Norman Bel Geddes: An autobiography, Miracle in the Evening (1960), edited by William Kelley, depicts the designer through his theatrical work.

Rudolph Maté: …Clark, respectively; and the tearjerker Miracle in the Rain (1956), with Jane Wyman as a lonely secretary who falls in love with a soldier (Van Johnson) and becomes inconsolable after his death.

Preston Sturges: Films of the mid-1940s to mid-1950s: The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944) was filmed right after Palm Beach Story, but problems with the censors delayed its release. A boldly conceived farce, it depicted the problems faced by a woman (Betty Hutton) who gives birth to sextuplets exactly nine months after spending…

Cleveland Cavaliers: Early years: …became known as the “Miracle of Richfield” (for the suburban location of the Coliseum, the team’s home arena from 1974 to 1994). After winning the seven-game series, the Cavaliers advanced to the Eastern Conference finals, where they lost to the Boston Celtics in six games.

Andrea Sacchi: …to those qualities in the Miracle of St. Gregory (1625–27). That work brought Sacchi to the notice of the Sacchetti family, who employed him, with Pietro da Cortona, in the decoration of their villa at Castel Fusano in 1627–29. Both artists were next employed by Antonio Cardinal Barberini to decorate…

Uruguayan Air Force flight 571, flight of an airplane charted by a Uruguayan amateur rugby team that crashed in the Andes Mountains in Argentina on October 13, 1972, the wreckage of which was not located for more than two months. Of the 45 people aboard the plane, only 16 survived the ordeal. The

Irving Pichel: Directing: …same cannot be said of The Miracle of the Bells (1948), despite the presence of Frank Sinatra, Fred MacMurray, Alida Valli, and Lee J. Cobb. Pichel rebounded with the delightful Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948). William Powell was cast as a married man who lands a comely mermaid (Ann…

Tintoretto: Career: …and literary men with his San Marco Freeing the Slave (also called Miracle of the Slave). A letter from Aretino, full of praise yet also intended to temper Tintoretto’s youthful exuberance, confirmed the fame of the 30-year-old painter. Relations between Tintoretto and Aretino did not come to an end at…

Gentile Bellini: Mark’s Square (1496) and the Miracle of the True Cross at the Bridge of S. Lorenzo (1500), huge canvases painted with painstaking attention to the smallest detail and crowded with small, rather rigid figures, including many portraits. A similar but lesser-known work is his St. Mark Preaching in Alexandria (1493–1507),…

Miracle on 34th Street, American comedy film, released in 1947, that became a perennial family favourite at Christmastime. Natalie Wood portrayed Susan Walker, a precocious little girl whose well-meaning mother (played by Maureen O’Hara) has raised her not to believe in Santa Claus. When their

An Olympic ice hockey game on February 22, 1980, was the site of one of the most momentous battles of the Cold War—how fitting that a geopolitical rivalry with such a name would manifest on an ice rink. It was David vs. Goliath on skates, a scrappy United States team of college players pitted

James Patterson: For Miracle on the 17th Green (1996), an inspirational story about a middle-aged golfer, Patterson undertook the practice of writing with a coauthor, and many of his subsequent novels were collaborations. He launched a second series with 1st to Die (2001), which introduced readers to the…

US Airways flight 1549, flight of a passenger airliner that made an emergency landing in the Hudson River on January 15, 2009, shortly after taking off from LaGuardia Airport in New York City. Five people were seriously injured, but there were no fatalities. The airplane, an Airbus A320 operated by

miracle play, one of three principal kinds of vernacular drama of the European Middle Ages (along with the mystery play and the morality play). A miracle play presents a real or fictitious account of the life, miracles, or martyrdom of a saint. The genre evolved from liturgical offices developed

rice: Physical description: …crops, including that known as miracle rice. Bred for disease resistance and increased productivity, this variety is characterized by a short sturdy stalk that minimizes loss from drooping. Poor soil conditions and other factors, however, inhibited its anticipated widespread success.

Helen Hunt: …of its star player in The Miracle Season, which was based on a true story. Her later credits included The Night Clerk (2020), a crime drama, and the TV series World on Fire (2019– ), which was set during World War II. She also appeared in the show Blindspotting (2021–…

Helen Keller: …depicted in William Gibson’s play The Miracle Worker (1959), which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960 and was subsequently made into a motion picture (1962), starring Anne Bancroft as Sullivan and Patty Duke as Keller, that won two Academy Awards.

The Miracle Worker, American dramatic biopic, released in 1962, that presented the life of Helen Keller and her teacher Annie (or Anne) Sullivan; it earned Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke Academy Awards for best actress and supporting actress, respectively. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on

Steve Buscemi: TV credits: The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire: …other notable TV credits include Miracle Workers (2019– ), a comedy anthology series about angels who try to avert an apocalypse; he appeared as various characters, including God in season one. In addition, Buscemi had guest roles on such other shows as Portlandia and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

Jacqueline Woodson: Writing career: Miracle’s Boys (2000) is about three orphaned brothers trying to get by after the death of their mother. Feathers (2007) follows the story of a girl who befriends a white boy at an all-Black school in the 1970s, shortly after the end of segregation. After…

F.W. Murnau: …production of the wordless, ritualistic The Miracle (1911). After serving in the German army and air force during World War I, Murnau worked in Switzerland, where he directed short propaganda films for the German embassy. He directed his first feature film, Der Knabe in Blau (The Boy in Blue) in…

Max Reinhardt: Career in full flower: The production of The Miracle, which premiered in 1911 in London and played subsequently in New York City and European cities, was Reinhardt’s most spectacular work and, at the same time, probably the most characteristic. Reinhardt was fascinated by the emotional richness of Roman Catholic rites and Gregorian…

Federico Fellini: Early life and influences: …and Il miracolo (1948; “The Miracle”, an episode of the film L’amore), in which he also acted, playing a tramp who impregnates a simple-minded peasant when she takes him for the reincarnation of St. Joseph.

Marvelman, British comic strip superhero created by Mick Anglo in 1954. The character is regarded by many to be the first British superhero. In post-World War II Britain, comics were booming. Publisher Len Miller was doing well reprinting the adventures of American hero Captain Marvel—until 1954,

Jefferson Airplane: …its Top Ten single “Miracles”—the band never recaptured the moment when its music stood for something more, when Jefferson Airplane spoke for change on behalf of the culture that produced it. In 1996 Jefferson Airplane was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2024 the U.S.…

Holland-Dozier-Holland: …and Get These Memories”), the Miracles (“Mickey’s Monkey”), and Marvin Gaye (“How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You”)—but they were most closely associated with the Four Tops (“I Can’t Help Myself [Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch]”) and the Supremes.

French literature: Religious drama: …the 14th century comes the Miracles de Notre-Dame par personnages (“Miracles of Our Lady with Dramatic Characters”), a collection of 40 miracles, partly based on a nondramatic compilation by Gautier de Coincy. These miracles probably were performed by the Paris goldsmiths’ guild.

Tod Browning: Final films: After that came only Miracles for Sale (1939), a B-film mystery with Henry Hull as an escapologist and Robert Young as a stage magician trying to expose a fake spiritualist.

Jennifer Garner: Roles from the 2010s and divorce from Affleck: …disease in the Christian-themed drama Miracles from Heaven (2016), the wife of a lawyer (played by Bryan Cranston) who disappears in Wakefield (2016), and a mother seeking revenge in Peppermint (2018). She starred in the HBO series Camping in 2018, a U.S. adaptation of a British series with the same…

Ethiopian literature: …may be mentioned the “Miracles of Mary,” translated from Arabic in 1441–42; it was enormously popular and went through several recensions, or critical revisions.

Vittorio De Sica: …film; Miracolo a Milano (1951; Miracle in Milan), a comic parable about the clash of rich and poor in Milan; and Umberto D. (1952), a tragedy about a lonely pensioner, his dog, and a young maid who takes pity upon them both. The performances of the largely amateur casts in…

Federico Fellini: Early life and influences: …and Il miracolo (1948; “The Miracle”, an episode of the film L’amore), in which he also acted, playing a tramp who impregnates a simple-minded peasant when she takes him for the reincarnation of St. Joseph.

miracle fruit: Mechanism of action and uses: …due to a glycoprotein named miraculin, which was first isolated by Japanese researcher Kenzo Kurihara in 1968. Although miraculin itself is not sweet, it binds to receptors on the taste buds and causes acidic foods to be perceived as sweet. The effect typically lasts from a half hour to two…

John Rechy: In The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez (1991), set in the barrio of Los Angeles, Rechy makes use of the techniques of magic realism. His other novels included Rushes (1979), Bodies and Souls (1983), Marilyn’s Daughter (1988), Our Lady of Babylon (1996), The Coming of the…

Konrad Witz: …exemplified by his masterpiece, “The Miraculous Draft of Fishes” (1444). In this work, Witz’s realism is so precise that he carefully distinguishes between the light reflected off the water’s surface and the light reflected off the stones beneath the shallow water. He convincingly renders the reflections of the disciples, the…

Kate DiCamillo: Her other novels include The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (2006), which features a conceited china rabbit that learns how to love through tragedy, and The Magician’s Elephant (2009), about an orphan whose quest to find his missing sister involves an elephant. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures (2013;…

pre-Columbian civilizations: The earliest Maya civilization of the lowlands: …the huge site of El Mirador, in the extreme northern part of Petén. The mass of El Mirador construction dwarfs even that of Tikal, although El Mirador was only substantially occupied through the Chicanel phase.

Miraflores, distrito (district) of the Lima–Callao metropolitan area of Peru, south of central Lima on the Pacific coast. It abounds in bougainvillea for most of the year; thus, in the mid-16th century, while still an Inca village, it came to be known by its present name (meaning “look at the

Panama Canal: The canal: …30 feet (9 meters) to Miraflores Lake, at an elevation of 52 feet (16 meters) above sea level. Vessels then pass through a channel almost 1.2 miles (2 km) long to the two-stepped locks at Miraflores, where they are lowered to sea level. The final segment of the canal is…

Panama Canal: The canal: …km) long to the two-stepped locks at Miraflores, where they are lowered to sea level. The final segment of the canal is a dredged approach passage 7 miles long through which ships pass into the Pacific. Throughout its length the canal has a minimum bottom width of 500 feet (150…

pre-Columbian civilizations: Izapan civilization: …occupation is ascribed to the Miraflores phase, the Late Formative culture of the Valley of Guatemala. Some of these huge Miraflores mounds contained log tombs of incredible richness. In one, the deceased lord was accompanied by sacrificed followers or captives. As many as 340 objects were placed with him, including…

Mirage, any member of a family of combat aircraft produced by the Dassault-Breguet aeronautics firm of France. These relatively inexpensive, simple, durable aircraft were adopted by many of the world’s smaller air forces from the 1960s. The first Mirage aircraft was the single-engine, delta-wing

mirage, in optics, the deceptive appearance of a distant object or objects caused by the bending of light rays (refraction) in layers of air of varying density. Under certain conditions, such as over a stretch of pavement or desert air heated by intense sunshine, the air rapidly cools with

Fleetwood Mac: …The band produced the noteworthy Mirage (1982) and Tango in the Night (1987) before the departure of Buckingham. Further lineup changes followed, but Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Buckingham, and Nicks reunited to perform at the inauguration of U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton in 1993 (Clinton had used “Don’t Stop” from…

Mirage: …the Mirage III, called the Mirage 5, was adapted for ground attack and equipped with simplified avionics. It was first flown in 1967 and was sold to Belgium (in a coproduction arrangement), Pakistan, Peru, Colombia, Libya, Abu Dhabi, and Venezuela. The Mirage F-1, a multipurpose fighter developed as a replacement…

Mirage: The Mirage F-1, a multipurpose fighter developed as a replacement for the Mirage III in the French air force, entered service in 1973. This aircraft lacked the delta-wing design that had characterized all previous Mirages. F-1s were purchased by Greece, Morocco, South Africa, Spain, Jordan, and…

fighter aircraft: …Soviet MiG-21; and the French Mirage III saw combat service in the Middle East and in Vietnam in the 1960s and ’70s.

Jimmy Webb: Later hits and works: and Music (1970), Letters (1972), El Mirage (1977), and others. Several songs from his solo albums had greater commercial success when recorded by other artists.

Las Vegas: Cultural life: …of such complexes as the Mirage (opened 1989) and Mandalay Bay (1999), Las Vegas casino architecture departed completely from the forms of the 1950s and ’60s, becoming even more spectacular. These newer buildings tended to favor huge atria and vaulted ceilings, sometimes with glass roofs that allowed daylight to enter.…

Ousmane Socé: …wrote two novels—Karim (1935) and Mirages de Paris (1937)—that were published in Paris. Karim anticipated Socé’s later concern with the problems that young Africans face when moving from rural to urban areas. In Mirages de Paris, Socé availed himself of his French experience and provided the first “been-to” novel in…

denial of service attack: …network of infected devices) called Mirai brought down the servers of Dyn, an American company that is in charge of much of the Internet’s domain name system (DNS). This attack interrupted much of North American Internet traffic. The Mirai botnet was not made up of infected computers but infected other…

Sangli: …of Sangli lies the Sangli-Miraj industrial complex. The adjacent town of Miraj is renowned for the manufacture of musical instruments (most notably the sitar), and Sangli is a traditional centre of goldsmiths. Most of the region’s arts and science, commercial, engineering, and medical colleges are located in the Sangli-Miraj…

Miʿrāj, in Islam, the ascension of the Prophet Muhammad into heaven. In this tradition, Muhammad is prepared for his meeting with God by the archangels Jibrīl (Gabriel) and Mīkāl (Michael) one evening while he is asleep in the Kaʿbah, the sacred shrine of Mecca. They open up his body and purify his

Behzād: …of Herāt by the painter Mīrak Naqqāsh, who enjoyed the patronage of the Timurid princes who ruled the city. Behzād studied under his guardian and in 1486 became head of the Herāt academy, a post he held until 1506. Under his direction the academy became a greater centre of art…

Julian Schnabel: In Miral (2010) Schnabel explored the Arab-Israeli conflict through the eyes of four Palestinian women living in Israel in the mid-to-late 20th century. He later considered the last years of 19th-century painter Vincent van Gogh (portrayed by Willem Dafoe) in At Eternity’s Gate (2018).

Trieste: During the 1850s Miramare Castle was built nearby for Archduke Maximilian (later Emperor Maximilian of Mexico). Pop. (2001) 211,184; (2004 est.) 208,309.

Disney Company: Return to prominence: …and with the acquisition of Miramax Films in 1993 (producer of films such as Pulp Fiction [1994], Good Will Hunting [1997], and Shakespeare in Love [1998]). In 2010 Disney sold Miramax to an investor group.

Mirambo was a Nyamwezi warlord of central Africa whose ability to unite the many hitherto separate Nyamwezi clans into a powerful kingdom by the 1870s gave him strategic control of Swahili-Arab trade routes and threatened the preeminence of the Swahili-Arabs’ colony in Unyanyembe (near present

Miramichi, city, Northumberland county, eastern New Brunswick, Canada. It lies near the mouth of the Miramichi River, 84 miles (135 km) north-northwest of Moncton. Formed in 1995 as an amalgamation of the towns of Newcastle (historical seat of Northumberland county, 1786) and Chatham (1800), the

Miguel Miramón was a Mexican soldier and politician, the leader of the forces that briefly established Maximilian as the emperor of Mexico. Educated at a military school, Miramón served in the Mexican army in the battles against the United States in 1847 and rose to the rank of colonel in 1855. The

Second Cabinet of Donald Trump: Other members: The table below contains positions that do not require Senate confirmation.

Miranda, innermost and smallest of the five major moons of Uranus and the most topographically varied of the group. It was discovered in telescopic photographs of the Uranian system in 1948 by the Dutch American astronomer Gerard Peter Kuiper, who named it after a character in William Shakespeare’s

Miranda, fictional character, the beautiful and naive daughter of Prospero, the exiled rightful duke of Milan, in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (written c. 1611). Having grown up on an island with only her father and Caliban for company, she is overwhelmed when she finally sees other humans and

Miranda, estado (state), northern Venezuela, bounded by the Caribbean Seaon the northeast, by the Venezuelan states of Guárico on the south and Aragua on the west, and by the federal district. The state is named in honour of Francisco de Miranda, a revolutionary who helped to pave the way for

Miranda de Ebro, city, Burgos provincia (province), in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Castile-León, northern Spain. It lies south of Bilbao on a plain straddling the Ebro River. Although historians ascribe Roman origins to Miranda (“Admirable Place”), it is probably older and

Río de la Plata: Physiography of the Paraguay basin: Taquari, and Miranda rivers. About 470 miles downstream, it flows north-south to form the boundary between Brazil and Paraguay before being joined by a tributary, the Apa River, that flows in from the east and demarcates part of the Brazilian-Paraguayan frontier. The river then enters Paraguay, having…

Miranda v. Arizona, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on June 13, 1966, established a code of conduct for police interrogations of criminal suspects held in custody. Chief Justice Earl Warren, writing for a 5–4 majority, held that prosecutors may not use statements made by suspects under

Miranda warning, tenet of United States criminal procedure that protects an individual’s rights during an arrest. When a suspect is taken into custody and interrogated, members of law enforcement are legally bound to apprise the suspect of several rights that are underpinned by the U.S.

Alfred Corn: …lover’s death from AIDS, and Miranda’s Book (2014), in which a novelist writes about his imprisoned niece. His other books included The Poem’s Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody (1997) and Arks and Covenants: Essays and Aphorisms (2017).

Bartolomé de Carranza was a Dominican theologian and archbishop of Toledo who was imprisoned for nearly 17 years by the Spanish Inquisition. Carranza entered the Dominican convent of Benalaque near Guadalajara, Spain, and had a brilliant scholastic career, holding responsible positions in his

Carmen Miranda was a Portuguese-born singer and actress whose alluring and flamboyant image made her internationally famous. Miranda’s family moved to Brazil when she was an infant. In the 1930s she became the most popular recording artist in that country, where she also appeared in five films.

Miranda v. Arizona: …an Arizona court’s conviction of Ernesto Miranda on charges of kidnapping and rape. After being identified in a police lineup, Miranda had been questioned by police; he confessed and then signed a written statement without first having been told that he had the right to have a lawyer present to…

Francisco de Miranda was a Venezuelan revolutionary who helped to pave the way for independence in Latin America. His own plan for the liberation of Spain’s American colonies with the help of the European powers failed, but he remains known as El Precursor—i.e., “the forerunner” of Bolívar and

Adolfo Bioy Casares was an Argentine writer and editor, known both for his own work and for his collaborations with Jorge Luis Borges. His elegantly constructed works are oriented toward metaphysical possibilities and employ the fantastic to achieve their meanings. Born into a wealthy family, Bioy

Lin-Manuel Miranda is an American actor, composer, lyricist, and writer who created and starred in stage productions that blended modern musical forms with classic musical theatre. Perhaps his best-known work is Hamilton, a hip-hop musical about Alexander Hamilton. Miranda was born to parents of

Mirandola, town, Emilia-Romagna region, north central Italy. It has automobile assembly, footwear, food-canning, and hemp industries. The Romanesque-Gothic church of S. Francesco is a historic landmark. The town was the birthplace of Pico della Mirandola, the 15th-century scholar. Pop. (2006 est.)

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, count di Concordia was an Italian scholar and Platonist philosopher whose De hominis dignitate oratio (“Oration on the Dignity of Man”), a characteristic Renaissance work composed in 1486, reflected his syncretistic method of taking the best elements from other

Carlo Goldoni: , Mine Hostess, 1928) and two fine plays in Venetian dialect, I rusteghi (performed 1760; “The Tyrants”) and Le baruffe chiozzote (performed 1762; “Quarrels at Chioggia”).

Octave Mirbeau was a French journalist and writer of novels and plays who unsparingly satirized the clergy and social conditions of his time and was one of the 10 original members of the Académie Goncourt, founded in 1903. His first work was as a journalist for Bonapartist and Royalist newspapers.

Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel was a French botanist whose book Traité d’anatomie et de physiologie végétale, 2 vol. (1802; “Treatise on Plant Anatomy and Physiology”), earned him recognition as a founder of plant cytology and plant physiology. His most notable contribution to plant cytology

Walachia: By 1391 Prince Mircea the Old (reigned 1386–1418) was obliged to pay tribute to the Turks, and in 1417 he acknowledged Turkish suzerainty.

space tourism: Orbital space tourism: …deal between the Russian company MirCorp and the American company Space Adventures Ltd. MirCorp was a private venture in charge of the space station Mir. To generate income for maintenance of the aging space station, MirCorp decided to sell a trip to Mir, and Tito became its first paying passenger.…

Frédéric Mistral: …last long poems, Mirèio and Lou Pouèmo dóu Rose, both full-scale epics in 12 cantos.

Ida Kaminska: …was the title role in Mirele Efros by Jacob Gordin in a version she adapted and directed. She portrayed this role at home and on tour in western Europe and the United States with her Jewish State Theatre (1967) and revived the character once again when she was in the…

Can Xue: Works of fiction and mind-stretching enchantments: …Miren de yilei shenghuo (2022; The Enchanting Lives of Others), a comic novel about a book club; and Mother River (2025), an English-language collection of some of her short stories and novellas.

levonorgestrel: …intrauterine devices (IUDs), such as Mirena. This particular IUD, once inserted into the uterus, can remain there for up to five years, releasing about 20 micrograms of levonorgestrel daily. Levonorgestrel also is used in various formulations of oral contraceptives, including in combination with estradiol in Seasonale—an extended-cycle oral contraceptive, which…

Angelo Dundee was an American professional boxing trainer and manager, brother of boxing promoter Chris Dundee. (Read Gene Tunney’s 1929 Britannica essay on boxing.) Dundee learned boxing by studying the techniques of world-renowned trainers at Stillman’s Gym in New York City. The first world

astronomical map: Star names and designations: …article “the”: Aldebaran (“the Follower”), Algenib (“the Side”), Alhague (“the Serpent Bearer”), and Algol (“the Demon”). A conspicuous exception is Albireo in Cygnus, possibly a corruption of the words ab ireo in the first Latin edition of the Almagest in 1515. Most star names are in fact Arabic and are…

Sudan: The growth of national consciousness: His principal rival was Sayyid ʿAlī al-Mīrghānī, the leader of the Khatmiyyah brotherhood. Although he personally remained aloof from politics, Sayyid ʿAlī threw his support to Azharī. The competition between the Azharī-Khatmiyyah faction—remodeled in 1951 as the National Unionist Party (NUP)—and the Ummah-Mahdist group quickly rekindled old suspicions and…

Sudan: Religion of Sudan: Another major tarīqah is the Khatmiyyah, or Mīrghaniyyah, which was founded by Muḥammad ʿUthmān al-Mīrghanī in the early 19th century. Perhaps the most-powerful and best-organized tarīqah is the Mahdiyyah; its followers led a successful revolt against the Turco-Egyptian regime (1821–85) and established an independent state in the Sudan that lasted…

Nikolay Gogol: Mature career: …of his next two books, Mirgorod and Arabeski (Arabesques), which appeared in 1835. The four stories constituting Mirgorod were a continuation of the Evenings, but they revealed a strong gap between Gogol’s romantic escapism and his otherwise pessimistic attitude toward life. Such a splendid narrative of the Cossack past as…

Sikhism: Guru Nanak: …Guru, however, the doctrine of miri/piri emerged. Like his predecessors, the Guru still engaged in piri, spiritual leadership, but to it he now added miri, the rule of a worldly leader. The Panth was thus no longer an exclusively religious community but was also a military one that was commonly…

Himalayas: People of the Himalayas: Miri, and the Singpho. Linguistically, they are Tibeto-Burman. Each group has its homeland in a distinct river valley, and all practice shifting cultivation (i.e., they grow crops on a different tract of land each year).

Miri, port city, East Malaysia, on the South China Sea coast of northwestern Borneo. It lies south of Baram Point and a short distance west of the sultanate of Brunei in a rubber- and rice-growing region. The town began in 1911, when nearby oil fields were opened. Peak production came in the 1930s;

Polish literature: The Young Poland movement: …Antoni Lange, the poet, and Zenon Przesmycki (pseudonym Miriam), editor of the Symbolist review Chimera. Both made translations from a number of other languages and expressed aesthetic theories in critical essays. Przesmycki’s most influential contribution to the development of a modern literature, however, was his discovery of Cyprian Norwid.

Truman Capote: Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood: …his haunting short story “Miriam” was published in Mademoiselle magazine; the following year it won the O. Henry Memorial Award, the first of four such awards Capote was to receive. His first published novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948), was acclaimed as the work of a young writer of…

Aaron: Life: Together with his sister, Miriam, Aaron spoke against Moses because he had married a foreigner (a woman from Kush, the southern portion of Nubia); but, as in the episode of the golden calf, the narrative tells how Aaron was merely reproved, though Miriam was punished, for the offense. In…

plant bug: The members of the family Miridae, which is one of the largest heteropteran families (about 10,000 species), are also known as leaf bugs. They are brightly coloured and feed primarily on plant sap, causing serious crop damage. Plant bugs occur throughout the world and have been found north of the…

John Napier: Contribution to mathematics: …was published in 1614, and Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Constructio (Construction of the Marvelous Canon of Logarithms), which was published two years after his death. In the former, he outlined the steps that had led to his invention.

John Napier: Contribution to mathematics: …are contained in two treatises: Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio (Description of the Marvelous Canon of Logarithms), which was published in 1614, and Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Constructio (Construction of the Marvelous Canon of Logarithms), which was published two years after his death. In the former, he outlined the steps that had…