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2000–2001 Outer Critics Circle Awards

Broadway PlayProofOff-Broadway PlayJitney Play Revival (tie)The Best Man and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestActor in a PlayRichard Easton, The Invention of LoveActress in a PlayMary-Louise…

2001 National Book Critics Circle Awards

Fiction: Austerlitz, W. G. Sebald (Random House)General Nonfiction: Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper, Nicholson Baker (Random House)Biography or Autobiography: Boswell's…

Sackville, Charles, 6th earl of Dorset

(Encyclopedia) Sackville, Charles, 6th earl of Dorset, 1638–1706, English poet and courtier. After the restoration, he became a member of the intimate circle of young rakes and wits at the court of…

Seward Peninsula

(Encyclopedia) Seward Peninsula, W Alaska, projecting c.200 mi (320 km) into the Bering Sea between Norton Sound and Kotzebue Sound, just below the Arctic Circle. The region is mostly bleak tundra,…

crank

(Encyclopedia) crank, mechanical linkage consisting of a bar attached to a pivot at one of its ends in such a way that it is capable of rotating through a complete circle about the pivot. One of the…

altazimuth coordinate system

(Encyclopedia) altazimuth coordinate systemaltazimuth coordinate systemăltăzˈəməth [key] or horizon coordinate system, astronomical coordinate system in which the position of a body on the celestial…

conic section

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Conic sections conic section or conicconic sectionkŏnˈĭk [key], curve formed by the intersection of a plane and a right circular cone (conical surface). The ordinary conic…