George Miller is an Australian director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in a diverse range of genres but is best known for the futuristic action series Mad Max. While studying medicine at the University of New South Wales, Miller and his twin brother, John, made St. Vincent’s Revue Film

George A. Miller was an American psychologist who was one of the founders of cognitive psychology and of cognitive neuroscience (see cognitive science). He also made significant contributions to psycholinguistics and the study of human communication. One of Miller’s most famous discoveries was that

George A. Miller was an American psychologist who was one of the founders of cognitive psychology and of cognitive neuroscience (see cognitive science). He also made significant contributions to psycholinguistics and the study of human communication. One of Miller’s most famous discoveries was that

Glenn Miller was an American big band leader, arranger, composer, and trombonist, considered the premier musical symbol of the World War II generation. Miller began studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder, but he left to work as a musician. He played for several bands before being hired as

Harriet Mann Miller was an American children’s author whose writing tended to either heartrending fiction about desolate children or lively, factual nature pieces. Harriet Mann grew up in various towns as her itinerant father drifted from place to place, and her schooling was consequently

Harriet Mann Miller was an American children’s author whose writing tended to either heartrending fiction about desolate children or lively, factual nature pieces. Harriet Mann grew up in various towns as her itinerant father drifted from place to place, and her schooling was consequently

Henry Miller was a U.S. writer and perennial Bohemian whose autobiographical novels achieve a candour—particularly about sex—that made them a liberating influence in mid-20th-century literature. He is also notable for a free and easy American style and a gift for comedy that springs from his

Hugh Miller was a Scottish geologist and lay theologian who was considered one of the finest geological writers of the 19th century and whose writings were widely successful in arousing public interest in geologic history. After early literary ventures and a six-year period as a bank accountant in

J. Hillis Miller was an American literary critic who was associated initially with the Geneva group of critics and later with the Yale school and deconstruction. Miller was important in connecting North American criticism with Continental philosophical thought. Miller graduated from Oberlin College

Rosie the Riveter: …created by the American artist J. Howard Miller in 1942, but it was titled “We Can Do It!” and had no association with anyone named Rosie. It is believed that this initial drawing was part of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation’s wartime production campaign to recruit female workers. Miller’s drawing portrayed…

Ewan MacColl was a British singer, songwriter, and playwright. MacColl’s parents were singers and taught him many folk songs. He left school at 14, taking a variety of blue-collar jobs and working as a singer and actor. In 1945 he and Joan Littlewood founded Theatre Workshop; he was the company’s

The Exorcist: Jason Miller, and Lee J. Cobb. The story chronicles a single mother’s struggle to save her daughter from a mysterious ailment, later revealed to be demonic possession. She enlists the help of two Roman Catholic priests, who attempt to perform an exorcism. Though it was…

the Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main St.: …first by Glyn Johns and Jimmy Miller and then by Jagger and Richards themselves (as the “Glimmer Twins”), their recordings of this period found them adding country music to their list of influences and—most notably on Beggars Banquet—adding more and more acoustic guitar textures to their already impressive command of…

Joaquin Miller was an American poet and journalist whose best work conveys a sense of the majesty and excitement of the Old West. His best-known poem is “Columbus” with its refrain, “On, sail on!”—once familiar to millions of American schoolchildren. Miller went west with his family and led a

Tea Party movement: The 2010 midterm elections: Senate, Joe Miller, won the Republican nomination but faced a strong general election challenge from incumbent Republican Lisa Murkowski, who chose to run as a write-in candidate. On election day the sum of votes for write-in candidates outpaced those for either Miller or the Democratic nominee,…

Johann Martin Miller was a German poet, novelist, and preacher known for moralizing, sentimental novels and folk song-like poems. Miller studied theology at Göttingen where, in 1772, he and other students established the Göttinger Hainbund, a group that met to discuss their poems and to further the

roller coaster: Expansion in the United States: John Miller, who was chief engineer for La Marcus Thompson and worked with other designers, owned more than 100 patents, notably on safety features. His most important was the safety chain dog, or safety ratchet (patented in 1910), which prevented cars from rolling backward down…

Chinese Exclusion Act: Causes and effects: John F. Miller of California, a proponent of the Chinese Exclusion Act, argued that the Chinese workers were “machine-like…of obtuse nerve, but little affected by heat or cold, wiry, sinewy, with muscles of iron.” Partly in response to that stereotype, organized labour in the West…

Seve Ballesteros: …Championship) at Royal Birkdale, behind Johnny Miller. Also that year he received the Professional Golfers’ Association of America (PGA) European Tour’s Order of Merit (as the season’s top moneymaker), which he would eventually be awarded six times. He won his first Masters Tournament in 1980 and followed with a second…

Jonathan Miller was an English actor, director, producer, medical doctor, and man of letters noted for his wide-ranging abilities. Miller was the son of a psychiatrist and a novelist. He graduated from St. John’s College, Cambridge, in 1956 and studied medicine at the University College School of

Angelina Jolie: Film roles: …her first husband, British actor Jonny Lee Miller (married 1996; divorced 1999). The film failed to find an audience, as did a series of subsequent movies. In 1997, however, Jolie garnered much attention portraying the wife of Alabama’s segregationist governor in the television movie George Wallace, and she later won…

J. Hillis Miller was an American literary critic who was associated initially with the Geneva group of critics and later with the Yale school and deconstruction. Miller was important in connecting North American criticism with Continental philosophical thought. Miller graduated from Oberlin College

Jill Abramson: …when it emerged that reporter Judith Miller, who was at the time attached to the Washington bureau, had inaccurately reported on the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq during the lead-up to the 2003 declaration of war on that country. However, Abramson emerged largely unscathed from the controversy.…

Julia Phillips was an American film producer and writer who was the first woman to win an Academy Award for best picture, for The Sting (1973). Phillips was educated at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts (B.A., 1965), and worked in publishing before becoming a story editor for

Lee Miller was an American photographer, Surrealist artist, and model. She might have been known primarily as the muse and lover of the Surrealist artist Man Ray had her son, Antony Penrose, not discovered and promoted her exceptional work as a fashion and war photographer and recovered her

Emerging as a rapper, producer, and songwriter in the “party rap” tradition, Mac Miller went on to captivate audiences with a diverse discography of hip-hop music. Originally derided by critics, Miller’s Blue Slide Park (2011) became the first independently distributed debut album to reach the top

Maria Stewart was an American writer, lecturer, teacher, and activist who was the first known American woman to lecture the public on the abolitionist movement. Her speeches and essays helped influence other people to work toward the educational and social advancement of African Americans. Stewart

Marilyn Miller was one of the most popular American musical comedy actresses of the 1920s. Mary Ellen Reynolds grew up with her stepfather’s name, Miller. Her parents and eldest sister formed a vaudeville act called the Columbian Trio, which Marilyn joined as “Mlle Sugarplum” when she was four,

Marvin Miller was an American union leader who, as head of the Major League Baseball (MLB) Players Association, drove successful efforts to improve ballplayers’ labour rights, revolutionizing the business of professional sports as a result. Miller graduated from New York University (1938) with an

Marvin Miller was an American union leader who, as head of the Major League Baseball (MLB) Players Association, drove successful efforts to improve ballplayers’ labour rights, revolutionizing the business of professional sports as a result. Miller graduated from New York University (1938) with an

Mary Boykin Chesnut was the author of A Diary from Dixie, an insightful view of Southern life and leadership during the American Civil War (1861–65), told from an upper-class perspective. The work has led some to call Chesnut “the preeminent writer of the Confederacy.” Mary Boykin Miller was born

stand-up comedy: The British tradition and the spread of stand-up comedy: …and early 20th centuries, especially Max Miller, who dressed in flashy suits and delivered cheeky fast-paced comedy patter in between song-and-dance bits. The more progressive British comedy of the 1950s and ’60s was largely an outgrowth of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge tradition of satirical college revues, including the…

May Miller was an African-American playwright and poet associated with the Harlem Renaissance in New York City during the 1920s. The daughter of a Howard University sociologist, Miller grew up in an intellectual household in which W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington were frequent guests. She

Merton H. Miller was an American economist who, with Harry M. Markowitz and William F. Sharpe, won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1990. His contribution (and that of his colleague Franco Modigliani, who received the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1985), known as the Modigliani-Miller theorem, was

Merton H. Miller was an American economist who, with Harry M. Markowitz and William F. Sharpe, won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1990. His contribution (and that of his colleague Franco Modigliani, who received the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1985), known as the Modigliani-Miller theorem, was

Johnny Mathis: Chances Are and other timeless classics: …and Columbia executive and producer Mitch Miller subsequently rebranded Mathis as a pop balladeer. The switch proved beneficial, as the singer soon generated a string of hits, beginning with the lushly orchestrated “Wonderful! Wonderful!” (1956). The dreamily romantic tunes “It’s Not for Me to Say” (1957) and “Chances Are” (1957)…

Johnny Mathis: Chances Are and other timeless classics: …and Columbia executive and producer Mitch Miller subsequently rebranded Mathis as a pop balladeer. The switch proved beneficial, as the singer soon generated a string of hits, beginning with the lushly orchestrated “Wonderful! Wonderful!” (1956). The dreamily romantic tunes “It’s Not for Me to Say” (1957) and “Chances Are” (1957)…

Neal E. Miller was an American psychologist, who, with John Dollard, developed a theory of motivation based on the satisfaction of psychosocial drives by combining elements of a number of earlier reinforcement theories of behaviour and learning. Miller attended the University of Washington (B.S.,

Neal E. Miller was an American psychologist, who, with John Dollard, developed a theory of motivation based on the satisfaction of psychosocial drives by combining elements of a number of earlier reinforcement theories of behaviour and learning. Miller attended the University of Washington (B.S.,

Harriet Mann Miller was an American children’s author whose writing tended to either heartrending fiction about desolate children or lively, factual nature pieces. Harriet Mann grew up in various towns as her itinerant father drifted from place to place, and her schooling was consequently

Oskar von Miller was an electrical engineer who fostered the electric-power industry in Germany and founded the Deutsches Museum of science and technology in Munich. Miller studied at the Munich Technical Institute and organized the Munich Electrical Exposition of 1882, the first ever held in

The Artist: Plot: …heavily; his wife, Doris (Penelope Ann Miller), leaves him; and he is forced to move from his mansion to a tiny apartment. Eventually, he begins auctioning off his belongings and must let his loyal chauffeur, Clifton (James Cromwell), go. One night, in alcohol-fueled despair, he attempts to burn all…

floral decoration: 18th century: …Gardeners Dictionary by the horticulturist Philip Miller. In it he mentions dried bouquets and chimney flowers. It was customary in English homes to arrange flowers and branches in the hearth during the summer months when the fireplace was not in use. These arrangements were referred to as “bough pots.” The…

Eli Whitney: Early life: He also became friends with Phineas Miller, a manager of Greene’s Mulberry Grove plantation, who was a young Connecticut-born man of Whitney’s age and also Yale-educated. Whitney’s relationships with both Miller and Greene would prove important to his later successes.

Indiana Pacers: Reggie Miller years: …the team drafted shooting guard Reggie Miller, who would go on to become the Pacers’ career scoring leader. Miller was joined on the team by center Rik Smits in 1988, and in 1989–90 Indiana began a streak of seven consecutive postseason berths. The team reached the conference finals in 1993–94…

Ben Lexcen was an Australian yachtsman and marine architect who designed Australia II, the first non-American yacht to win (1983) the prestigious America’s Cup in the 132-year history of the race. Lexcen, who had little formal education, was apprenticed at the age of 14 to a locomotive mechanic,

Kris Kristofferson: Music career: …Kristofferson and first recorded by Roger Miller in 1969. It was later recorded by Kenny Rogers (1969) and Gordon Lightfoot (1970) as well as by many other artists of various genres since that time. Kristofferson recorded and released the song on his album Kristofferson in 1970.

Disney Company: Return to prominence: Ron Miller, Disney’s son-in-law, is credited with initiating the company’s resurgence. In the early 1980s Miller broadened the company’s product line and founded Touchstone Pictures, a subsidiary devoted to producing films for adult audiences. Touchstone produced some of the most financially and critically successful films…

Buffalo Sabres: …the play of standout goaltender Ryan Miller, Buffalo returned to the playoffs in 2005–06 and advanced to the Eastern Conference finals. The Sabres won the Presidents’ Trophy as the team with the NHL’s best regular-season record in 2006–07, again progressing to the conference finals. The team continued to post winning…

Bode Miller is an American Alpine skier who won six Olympic medals—more than any other male American skier—and won the men’s World Cup overall championship in 2005 and 2008. Miller was born in the heart of the White Mountains. His parents were self-styled hippies who lived deep in the woods in a

Samuel Freeman Miller was an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1862–90), a leading opponent of efforts to use the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution to protect business against government regulation. He was spokesman for the court in its first attempt to construe the amendment,

Western architecture: From the 17th to the 19th century: It was to the amateurs Sanderson Miller and Horace Walpole, however, that the credit for a full-scale domestic Gothic Revival was due.

Shannon Miller is a former gymnast from the United States who was one of the most-decorated athletes in her sport, having won seven Olympic medals and nine world championship titles. At an early age, Miller began taking gymnastics classes and competing. She won her first junior division meet when

Jonathan Miller was an English actor, director, producer, medical doctor, and man of letters noted for his wide-ranging abilities. Miller was the son of a psychiatrist and a novelist. He graduated from St. John’s College, Cambridge, in 1956 and studied medicine at the University College School of

life: Hypotheses of origins: Miller, under the guidance of his professor at the University of Chicago, chemist Harold C. Urey. A mixture of methane, ammonia, water vapour, and hydrogen was circulated through a liquid solution and continuously sparked by a corona discharge mounted higher in the apparatus. The discharge…

Stephen Miller is a Republican political adviser who serves as deputy chief of staff for policy and as homeland security adviser in U.S. Pres. Donald Trump’s second administration (2025– ). He was previously a senior policy adviser during Trump’s first presidential term (2017–21). A prominent

Wisconsin: The arts: …O’Keeffe; musicians Les Paul and Steve Miller; and musical groups the Violent Femmes and Garbage.

Television: The principal members were Tom Verlaine, Richard Hell, Billy Ficca, Richard Lloyd, and Fred Smith.

Culpeper’s Rebellion: …object in the deputy governor, Thomas Miller, who was also customs collector. Led by John Culpeper and George Durant, the rebels imprisoned Miller and other officials, convened a legislature of their own, chose Culpeper governor, and for two years capably exercised all powers and duties of government. Culpeper was finally…

Von Miller is an American defensive lineman who became one of the most dominant defensive football players of his generation. He helped the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL) win the Super Bowl in 2016 before joining the Los Angeles Rams and winning another Super Bowl with that

Von Miller is an American defensive lineman who became one of the most dominant defensive football players of his generation. He helped the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL) win the Super Bowl in 2016 before joining the Los Angeles Rams and winning another Super Bowl with that

A Canticle for Leibowitz: …science fiction novel written by Walter M. Miller, Jr., that was published in 1960. The only novel written by Miller that was published during his lifetime, it is considered a classic of the genre. Its themes of Christian theology and the tension between religion and science have become the focus…

A Canticle for Leibowitz: …science fiction novel written by Walter M. Miller, Jr., that was published in 1960. The only novel written by Miller that was published during his lifetime, it is considered a classic of the genre. Its themes of Christian theology and the tension between religion and science have become the focus…

William Miller was an American religious enthusiast, leader of a movement called Millerism that sought to revive belief that the bodily arrival (“advent”) of Christ was imminent. Miller was a farmer, but he also held such offices as deputy sheriff and justice of the peace. In the War of 1812 he

Barry Goldwater: …his vice presidential running mate, William E. Miller, were decisively defeated in the election (November 3); they carried only Arizona and five states in the Deep South.

Miller indices: …by British mineralogist and crystallographer William Hallowes Miller, in 1839, has the advantage of eliminating all fractions from the notation for a plane. In the hexagonal system, which has four crystallographic axes, a similar scheme of four Bravais-Miller indices is used.

dentistry: Dentistry in 18th- and 19th-century America: In 1890 American dentist Willoughby Dayton Miller published The Micro-organisms of the Human Mouth, in which he proposed the theory that dental caries were the result of bacterial activity. Miller’s publication led to a tremendous wave of interest in oral hygiene. In 1913 American dentist Alfred C. Fones opened…

James Carville: …1990 Georgia gubernatorial campaign of Zell Miller, and the 1991 landslide victory of Harris Wofford (who overcame a 40-point deficit in the polls) in Pennsylvania’s senatorial election. Carville then managed Clinton’s successful presidential bid, winning the Campaign Manager of the Year award from the American Association of Political Consultants for…

Guillain-Barré syndrome: Pathophysiology: Miller Fisher syndrome is a rare and often rapidly developing variant of the syndrome that has three defining characteristics: areflexia (loss of tendon reflexes), ataxia (loss of limb coordination), and ophthalmoplegia (muscle weakness in the eyes that results in double vision).

Michael Oser Rabin: … in mathematics, Rabin codeveloped the Miller-Rabin test, an algorithm for determining if a given number is a prime number. This was just one aspect of Rabin’s numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and data encryption. Perhaps his most far-reaching work was his invention, with the Israeli American computer scientist…

Miller-Tydings Act of 1937, U.S. federal legislation that exempted retail price-maintenance agreements (also known as fair-trade laws or fair-trade provisions) in interstate commerce from federal antitrust laws. Under fair-trade laws, manufacturers created resale price contracts with distributors

Miller-Urey experiment, experimental simulation conducted in 1953 that attempted to replicate the conditions of Earth’s early atmosphere and oceans to test whether organic molecules could be created abiogenically, that is, formed from chemical reactions occurring between inorganic molecules thought

Alexandre Millerand was a French lawyer and statesman who, as president of the Republic (1920–1924), was noted for his desire to strengthen the power of the president by constitutional revision. Educated for the bar, Millerand was elected to the Chamber of Deputies as a socialist in 1885. He soon

MillerCoors, American brewing company formed in 2008 through the merger of SABMiller PLC and Molson Coors. In addition to its signature Miller and Coors brands, MillerCoors produces numerous popular beverage lines, including Milwaukee’s Best, Blue Moon, and Leinenkugel’s. Its headquarters are in

10 Failed Doomsday Predictions: Millerism: Religious leader William Miller began preaching in 1831 that the end of the world as we know it would occur with the second coming of Jesus Christ in 1843. He attracted as many as 100,000 followers who believed that they would be carried off…

millerite, a nickel sulfide mineral (NiS) found in carbonate veins, as at Keokuk, Iowa, or as an alteration product of other nickel minerals, as at Andreas-Berg, Ger. Other occurrences are in meteorites and as a sublimation product on Vesuvius. Millerite forms pale brass-yellow crystals that belong

Yambo Ouologuem: Other works included Les Milles et un bibles du sexe (1969; “The Thousand and One Bibles of Sex”), published under his pseudonym, Utto Rodolph. Ouologuem also coauthored French-language textbooks for foreigners under the title Terres du Soleil (1971; “Lands of the Sun”).

Carl Milles was a Swedish sculptor known for his expressive and rhythmical large-scale fountains. Milles studied and worked in Paris from 1897 to 1904. He won public recognition in 1902 through the competition for a monument honouring the Swedish regent Sten Sture at Uppsala (completed 1925). In

millet, (Turkish: “religious community,” or “people”), according to the Qurʾān, the religion professed by Abraham and other ancient prophets. In medieval Islāmic states, the word was applied to certain non-Muslim minorities, mainly Christians and Jews. In the heterogeneous Ottoman Empire (c.

millet, any of several species of cereal grasses in the family Poaceae, cultivated for their small edible seeds. Millets were cultivated in Asia and Africa more than 4,000 years ago, and they were major grains in Europe during the Middle Ages. Although they are used chiefly for pasture or to

Turkey: World War II and the postwar era, 1938–50: …were established, including the conservative National Party (1948); socialist and communist activities, however, were severely repressed.

Jean-François Millet was a French painter whose serene landscapes made him one of the most influential followers of Nicolas Poussin in 17th-century France. Millet is generally classed among the painters of Flanders because of the location of his birth, but his father was a Frenchman who, while on

Jean-François Millet was a French painter renowned for his peasant subjects. Millet spent his youth working on the land, but by the age of 19 he was studying art in Cherbourg, France. In 1837 he arrived in Paris and eventually enrolled in the studio of Paul Delaroche, where he seems to have

Kate Millett was an American feminist, author, and artist. She was an early and influential figure in the women’s liberation movement, whose first book, Sexual Politics, began her exploration of the dynamics of power in relation to gender and sexuality. Millett earned a bachelor’s degree with

Kate Millett was an American feminist, author, and artist. She was an early and influential figure in the women’s liberation movement, whose first book, Sexual Politics, began her exploration of the dynamics of power in relation to gender and sexuality. Millett earned a bachelor’s degree with

Joseph Dunford: Mark A. Milley.

Sue Grafton: …for Alibi, and it introduced Kinsey Millhone, a tough-as-nails private investigator based in the fictional California city of Santa Teresa (modeled on Santa Barbara). Along with fellow detective novelist Sara Paretsky (whose first novel featuring female private investigator V.I. Warshawski came out the same year), Grafton was credited with upending…

millibar, unit of air pressure in the metric system, commonly used in meteorology, equal to 100 pascals, 1,000 dynes per square cm (about 0.0145 pounds per square inch), or slightly less than one-thousandth of a standard

Millicent, market and industrial town, southeastern South Australia, some 250 miles (400 km) by road southeast of Adelaide. Founded in 1871, it was named for the wife of George Glen, an early settler. The locality, which has much drained swampland, supports sheep, cattle, and grains. Limestone is

Ex Parte Milligan, (1866), case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal government could not establish military courts to try civilians except where civil courts were no longer functioning in an actual theatre of war. Lambdin P. Milligan had been arrested in 1864, charged with aiding

Ex Parte Milligan: Lambdin P. Milligan had been arrested in 1864, charged with aiding the Confederacy, conspiring to free Confederate prisoners, and inciting insurrection. Arrested in his Indiana home by the Union general in command of the state, Milligan had been active in a secret society friendly to…

Spike Milligan was an Irish writer and comedian who led the comic troupe featured on the 1950s British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) radio hit The Goon Show. His anarchic sense of absurdity and unique comic genius made him a model for succeeding generations of comedians and paved the way for the

Spike Milligan was an Irish writer and comedian who led the comic troupe featured on the 1950s British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) radio hit The Goon Show. His anarchic sense of absurdity and unique comic genius made him a model for succeeding generations of comedians and paved the way for the

Millikan oil-drop experiment, first direct and compelling measurement of the electric charge of a single electron. It was performed originally in 1909 by the American physicist Robert A. Millikan, who devised a straightforward method of measuring the minute electric charge that is present on many

Robert Millikan was an American physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for his study of the elementary electronic charge and the photoelectric effect. Millikan graduated from Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio) in 1891 and obtained a doctorate at Columbia University in 1895. In 1896

Robert Millikan was an American physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for his study of the elementary electronic charge and the photoelectric effect. Millikan graduated from Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio) in 1891 and obtained a doctorate at Columbia University in 1895. In 1896

busing: Historical development: …Swann when it ruled in Milliken v. Bradley (1974) that mandatory busing across school district boundaries could be implemented only where it could be shown that districts had enacted policies that caused the original segregation.

millimetre (mm), unit of length equal to 0.001 metre in the metric system and the equivalent of 0.03937

millimetre (mm), unit of length equal to 0.001 metre in the metric system and the equivalent of 0.03937