 and became lecturer in physics and mathematics at the Jesuit

Alessandro Tassoni: …poem La secchia rapita (The Rape of the Bucket), the earliest and, according to most critics, the best of many Italian works in that genre.

painting: Fresco secco: In the fresco secco, or lime-painting, method, the plastered surface of a wall is soaked with slaked lime. Lime-resistant pigments are applied swiftly before the plaster sets. Secco colors dry lighter than their tone at the time of application, producing the pale, matte,…

Marinism, (Italian: “17th century”), style of the 17th-century poet Giambattista Marino (q.v.) as it first appeared in part three of La lira (1614; “The Lyre”). Marinism, a reaction against classicism, was marked by extravagant metaphors, hyperbole, fantastic word play, and original myths, all

Abū al-Ghāzī Bahādur: …he is most famous are Shajare-i Tarākime, or Şecere-i Terakime (1659; “The Genealogical Tree of the Turkmen”), written in Chagatai Turkish, mainly a compilation from the Persian historian Rashīd ad-Dīn (d. 1318) and the semilegendary oral traditions of the Turks, and the Shajare-i Turk (“The Genealogical Tree of the Turks”),…

secession, in U.S. history, the withdrawal of 11 slave states (states in which slaveholding was legal) from the Union during 1860–61 following the election of Abraham Lincoln as president. Secession precipitated the American Civil War. Secession had a long history in the United States—but as a

Western architecture: Art Nouveau: …his classicism and formed the Sezessionists. Joseph Olbrich joined the art colony at Darmstadt, in Germany, where his houses and exhibition gallery of about 1905 were boxlike, severe buildings. Josef Hoffmann left Wagner to found the Wiener Werkstätte, an Austrian equivalent of the English Arts and Crafts Movement; his best

Yemen: War of secession and political unrest: The War of Secession of 1994, lasting from May to early July, resulted in the defeat of the southern forces and the flight into exile of most of the YSP leaders and their soldiers and other supporters.

history of Botswana: Prosperous trading states: …king of this period was Sechele (ruled 1829–92) of the Kwena around Molepolole. He allied himself with British traders and missionaries and was baptized by David Livingstone. He also fought the Boers, who tried to seize people who fled from the Transvaal to join Sechele’s state. But by the later…

thought: Elements of thought: …three scholars—the 19th-century Russian physiologist Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov; the American founder of behaviourism, John B. Watson; and Piaget—independently arrived at the conclusion that the activities that serve as elements of thinking are internalized or “fractional” versions of motor responses. In other words, the elements are considered to be attenuated or…

chayote, (Sechium edule), perennial vine of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae), cultivated for its edible fruits. Chayote is native to the New World tropics and is also grown as an annual plant in temperate climates. The fruits are boiled, baked, or sautéed as a vegetable and taste similarly to

history of logic: Johann Heinrich Lambert: …logic, developed especially in his Sechs Versuche einer Zeichenkunst in der Vernunftlehre (1777; “Six Attempts at a Symbolic Method in the Theory of Reason”), was an elegant and notationally efficient calculus, extensively duplicating, apparently unwittingly, sections of Leibniz’ calculus of a century earlier. Like the systems of Leibniz, Ploucquet, and…

Zürich: The contemporary city: …has traditional annual festivals: the Sechseläuten in April, with a guild procession and the ceremonial burning of a snowman, and the Knabenschiessen in September, a sharpshooting contest for young people. Along with these traditional festivals, there is the Zürich Carnival (Fasnacht) in late winter and the Street Parade in August,…

Ludwig von Siegen was a German painter, engraver, and the inventor of the mezzotint printing method. Siegen spent most of his early life in the services of the landgravine Amelia Elizabeth and the landgrave William of Hesse-Kassel. He lived in Amsterdam from 1641 to about 1644, when he was

Anton Bruckner: Life and career.: …counterpoint with the Viennese teacher Simon Sechter.

Solomon Tshekiso Plaatje: …Their European Equivalents (1916), the Sechuana Phonetic Reader (with the linguist Daniel Jones) in the same year, and the collection Bantu Folk-Tales and Poems at a later date. He also translated a number of Shakespeare’s plays into Tswana. His novel Mhudi (1930), a story of love and war, is set…

Solomon Tshekiso Plaatje: …poetry, Plaatje published his famous Sechuana Proverbs and Their European Equivalents (1916), the Sechuana Phonetic Reader (with the linguist Daniel Jones) in the same year, and the collection Bantu Folk-Tales and Poems at a later date. He also translated a number of Shakespeare’s plays into Tswana. His novel Mhudi (1930),…

South American fox: …grasslands of Brazil, and the Sechuran fox (L. sechurae), which lives along the coasts of northwestern Peru and southwestern Ecuador.

Baaba Maal: …was accompanied to Dakar by Mansour Seck, a griot (troubadour-historian) and a longtime friend and musical mentor, and the two joined Asly Fouta, a 70-piece orchestra that toured West Africa in a celebration of Tukulor culture. The pair left the group in 1977, and in 1982 Maal was offered a…

William III: Early life: …Orange from power, and the Act of Seclusion (1654) debarred the prince of Orange and his descendants from holding office in the state.

sedative-hypnotic drug: …commonly prescribed kinds were phenobarbital, secobarbital (marketed under Seconal and other trade names), amobarbital (Amytal), and pentobarbital (Nembutal). When taken in high-enough doses, these drugs are capable of producing a deep unconsciousness that makes them useful as general anesthetics. In still higher doses, however, they depress the central nervous and…

sedative-hypnotic drug: …commonly prescribed kinds were phenobarbital, secobarbital (marketed under Seconal and other trade names), amobarbital (Amytal), and pentobarbital (Nembutal). When taken in high-enough doses, these drugs are capable of producing a deep unconsciousness that makes them useful as general anesthetics. In still higher doses, however, they depress the central nervous and…

second, fundamental unit of time, now defined in terms of the radiation frequency at which atoms of the element cesium change from one state to another. The second was formerly defined as 1/86,400 of the mean solar day—i.e., the average period of rotation of the Earth on its axis relative to the

Jennifer Lopez: Hustlers, Super Bowl performance, and later projects: In Second Act (2018) she took a comedic turn as a woman who lands a covetable executive position at a Manhattan cosmetics firm after her friends embellish her résumé. Lopez then joined a largely female cast in Hustlers (2019), a comedy drama about strippers who scheme…

Second Coming, in Christianity, the future return of Christ in glory, when it is understood that he will set up his kingdom, judge his enemies, and reward the faithful, living and dead. Early Christians believed the Advent to be imminent (see millennium), and most Christian theologians since then

C. Louis Leipoldt: …a leading poet of the Second Afrikaans Language Movement.

Russia: The October (November) Revolution: …would attempt to disrupt the Second All-Russian Congress, scheduled to open on October 25 (November 7, New Style); they reacted by sending troops to take over key communications and transportation points of the city. Lenin, who had been in hiding, appeared on the scene to urge the Bolsheviks to press…

Second Amendment, amendment to the Constitution of the United States, adopted in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, that provided a constitutional check on congressional power under Article I Section 8 to organize, arm, and discipline the federal militia. The Second Amendment reads, “A well

Anglo-Afghan Wars: Second Anglo-Afghan War: In November 1875 British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli appointed Lord Lytton governor-general of India. Lytton during his service there was concerned primarily with India’s relations with Afghanistan. At the time of his appointment, Russian influence was growing in Afghanistan, and Lytton had…

malacostracan: Size range and diversity of structure: The outer branch of the second antennae (antennal squame), which is usually flat and bladelike for elevation and swimming balance, has two segments in stomatopods and some mysids and one segment in syncarids and eucarids; it may be small or lost entirely in amphipods, isopods, and other bottom-dwelling or subterranean…

Timotheus: …making Athens dominant in the Second Athenian League (established 378–377).

Timotheus: …making Athens dominant in the Second Athenian League (established 378–377).

Alicia Vikander: …drama Second Avenue (original title Andra Avenyn), in which she appeared (2007–08) as Jossan Tegebrandt Björn. Her feature film debut in Till det som är vackert (2009; Pure) resulted in a Guldbagge Award for best actress.

Volga-Ural Petroleum and Gas Province, principal petroleum-producing region of Russia. Situated in the southern part of European Russia, it stretches from the west flank of the Ural Mountains to west of the Volga River. The largest fields are in Bashkortostan and Tatarstan and near Samara (Syzran

Treaty of Bucharest: 10, 1913, that ended the Second Balkan War (1913), in which Bulgaria was defeated by the combined forces of Serbia, Greece, and Romania. Bulgaria had unsuccessfully contested the distribution by its former allies of territory taken from the Turks during the First Balkan War (1912–13). According to the terms of…

Bank of the United States, central bank chartered in 1791 by the U.S. Congress at the urging of Alexander Hamilton and over the objections of Thomas Jefferson. The extended debate over its constitutionality contributed significantly to the evolution of pro- and antibank factions into the first

Barbra Streisand: Recording artist: …The Barbra Streisand Album (1963), The Second Barbra Streisand Album (1963), The Third Album (1964), People (1964), Je m’appelle Barbra (1966), Stoney End (1971), Streisand Superman (1977), Guilty (1980), The Broadway Album (1985), Higher Ground (1997), and Love Is the Answer (2009). She avoided performing live for several years, but…

Barrier Treaties: …aside by Britain, and a Second Barrier Treaty, less favourable commercially to the United Provinces, was signed (Jan. 29, 1713). It was confirmed by the treaties of Utrecht, Rastatt, and Baden (1713–14), which ended the War of the Spanish Succession. The details of the barrier were further modified by the…

baseball: Infielders: The second baseman, who is typically positioned to the right of second base, does not require an exceptionally strong arm, but he does need as much range and agility as the shortstop. Together the shortstop and second baseman form the keystone of the defense, as both…

satire: The satiric spirit: According to saga, when the Irish poet uttered a satire against his victim, three blisters would appear on the victim’s cheek, and the victim would die of shame. One story will…

Álvaro de Bazán, Marqués de Santa Cruz: Three years later, at the Second Battle of Terceira, Santa Cruz defeated a superior French naval squadron sent unofficially to support a rebellion in the Azores against Philip II, the Spanish king. His victory was marred, however, by his execution of all French prisoners despite the protests of his own…

Kemal Atatürk: The nationalist movement and the war for independence: …10, 1921, at the First Battle of the İnönü.

Judi Dench: …Marigold Hotel (2011) and its 2015 sequel, both of which concern the comic hijinks of a group of British retirees in India. Dench also starred alongside Steve Coogan in Philomena (2013), based on the true story of a woman’s search for a child she had given up for adoption in…

South African War, war fought from October 11, 1899, to May 31, 1902, between Great Britain and the two Boer (Afrikaner) republics—the South African Republic (Transvaal) and the Orange Free State—resulting in British victory. Although it was the largest and most costly war in which the British

Scotland: James VI (1567–1625): …theorist, they demanded, in the Second Book of Discipline (1578), that the new church receive all the wealth of the old, that it be run by a hierarchy of courts rather than of bishops, and that the state leave the church alone but be prepared to take advice from it.…

elliptic equation: …constant temperature distribution throughout (Neumann problem).

Bulgaria: The second Bulgarian empire: With the collapse of the first Bulgarian state, the Bulgarian church fell under the domination of Greek ecclesiastics who took control of the see of Ohrid and attempted to replace the Bulgarian Slavic liturgy with a Greek liturgy. Bulgarian culture was by…

burial: Second burial: Among many peoples, a period of waiting occurs between the first burial and a second burial that often coincides with the duration of decomposition. The origin of this practice is considered to be the different concept of death held by these peoples. In…

Toungoo Dynasty: …reign is known as the Second Burmese Empire. King Minkyinyo (1486–1531) of Toungoo is usually considered the founder of the dynasty, but many authorities believe that the distinction of founder should be reserved for his son Tabinshwehti (1531–50), who more surely welded the empire together. Thus the dating of the…

Anglo-Burmese Wars, (1824–26, 1852, 1885), three conflicts that collectively forced Burma (now Myanmar) into a vulnerable position from which it had to concede British hegemony in the region of the Bay of Bengal. The First Anglo-Burmese War arose from friction between Arakan in western Burma and

Antarctica: Plant life: …microclimates was demonstrated by the second Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1933–35), which found that lichens in Marie Byrd Land grow preferentially on darker-coloured heat-absorbing rock.

On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump was inaugurated for a second term as president of the United States. His administration has to fill some 4,000 posts, which include members of the cabinet. While the president has some discretion in determining what posts are part of the cabinet, its core members

Rudolph Maté: Second Chance (1953) was a passable noir originally released in 3-D and starring Robert Mitchum, Linda Darnell, and Jack Palance. The Black Shield of Falworth (1954) featured real-life couple Curtis and Janet Leigh as a medieval knight and his highborn lady. Maté later made the…

Eugene Levy: SCTV and mockumentaries: …the Canadian sketch comedy show SCTV. Levy later noted that he learned important lessons from working on the program. In 2020 he told Variety that he did not know how to write for television when he first joined SCTV:

Eugene Levy: SCTV and mockumentaries: …the Canadian sketch comedy show SCTV. Levy later noted that he learned important lessons from working on the program. In 2020 he told Variety that he did not know how to write for television when he first joined SCTV:

Chicago: The arts: The famed Second City, which for decades has been performing improvisational comedy in the Old Town neighborhood, spawned spin-off groups and inspired similar companies elsewhere. Meanwhile, dance has become increasingly important in Chicago, with the Hubbard Street Dance Company offering contemporary performances, the River North Chicago Dance…

Austria: Conflicts with revolutionary France, 1790–1805: … (1792–97) and that of the Second Coalition (1799–1800), Austrian policy was guided by Franz Maria, Freiherr (baron) von Thugut, the only commoner to reach the rank of minister of foreign affairs in the history of the Habsburg monarchy. Thugut was an experienced diplomat and knew France very well, and he…

Second Coming, in Christianity, the future return of Christ in glory, when it is understood that he will set up his kingdom, judge his enemies, and reward the faithful, living and dead. Early Christians believed the Advent to be imminent (see millennium), and most Christian theologians since then

The Second Coming, poem by William Butler Yeats, first printed in The Dial (November 1920) and published in his collection of verse entitled Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921). Yeats believed that history is cyclical, and “The Second Coming”—a two-stanza poem in blank verse—with its imagery of

Walker Percy: …wife-murderer in a mental institution; The Second Coming (1980); and The Thanatos Syndrome (1987). He also wrote such nonfiction as The Message in the Bottle (1975), a sophisticated philosophical treatment of semantics, and Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book (1985), an offbeat amalgam of a self-help-book parody and…

Virginia Woolf: Legacy of Virginia Woolf: …Reader (1925) was followed by The Common Reader: Second Series (1932; also published as The Second Common Reader). She continued writing essays on reading and writing, women and history, and class and politics for the rest of her life. Many were collected after her death in volumes edited by Leonard…

Helvetic Confession: First Helvetic Confession: The First Helvetic Confession (also called the Second Confession of Basel) was composed in 1536 by Heinrich Bullinger and other Swiss delegates, assisted by reformer Martin Bucer of Strasbourg. The Confession was written in an attempt to overcome differences on the Lord’s Supper with Martin Luther…

Vladimir Lenin: Formation of a revolutionary party of Vladimir Lenin: The organizing committee of the Second Congress decided to convene the congress in Brussels in 1903, but police pressure forced it to transfer to London.

eclipse: Solar eclipse phenomena: …vanish at the moment of second contact, when totality begins. This is the climax of the eclipse. The reddish prominences and chromosphere of the Sun, around the Moon’s limb, can now be seen. The brighter planets and stars become visible in the sky. White coronal streamers extend from the Sun…

Continental Congress, in the period of the American Revolution, the body of delegates who spoke and acted collectively for the people of the colony-states that later became the United States of America. The term most specifically refers to the bodies that met in 1774 and 1775–81 and respectively

North Africa campaigns: Rommel’s final offensive in Africa: The U.S. II Corps (which included a French division) was the immediate target of the German attack. The offensive was launched on a front 90 miles (145 km) wide but was focused on the three mountain passes near Gafsa, Fāʾiḍ, and Fondouk. Those passageways were so…

Second Lateran Council, (1139), the 10th ecumenical council, convoked by Pope Innocent II. The council was convened to condemn as schismatics the followers of Arnold of Brescia, a vigorous reformer and opponent of the temporal power of the pope, and to end the schism created by the election of

optic nerve, second cranial nerve, which carries sensory nerve impulses from the more than one million ganglion cells of the retina toward the visual centres in the brain. The vast majority of optic nerve fibres convey information regarding central vision. The optic nerve begins at the optic disk,

Revelstoke, city, southeastern British Columbia, Canada. It lies in a scenic region along the Columbia River between the Monashee and Selkirk mountains, 392 miles (631 km) northeast of Vancouver. Originally called Second Crossing, the site—overlooked by Mount Revelstoke (6,375 feet [1,943 metres]

Crusades: The Second Crusade: It had long been apparent that Edessa was vulnerable, but its loss came as a shock to Eastern and Western Christians. Urgent pleas for aid soon reached Europe, and in 1145 Pope Eugenius III issued a formal Crusade bull, Quantum praedecessores (“How Much…

John Milton: Antimonarchical tracts: Milton’s refutation in Latin, The Second Defense of the English People by John Milton, Englishman, in Reply to an Infamous Book Entitled “Cry of the King’s Blood” (1654), contains many autobiographical passages intended to counteract the polemic’s vitriolic attacks on his personal life. Milton also mounts an eloquent, idealistic,…

principal in the second degree, person who assists another in the commission of a crime and is present when the crime is being committed but does not actually participate in the crime. For example, an individual standing guard at the door during the armed robbery of a service station would be

analysis: Higher-order derivatives: …leading in particular to the second derivative f″ of the function f, which is just the derivative of the derivative f′. The second derivative often has a useful physical interpretation. For example, if f(t) is the position of an object at time t, then f′(t) is its speed at time…

intelligence: France: …French intelligence agency is the Second Directorate of the National Defense Staff, which combines, to some degree, formerly separate army, navy, and air force agencies. Charged with gathering foreign military intelligence for the French general staff, it is no doubt influenced by the traditions and doctrines of the French army’s…

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Major works of political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: …sur l’origine de l’inegalité (1755; Discourse on the Origin of Inequality)—in response to a question set by the Academy of Dijon: “What is the origin of the inequality among men and is it justified by natural law?” In response to that challenge he produced a masterpiece of speculative anthropology. The…

Duma: The first two Dumas were elected indirectly (except in five large cities) by a system that gave undue representation to the peasantry, which the government expected to be conservative. The Dumas were, nevertheless, dominated by liberal and socialist opposition groups that demanded extensive reforms. Both Dumas were…

history of Mesopotamia: Babylonia under the 2nd dynasty of Isin: …to be known as the 2nd dynasty of Isin. His successors were often forced to continue the fighting. The most famous king of the dynasty was Nebuchadrezzar I (Nabu-kudurri-uṣur; c. 1119–c. 1098). He fought mainly against Elam, which had conquered and ravaged a large part of Babylonia. His first attack…

history of Mesopotamia: Babylonia under the 2nd dynasty of Isin: …the era known as the 2nd dynasty of the Sealand (c. 1020–c. 1000), which included three usurpers. The first of these had the Kassitic name of Simbar-Shihu (or Simbar-Shipak; (c. 1020–c. 1003).

Between her coronation in June 1953 and her passing in September 2022, Queen Elizabeth II’s reign encompassed myriad advancements in science and technology. In the last 70 years we learned how to travel farther and faster, discovered how to communicate rapidly with people in remote places, and

When Elizabeth II inherited the crown after the death of her father, George VI, in 1952, movies and TV shows were mostly produced in black and white. Colour television sales only outpaced black and white sales 20 years later, in 1972. Music’s classic acts, including Elvis, the Beatles, and the

Second Empire, (1852–70) period in France under the rule of Emperor Napoleon III (the original empire having been that of Napoleon I). In its early years (1852–59), the empire was authoritarian but enjoyed economic growth and pursued a favourable foreign policy. Liberal reforms were gradually

Second Empire style, architectural style that was dominant internationally during the second half of the 19th century. Developing from a tendency of architects of the second quarter of the 19th century to use architectural schemes drawn from the periods of the Italian Renaissance, Louis XIV, and

Second Empire style, architectural style that was dominant internationally during the second half of the 19th century. Developing from a tendency of architects of the second quarter of the 19th century to use architectural schemes drawn from the periods of the Italian Renaissance, Louis XIV, and

Sidney Lanfield: Films of the 1930s: Second Fiddle (1939) was another popular musical comedy starring Henie; she played a skating teacher who is discovered by a public relations agent (Tyrone Power) during a casting search. Lanfield closed out the decade with Swanee River (1939), a biopic of songwriter Stephen Foster, though…

history of logic: Syllogisms: …both α and γ (second figure), or else both α and γ are predicated of β (third figure). All syllogisms must fall into one or another of these figures.

Soviet Union: Industrialization, 1929–34: …period (including that of the Second Five-Year Plan, slightly less strongly stressing heavy industry, which now followed) was only about 3.5 percent per annum, about the same as that of Germany over the same span of time. Nevertheless, during this period a number of important industrial enterprises were completed, though…

Alfred von Tirpitz: Early career and rise to power: …a high-seas battle fleet, Tirpitz’s Second Fleet Act of 1900 laid down an ambitious program—to build a larger and more modern oceangoing fleet—that the navy was never able to practically fulfill. This law set 1917 as the year of completion for an active navy of 2 flagships, 36 battleships, 11…

Isaac Asimov: …Foundation and Empire (1952), and Second Foundation (1953). The trilogy won a special Hugo Award in 1966 for best science-fiction series of all time.

mobile telephone: Development of cellular systems: …are known as the “second generation” (2G). Since the introduction of 2G cell phones, various enhancements have been made in order to provide data services and applications such as Internet browsing, two-way text messaging, still-image transmission, and mobile access by personal computers. One of the most successful applications of…

Second Great Awakening, Protestant religious revival in the United States from about 1795 to 1835. During this revival, meetings were held in small towns and large cities throughout the country, and the unique frontier institution known as the camp meeting began. Many churches experienced a great

sound: Fundamentals and harmonics: … = 2 and called the second harmonic, the string vibrates in two sections, so that the string is one full wavelength long. Because the wavelength of the second harmonic is one-half that of the fundamental, its frequency is twice that of the fundamental. Similarly, the frequency of the third harmonic…

Lynyrd Skynyrd: Second Helping and Sweet Home Alabama: …opens the band’s sophomore effort, Second Helping (1974). Young’s song is an attack on the American South’s racism, with lyrics describing slavery and lynching and calling out white Christian hypocrisy. Van Zant, Rossington, and King wrote “Sweet Home Alabama” as a direct retort, objecting to what they deemed to be…