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Destiny’s Child

The music group Destiny's Child was formed in 1990 as a novelty group of pre-teen girls; by decade's end they had become a superstar female R&B vocal quartet. They later became a trio featuring…

Julia Child

Name at birth: Julia McWilliamsJulia Child was America's most famous chef in the 1960s, thanks to her jolly TV cooking show The French Chef. Julia Child began studying French cooking while living in…

Child, Julia

(Encyclopedia) Child, Julia, 1912–2004, American cooking teacher, author, and television personality, b. Pasadena, Calif., as Julia Carolyn McWilliams. In the early 1940s both she and her husband-to-…

child abuse

(Encyclopedia) child abuse, physical, sexual, or emotional maltreatment or neglect of children by parents, guardians, or others responsible for a child's welfare. Physical abuse is characterized by…

child labor

(Encyclopedia) child labor, use of the young as workers in factories, farms, mines, and other facilities, especially in work that is physically hazardous or morally, socially, or mentally harmful,…

child welfare

(Encyclopedia) child welfare, services provided for the care of disadvantaged children. Foundling institutions for orphans and abandoned children were the earliest attempts at child care, usually…

Brewer's: Philip

Philip, remember thou art mortal. A sentence repeated to the Macedonian king every time he gave an audience. Philip sober. When a woman who asked Philip of Macedon to do her justice was…

Brewer's: Philips

(John);author of The Splendid Shilling, wrote a georgic on Order in blank verse - a serious poem modelled upon Miltes epics. Philips, Pomona's bard, the second thou Who nobly durst, in…

Philip Roth

American writer Philip Roth spent more than five decades as the prolific and provocative writer of novels and short stories before his death at age 85 in 2018. His themes often involved Jewish-…

Philip Pullman

A part-time lecturer on literature, Philip Pullman wrote the children's books The Ruby in the Smoke (1988) and The Firework-Maker's Daughters (1996), but is more widely known for the His Dark…