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First Snow on Fuji

Author:Yasunari KawabataPublisher:Counterpoint Yasunari Kawabata's short-story collection First Snow on Fuji debuted in 1958, a decade before Kawabata won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Now…

Pokemon: The First Movie

Director:Kunihiko YuyamaWriter:Takeshi ShudoWarner Bros.; G; 90 minutesRelease:11/99Voices of:Veronica Taylor, Philip Bartlett As Pokemon achieves cultlike status in the hearts and minds of…

Famous Firsts by the Beatles

The Fab Four's first concert, No. 1 hit, and more   The Beatles Related Links Biography: The Beatles Beatles by the Numbers Beatles Timeline Most Influential…

First Cloned Piglets

And other recent science discoveries by Otto Johnson More Discoveries IntroductionIce Age Haute CoutureAntisocial Brain Tissue DeficitNew Orleans, the New Atlantis?Snakes with Legs?…

The First Wives Club

Director: Hugh Wilson Writer: Robert Harling Director of Photography: Donald Thorin Editor: John Bloom Music: Marc Shaiman Production Designer: Peter Larkin Producer…

Firsts in U.S. Cities

Here is information about famous firsts in U.S. cities - including the first aquarium, computer, daily newspaper, hospital, lighthouse, and more. All entries include…

Brewer's: Fire First

Non, Monsieur, nous ne tirons jamais les premiers. According to tradition, this was said by the Count D'Auteroches to Lord Charles Hay at the battle of Fontenoy, 30th April, 1745 (old…

Brewer's: First-fruits

The first profitable results of labour. In husbandry, the first corn that is cut at harvest. We also use the word in an evil sense; as, the first-fruits of sin, the first-fruits of…

Brewer's: First Water

A diamond of the first water. (See Diamond.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894First Gentleman of EuropeFirst-fruits A B C D E F G H I J K L M N…

Brewer's: Double First

(A). In the first class both of the classical and mathematical final examination in the Oxford University; or of the classical and mathematical triposes of the University of Cambridge.…