Xi Jinping: Consolidation of power: …Hague and promoting its “One Belt, One Road” initiative for joint trade, infrastructure, and development projects with East Asian, Central Asian, and European countries.

Bermuda: History of Bermuda: In the 2012 elections the One Bermuda Alliance (OBA)—formed the previous year through the merger of the UBP and another opposition party, the Bermuda Democratic Alliance—won a decisive majority. Its leader, Craig Cannonier, took office as premier. Cannonier resigned abruptly in May 2014 in the wake of a scandal involving…

Donald Trump: DOGE: …Trump’s signature budget bill—the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA)—for potentially increasing the budget deficit and undermining the cost-cutting measures that DOGE had implemented.

If you’ve seen the headlines about bigger tax refunds this year, you’re probably asking the same question everyone else is: Am I getting one? The only way to know for sure is to file your return—the sooner the better. Still, the headlines aren’t just hype. Last summer’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act

organized labour: Challenges to pure-and-simple unionism: This was the One Big Union (OBU), which had its roots in a postwar labour disaffection from conventional trade unionism that was especially pronounced in western Canada. Structured more along geographic than along the industrial-union lines of the IWW, the OBU had its moment of glory in the…

Ultimate Fighting Championship: Other MMA organizations: …in 2008, and the Singapore-based ONE Championship, which promotes many of Asia’s top MMA fighters. Invicta Fighting Championships, a promotion dedicated to female MMA fighters, was launched in the United States in 2012.

Anne Hathaway: The Princess Diaries, Brokeback Mountain, and The Devil Wears Prada: …starred in the romantic drama One Day the following year.

Rita Moreno: …a Cuban American family in One Day at a Time (2017–20), a remake of Norman Lear’s 1970s sitcom of the same name; the series originally aired on Netflix, but after three seasons it moved to Pop TV for a short run.

Norman Lear: …created were Maude (1972–78) and One Day at a Time (1975–84); the latter series returned—with various changes—in 2017. Sanford and Son, Good Times (1974–79), and The Jeffersons, a spin-off of All in the Family, were significant in their depictions of African American family life. Lear also produced such films as…

Sigurd Hoel: …En dag i oktober (1931; One Day in October), in which the inhabitants of an Oslo apartment building are deeply affected by the tragic life and death of a fellow lodger. In this novel Hoel made extended use of interior monologues. Hoel was a close friend of the Austrian psychologist…

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, short novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, published in Russian in 1962 as Odin den Ivana Denisovicha in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir and published in book form the following year. Solzhenitsyn’s first literary work—a treatment of his experiences in the

the New York Dolls: …entered the studio to produce One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This (2006), the first collection of new Dolls material to appear since 1974. The tour that followed demonstrated that this second incarnation of the Dolls had the same sort of energy as the first, and the…

Spanish literature: The novel: The One Day of the Week), masterfully utilizing pseudoscientific impassivity and cinematographic techniques, depicts the monotonous existence of urban youth via their aimless conversations and exposes postwar apathy. Other young writers who first emerged in the 1950s were Jesús Fernández Santos, Juan García Hortelano, Jesús…

Donald Hall: The book-length The One Day: A Poem in Three Parts (1988), considered his masterpiece, is an intricate meditation on middle age. White Apples and the Taste of Stone (2006) is a collection of poetry from across his career.

One Direction, British-Irish male vocal group whose stylish good looks and bright pop-rock sound helped make it one of the best-selling boy bands of all time. One Direction released five hit albums, including Up All Night (2011) and Midnight Memories (2013), before going on an indefinite hiatus in

Hope Hostel, a four-story lodging facility located in Kigali, Rwanda. It opened in October 2014 to house college students who had been orphaned after their parents were killed during the Rwandan genocide of 1994; it provided a place for them to reside when school was not in session. In 2022 the

neo-noir: …racism, including Carl Franklin in One False Move (1992), about three fugitives on the run from Los Angeles to small-town Arkansas. In Franklin’s stylish murder mystery Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), the protagonist is a Black private eye (played by Denzel Washington) investigating the disappearance of a femme fatale…

Kingsley Amis: …were expressed in the novel One Fat Englishman (1963).

Gregory Maguire: …Hairdos (1997) and finishing with One Final Firecracker (2005). Later children’s books include What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy (2007) and Egg & Spoon (2014). In Cress Watercress (2022) a young bunny deals with the loss of her father.

Carole King: Roof” (1962; the Drifters), “One Fine Day” (1963; the Chiffons), “Don’t Bring Me Down” (1966; the Animals), and “(You Make Me Feel like) A Natural Woman” (1967; Aretha Franklin).

Robert Klein: Music and acting: (1978), Radioland Murders (1994), One Fine Day (1996), Primary Colors (1998), The Safety of Objects (2001), Two Weeks Notice (2002), How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), Ira & Abby (2006), Reign Over Me (2007), The Back-up Plan (2010), and

American literature: The Off-Broadway ascendancy: …a preacher; poet Naomi Wallace’s One Flea Spare (1995), set in London during the Great Plague of 1665; and Margaret Edson’s Wit (1995), about the slow, poignant cancer death of a literary scholar whose life has been shaped by the eloquence and wit of Metaphysical poetry.

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest , American dramatic film, released in 1975, that was based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey. The movie, directed by Miloš Forman and starring Jack Nicholson, was the first film since It Happened One Night (1934) to win the Academy Awards for best

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, debut novel by American writer Ken Kesey, first published in 1962. At a Veterans Administration hospital in Menlo Park, California, Kesey had been a paid volunteer and experimental subject, taking mind-altering drugs such as LSD and recording their effects, and this

Irving Rapper: Heyday at Warner Brothers: Even better was One Foot in Heaven (1941), a bit of Americana with Fredric March as a minister who struggles with the problems of church and state. The Gay Sisters (1942), though, was a leaden soap opera starring Barbara Stanwyck, Fitzgerald, and Nancy Coleman as wealthy siblings. Now,…

Janet Evanovich: …on the story that became One for the Money (1994; television movie 2002; film 2012). The novel centred on Stephanie Plum—a gum-smacking Jersey girl—who blackmails her bail bondsman cousin into hiring her to track down bail jumpers (though she has never done so before). Aided by an eclectic cast of…

Janet Evanovich: …Money (1994; television movie 2002; film 2012). The novel centred on Stephanie Plum—a gum-smacking Jersey girl—who blackmails her bail bondsman cousin into hiring her to track down bail jumpers (though she has never done so before). Aided by an eclectic cast of wisecracking friends and relatives, Plum sets off in…

Western painting: Institutional critique, feminism, and conceptual art: 1968 and its aftermath: Korean-born artist Nam June Paik’s One for Violin of 1962 consisted of him simply raising a violin above his head and slamming it down onto a table with full force. In the wake of Fluxus, the mid-1970s saw an extremely fertile network of conceptually oriented artists become established. The previous…

Francis Ford Coppola: The 1980s: …first film—the Coppola-written and -directed One from the Heart (1982), an ultra-stylized romantic comedy—cost some $27 million to make and crashed at the box office. Coppola was forced to sell many of his assets and to close the studio in Los Angeles, though he continued to operate his production company…

one gene–one enzyme hypothesis, idea advanced in the early 1940s that each gene controls the synthesis or activity of a single enzyme. The concept, which united the fields of genetics and biochemistry, was proposed by American geneticist George Wells Beadle and American biochemist Edward L. Tatum,

Kate Atkinson: …books in the series included One Good Turn (2006), When Will There Be Good News? (2008), Started Early, Took My Dog (2010), and Big Sky (2019).

Céline Dion: Career hiatus, Las Vegas residencies, and collaborations: …Day Has Come (2002) and One Heart (2003), which flirted with dance pop in addition to her usual adult contemporary fare. While the releases were commercially successful by most standards, their sales did not reach Dion’s previous heights. In 2003 she began performing a live show in Las Vegas, which…

Robin Williams: …stalks a suburban family in One Hour Photo (2002). A 2002 stand-up performance led to the hugely successful Robin Williams: Live on Broadway (2002), which was released as both an album and a video. He later portrayed Teddy Roosevelt in the comedy Night at the Museum (2006) and two sequels…

George Cukor: Early life and work: …Jeanette MacDonald–Maurice Chevalier musical romance One Hour with You (1932), only to have Lubitsch return and take over. When Lubitsch ended up with the director credit over Cukor’s objections, Cukor left Paramount to join RKO and producer David O. Selznick, whom he had known in New York. There he made…

number symbolism: 100: Because our notational system for numbers is decimal (base 10), the number 100 takes on a significance that it would probably not possess if we employed other systems of notation. It is a round number and holds hints of perfection. The Western calendar is…

One Hundred and One Dalmatians, American animated film, released in 1961, that became a Walt Disney classic, especially known for the villainous character Cruella De Vil. When dalmatians Pongo and Perdita have 15 puppies, Cruella De Vil attempts to buy them from their owners, a composer and his

Agnès Varda: …nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995; One Hundred and One Nights), about an old man with a love for movies. Many of her later credits were documentaries, notably Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse (2000; The Gleaners and I), an intimate look at French country life; Les Plages d’Agnès (2008; The Beaches…

120 Days of Sodom, a sexually explicit account of several months of debauchery, written in 1785 in French as Cent vingt journées de Sodome, ou l’école du libertinage by the Marquis de Sade while he was imprisoned in the Bastille. It was not published until 1904. The book tells the infamous tale of

Bruce Nauman: …large wall installations such as One Hundred Live and Die (1984) impassively play out both the inevitability and the vacancy of language. Nauman also developed an interest in using casts of taxidermy forms to create variously stacked assemblages or mobiles of wild deer, foxes, caribou, and other animals, sometimes dismembered…

French literature: Postwar poetry: …mille milliards de poèmes (1961; One Hundred Million Million Poems), the reader was invited to rearrange 10 sonnets in all the variations possible, as indicated by the title. OuLiPo’s attachment to the serious pleasures of word games, and their engagement in sometimes unbelievably demanding forms, has perhaps its best illustration…

French literature: Prose literature: 1465; The One Hundred New Tales), loosely modeled on the work of Giovanni Boccaccio, are more in the spirit of the fabliaux, though written for the Burgundian court.

Hiroshige: 1837), and One Hundred Views of Edo (1856–58). He repeatedly executed new designs of the 53 Tōkaidō views in which he employed his unused sketches of previous years.

One Hundred Years of Solitude, novel by Gabriel García Márquez, published in Spanish as Cien años de soledad in 1967. It is considered the author’s masterpiece and the foremost example of his style of magic realism. “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aurelio Buendía was to

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

Sidney Lanfield: Films of the 1930s: The popular musical comedy One in a Million (1936) was Norwegian skating star Sonja Henie’s first Hollywood film; Don Ameche played her love interest, and Menjou was cast as a Florenz Ziegfeld-like character. Lanfield and Faye reteamed for Wake Up and Live (1937), a satire about a mock feud…

Judy Blume: Early life and first publications: …became her first published book, The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo (1969). About the same time, she published a version of Iggie’s House in Trailblazer magazine; she rewrote it for publication in book form in 1970.

B.B. King: …returned to his roots with One Kind Favor (2008), a collection of songs from the 1940s and ’50s including blues classics by the likes of John Lee Hooker and Lonnie Johnson. Joining King in the simple four-part arrangements on the T-Bone Burnett-produced album were stalwart New Orleans pianist Dr. John,…

Scott Turow: Law background and writing career: …he published a nonfiction work, One L: What They Really Teach You at Harvard Law School (1977), that is considered a classic for law students. His first novel, Presumed Innocent (1987; film 1990 and TV miniseries 2024), was written while he was working as an assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago…

Yves Béhar: …Negroponte and his nonprofit organization One Laptop per Child (OLPC).

American Broadcasting Company: Focus on television: …long-running daytime dramas such as One Life to Live (1968–2012) and General Hospital (1963– ).

Kate Grenville: …the Secret River (2006) and One Life: My Mother’s Story (2015).

T.M. Aluko: A second novel, One Man, One Matchet (1964), humorously presents the clash of an inexperienced district officer with an unscrupulous politician. Kinsman and Foreman (1966) incorporates Aluko’s professional experiences into a penetrating study of an idealistic young engineer’s battle against the corrupt practices of his highly respected public…

T.M. Aluko: Aluko’s One Man, One Wife (1959), a satirical novel about the conflict of Christian and Yoruba ethics, relates the disillusionment of a village community with the tenets of missionary Christianity. A second novel, One Man, One Matchet (1964), humorously presents the clash of an inexperienced district…

James Corden: …with the National Theatre’s hit One Man, Two Guvnors, an English-language adaptation of the 18th-century Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni’s comedy Il servitore di due padroni. One Man, Two Guvnors—which featured physical comedy, improvisations, audience participation, and skiffle-style music—moved to the West End the following September and to Broadway in April…

Ivan Turgenev: Early life and works: …intimately penetrating character, such as One May Spin a Thread Too Finely (1848), led to the detailed psychological studies in his dramatic masterpiece, A Month in the Country (1855). This was not staged professionally until 1872. Without precedent in the Russian theatre, it required for its appreciation by critics and…

Ray Harryhausen: …Argonauts (1963), and Hammer Films’ One Million Years B.C. (1966). He was well known for the Sinbad films: The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), his first colour feature; The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973); and Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977). He also created the special effects for…

Linkin Park: Subsequent work and expansion: …their previous album and released One More Light (2017), which focused on grief and the challenges of holding on to people during difficult times. It was the final Linkin Park album to feature Bennington.

Jerry Lewis: …also directed the comic mystery One More Time (1970), starring Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis, Jr., the only film Lewis directed without also acting in it.

Australia: The advent of multicultural society: …the formation of the anti-immigrant One Nation Party in the late 1990s. Although the party’s success was limited, its position resonated with some Australian voters.

Jack Conway: Heyday of the 1930s: …Carole Lombard, but the comedy One New York Night (1935) received generally positive reviews.

Regina King: Directing: …debut as a director with One Night in Miami…, a critically acclaimed drama. Based on real events, the movie imagines the conversations and interactions that took place in a Miami hotel room on February 25, 1964, between Black nationalist leader Malcolm X, singer Sam Cooke, athlete and actor Jim Brown,…

Charles Fuller: …the military, Fuller later wrote One Night… (2013), about a female soldier who was raped by fellow servicemen while stationed in Iraq. He also penned the children’s book Snatch: The Adventures of David and Me in Old New York (2010). In 2020 A Soldier’s Play debuted on Broadway, and it…

Jonas Lie: One of Life’s Slaves, 1895), which tells of the social misfortunes of a boy born out of wedlock, and Familien paa Gilje (1883; The Family at Gilje, 1920), a novel that deals with the position of women, the most popular question of his day. The…

George Meredith: Mature works. of George Meredith: One of Our Conquerors (1891) is probably the most difficult of his novels because of the indirect and cryptic style, metaphor, and long passages of interior monologue. Lord Ormont and His Aminta (1894), unlike its predecessor, was praised for the brilliancy and clarity of its…

Robert Stevenson: Films for Disney: In 1975 Stevenson directed One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing, a spy comedy about a bunch of English nannies (Helen Hayes, among others) trying to recover stolen secrets hidden in a dinosaur bone. His last film was The Shaggy D.A. (1976), a follow-up to the popular The Shaggy Dog…

One of Ours, novel by Willa Cather, published in 1922. This story of a Nebraska farm boy who dies fighting in France in World War I took four years to write and was a best-seller in its time. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1923. Cather based the plot on letters written by a cousin who had died in World

Katy Perry: Pop success: …powering sales for her album One of the Boys (2008). With its bouncy, sharp-tongued second single, “Hot N Cold,” also proving popular, the album—much of which Perry wrote herself—eventually registered sales of more than three million copies in the United States.

Lucille Clifton: …Everett Anderson’s Goodbye (1983), and One of the Problems of Everett Anderson (2001).

Poker Hands Ranked: One pair: Two cards of the same rank, plus three cards of unmatched ranks. If more than one player has a pair, then the highest-ranked pair wins. Thus, A-A-10-6-5 beats J-J-8-3-2. If that doesn’t determine the winner, then the highest kicker wins.

One Piece, Japanese manga series created, written, and illustrated by manga artist Oda Eiichiro. It debuted in the Japanese manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1997 and has been serialized in the magazine since then. One Piece follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy and his crew, the Straw Hat

Quetzalcóatl, (from Nahuatl quetzalli, “tail feather of the quetzal bird [Pharomachrus mocinno],” and coatl, “snake”), the Feathered Serpent, one of the major deities of the ancient Mexican pantheon. Representations of a feathered snake occur as early as the Teotihuacán civilization (3rd to 8th

Zhang Yimou: …included Yi miao zhong (2020; One Second) and Cliff Walkers (2021).

Sharon Olds: … (1999), The Unswept Room (2002), One Secret Thing (2008), Odes (2016), Arias (2019), and Balladz (2022). For Stag’s Leap (2012), which chronicles the 1997 dissolution of her marriage, she was awarded both the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. In 2016 Olds received the Academy of American Poets’ Wallace…

Agnès Varda: …L’Une chante, l’autre pas (1977; One Sings, the Other Doesn’t) and Sans toit ni loi (1985; Without Roof or Law, or Vagabond).

Marxism: Lenin: …vperyod, dva shaga nazad (1904; One Step Forward, Two Steps Back), Lenin compared the organizational principles of the Bolsheviks to those of the Mensheviks. After the failure of the Russian Revolution of 1905, he drew positive lessons for the future in Dve taktiki Sotsial-Demokraty v demokraticheskoy revolyutsi (1905; Two Tactics…

Lawrence Ferlinghetti: …oriented, as such titles as One Thousand Fearful Words for Fidel Castro (1961), Where Is Vietnam (1965), Tyrannus Nix? (1969), and Who Are We Now? (1976) suggest. Retrospective collections of his poems were published as Endless Life (1981) and These Are My Rivers (1995). In 1988 Ferlinghetti published

One Thousand Guineas, one of the five English Classic horse races, run over a straight mile (1.6 km) on the Rowley Mile course at the Newmarket (Suffolk) spring meeting. The race was first run in 1814. It is for three-year-old fillies and is run on the Friday following the Wednesday running of the

One Ton Cup, international racing trophy for sailing yachts of about one-ton displacement. From 1907 to 1955 the cup was the object of a major competition for 20-foot (6-metre) yachts, but with the decline of that class the cup was put up for challenge in 1965 by the Cercle de la Voile de Paris, a

William A. Seiter: Seiter’s version of One Touch of Venus (1948) was not as humorous as the Broadway hit, despite Ava Gardner’s starring as a mannequin who comes to life for a window dresser (Robert Walker).

Agnes de Mille: …she staged the dances were One Touch of Venus (1943), Carousel (1945), Brigadoon (1947), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949), Paint Your Wagon (1951), The Girl in Pink Tights (1954), and 110 in the Shade (1963). She also arranged dances for the films

William Hurt: …Couch in New York (1996), One True Thing (1998), Syriana (2005), Into the Wild (2007), Robin Hood (2010), Winter’s Tale (2014), Days and Nights (2014), and Race (2016). He portrayed the Marvel comic character Thaddeus (“Thunderbolt”) Ross in the films

Anna Quindlen: Novels: …basis of her second novel, One True Thing. released three years later. In interviews, however, Quindlen has attempted to dispel characterizations of the book as being purely autobiographical. In 2019 she told Grand magazine, “[The characters] are so utterly different from me, my mother, and my father that that completely…

Melissa Etheridge: For One Way Out (2021), Etheridge performed songs that she had written decades earlier.

Countee Cullen: His novel One Way to Heaven (1932) depicts life in Harlem.

Ted Kooser: …volumes included Sure Signs (1980), One World at a Time (1985), Weather Central (1994), and Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry (2003), which was written with Jim Harrison.

One World Trade Center (One WTC), skyscraper in New York, New York, that is the centerpiece of reconstruction at Ground Zero, the site of the former World Trade Center complex. The building officially opened its doors in 2014, marking the culmination of a long and painful chapter in the history of

Eudora Welty: One Writer’s Beginnings, an autobiographical work, was published in 1984. Originating in a series of three lectures given at Harvard, it beautifully evoked what Welty styled her “sheltered life” in Jackson and how her early fiction grew out of it.

One World Trade Center (One WTC), skyscraper in New York, New York, that is the centerpiece of reconstruction at Ground Zero, the site of the former World Trade Center complex. The building officially opened its doors in 2014, marking the culmination of a long and painful chapter in the history of

Thomas Kinsella: New Poems 1956–73 (1973) and One, and Other Poems (1979) skillfully extend the themes of love, death, and rejuvenation.

Luigi Pirandello: …Uno, nessuno e centomila (1925–26; One, None, and a Hundred Thousand). Both are more typical than Il fu Mattia Pascal. The first, a historical novel reflecting the Sicily of the end of the 19th century and the general bitterness at the loss of the ideals of the Risorgimento (the movement…

Eleaticism: , its doctrine of the One, according to which all that exists (or is really true) is a static plenum of Being as such, and nothing exists that stands either in contrast or in contradiction to Being. Thus, all differentiation, motion, and change must be illusory. This monism is…

One, Two, Three, American screwball comedy film, released in 1961, that was directed by Billy Wilder and was based on a one-act play by Ferenc Molnár. The film is set during the Cold War and is noted for its lightning-fast pace. James Cagney portrayed the brutish, wildly fast-talking head of Coca

tip-cat, outdoor game dating back at least to the 17th century and introduced to North America and elsewhere by English colonists. The game was widely popular in 19th-century Great Britain and in early 20th-century North America. Although there are many varieties of the game, all involve a stick

slot machine, gambling device operated by dropping one or more coins or tokens into a slot and pulling a handle or pushing a button to activate one to three or more reels marked into horizontal segments by varying symbols. The machine pays off by dropping into a cup or trough from two to all the

cake: In the quick-dump, or one-bowl, method, all the ingredients except the leavening agent are put into a bowl and mixed vigorously (preferably with a power mixer), the leavening agent added, and mixing completed. As a modification of the method, the eggs and part of the milk may be added…

one-child policy, official program initiated in the late 1970s and early ’80s by the central government of China, the purpose of which was to limit the great majority of family units in the country to one child each. The rationale for implementing the policy was to reduce the growth rate of China’s

ship: Damage buoyancy and stability: …ships) are built to the “one-compartment” standard, meaning that at least one compartment bounded by watertight bulkheads must be floodable without sinking the ship. A two-compartment standard is common for larger passenger-carrying ships—a measure that presumably protects the ship against a collision at the boundary between two compartments. The Titanic,…

cricket: Test matches: One-day internationals—answering the complaint that Test matches went on too long—began in 1972. In 1975 the first World Cup was contested in England in a series of one-day matches of 60 overs a side (the number of overs was reduced to 50 in 1987). The…

yacht: Kinds of sailboats: …of sailing is that of one-design-class boats. All boats in a one-design class are built to the same specifications in length, beam, sail area, and other elements (for an example of a two-person sailboat, see illustration). Racing between such boats can be held on an even basis with no handicapping…

computer science: Algorithms and complexity: …simplest data structure is a linear array, in which adjacent elements are numbered with consecutive integer “indexes” and an element’s value is accessed by its unique index. An array can be used, for example, to store a list of names, and efficient methods are needed to efficiently search for and…