• 3 (number)

    number symbolism: 3: The number 3 is a very mystical and spiritual number featured in many folktales (three wishes, three guesses, three little pigs, three bears, three billy goats gruff). In ancient Babylon the three primary gods were Anu, Bel (Baal), and Ea, representing Heaven, Earth, and…

  • 3 Coeurs (film by Jacquot [2014])

    Catherine Deneuve: …Beloved) and 3 Coeurs (2014; 3 Hearts). Deneuve’s older sister, Françoise Dorléac, was also a successful actress. The sisters appeared together in one film, Demy’s Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967; The Young Girls of Rochefort).

  • 3 Days to Kill (film by McG [2014])

    Kevin Costner: Open Range, Hidden Figures, and Molly’s Game: …manage his family life in 3 Days to Kill, the general manager of an NFL team in Draft Day, and a single man trying to raise his biracial granddaughter in Black or White. The next year he starred as a high-school cross-country running coach in McFarland, USA.

  • 3 Faces (film by Panahi [2018])

    Jafar Panahi: Taxi, It Was Just an Accident, and legal issues: In Se rokh (2018; 3 Faces), Panahi and actress Behnaz Jafari undertake a road trip to find a young girl whose family has barred her from pursuing an acting career.

  • 3 Feet High and Rising (album by De La Soul)

    De La Soul: …replete with quirky interlude skits, 3 Feet High and Rising influenced not only De La Soul’s own self-constructed “family” of alternative rappers (ranging from A Tribe Called Quest to Queen Latifah) but also groups as disparate as Public Enemy (who were inspired by the collage-sampling technique of “Prince Paul”) and…

  • 3 Hearts (film by Jacquot [2014])

    Catherine Deneuve: …Beloved) and 3 Coeurs (2014; 3 Hearts). Deneuve’s older sister, Françoise Dorléac, was also a successful actress. The sisters appeared together in one film, Demy’s Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967; The Young Girls of Rochefort).

  • 3 Idiots (film by Hirani [2009])

    Kareena Kapoor: Debut and rise to superstardom: …of the hit comedy drama 3 Idiots (2009), in which she played a sharp, strong-willed medical student who falls in love with a brilliant but rebellious engineering student (Aamir Khan) who routinely challenges her father (Boman Irani), the authoritarian dean of the engineering college.

  • 3 Kinds of Exile (play by Guare)

    John Guare: Later plays included 3 Kinds of Exile (2013), which premiered Off-Broadway and starred Guare, and A Free Man of Color (2010). Guare also wrote several screenplays, notably Atlantic City (1980), for which he received an Academy Award nomination, and the 1993 adaptation of his play Six Degrees of…

  • 3 liquidity ratios: Assessing short-term financial viability

    Measuring a company’s liquidity ratio is like checking a car’s fuel or electricity gauge. Even a zippy Lamborghini or top-of-the-line Tesla won’t get you to your destination if it runs short of juice. Likewise, if a company runs out of cash—or assets to be converted to cash—to pay its short-term

  • 3 May 1791, Constitution of (Polish history)

    Russia: Expansion of the empire: …country by drafting the “Constitution of 3 May 1791,” which provided for stronger royal authority, established four-year sessions of the elected Sejm (the Polish diet), abolished the liberum veto in its proceedings (under the liberum veto, any single member of the Sejm could kill a measure), and introduced significant…

  • 3,4,5-trihydroxybenzoic acid (chemical compound)

    gallic acid, substance occurring in many plants, either in the free state or combined as gallotannin. It is present to the extent of 40–60 percent combined as gallotannic acid in tara (any of various plants of the genus Caesalpinia) and in Aleppo and Chinese galls (swellings of plant tissue), from

  • 3,5,3′,5′-tetraiodothyronine (hormone)

    thyroxine, one of the two major hormones secreted by the thyroid gland (the other is triiodothyronine). Thyroxine’s principal function is to stimulate the consumption of oxygen and thus the metabolism of all cells and tissues in the body. Thyroxine is formed by the molecular addition of iodine to

  • 3,5,3′-triiodothyronine (hormone)

    therapeutics: Hormones: hormones include thyroxine and triiodothyronine, which regulate tissue metabolism. Natural desiccated thyroid produced from beef and pork and the synthetic derivatives levothyroxine and liothyronine are used in replacement therapy to treat hypothyroidism that results from any cause.

  • 3,7-dimethyl-2,6-octadienal (chemical compound)

    citral (C10H16O), a pale yellow liquid, with a strong lemon odour, that occurs in the essential oils of plants. It is insoluble in water but soluble in ethanol (ethyl alcohol), diethyl ether, and mineral oil. It is used in perfumes and flavourings and in the manufacture of other chemicals.

  • 3-D (motion-picture process)

    3-D, motion-picture process that gives a three-dimensional quality to film images. It is based on the fact that humans perceive depth by viewing with both eyes. In the 3-D process, two cameras or a twin-lensed camera are used for filming, one representing the left eye and the other the right. The

  • 3-D computer graphics (computer technology)

    graphics processing unit: Technology made to render 3-D graphics and video had been used for decades before the GPU was invented. The first electronic stored-program computer, the Small Scale Experimental Machine (or, more informally, “Manchester Baby”) was created in 1948 and displayed images with a cathode-ray tube. The Whirlwind computer, a project…

  • 3-D radar (radar technology)

    radar: Antennas: …beams (as in the so-called 3D radars, which measure elevation angle in addition to azimuth and range), and in applications that require ultralow antenna sidelobe radiation.

  • 3-dimethylsulfonium propanoate (chemical compound)

    organosulfur compound: Sulfonium and oxosulfonium salts; sulfur ylides: …source of the methyl group; thetin or 3-dimethylsulfonium propanoate, (CH3)2S+CH2CH2CO2−; and certain (2-hydroxyethyl)dimethylsulfoxonium salts, (CH3)2S+(O)CH2CH2OH. The latter two compounds occur in marine organisms. Thetin is an example of a zwitterion, a compound that is an internal ion pair; in the

  • 3-methylbenzenol (chemical compound)

    cresol: structures: ortho- (o-) cresol, meta- (m-) cresol, and para- (p-) cresol.

  • 3-phosphatidyl-glycerol 1-phosphate (chemical compound)

    metabolism: Formation of lipids: …[85b]), or 3-phosphatidyl-glycerol 1′-phosphate (PGP; in [85c]). These reactions differ from those of polysaccharide biosynthesis ([79], [82]) in that phosphate is retained in the phospholipid, and the nucleotide product (CMP) is therefore a nucleoside monophosphate rather than the diphosphate. These compounds can react further: phosphatidylserine to give, sequentially, phosphatidylethanolamine…

  • 3-phosphoglycerate (chemical compound)

    metabolism: The formation of ATP: …ADP to form ATP and 3-phosphoglycerate. This reaction [7] is highly exergonic (i.e., it proceeds with a loss of free energy); as a result, the oxidation of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate, step [6], is irreversible. In summary, the energy liberated during oxidation of an aldehyde group (―CHO in glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate) to a…

  • 3-phosphoglyceric acid (chemical compound)

    carbohydrate: Role in the biosphere: …immediate phosphorous-containing product known as 3-phosphoglyceric acid is formed.

  • 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate (chemical compound)

    chemical weapon: Incapacitants: … compounds—for instance, 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate (BZ), LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), mescaline, and methaqualone—and at one time the U.S. Army fielded BZ weapons. Those chemical weapons are designed not to kill; however, even incapacitants can cause permanent injury or loss of life if employed in high dosages or if they cause…

  • 3.14 (mathematics)

    pi (π), in mathematics, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. The Greek letter π was first used by British mathematician William Jones in 1706 to represent the ratio and was later popularized by Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler. Because pi is irrational (not equal to the

  • 30 (album by Adele)

    Adele: …released her fourth studio album, 30. The emotionally candid work—many of the songs deal with her divorce and its aftermath—was widely acclaimed, and the single “Easy on Me” won the Grammy for best pop solo performance.

  • 30 Coloured Cubes Puzzle (mathematical puzzle)

    number game: Coloured squares and cubes: …widely known perhaps is the 30 Coloured Cubes Puzzle. If six colours are used to paint the faces there result 2,226 different combinations. If from this total only those cubes that bear all six colours on their faces are selected, a set of 30 different cubes is obtained; two cubes…

  • 30 Doradus (astronomy)

    Tarantula Nebula, (catalog number NGC 2070) immense ionized-hydrogen region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way system (in which Earth is located). The nebula consists of a cloud of interstellar gas—principally hydrogen—lit from within by young, hot stars that ionize

  • 30 Prairial, Coup of (French history)

    Council of Five Hundred: …what became known as the Coup of 30 Prairial. In addition, Lucien Bonaparte was elected president of the Council of Five Hundred.

  • 30 Rock (American television series)

    30 Rock, a critically acclaimed American television sitcom that aired on the NBC (National Broadcasting Co., Inc.) network from 2006 to 2013. The series, created by the American comedy writer and actor Tina Fey, is based on Fey’s experiences as a head writer and performer on Saturday Night Live, a

  • 30 Seconds to Mars (American band)

    Jared Leto: …the popular alternative rock band 30 Seconds to Mars.

  • 30 St Mary Axe (building, London, England, United Kingdom)

    The Gherkin, skyscraper in London that was designed by the architecture firm Foster and Partners and completed in 2004. Formally known as 30 St Mary Axe, the building has become better known by its colloquial name “The Gherkin,” which comes from its shape being similar to a gherkin fruit. It was

  • 300 (film by Snyder [2006])

    Gerard Butler: …star with his performance in 300 as the Spartan warrior King Leonidas, whose 300 warriors held off the vast Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae. The highly stylized film was an unexpected box-office hit. Refusing to be typecast by his success, Butler switched genres with the romantic comedy P.S.…

  • 300 (work by Miller and Varley)

    Frank Miller: …artist Lynn Varley to create 300 (1999), a stylized depiction of the Spartan defense at the Battle of Thermopylae. Miller revisited his alternative take on Batman with The Dark Knight Strikes Again (2001–02), which sold well but failed to garner the critical and commercial acclaim enjoyed by its predecessor. Miller’s…

  • 3001: The Final Odyssey (novel by Clarke)

    Arthur C. Clarke: …collision course with Earth; and 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997), the final book in the Space Odyssey series. Clarke’s final novel, The Last Theorem (2008), which concerns an alien invasion and a new short proof of Fermat’s last theorem, was completed by Frederik Pohl.

  • 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis (law case)

    major Supreme Court cases from the end of the 2022–23 term: 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis: Decided June 30, 2023. In December 2022 the Court also heard oral arguments in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, a case alleging that public-accommodations protections for the LGBTQ community under the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act are in violation of the First…

  • 30th Anniversary of Chernobyl

    April 25, 2016, marked the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident, the worst disaster in the history of nuclear power generation. The Chernobyl power station, located in the town of Pryp’yat (now in Ukraine), consisted of four 1,000-megawatt nuclear reactors. During the night of April 25–26,

  • 31 Cygni (astronomy)

    star: Stellar atmospheres: Observations of the eclipsing binary 31 Cygni show that the K-type supergiant component has an extremely inhomogeneous, extended atmosphere composed of numerous blobs and filaments. As the secondary member of this system slowly moves behind the larger star, its light shines through larger masses of the K-type star’s atmosphere. If…

  • 31 Masterpieces of Painting in Madrid

    There is evidence of prehistoric settlement at the site now occupied by Madrid, but the city’s origins can be more confidently traced back to at least the 10th century CE. This long history is echoed in the rich collections of the museums found there today. The 32 paintings listed here are just a

  • 31 Paintings to See in the Tate Collection

    The Tate collection includes British art from the 16th century to today as well as modern and contemporary art from around the world. It is held by four galleries: Tate Britain and Tate Modern, both in London; Tate Liverpool; and Tate St. Ives. To see all 31 of these paintings will require a trip

  • 31st March Incident (Ottoman history)

    Ottoman Empire: The Young Turk Revolution of 1908: …Julian calendar as the “31st March Incident”) exposed the weakness of the CUP and at the same time gave it a new opportunity. The mutiny resulted from the discontent of ordinary soldiers over their conditions and their neglect by college-trained and politically ambitious officers and from what they regarded…

  • 32 Notable Women Cricketers

    Cricket has been played by all-women teams since at least 1745, when an inter-village game between Bramley and Hambleton was recorded in England. Despite the early start, over the years, women’s cricket has lagged behind the men’s game because of a combination of sexism and poor organizational

  • 3200 Phaethon (asteroid)

    meteor and meteoroid: Meteor showers: …among the asteroids and named Phaethon. Most researchers believe Phaethon is the burned-out remnant of a once-active comet, but its nature may only be established with observations by spacecraft. For additional information about Phaethon, see asteroid: Asteroids in unusual orbits.

  • 323 Brucia (asteroid)

    asteroid: Early discoveries: The asteroid designated (323) Brucia, detected in 1891, was the first to be discovered by means of photography. By the end of the 19th century, 464 had been found, and that number grew to 108,066 by the end of the 20th century and more than 1,000,000 in the…

  • 33 Variations (play by Kaufman)

    Moisés Kaufman: …also directed his own play 33 Variations (first performed 2007), starring Jane Fonda as a musicologist obsessed with Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, and received another Tony nomination. In 2009 Kaufman and other Tectonic members arranged for 150 simultaneous readings in theatres across the globe of a sequel, The Laramie Project: Ten…

  • 33, Los

    Chile mine rescue of 2010, rescue of 33 workers from the San Jose gold and copper mine on October 13, 2010, 69 days after the mine’s collapse on August 5. The mine, owned by the San Esteban Primera Mining Company, was located in the Atacama Desert of Chile, approximately 50 miles (80 km) northwest

  • 33, The (film by Riggen [2015])

    Antonio Banderas: Later films: The Legend of Zorro and Pain and Glory: In The 33 (2015), which was based on a true event, Banderas played a worker who becomes trapped after a mine collapses in Chile. He joined the ensemble of Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups (2015), portraying a lothario encountered by the film’s protagonist (Christian Bale). After…

  • 330 North Wabash (building, Chicago, Illinois, United States)

    AMA Plaza, a 52-story skyscraper in downtown Chicago, Illinois, U.S., designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1972. It is a towering example of both the International Style and the elegant pin-striped steel-and-glass buildings Mies crafted in the postwar era. Rising on a narrow site

  • 332nd Fighter Group (United States Army Air Forces)

    Tuskegee Airmen: …by the 99th, constituted the 332nd Fighter Group. It fought in the European theatre and was noted as one of the Army Air Forces’ most successful and most-decorated escort groups.

  • 33rd Day of the ʿOmer Counting (Jewish holiday)

    Lag BaOmer, minor Jewish observance falling on the 33rd day in the period of the counting of the ʿomer (“barley sheaves”), a period of semi-mourning that lasts for the 49 days between Passover and Shavuot. On the Jewish calendar, the holiday falls on the 18th day of the month of Iyyar (April or

  • 33rd U.S. Colored Troops (American military)

    Thomas Wentworth Higginson: …South Carolina Volunteers, later the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, the first black regiment in the U.S. armed forces. After 1864 he wrote a series of popular biographies and histories and a novel. Higginson discovered and encouraged the poet Emily Dickinson.

  • 35-mm camera (photography)

    technology of photography: The 35-mm miniature camera: Perforated 35-millimetre (mm) film (originally standard motion-picture film) in cartridges holding 12 to 36 exposures with a nominal picture format of 24 × 36 mm is employed in miniature cameras. Smaller image formats down to 18 × 24 mm (half frame) may…

  • 35-mm miniature camera (photography)

    technology of photography: The 35-mm miniature camera: Perforated 35-millimetre (mm) film (originally standard motion-picture film) in cartridges holding 12 to 36 exposures with a nominal picture format of 24 × 36 mm is employed in miniature cameras. Smaller image formats down to 18 × 24 mm (half frame) may…

  • 355, The (film by Kinberg [2022])

    Jessica Chastain: Later career: In the espionage thriller The 355 (2022), she was part of an all-star cast that included Lupita Nyong’o and Penélope Cruz. That same year Chastain took on the role of country music legend Tammy Wynette in George & Tammy, a Showtime miniseries about the singer’s rocky romance with George

  • 35th Anniversary of Mount Saint Helens Eruption

    On May 18, 1980, the north slope of Mount Saint Helens, a volcanic peak in the Cascades Range, was blasted away in an eruption that killed 57 people and devastated an area of approximately 200 square miles. spotlight, anniversary, volcano, mount saint helens, eruption, united states,

  • 36 China Town (film by Abbas-Mustan [2006])

    Kareena Kapoor: Debut and rise to superstardom: In the 2006 thriller comedy 36 China Town, she played a clever young woman who, along with a stranger she befriends (Shahid Kapoor), becomes entangled in a murder mystery. She was again paired with Shahid Kapoor in her next film, Chup Chup Ke (2006; “Quietly”), a romantic comedy about a…

  • 36 Hours (film by Seaton [1965])

    George Seaton: Later films: Next was 36 Hours (1965), a spy story with James Garner and Eva Marie Saint, and What’s So Bad About Feeling Good? (1968) was a whimsical comedy featuring George Peppard and Mary Tyler Moore.

  • 36 runoja (work by Anhava)

    Tuomas Anhava: …the technically difficult poems of 36 runoja (1958; “36 Poems”). The images in these poems are strongly reminiscent of the Japanese and Chinese poetry Anhava translated during the same period. The simplification and compression of Oriental epigrams is employed in Runoja 1961 and Kuudes kirja (1966; “The Sixth Book”). Later…

  • 360 (surfing maneuver)

    surfing: Equipment and techniques: …“reverses” (rapid changes of direction), 360s (turning the board through 360 degrees on the face of the wave), and “airs” (flying above the face of the wave).

  • 360° Room for All Colours (art installation by Eliasson)

    Olafur Eliasson: Early projects: Conversely, in 360° Room for All Colours (2002), a circular space changed colors almost imperceptibly.

  • 365 Days/365 Plays (work by Parks)

    Suzan-Lori Parks: …year, in 2002–03 (collected as 365 Days/365 Plays [2006]).

  • 367-80 (jetliner)

    Boeing 707: The 367-80, often called the Dash 80, had swept wings and, powered by four underslung 10,000-pound-thrust turbojet engines, could reach a top speed of 600 miles (966 km) per hour. It was first flown in a demonstration flight on July 15, 1954, and the U.S. Air…

  • 369th Infantry Regiment (United States army regiment)

    Harlem Hellfighters, nickname given to the 369th Infantry Regiment of the United States Army during World War I. The French government decorated the entire unit with the Croix de Guerre, its highest award for bravery, as well as 170 additional individual medals for valor. The 369th’s battlefield

  • ’37, Generation of (Argentine intellectual movement)

    Juan Bautista Alberdi: …the best-known of the “Generation of ’37,” an intellectual movement of university students who debated politics, social theories, and philosophy. An opponent of the dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas, Alberdi went into exile in 1838, studying law in Uruguay and also living in Chile and in Europe. After the…

  • .38 Special (American musical group)

    Southern rock: …other guitar-heavy bands, such as .38 Special, Molly Hatchet, and the Outlaws, amplified and fetishized the boogie-guitar approach of bluesmen Elmore James and John Lee Hooker. The Marshall Tucker Band drew from western swing, Wet Willie borrowed from soul, and the Atlanta Rhythm Section leaned toward country. A few acts,…

  • 38 Studios (American company)

    Curt Schilling: …company, which eventually was named 38 Studios, for the number Schilling wore during the last 16 years of his career. Originally based in Massachusetts, the company relocated to Rhode Island in 2011 after receiving a $75 million loan from the state. When the company defaulted on the loan in May…

  • 38th parallel (geopolitics)

    38th parallel, popular name given to latitude 38° N that in East Asia roughly demarcates North Korea and South Korea. The line was chosen by U.S. military planners at the Potsdam Conference (July 1945) near the end of World War II as an army boundary, north of which the U.S.S.R. was to accept the

  • 39 Clues (book series by Riordan)

    Rick Riordan: …overall story line for the 39 Clues series, about two children who race around the world searching for hidden clues. The adventure series features books written by different authors—Riordan penned the first book, The Maze of Bones (2008), and cowrote the 11th installment, Vespers Rising (2011)—and includes additional cards and…

  • 39 Steps, The (film by Hitchcock [1935])

    The 39 Steps, British suspense film, released in 1935, that helped establish Alfred Hitchcock as one of the leading directors in the genre and employed themes that became hallmarks of his movies. (Read Alfred Hitchcock’s 1965 Britannica essay on film production.) While vacationing in London,

  • 3:10 to Yuma (film by Mangold [2007])

    Russell Crowe: Master and Commander, 3:10 to Yuma, and Robin Hood: …an outlaw in the western 3:10 to Yuma (2007), Crowe starred as an honest policeman working in a corrupt department who tries to bring a drug lord (played by Denzel Washington) to justice in American Gangster (2007). He subsequently appeared in the CIA thriller Body of Lies (2008) and State…

  • 3:10 to Yuma (film by Daves [1957])

    Delmer Daves: Westerns: …is perhaps his best film, 3:10 to Yuma (1957). A variation on Fred Zinnemann’s High Noon (1952), it pits a farmer (Van Heflin) in a battle of wits with a captured killer (Ford, who was effectively cast against type). This “psychological” western is generally considered a classic of the genre.…

  • 3C 273 (astronomy)

    quasar: Discovery of quasars: …pattern of emission lines in 3C 273, the brightest known quasar, could be understood as coming from hydrogen atoms that had a redshift (i.e., had their emission lines shifted toward longer, redder wavelengths by the expansion of the universe) of 0.158. In other words, the wavelength of each line was…

  • 3C 48 (astronomy)

    galaxy: Quasars: …but powerful radio object designated 3C 48 with a stellar optical image. When they obtained the spectrum of the optical object, they found unexpected and at first unexplainable emission lines superimposed on a flat continuum. This object remained a mystery until another similar but optically brighter object, 3C 273, was…

  • 3c,2e bond (chemistry)

    chemical bonding: Boranes: …as an example of a three-centre, two-electron bond (a 3c,2e bond, as shown in Figure 19). They regard diborane as three atoms held together by a pair of electrons delocalized over three atoms but are aware that this semilocalized picture is only a part of the true picture.

  • 3D bioprinting (medicine)

    3D printing: The term 3D bioprinting is used to describe the application of 3D printing concepts to the production of biological entities, such as tissues and organs. Bioprinting is based largely on existing printing technologies, such as ink-jet or laser printing, but makes use of “bioink” (suspensions of living…

  • 3D printing (manufacturing)

    3D printing, in manufacturing, any of several processes for fabricating three-dimensional objects by layering two-dimensional cross sections sequentially, one on top of another. The process is analogous to the fusing of ink or toner onto paper in a printer (hence the term printing) but is actually

  • 3D radar (radar technology)

    radar: Antennas: …beams (as in the so-called 3D radars, which measure elevation angle in addition to azimuth and range), and in applications that require ultralow antenna sidelobe radiation.

  • 3DES (cryptology)

    Data Encryption Standard: This is known as “triple DES” and involves using two normal DES keys. As proposed by Walter Tuchman of the Amperif Corporation, the encryption operation would be E1D2E1 while decryption would be D1E2D1. Since EkDk = Dk

  • 3G data network (telecommunications)

    mobile telephone: Development of cellular systems: …for a set of “third-generation” (3G) cellular standards, known collectively as IMT-2000. The 3G standards are based loosely on several attributes: the use of CDMA technology; the ability eventually to support three classes of users (vehicle-based, pedestrian, and fixed); and the ability to support voice, data, and multimedia services.…

  • 3HO movement (Sikh religious group)

    Sikhism: Sects: …to wear turbans is the Sikh Dharma of the Western Hemisphere, founded in the United States in 1971 by Harbhajan Singh, who was always known as Yogi Bhajan. It is commonly known as the 3HO movement (Healthy Happy Holy Organization), though this is, strictly speaking, the name only of its…

  • 3M Company (American corporation)

    3M Company, diversified American corporation manufacturing a wide range of products, including abrasives, adhesive tape and related products, and consumer-electronics components. It is headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota. The company was incorporated as Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

  • 3on3 basketball (sport)

    3x3 basketball, variation of basketball played on a half-court between teams of three players. Pronounced “three-ex-three,” this condensed version of basketball was established as a professional sport in the early 21st century. The game focuses on speed, versatility, and agility more than on the

  • 3rd Dynasty of Ur (Mesopotamian history)

    ancient Iran: The Old Elamite period: … of the 3rd dynasty of Ur (c. 2094–c. 2047 bce). Eventually the Elamites rose in rebellion and overthrew the 3rd Ur dynasty, an event long remembered in Mesopotamian dirges and omen texts. About the mid 19th century bce, power in Elam passed to a new dynasty, that of Eparti. The…

  • 3rd Infantry Division (United States Army)

    Battle of the Chosin Reservoir: Crossing into North Korea: Barr), and the 3rd Infantry Division (Maj. Gen. Robert H. Soule). The corps also had control of the Capital and 3rd divisions of the South Korean I Corps, which was already crossing the 38th parallel on the east coast highway.

  • 3rd of May 1808: The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid, The (painting by Francisco Goya)

    The Third of May 1808, oil painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya that was completed in 1814. It evokes the horrors of war with great emotional force and is stylistically revolutionary. On March 17, 1808, the Revolt of Aranjuez ended the reign of King Charles IV of Spain and his wife, María

  • 3rd Rock from the Sun (American television series)

    Beverly Johnson: …Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and 3rd Rock from the Sun. In the 1980s she appeared in the music videos for Michael Jackson’s “Liberian Girl” and Bobby Brown’s “On Our Own” (both 1989). Johnson later served as a judge on the reality competition She’s Got the Look (2008–10), in which women…

  • 3x3 basketball (sport)

    3x3 basketball, variation of basketball played on a half-court between teams of three players. Pronounced “three-ex-three,” this condensed version of basketball was established as a professional sport in the early 21st century. The game focuses on speed, versatility, and agility more than on the

  • 4 (album by Beyoncé)

    Beyoncé: B’Day, I Am…Sasha Fierce, 4, and Beyoncé: …England’s Glastonbury Festival, Beyoncé released 4 (2011), a genre-bending mix of ballads and dance tracks that evokes influences ranging from Motown-era torch songs to the audio collages of rapper M.I.A. In early 2013 Destiny’s Child reunited for a halftime appearance at the Super Bowl and released a new song, “Nuclear.”…

  • 4 (number)

    number symbolism: 4: The number of order in the universe is 4—the four elements of earth, air, fire, and water; the four seasons; the four points of the compass; the four phases of the Moon (new, half-moon waxing, full, half-moon waning). The Four Noble Truths epitomize Buddhism.…

  • 4 3 2 1 (novel by Auster)

    Paul Auster: …first novel in seven years, 4 3 2 1, was published in 2017. The book offers four variations of each chapter, so that its main character, Archie Ferguson, experiences four alternate lives. The nonfiction works Talking to Strangers: Selected Essays, Prefaces, and Other Writings, 1967–2017 and Groundwork: Autobiographical Writings, 1979–2012…

  • 4 Fountains in Italy (and 1 in England)

    Fountains are a common feature of many cities, but Italy has a handful of unusually notable ones. There’s also one in England that, arguably, reflects the cultural differences between the two countries. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these fountains first appeared in 1001 Amazing Places

  • 4 Little Girls (film by Lee [1997])

    16th Street Baptist Church bombing: …Lee in the Oscar-nominated documentary 4 Little Girls (1997). In the film, Lee interviews witnesses to the bombing and family members of the victims while at the same time exploring the backdrop of segregation and white harassment that were central to the time period.

  • 4 Notable Paintings in Norway and 1 in Sweden Depicting Norway

    Norway became independent in 1905, though it has been home to humans since perhaps 10,000 BCE. That long history means a vast cultural heritage, of which these five paintings form a tiny part. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See

  • 4 Paintings Found Only in the Thyssen (and 1 Formerly Held There)

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