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Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron

(Encyclopedia) Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st BaronTennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Barontĕnˈĭsən [key], 1809–92, English poet. The most famous poet of the Victorian age, he was a profound spokesman…

Richard Fleischer

Richard O. Fleischer directed Hollywood movies from the early 1940s to the late 1980s, a variety that included 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), Doctor Doolittle (1967), Soylent Green (1973) and…

Jay Leno

Jay Leno was the host of NBC's late-night program The Tonight Show from 1992 to 2009 and from 2010 until 2014, when he was replaced by Jimmy Fallon. Jay Leno first gained fame as a standup comedian…

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Once the world's leading bodybuilder, Arnold Schwarzenegger went on to become one of Hollywood's biggest stars and then the governor of California from 2003-2011. Nicknamed "The Austrian Oak,"…

crossword puzzle

(Encyclopedia) crossword puzzle, word game in which words corresponding to numbered clues are put into a grid of horizontal and vertical squares to form intersecting words. The puzzle is solved when…

Horton, Lester

(Encyclopedia) Horton, Lester, 1906–53, American modern dancer, choreographer, and teacher, b. Indianapolis. Moving to California in 1928, Horton formed his own company in Los Angeles and also…

Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron

(Encyclopedia) Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772–1863, British jurist, b. Boston, Mass.; son of John Singleton Copley, the American painter. Educated in England, he was called to the bar…

Junot, Andoche

(Encyclopedia) Junot, AndocheJunot, AndocheäNdôshˈ zhünōˈ [key], 1771–1813, French general. Having served under Napoleon Bonaparte in Italy and Egypt, he became ambassador to Portugal (1804–5) and…

Eight, the

(Encyclopedia) Eight, the, group of American artists in New York City, formed in 1908 to exhibit paintings. They were men of widely different tendencies, held together mainly by their common…