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Timeline: Video Games, Part I

Part I: Early Years by Amanda Kudler 1958 1961 1965 1970 1972 Next: 1975-1984 1958 Physicist Willy Higinbotham invents the first "video game" at the…

Acknowledgments

The first five editions of The Columbia Encyclopedia were published in 1935, 1950, 1963, 1975, and 1993. All editions owe a debt of gratitude to Clark Fisher Ansley, the editor of the first edition,…

Brewer's: God

Gothic, goth (god); German, gott. (See Alla, Adonist, Elohistic, etc.) It was Hiero, Tyrant of Syracuse, who asked Simonides the poet, “What is God?” Simonides asked to have a day to…

1990–1991 Emmy Awards

Outstanding Drama SeriesL.A. Law (NBC)Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama SeriesJames Earl Jones, Gabriel's FireOutstanding Lead Actress in a Drama SeriesPatricia Wettig,…

Nobel Prize for Literature

The Most Famous Prize in Literature The Nobel Prize for Literature, one of the six international awards administered by the Nobel Foundation, honors outstanding achievement in letters. The estate…

Dante Alighieri

(Encyclopedia) Dante AlighieriDante Alighieridănˈtē, Ital. dänˈtā älēgyĕˈrē [key], 1265–1321, Italian poet, b. Florence. Dante was the author of the Divine Comedy, one of the greatest of literary…

prohibition

(Encyclopedia) prohibition, legal prevention of the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages, the extreme of the regulatory liquor laws. The modern movement for prohibition had…