Sarah Gertrude Millin was a South African writer whose novels deal with the problems of South African life. Millin’s Russian Jewish parents immigrated to South Africa when she was an infant. She spent her childhood near the diamond fields at Kimberley and the river diggings at Barkly West, whose

rhythm and blues: …employees of bandleaders such as Lucky Millinder (for whose band Harris sang) or Count Basie (whose vocalists included Turner and Jimmy Witherspoon). The small groups usually consisted of five to seven pieces and counted on individual musicians to take turns in the limelight. Thus, for instance, in Milton’s group, Milton…

cetacean: Social behaviour: …by bunching up and "milling." The former response has been utilized by fishermen, who drive a whale or school of dolphins into a situation where they can kill it. Milling has been seen in dolphin schools driven into an enclosure or caught in a net; the animals move in…

fulling, Process that increases the thickness and compactness of woven or knitted wool by subjecting it to moisture, heat, friction, and pressure until shrinkage of 10–25% is achieved. Shrinkage occurs in both the warp and weft see weaving), producing a smooth, tightly finished fabric that is

beer: Milling: For efficient extraction with water, malt must be milled. Early milling processes used stones driven manually or by water or animal power, but modern brewing uses mechanically driven roller mills. The design of the mill and the gap between the rolls are important in…

collective behavior: Milling: Prior to most instances of collective behavior there is a period during which people move about in a somewhat agitated but aimless way. Early students of crowd behavior, struck by the resemblance to the milling of cattle before a stampede, gave this form of…

money: Metallic money: …largely ended by the “milling” of coins (making serrations around the circumference of a coin), which began in the late 17th century.

machine tool: Milling machines: …rotating cutting tool called a milling cutter. Cutters of many shapes and sizes are available for a wide variety of milling operations. Milling machines cut flat surfaces, grooves, shoulders, inclined surfaces, dovetails, and T-slots. Various form-tooth cutters are used for cutting concave forms and convex grooves, for rounding corners, and…

milling machine, device that rotates a circular tool that has a number of cutting edges symmetrically arranged about its axis; the workpiece is commonly held in a vise or similar device clamped to a table that can move in three perpendicular directions. Disk- or barrel-shaped cutters are clamped

origins of agriculture: Economics, politics, and agriculture: …nontariff measures was the “milling ratio” for wheat or, less often, rye, under which millers were legally obliged to use a certain minimum percentage of domestically produced grain in their grist. Although used in only a few European countries in the 1920s, this device became customary in Europe and…

George Town: …city’s most spectacular temple, the Kek Lok Si Temple, or, as it is sometimes called, the Million Buddhas Precious Pagoda, a complex of structures on three levels with thousands of gilded Buddhas. George Town’s cultural and architectural traditions were recognized in 2008 when UNESCO designated the city a World Heritage…

Spanish literature: The novel: …Un millón de muertos (1961; The Million Dead), and Ha estallado la paz (1966; Peace After War).

Alan Arkin: …in Stand Up Guys (2012), Million Dollar Arm (2014), and Going in Style (2017). In 2019 he played a Wall Street tycoon in Dumbo, Tim Burton’s live-action remake of the 1941 Disney classic. During this time Arkin continued to appear on television, and in the Netflix series The

Curtis Bernhardt: Early years in Hollywood: In 1941 Bernhardt directed Million Dollar Baby, a romance starring Ronald Reagan and Priscilla Lane. Reagan also appeared in Juke Girl (1942), playing, with Ann Sheridan, exploited fruit pickers charged unjustly with murder. On loan to Paramount, Bernhardt made Happy Go Lucky

Million Dollar Baby, American dramatic film, released in 2004, that was directed by Clint Eastwood and starred Eastwood and Hilary Swank. It garnered rapturous reviews and four Academy Awards, including that for best picture. (Read Gene Tunney’s 1929 Britannica essay on boxing.) The movie is

food preservation: Food irradiation: …a larger unit such as megaelectron volt (MeV), which is equal to one million electron volts.

Charlie Hunnam: Later roles: He subsequently had roles in A Million Little Pieces (2018), Triple Frontier (2019), Jungleland (2019), The Gentlemen (2019), Last Looks (2021), and Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon: Part One—A Child of Fire (2023).

Million Man March, political demonstration in Washington, D.C., on October 16, 1995, to promote African American unity and family values. Estimates of the number of marchers, most of whom were African American men, ranged from 400,000 to nearly 1.1 million, ranking it among the largest single-day

Billy Bragg: …2021 Bragg released the confessional The Million Things That Never Happened. By turns melancholic and mirthful, poignant and polemical, trenchantly observant and introspective, it was a mature reflective statement by an artist in his mid-60s still fully and creatively engaged with the world.

Joan Fontaine: …films, including the track-and-field drama A Million to One, in which she played the love interest of a competitive runner, and the musical A Damsel in Distress. The latter paired her with Fred Astaire, an ill-conceived casting choice that drew attention to her deficiencies as a singer and dancer. However,…

Seth MacFarlane: …in the comic adventure film A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014). He also adapted the screenplay for the movie as a novel. In 2016 MacFarlane provided the voice of an arrogant mouse who enters a singing competition in the animated family film Sing. He later appeared in…

René Clair: Transition to sound films: …Sous les toits de Paris, Le Million, and À nous la liberté! constituted homage to the art of silent film and a manifesto for a new cinema. Clair rigorously constructed comical situations using either images or sounds independently, and his skillful use of music to further the narrative—rather than for…

Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002: The millionaire’s amendment: The so-called millionaire’s amendment provision of the BCRA allowed candidates whose opponents spent more than a certain amount of their own money (as determined by a complex formula) to accept contributions in excess of the FECA limits. Thus, in the Illinois 2004 Democratic…

Edward J. Smith was the British captain of the passenger liner Titanic, which sank in 1912. Smith began working on boats while he was a teenager. In 1875 he earned a master’s certificate, which was required to serve as captain. In 1880 he became a junior officer with the White Star Line, and seven

Titanic, British luxury passenger liner that sank on April 14–15, 1912, during its maiden voyage, en route to New York City from Southampton, England, killing about 1,500 (see Researcher’s Note: Titanic) passengers and ship personnel. One of the most famous tragedies in modern history, it inspired

France: The Hollande administration: Although the “millionaires’ tax” was overturned by France’s Constitutional Court in December 2012, the proposal remained popular with the French public, and Hollande vowed to resubmit the tax law in an amended form. With his administration beset with declining approval ratings, Hollande struggled with an unemployment rate…

Danny Boyle: 28 Days Later and Slumdog Millionaire: …to show his versatility with Millions (2004), a heartwarming story about a motherless boy who finds the proceeds of a bank robbery.

children’s literature: Peaks and plateaus (1865–1940): …Wanda Gág, with her classic Millions of Cats (1928) and other delightful books; and Ludwig Bemelmans, with Madeline (1939) and its sequels. Other distinguished names in the important and growing picture-book field were Marjorie Flack, Hardie Gramatky, James Daugherty, the d’Aulaires, and Virginia Lee Burton.

millipede, (class Diplopoda), any member of the arthropod class Diplopoda, distributed worldwide and commonly grouped with several other classes as myriapods. The approximately 10,000 species live in and eat decaying plant matter; some injure living plants, and a few are predators and scavengers.

explosive: Delay systems: …early 1900s, and (2) the short-interval, or millisecond, delay, which was introduced about 1943. Except for a delay element placed between the ignition and primer charges, they are the same as instantaneous electric caps.

pulsar: Rotation: The pulsar designated PSR J1939+2134 was the fastest known for more than two decades. Discovered in 1982, it has a period of 0.00155 second, or 1.55 milliseconds, which means it is spinning 642 times per second. In 2006 an even faster one was reported: known as J1748−2446ad, it…

sievert: …various applications, and so the millisievert (mSv), which equals 1/1,000 sievert, is frequently used instead. One millisievert corresponds to 10 ergs of energy of gamma radiation transferred to one gram of living tissue. The sievert was recommended in 1977 by the International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements (ICRU) as…

Spanish literature: The novel: …Un millón de muertos (1961; The Million Dead), and Ha estallado la paz (1966; Peace After War).

Alfredo Di Stéfano: …1949 Di Stéfano joined the Millonarios, a Bogotá club in a high-paying Colombian professional league, with whom he won four league titles (1949, 1951–53) and was twice the league’s top scorer (1951–52). He played for the Argentine national team six times in 1947, helping it win the South American Championship.

Spain: Lepanto: …that was appropriately nicknamed the millones. But by 1595 a deputy from Sevilla said bitterly that

Moses Maimonides: Works: …age of 16, was the Maqālah fī ṣināʿat al-manṭiq (“Treatise on Logical Terminology”), a study of various technical terms that were employed in logic and metaphysics. Another of his early works, also in Arabic, was the “Essay on the Calendar” (Hebrew title: Maʾamar ha-ʿIbbur).

Paul Theroux: The Great Railway Bazaar and The Mosquito Coast: …included My Secret History (1989); Millroy the Magician (1993); My Other Life (1996); and The Elephanta Suite (2007).

the Mills Brothers, John Charles (b. Oct. 19, 1910, Piqua, Ohio, U.S.—d. Jan. 24, 1936, Bellefontaine, Ohio), Herbert (b. April 2, 1912, Piqua—d. April 12, 1989, Las Vegas, Nev.), Harry (b. Aug. 19, 1913, Piqua—d. June 28, 1982, Los Angeles, Calif.), and Donald (b. April 29, 1915, Piqua—d. Nov. 13,

Mills College, private liberal arts institution of higher education for women in Oakland, California, U.S. Men may study in the graduate-level programs. Mills College offers more than 30 undergraduate majors in English and foreign literatures, languages, and cultures; ethnic and women’s studies;

Mills cross, type of radio telescope based on the interferometer, first demonstrated in the 1950s by the Australian astronomer Bernard Yarnton Mills. It consists of two interferometers erected in two straight rows intersecting at right angles. Up to a mile long, the rows may be composed of hundreds

Mackenzie River: The upper course: Mills Lake is a shallow broadening of the Mackenzie River west of the village of Fort Providence. To the west the river again narrows to about a mile in width, and the current is fast at Green Island Rapids, about 12 miles (20 km) east…

Robert Lowell: Lord Weary’s Castle, first Pulitzer, and service as poet laureate: …a book of dramatic monologues, Mills of the Kavanaughs. After a few years abroad, Lowell settled in Boston in 1954.

Mills College, private liberal arts institution of higher education for women in Oakland, California, U.S. Men may study in the graduate-level programs. Mills College offers more than 30 undergraduate majors in English and foreign literatures, languages, and cultures; ethnic and women’s studies;

Gunnar Dybwad: Stickney (1971) and Mills v. Board of Education of District of Columbia (1972).

Mills cross: …1950s by the Australian astronomer Bernard Yarnton Mills. It consists of two interferometers erected in two straight rows intersecting at right angles. Up to a mile long, the rows may be composed of hundreds of antennas of several possible types. Electronic comparison of differences in the way the two perpendicular…

Bertram Mills was an English circus entrepreneur who for 18 years (1920–37) staged a circus at London’s Olympia Theatre at Christmas and also toured through the British Isles. A coachmaker’s son, Mills worked in his father’s business until World War I broke out, when he joined the Royal Army

Billy Mills is an athlete who was the first American to win an Olympic gold medal in the 10,000-metre race, achieving a dramatic upset victory at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Mills, who was part Sioux, grew up on an Oglala Sioux Indian reservation and, after he was orphaned at the age of 12,

C. Wright Mills was an American sociologist who, with Hans H. Gerth, applied and popularized Max Weber’s theories in the United States. He also applied Karl Mannheim’s theories on the sociology of knowledge to the political thought and behaviour of intellectuals. Mills received his A.B. and A.M.

Caleb Mills was an American educator known as the father of Indiana’s public schools. Mills, the son of a farmer, was educated at local schools and at the Pembroke Academy before entering Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. He graduated in 1828 and then pursued theological studies at Andover

C. Wright Mills was an American sociologist who, with Hans H. Gerth, applied and popularized Max Weber’s theories in the United States. He also applied Karl Mannheim’s theories on the sociology of knowledge to the political thought and behaviour of intellectuals. Mills received his A.B. and A.M.

Florence Mills was an American singer and dancer, a leading performer during the Jazz Age and the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. She paved the way for African Americans in mainstream theatre and popularized syncopated dance and song. Born into poverty, Mills early demonstrated a talent for

the Mills Brothers: ), Harry (b. Aug. 19, 1913, Piqua—d. June 28, 1982, Los Angeles, Calif.), and Donald (b. April 29, 1915, Piqua—d. Nov. 13, 1999, Los Angeles), American vocal quartet that was among the most unique and influential in the history of both jazz and mainstream popular music.

Ida Lupino: Later work: …on a rebellious teen (Hayley Mills) who makes life difficult for the mother superior (Rosalind Russell) at a convent school in Pennsylvania. Lupino then helmed several television shows before retiring from directing in 1968.

Paul McCartney: Wings and solo career: …and divorced actress and activist Heather Mills. In 2011 he married Nancy Shevell. He has five children. With Linda McCartney, he had Mary, Stella, and James, as well as adopting Linda’s daughter, Heather, from her first marriage. With Heather Mills, he had a daughter, Beatrice.)

the Mills Brothers: 24, 1936, Bellefontaine, Ohio), Herbert (b. April 2, 1912, Piqua—d. April 12, 1989, Las Vegas, Nev.), Harry (b. Aug. 19, 1913, Piqua—d. June 28, 1982, Los Angeles, Calif.), and Donald (b. April 29, 1915, Piqua—d. Nov. 13, 1999, Los Angeles), American vocal quartet that was among the most unique…

2026 U.S. midterm elections: What are some key states to watch?: Janet Mills, dropped out of the Democratic primary in April 2026—in the general election. She has faced Democratic opposition before and always prevailed. Platner, who is young, a military veteran, and a populist, has mounted a campaign that could pose a real threat to Collins.

John Mills was a British actor who appeared in more than 100 motion pictures and dozens of stage plays and television programs during a career that spanned some seven decades. His ability to portray “everyman” characters sincerely and believably—especially humble, decent military officers—endeared

the Mills Brothers: John Charles (b. Oct. 19, 1910, Piqua, Ohio, U.S.—d. Jan. 24, 1936, Bellefontaine, Ohio), Herbert (b. April 2, 1912, Piqua—d. April 12, 1989, Las Vegas, Nev.), Harry (b. Aug. 19, 1913, Piqua—d. June 28, 1982, Los Angeles, Calif.), and Donald (b. April 29, 1915, Piqua—d.…

John Evans Atta Mills was a Ghanaian politician and scholar who served as president of Ghana (2009–12). After secondary school, Mills studied law at the University of Ghana (LL.B., 1967), the London School of Economics and Political Science (LL.M., 1968), and the University of London’s School of

the Mills Brothers: …only natural, as their father, John H. Mills (1882–1967), owned a barbershop. They gave their first public performances in variety shows on the radio in Cincinnati, Ohio. In about 1930 they moved to New York City, where they became the first African American singers to have their own national radio…

John Mills was a British actor who appeared in more than 100 motion pictures and dozens of stage plays and television programs during a career that spanned some seven decades. His ability to portray “everyman” characters sincerely and believably—especially humble, decent military officers—endeared

Martin Boyd was an Anglo-Australian novelist, best known for The Montforts (1928), a novel noted for its vigorous and humorous characterizations. Boyd spent his childhood in Victoria, Australia, was educated in Melbourne, then travelled to England, where he served during World War I. After the war

R.E.M.: Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and drummer Bill Berry.

Cyberbullying: Professor Nicolaus Mills of Sarah Lawrence College coined the phrase “a culture of humiliation,” which helps define this shift in our society. Sadly, we began to place more and more value, monetary and otherwise, on humiliation and shame—both of which are core experiences of being bullied.…

Robert Mills was one of the first American-born professional architects. He was associated with Thomas Jefferson, James Hoban, and Benjamin Latrobe. A Neoclassical architect, Mills generally followed the principle, enunciated by Jefferson, that antique classical architectural forms best befitted a

gauge theory: …physicists Chen Ning Yang and Robert L. Mills (1954) to formulate a gauge theory of the strong interaction. The group of gauge transformations in this theory dealt with the isospin (q.v.) of strongly interacting particles. In the late 1960s Steven Weinberg, Sheldon Glashow, and Abdus Salam developed a gauge theory…

gauge theory: …physicists Chen Ning Yang and Robert L. Mills (1954) to formulate a gauge theory of the strong interaction. The group of gauge transformations in this theory dealt with the isospin (q.v.) of strongly interacting particles. In the late 1960s Steven Weinberg, Sheldon Glashow, and Abdus Salam developed a gauge theory…

Susan Lincoln Tolman Mills was an American missionary and educator who, with her husband, established what would become the first U.S. women’s college on the west coast. Susan Tolman graduated from Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College), South Hadley, Massachusetts, in 1845 and

United States presidential election of 1972: The Democratic campaign: Wilbur D. Mills of Arkansas, and Mayor Sam Yorty of Los Angeles, although on the ballot, were not campaigning actively. Senator Muskie and Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota bobbed and weaved on the issue. Only Wallace and Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington spoke…

William Corless Mills was a U.S. museum curator who excavated Indian remains in Ohio, including Adena Mound (1901), a large earthen burial ground near Chillicothe, built c. 50 bc. It became the type site for the study of the North American Adena culture and period. He was the curator and librarian

Billy Mills is an athlete who was the first American to win an Olympic gold medal in the 10,000-metre race, achieving a dramatic upset victory at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Mills, who was part Sioux, grew up on an Oglala Sioux Indian reservation and, after he was orphaned at the age of 12,

millstone, one of a pair of flat, round stones used for grinding grain. One millstone is stationary; the other rotates above it in a horizontal plane. Grain is poured through a hole in the centre of the rotating millstone, flowing into shallow grooves, called channels, which radiate from the centre

Margaret Drabble: …out of graduate school, and The Millstone (1965), the story of a woman who eventually sees her illegitimate child as both a burden and a blessing. Drabble won the E.M. Forster Award for The Needle’s Eye (1972), which explores questions of religion and morality. Her trilogy comprising The Radiant Way…

Millburn, township (town), Essex county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S., just west of Newark and lying between the Rahway and Passaic rivers. It is primarily a residential community that includes the fashionable Short Hills district on the north and west. About 1664, colonists from New York

Millburn, township (town), Essex county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S., just west of Newark and lying between the Rahway and Passaic rivers. It is primarily a residential community that includes the fashionable Short Hills district on the north and west. About 1664, colonists from New York

Millville, city, Cumberland county, southwestern New Jersey, U.S. It lies at the head of navigation on the Maurice River, 45 miles (72 km) south of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Union Lake, formed by a dam (1806), is to the northwest. The earliest settlers were woodcutters who built cabins along the

Milne Bay, easternmost inlet on the coast of the island of New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, southwestern Pacific Ocean. Milne Bay measures 30 miles (50 km) by 6–8 miles (10–13 km). The bay, which receives the Gumini River, has fertile south and west shores that support plantations. The north shore is

A.A. Milne was an English humorist, the originator of the immensely popular stories of Christopher Robin and his toy bear, Winnie-the-Pooh. Milne’s father ran a private school, where one of the boy’s teachers was a young H.G. Wells. Milne went on to attend Westminster School, London, and Trinity

A.A. Milne was an English humorist, the originator of the immensely popular stories of Christopher Robin and his toy bear, Winnie-the-Pooh. Milne’s father ran a private school, where one of the boy’s teachers was a young H.G. Wells. Milne went on to attend Westminster School, London, and Trinity

Edward Arthur Milne was an English astrophysicist and cosmologist best known for his development of kinematic relativity. Milne was educated at the University of Cambridge and served as assistant director of the Solar Physics Observatory at Cambridge from 1920 to 1924. He then became a professor of

John Milne was an English geologist and influential seismologist who developed the modern seismograph and promoted the establishment of seismological stations worldwide. Milne worked as a mining engineer in Labrador and Newfoundland, Canada, and in 1874 served as geologist on the expedition led by

What Are the Most Dangerous Winter Olympic Sports?: Ross Milne died in separate accidents while practicing during the 1964 Innsbruck Games. Swiss speed skier Nicholas Bochatay died during the 1992 Winter Olympics after crashing into a parked tractor vehicle, used to tend to the snow trails, during a practice run. In 2010 Georgian…

sifaka: candidus), and Milne-Edwards’s sifaka (P. edwardsi) live in the rainforests of eastern Madagascar. Milne-Edwards’s sifaka is black or brown, generally with a white patch on the back and flanks, whereas the diademed sifaka, or simpoon, has a beautiful coat of white, which becomes silvery on the back,…

Saad Zaghloul: The Milner Report, recommending the end of the protectorate and the negotiation of a treaty, was published in February 1921. A government formed by ʿAdlī Pasha Yakan, one of Zaghloul’s rivals, spent most of the year trying to negotiate such a treaty but was inhibited by…

Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner was an able but inflexible British administrator whose pursuit of British suzerainty while he was high commissioner in South Africa and governor of the Cape Colony helped to bring about the South African War (1899–1902). Milner was of German and English ancestry. A

Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner was an able but inflexible British administrator whose pursuit of British suzerainty while he was high commissioner in South Africa and governor of the Cape Colony helped to bring about the South African War (1899–1902). Milner was of German and English ancestry. A

Robin Milner was an English computer scientist and winner of the 1991 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for his work with automatic theorem provers, the ML computer programming language, and a general theory of concurrency. Milner attended Eton College and won a scholarship

Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner was an able but inflexible British administrator whose pursuit of British suzerainty while he was high commissioner in South Africa and governor of the Cape Colony helped to bring about the South African War (1899–1902). Milner was of German and English ancestry. A

Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner was an able but inflexible British administrator whose pursuit of British suzerainty while he was high commissioner in South Africa and governor of the Cape Colony helped to bring about the South African War (1899–1902). Milner was of German and English ancestry. A

Sweet Smell of Success: Cast: Assorted Referencesrole of Curtisscore by Bernstein

human nervous system: Reward and punishment: …Canadian researchers James Olds and Peter Milner found that stimulation of certain regions of the brain of the rat acted as a reward in teaching the animals to run mazes and solve problems. The conclusion from such experiments is that stimulation gives the animals pleasure. The discovery has also been…

Robin Milner was an English computer scientist and winner of the 1991 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for his work with automatic theorem provers, the ML computer programming language, and a general theory of concurrency. Milner attended Eton College and won a scholarship

Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner was an able but inflexible British administrator whose pursuit of British suzerainty while he was high commissioner in South Africa and governor of the Cape Colony helped to bring about the South African War (1899–1902). Milner was of German and English ancestry. A

Yuri Milner is a Russian entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist whose innovative investment techniques and prescient awareness of the commercial potential of the Internet revolutionized venture-capital investment strategies in the 2010s. Milner grew up in a Jewish family in Moscow.

Richard Monckton Milnes was an English politician, poet, and man of letters. While at Trinity College, Cambridge (1827–30), Milnes joined the socially and artistically progressive Apostles Club, which included among its members the poets Alfred Tennyson and Arthur Henry Hallam. From 1837 to 1863 he

Milngavie, burgh (town), East Dunbartonshire council area, historic county of Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It lies north of Glasgow, of which it is now chiefly a residential suburb. Milngavie has reservoirs that store water from Loch Katrine to supply Glasgow. Pop. (2001) 13,340; (2011)

John Willard Milnor is an American mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1962 for his work in differential topology and the Abel Prize in 2011 for his work in topology, geometry, and algebra. Milnor attended Princeton University (A.B., 1951; Ph.D., 1954), in New Jersey. He held an

sorghum, (Sorghum bicolor), cereal grain plant of the grass family (Poaceae) and its edible starchy seeds. The plant likely originated in Africa, where it is a major food crop, and has numerous varieties, including grain sorghums, used for food; grass sorghums, grown for hay and fodder; and

Milo of Croton was a Greek athlete who was the most renowned wrestler in antiquity. His name is still proverbial for extraordinary strength. A greatly honoured native of Croton (now Crotone, Calabria), an Achaean Greek colony in southern Italy, Milo led the Crotoniate army to victory over the

Western sculpture: France: …highly original works like the Milo of Crotona; here the composition of a figure rigid with pain is given an almost unbearable tension.