Charles-Julien Brianchon: …geometrical theorem (now known as Brianchon’s theorem) useful in the study of the properties of conic sections (circles, ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas) and who was innovative in applying the principle of duality to geometry.

Charles-Julien Brianchon was a French mathematician who derived a geometrical theorem (now known as Brianchon’s theorem) useful in the study of the properties of conic sections (circles, ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas) and who was innovative in applying the principle of duality to geometry. In

Briançon, city, Hautes-Alpes département, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur région, southeastern France. Briançon lies at the confluence of the Durance and Guisanne rivers. Its location at a crossing point for commerce across the Alps made the city important historically. The upper city preserves

Aristide Briand was a statesman who served 11 times as premier of France, holding a total of 26 ministerial posts between 1906 and 1932. His efforts for international cooperation, the League of Nations, and world peace brought him the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1926, which he shared with Gustav

Kellogg-Briand Pact, (August 27, 1928), multilateral agreement attempting to eliminate war as an instrument of national policy. It was the most grandiose of a series of peacekeeping efforts after World War I. Hoping to tie the United States into a system of protective alliances directed against a

Bryanka, city, eastern Ukraine. Bryanka is located on the Lozova River, a tributary of the Luhan (Lugan) River, in the Donets Basin. It developed around a mining camp in 1889. Until 1962, when it became a city, Bryanka was a district of the city of Kadiyevka (now Stakhanov). Besides coal mines,

Bryansk, city and administrative centre of Bryansk oblast (province), western Russia, on the Desna River just below its confluence with the Bolva. First mentioned in 1146, it stood in an important strategic and geographic position on the trade route between Moscow and Ukraine, and it was a

Bryansk, oblast (province), western Russia, in the broad basin of the Desna River. In the north and east are low hills with mixed forest cover, but elsewhere most of the land has been plowed. Agriculture, especially grain and industrial crops, is highly developed. Towns are small (except for

brier, term generally applied to any plant with a woody and thorny or prickly stem, such as those of the genera Rosa, Rubus, Smilax, and Erica. White, or tree, heath (E. arborea) is found in southern France and the Mediterranean region. Its roots and knotted stems are used for making briarwood

Murray Kempton: ; and The Briar Patch (1973, National Book Award), on New York’s prosecution of the Black Panthers.

briard, French sheepdog breed mentioned in French records of the 12th century and depicted in medieval French tapestries. It is known in France as berger de Brie (sheepdog of Brie) but is found throughout the French provinces. The briard is a lithe, strongly built dog with bushy brows and a long,

canals and inland waterways: France: The Briare Canal (completed 1642) rose 39 meters (128 feet) to a plateau with a summit level 6 km (3.75 miles) long and then dropped 81 meters (266 feet) to the Loing at Montargis. It included 40 locks, of which a unique feature was a staircase…

Briareus, in Greek mythology, one of three 100-armed, 50-headed Hecatoncheires (from the Greek words for “hundred” and “hands”), the sons of the deities Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth). Homer (Iliad, Book I, line 396) says the gods called him Briareus; mortals called him Aegaeon (lines 403–404).

Robert Z. Leonard: Later films: The Bribe (1949) was Leonard’s first encounter with film noir, and the film received largely positive reviews, thanks in part to a strong cast that included Ava Gardner, Robert Taylor, and Vincent Price. Leonard next directed Garland in In the Good Old Summertime (1949), an…

bribery, the act of promising, giving, receiving, or agreeing to receive money or some other item of value with the corrupt aim of influencing a public official in the discharge of his official duties. When money has been offered or promised in exchange for a corrupt act, the official involved need

Bribie Island, island off the southeastern coast of Queensland, Australia, at the northern extremity of Moreton Bay. The island is 20 miles (32 km) long and from 1 to 5 miles wide and has an area of 59 square miles (153 square km). Its surface, generally low with some higher sand ridges, is wooded

Bribrí, Indians of the tropical forests of eastern Costa Rica, closely associated with the Talamancan peoples of Panama and also with the Guaymí. Their language belongs to the Chibchan family. The Bribrí are agriculturists, growing traditional staples such as corn (maize), beans, and sweet manioc

BRICS, informal grouping of countries that has developed into an intergovernmental organization. The term BRICS originally denoted a collection of countries experiencing rapid economic growth that would, if growth were maintained at similar rates, emerge as the dominant economic players of the 21st

Fanny Brice was a popular American singing comedienne who was long associated with the Ziegfeld Follies. Brice appeared first at age 13 in a talent contest at Keeney’s Theatre in Brooklyn, where she sang “When You Know You’re Not Forgotten by the Girl You Can’t Forget” and won first prize. In 1910

Belize: Independence of Belize: …Party (PUP) government headed by John Briceño.

Rian Johnson: Independent auteur: That movie, Brick (2005), which he wrote, directed, and edited, was a modern homage to film noir that was set in a Southern California high school. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a student investigating the death of his former girlfriend, it won generally positive reviews. Johnson next wrote…

dice: Cheating with dice: …odds and is called a shape, a brick, or a flat. For example, a cube that has been shaved down on one or more sides so that it is slightly brick-shaped will tend to settle down most often on its larger surfaces, whereas a cube with bevels, on which one…

George Edmund Street: His publications, Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages (1855) and Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain (1865; reprinted 1969), illustrated with his own drawings, were widely used as sourcebooks for Gothic Revival architectural detail.

brick and tile, structural clay products, manufactured as standard units, used in building construction. The brick, first produced in a sun-dried form at least 6,000 years ago and the forerunner of a wide range of structural clay products used today, is a small building unit in the form of a

Iggy and the Stooges: … (1986) and the unabashedly pop Brick by Brick (1990). The latter included “Candy,” a duet with Kate Pierson of the B-52s and Iggy’s first top 40 single. Iggy also made minor forays into acting, appearing in a number of independent films and lending his trademark drawl to animated characters on…

Richard Brooks: Early films: …World War II, Brooks wrote The Brick Foxhole (1945), a novel about the persecution of a homosexual. The book was the basis for Edward Dmytryk’s noir classic Crossfire (1947), though the film centres on anti-Semitism. Brooks later provided the scripts for such notable films as the Jules Dassin noir Brute…

bond, in masonry, systematic arrangement of bricks or other building units composing a wall or structure in such a way as to ensure its stability and strength. The various types of bond may also have a secondary, decorative function. Bonding may be achieved by overlapping alternate courses (rows or

collective behavior: Rebuilding or brickbat period: The buoyed-up state of the disaster community can last only a short time. Tasks that call for intense effort within a brief time span are completed, and the slow and discouraging work of rebuilding confronts the community. Because the old community…

Steve Martin: …a Grammy-winning collaboration with singer-songwriter Edie Brickell. The latter album inspired the musical Bright Star, which premiered in 2014 and made its Broadway debut two years later. The duo cowrote the score, and Martin penned the book for the sentimental play about two connected love stories in North Carolina during…

John W. Bricker: …to be known as the Bricker Amendment. In its original form this proposal would have eliminated much of the automatic incorporation of conventional international law into the national law of the United States, leaving it to the political discretion of Congress or the state legislatures to decide upon the internal…

John W. Bricker was a conservative Republican politician who held state and national public offices for many years; he was the unsuccessful candidate for vice president of the United States in 1944. After graduation from Ohio State University in 1916 and admission to the Ohio bar in 1917, Bricker

John W. Bricker was a conservative Republican politician who held state and national public offices for many years; he was the unsuccessful candidate for vice president of the United States in 1944. After graduation from Ohio State University in 1916 and admission to the Ohio bar in 1917, Bricker

Jack Brickhouse was an American sportscaster best known for his announcing of Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox baseball games. Brickhouse began his career broadcasting basketball games for Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., during the 1930s. In 1940 he moved to Chicago and started his 41-year

Jack Brickhouse was an American sportscaster best known for his announcing of Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox baseball games. Brickhouse began his career broadcasting basketball games for Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., during the 1930s. In 1940 he moved to Chicago and started his 41-year

Woody Allen: The 1970s: …best screenplay (Allen and collaborator Marshall Brickman). Allen, however, chose not to attend the Academy Award ceremony and instead played clarinet at Michael’s Pub in Manhattan, as he usually did on Monday nights.

Park Ridge, city, Cook county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. A suburb of Chicago, it lies on the Des Plaines River, 17 miles (27 km) northwest of downtown. The area was first inhabited by Potawatomi Indians and used by French explorers as a portage. The site was settled in the early 1830s. In 1853

Mesopotamian art and architecture: …restriction of building material to brickwork and, second, by problems of roof construction, only partially solved by the contrivance of brick vaulting, in the 2nd millennium bce. For the Assyrians, in the north, good-quality stone was plentiful, but the cost of quarrying and transport, combined with an obstinate conservatism, caused…

Jeff Gordon: …year he won the inaugural Brickyard 400, the first major stock-car race held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and in 1995 claimed his first season points championship. During the 1997 season Gordon became the youngest driver to win the sport’s premier event, the Daytona 500, and the first to win…

Indianapolis 500: …(800km), is always run at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, a suburban enclave of Indianapolis, Indiana. Known as “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing,” it is considered the premier event of the IndyCar Series. Drawing crowds of several hundred thousand people, the Indianapolis 500 is among the world’s best-attended single-day sporting…

Antonia Brico was a Dutch-born American conductor and pianist, the first woman to gain wide recognition and acceptance as a leader of world-class symphony orchestras. Brico moved from her native Netherlands to the United States with her parents in 1908 and settled in California. She graduated from

Guillaume Briçonnet was an influential Roman Catholic reformer, one of the most energetic personalities in the French church at the beginning of the Reformation. Briçonnet was the son of King Charles VIII’s counsellor Guillaume Briçonnet (1445–1514), who after his wife’s death took holy orders and

Bricriu’s Feast, in early Irish literature, a comic, rowdy account of rivalry between Ulster warriors. One of the longest hero tales of the Ulster cycle, it dates from the 8th century and is preserved in The Book of the Dun Cow (c. 1100). Bricriu, the trickster, promises the hero’s portion of his

BRICS, informal grouping of countries that has developed into an intergovernmental organization. The term BRICS originally denoted a collection of countries experiencing rapid economic growth that would, if growth were maintained at similar rates, emerge as the dominant economic players of the 21st

BRICS: Expansion and economic initiatives: …the NDB, BRICS launched the Contingency Reserve Agreement (CRA), meant to provide countries experiencing economic strain with liquid currency. Unlike the NDB, the CRA is not bound by an equal contribution stipulation, and China provided 41 percent of the agreement’s initial assets. BRICS members have discussed the creation of a…

S.Y. Agnon: (1919; The Bridal Canopy). Its hero, Reb Yudel Hasid, is the embodiment of every wandering, drifting Jew in the ghettos of the tsarist and Austro-Hungarian empires. His second novel, Ore’aḥ Nataʿ Lalun (1938; A Guest for the Night), describes the material and moral decay of European…

asparagus: Other species: aethiopicus), African asparagus fern (or bridal creeper, A. asparagoides), and asparagus fern (A. densiflorus) are grown for their attractive lacy foliage and are common ornamentals.

Today in History—April 18: How Grace Kelly Became a Princess: …one of the most iconic wedding dresses of all time: an elaborate high-necked dress made of yards of Belgian lace, silk, and seed pearls. As with her suit the day before, the gown was the work of Helen Rose, a costume designer who had won an Academy Award for her…

spirea: Common species: …the Vanhoutte spirea, also called bridal wreath (Spiraea vanhouttei). The plant grows up to 2 metres (6 feet) high and produces graceful arching branches that bear numerous white flowers in spring. Other spring-flowering spireas include scalloped spirea (S. crenata), bridal wreath spirea (S. prunifolia), and three-lobed spirea, also known as…

Bridalveil Fall, cataract on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada in Yosemite National Park, east-central California, U.S. The waterfall, fed mainly by melting snow, has a height of 620 feet (189 metres) and forms one of the most scenic features in the park. Its name derives from the veil-like

bride, a woman on her wedding day. The word bride appears in many combinations, some of them archaic—e.g., "bride bell" (wedding bells) and "bride banquet" (wedding breakfast). The bridecake, or wedding cake, had its origin in the Roman confarreatio, a form of marriage in which the couple ate a

Jane Austen: Notable adaptations: …of Pride and Prejudice include Bride & Prejudice (2004), directed by Gurinder Chadha and starring Aishwarya Rai Bachchan; a 2005 film featuring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen; and Fire Island (2022), starring Joel Kim Booster. Mansfield Park was covered in a 1983 miniseries, a 1999 film, and a 2007 TV…

William Keighley: …Curtiz’s Four Wives (1939), and The Bride Came C.O.D., a screwball comedy notable for the pairing of Cagney and Bette Davis. Although Keighley’s record with comedy had been mixed, Warner Brothers entrusted him with one of their most expensive acquisitions, the Broadway hit The Man Who Came to Dinner, which…

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, short story by Stephen Crane, published in The Open Boat and Other Stories in London and a smaller collection, The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure, in New York in 1898. The story is set at the end of the 19th century in a town called Yellow Sky and concerns the

Norman Taurog: Musical comedies and Boys Town: The Bride Goes Wild (1948) was another misfire, with June Allyson as an aspiring illustrator who is hired to create the artwork for a book by a popular children’s author (Van Johnson); after meeting the hard-drinking, cynical man, however, she threatens to expose him. More…

Lord Byron: Celebrity and marriage: Mad, bad, and dangerous to know: …this time: The Giaour (1813); The Bride of Abydos (1813); The Corsair (1814), which sold 10,000 copies on the day of publication; and Lara (1814).

Katherine Heigl: … (1996) and the horror film Bride of Chucky (1998).

Bride of Frankenstein, American horror film, released in 1935, that is a sequel to Frankenstein (1931), with Boris Karloff reprising his role as the misunderstood monster. In contrast to the usual reputation of movie sequels, many viewers regard the film as superior to its predecessor. Bride of

St. Brigid of Ireland ; feast day February 1) was an Irish abbess who founded an important monastic community at Kildare in the 5th century and is revered as one of the three patron saints of Ireland, along with St. Patrick and St. Columba (Colmcille). She is also venerated as the patron of dairy

Friedrich Schiller: Philosophical studies and classical drama of Friedrich Schiller: …Die Braut von Messina (1803; The Bride of Messina), written in emulation of Greek drama, with its important preface, Schiller’s last critical pronouncement); and Wilhelm Tell (1804; William Tell), which depicts the revolt of the Swiss forest cantons against Habsburg rule and the assassination of a tyrannous Austrian governor by…

The Bride of the Innisfallen, collection of short stories by Eudora Welty, published in 1955. Welty broke from her usual style for this fourth volume of stories, dedicated to British writer Elizabeth Bowen. The seven stories, focused largely on female characters, elaborate upon tenuous

Ed Wood: Glen or Glenda, Bride of the Monster, and Plan 9 from Outer Space: …atomic superhuman beings in Wood’s Bride of the Monster.

Buchi Emecheta: Most of Emecheta’s other novels—including The Bride Price (1976), The Slave Girl (1977), The Joys of Motherhood (1979), Destination Biafra (1982), and Double Yoke (1982)—are realistic works of fiction set in Nigeria. Perhaps her strongest work, The Rape of Shavi (1983), is also the most difficult to categorize. Set

Marcel Duchamp: Farewell to art: …for an utterly awkward piece: The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass). For it, he repudiated entirely what he called retinal art and adopted the geometrical methods of industrial design. It became like the blueprint of a machine, albeit a symbolic one, that embodied his ideas…

Anne Hathaway: The Princess Diaries, Brokeback Mountain, and The Devil Wears Prada: …range with the romantic comedies Bride Wars (2009) and Valentine’s Day (2010). In 2010 she returned to her fairy-tale roots as the White Queen in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland and portrayed a free-spirited woman afflicted with Parkinson disease in the romance Love and Other Drugs. She starred in the…

Dorothy Arzner: Films of the 1930s and ’40s: In 1937 Arzner directed The Bride Wore Red, which starred Joan Crawford as a cabaret singer who is given the opportunity to live as a socialite but ultimately gives up wealth in order to marry a humble postman. Dance, Girl, Dance (1940), which paired Lucille Ball (in perhaps her…

goatsbeard, (Aruncus dioicus), herbaceous perennial plant of the rose family (Rosaceae), native to the north temperate zone. Goatsbeard is often listed as the only species of the genus Aruncus. It occurs most commonly in rich woods in mountainous regions and is cultivated as a border plant. The

Amrita Sher-Gil: Major works in India: …Villagers Going to Market, and Bride’s Toilet), are startlingly different from the realist watercolor mode of Indian painting prevalent at the time. Those paintings represented her experimentation with form and were her first attempt at assimilating the tremendous impact made on her by the cave paintings of Ajanta as well…

Today in History—April 15: The Titanic’s Final Moments and Messages: …Phillips and the junior operator, Harold Bride, began sending distress signals. Phillips initially transmitted CQDs, the standard international distress call, and later also sent the newer SOS signal.

bridewealth, payment made by a groom or his kin to the kin of the bride in order to ratify a marriage. In such cultures, a marriage is not reckoned to have ended until the return of bridewealth has been acknowledged, signifying divorce. The payment of bridewealth is most often a matter of social

mystery religion: Rites and festivals: degrees of initiations: Corax (Raven), Nymphus (Bridegroom), Miles (Soldier), Leo (Lion), Perses (Persian), Heliodromus (Courier of the Sun), and Pater (Father). Those in the lowest ranks, certainly the Corax, were the servants of the community during the sacred meal of bread and water that formed part of the rite.

Aleksandr Pushkin: At Mikhaylovskoye: His ballad “Zhenikh” (1825; “The Bridegroom”), for instance, is based on motifs from Russian folklore; and its simple, swift-moving style, quite different from the brilliant extravagance of Ruslan and Ludmila or the romantic, melodious music of the “southern” poems, emphasizes its stark tragedy.

Ha Jin: Literary works: … (2002), and the short-story collections The Bridegroom (2000) and A Good Fall (2009).

Los Angeles Dodgers, American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles that plays in the National League (NL). The team has won nine World Series titles and 26 NL pennants. Founded in 1883, the Dodgers were originally based in Brooklyn, New York, and were known as the Atlantics. The team

Philippe-Sirice Bridel was a man of letters, known as le doyen Bridel, who advocated an indigenous Swiss literature and tried to awaken a national consciousness in all areas of life. A French-language writer, Bridel helped bring both French- and German-speaking Swiss together in politics as well as

I.J. Singer: …novel Di brider Ashkenazi (The Brothers Ashkenazi) was published in 1936 and was followed in 1938 by Ḥaver Naḥman (“Comrade Naḥman”), a scathing indictment of communism, and then in 1943 by Di mishpoḥe Ḳarnovsḳi (The Family Carnovsky).

Gregory Maguire: In 2021 Maguire published The Brides of Maracoor. It was the first book in the projected trilogy Another Day, a spin-off of the Wicked Years series.

Emma Thompson: In 2008 she starred in Brideshead Revisited, based on Evelyn Waugh’s novel, and in Last Chance Harvey, a romantic comedy set in London. The following year she appeared in two films set in 1960s England: the coming-of-age drama An Education, in which she portrayed a boarding-school headmistress, and the rock-and-roll-themed…

Jeremy Irons: …appearing in the television series Brideshead Revisited (1981), which was based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh. Irons offered deliciously wicked turns in Dead Ringers (1988) and Reversal of Fortune (1990). In the latter film he starred as Claus von Bülow, a wealthy socialite convicted of the attempted murder of…

Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder, satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh, published in 1945. An acclaimed TV miniseries of the same name, starring Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews, and Diana Quick, was based on the novel in 1981. According to Waugh, a convert to

Judd Apatow: …change for Apatow, the movie Bridesmaids (2011) and the HBO TV series Girls (2012–17), both of which he produced, focused primarily on female characters. He both produced and directed Trainwreck (2015), a comedy written by and starring stand-up comedian Amy Schumer. The film concerns an unabashedly promiscuous young woman who,…

bridewealth, payment made by a groom or his kin to the kin of the bride in order to ratify a marriage. In such cultures, a marriage is not reckoned to have ended until the return of bridewealth has been acknowledged, signifying divorce. The payment of bridewealth is most often a matter of social

bridge, structure that spans horizontally between supports, whose function is to carry vertical loads. The prototypical bridge is quite simple—two supports holding up a beam—yet the engineering problems that must be overcome even in this simple form are inherent in every bridge: the supports must

bridge, in electrical measurement, instrument for measuring electrical quantities. The first such instrument, invented by British mathematician Samuel Christie and popularized in 1843 by Sir Charles Wheatstone, measures resistance by comparing the current flowing through one part of the bridge with

bridge, in stringed musical instruments, piece of elastic wood that transmits the vibrations of the string to the resonating body. Bridges are of two kinds. In the pressure bridge, the string is fastened at one end to a tuning peg or a wrest pin and at the other to a pin or a tailpiece; it passes

bridge, card game derived from whist, through the earlier variants bridge whist and auction bridge. The essential features of all bridge games, as of whist, are that four persons play, two against two as partners; a standard 52-card deck of playing cards is dealt out one at a time, clockwise around

civil engineering: History: …France in 1716 of the Bridge and Highway Corps, out of which in 1747 grew the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (“National School of Bridges and Highways”). Its teachers wrote books that became standard works on the mechanics of materials, machines, and hydraulics, and leading British engineers learned French…

Camille Corot: Early life and career: His first important work, The Bridge at Narni, was shown at the Paris Salon in 1827, when he was still in Italy. In 1833 he exhibited a large landscape of the forest of Fontainebleau, which was awarded a second-class medal: this gave Corot the right to show his pictures…

The Bridge at Remagen, American war film, released in 1969, that earned acclaim for its gripping battle sequences and fine cast. Based on actual events, the film is set in the waning days of World War II as U.S. forces race to capture a strategic bridge at Remagen, Germany. Although German Maj.

bridge, in electrical measurement, instrument for measuring electrical quantities. The first such instrument, invented by British mathematician Samuel Christie and popularized in 1843 by Sir Charles Wheatstone, measures resistance by comparing the current flowing through one part of the bridge with

crane: Bridge cranes comprise another important class of cranes in which the pulley system is suspended from a trolley that moves on tracks along one or two horizontal beams, called the bridge, that are supported at both ends. In most cases, the bridge itself can move…

Euclid’s fifth proposition in the first book of his Elements (that the base angles in an isosceles triangle are equal) may have been named the Bridge of Asses (Latin: Pons Asinorum) for medieval students who, clearly not destined to cross over into more abstract mathematics, had difficulty

Samuel R. Delany: …Flight from Nevèrÿon [1985]; and The Bridge of Lost Desire [1987]) is set in a magical past at the beginning of civilization. These tales concern power and its abuse while addressing events contemporary to their publication, such as the AIDS epidemic.

Armand Guillaumin: , The Bridge of Louis Philippe (1875) and The Port at Charenton (1878). His passionate feeling toward nature both impressed and influenced Vincent van Gogh; they became friends during van Gogh’s residence in Paris in 1887. His execution is direct, bold, and sometimes vehement, and his…

The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Thornton Wilder, published in 1927. Wilder’s career was established with this book, in which he first made use of historical subject matter as a background for his interwoven themes of the search for justice, the possibility of altruism,

Steven Spielberg: The 2010s and beyond: …directed the Cold War drama Bridge of Spies (2015), which was written by the Coen brothers and Matt Charman. Depicting historical events, the film featured Tom Hanks as civilian lawyer James B. Donovan, who in 1957 was called upon to defend Soviet spy Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher, known by the code…

immortality: …Zoroaster accepted the notion of Chinvat peretu, or the Bridge of the Requiter, which was to be crossed after death and which was broad for the righteous and narrow for the wicked, who fell from it into hell. In Indian philosophy and religion, the steps upward—or downward—in the series of…

Ivo Andrić: …and Na Drini ćuprija (1945; The Bridge on the Drina)—are concerned with the history of Bosnia.

The Bridge on the River Kwai, British-American war film, released in 1957 and directed by David Lean, that was both a critical and popular success and became an enduring classic. The movie garnered seven Academy Awards, including that for best picture, as well as three Golden Globe Awards and four

Pierre Boulle: …best known for his novel Le Pont de la rivière Kwaï (1952; U.S. title, The Bridge over the River Kwai; U.K. title, The Bridge on the River Kwai), dealing with a company of British soldiers taken prisoner by the Japanese in World War II. An ambiguous moral fable, it presents…

Paul Simon: Simon and Garfunkel: …Simon’s inspirational gospel-flavoured anthem “Bridge over Troubled Water,” which showcased Garfunkel’s soaring semi-operatic tenor.