shepherd’s purse, (Capsella bursa-pastoris), plant of the mustard family (Brassicaceae). Native to the Mediterranean region, shepherd’s purse has become naturalized worldwide and is a common lawn and roadside weed. The plant is most conspicuous in the spring and is distinguished for its flat

teasel: Major species: Shepherd’s rod, or small teasel (D. pilosus), native to Europe, has a globe-shaped flower head and white blooms with violet anthers.

Peter Bogdanovich: Films: …Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms, and Cybill Shepherd as high schoolers coming of age—was inspired by the works of Hawks and Ford. It is arguably Bogdanovich’s finest movie, and he earned an Academy Award nomination for best director. Oscar nods also went to the film, the screenplay by Bogdanovich and Larry…

The View: Debut and hosts: …Survivor; the actress and comedian Sherri Shepherd (2007–14); Meghan McCain (2017–21), daughter of U.S. Sen. John McCain; and Nicolle Wallace (2014–15), a former White House communications director for Pres. George W. Bush. In 2023 The View’s cohosts were Joy Behar; Alyssa Farah Griffin, a communication strategist who had served in…

International Space Station: …Yuri Gidzenko and American astronaut William Shepherd, who flew up in a Soyuz spacecraft. The ISS has been continuously occupied since then.

William Robert Shepherd was an American historian known as an authority on Latin America and on European overseas expansion. Shepherd was educated at Columbia University, where he earned his Ph.D. (1896). He studied in Berlin, returned to Columbia as a professor of history, and taught there until

buffalo berry, (Shepherdia argentea), hardy flowering shrub of the oleaster family (Elaeagnaceae), growing wild along stream banks in the Great Plains of North America. Because it is tolerant of windswept sites on dry rocky soil, it is valued as an ornamental and hedge plant where other shrubs

buffalo berry: Related species: A smaller relative, the Canadian buffalo berry (Shepherdia canadensis), grows to about 2.5 metres (8 feet) high, has oval leaves that are silvery only on the underside, and occurs on wooded banks and hillsides from Newfoundland and New York to Alaska and Oregon and southward along the Rocky Mountains…

Saturn: Orbital and rotational dynamics: …moon, Prometheus, have been dubbed shepherd moons because of their influence on ring particles. During Voyager 1’s flyby, the two bodies were discovered orbiting on either side of the narrow F ring, which itself had been found only a year earlier by Pioneer 11. The moons’ gravitational interactions with the…

The Shepheardes Calender, series of poems by Edmund Spenser, published in 1579 and considered to mark the beginning of the English Renaissance in literature. Following the example of Virgil and others, Spenser began his career with a group of eclogues (short poems usually cast as pastoral

Harry Mark Petrakis: …Bell (1976) and its sequel, The Shepherds of Shadows (2008); Nick the Greek (1979); Days of Vengeance (1983); and The Orchards of Ithaca (2004). He also published collections of short stories. His nonfiction works included a biography of the industrialist Henry Crown (1998; written with David Weber). In addition, Petrakis…

adoration of the shepherds, as a theme in art, depiction of shepherds paying homage to the newborn Christ, an event described in The Gospel According to Luke. It is related to the older but less frequently represented annunciation to the shepherds, which shows the same shepherds in the fields

Shepherdstown, town, Jefferson county, in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia, U.S., near the Potomac River, about 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Harpers Ferry. One of the state’s oldest towns, it was first settled in the early 18th century by Germans from Pennsylvania. In the 1730s Thomas

Archie Shepp is an American tenor saxophonist, composer, dramatist, teacher, and pioneer of the free jazz movement, known not only for his creative improvisation and colourful sound but also for his Afrocentric approach to music. Shepp grew up in Philadelphia and attended Goddard College (B.A.,

Archie Shepp is an American tenor saxophonist, composer, dramatist, teacher, and pioneer of the free jazz movement, known not only for his creative improvisation and colourful sound but also for his Afrocentric approach to music. Shepp grew up in Philadelphia and attended Goddard College (B.A.,

Jack Sheppard was an 18th-century English thief who managed four spectacular escapes from London prisons and became a favourite figure in verse, popular plays, romances, and burlesques. His father having died when he was a child, Sheppard was brought up in a workhouse; he learned to read and write

Jack Sheppard was an 18th-century English thief who managed four spectacular escapes from London prisons and became a favourite figure in verse, popular plays, romances, and burlesques. His father having died when he was a child, Sheppard was brought up in a workhouse; he learned to read and write

Kate Sheppard was an English-born activist, who was a leader in the woman suffrage movement in New Zealand. She was instrumental in making New Zealand the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote (1893). Largely raised and educated in Scotland, she moved to New Zealand in the

Mel Sheppard was an American middle-distance runner, the first to win two gold medals in individual events in the Olympic Games. Sheppard was a member of the Irish American Athletic Club of New York City. In 1906 and 1907 he set records for the 880-yard and 1,000-yard races. At the 1908 Olympic

Mel Sheppard was an American middle-distance runner, the first to win two gold medals in individual events in the Olympic Games. Sheppard was a member of the Irish American Athletic Club of New York City. In 1906 and 1907 he set records for the 880-yard and 1,000-yard races. At the 1908 Olympic

F. Lee Bailey: …of the murder conviction of Sam Sheppard, an Ohio physician who in 1954 had been convicted of killing his wife. In 1966 Bailey successfully argued before the Supreme Court that Sheppard had been denied a fair trial, and, on retrial later that year, Sheppard was acquitted.

Julia Clifford Lathrop: …also campaigned hard for the Sheppard-Towner Act, offering federal funds to states for programs of maternity and infant care, which was passed shortly after her resignation for reasons of health in 1921. (She was succeeded by Abbott.) From 1922 she lived in Rockford, Illinois. In that year she was elected…

Shepparton, city, north-central Victoria, Australia, at the confluence of the Goulburn and Broken rivers, northeast of Melbourne. The site, called Canny-goopna (“River of Big Fish”) by the local Bangerang Aboriginal people, was settled as a sheep run in the early 1840s. The first European

Isle of Sheppey, island at the mouth of the River Thames in Swale borough, administrative and historic county of Kent, England. It covers 35 square miles (91 square km), and its extremely fertile low-lying land supports grain and vegetable crops and sheep. Although it is physically separated from

Cecil G. Sheps was a Canadian-born physician, researcher, and educator who was one of the founders of the field now known as health services research. He held many positions of leadership through his career, notably as founding director (1968–72) of the Health Services Research Center (renamed in

Menkaure: …at his death, his successor, Shepseskaf, completed the stonework of the mortuary temple in brick. In the funerary complex were found some of the finest sculptures of the Pyramid Age, including a slate statue group of Menkaure and his sister-wife Khamerernebti II and a number of smaller slate triads representing…

Sir Theophilus Shepstone was a British official in Southern Africa who devised a system of administering Africans on which all later European field administrations in Africa were to be based. He was responsible for the annexation of the Transvaal in 1877 and helped to instigate the Anglo-Zulu War

Mendip: Shepton Mallet, in the centre of an area that produces cider apples, is the administrative centre.

Bhutan: The emergence of Bhutan: …an influential lama from Tibet, Sheptoon La-Pha, became the king of Bhutan and acquired the title of dharma raja. Bhutan probably became a distinct political entity about this period. La-Pha was succeeded by Doopgein Sheptoon, who consolidated Bhutan’s administrative organization through the appointment of regional penlops (governors of territories) and…

Ukraine: Western Ukraine under Polish rule: …of the highly revered metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, the Greek Catholic church conducted its religious mission through numerous clergy and monastic orders. The church also ran a network of seminaries, schools, charitable and social service institutions, museums, and publications. Although Catholicism of the Roman rite remained privileged, the Greek Catholic church…

Shepway, district, southern administrative and historic county of Kent, England. It extends along the English Channel coast from north of Folkestone (the district headquarters) to south of the Dungeness promontory. Inland, the diverse landscapes of the district include a part of the chalk hills

Sabbath: Sheqalim (“shekels”), occurring on or before Adar I, refers to taxes and has as its text Exodus 30:11–16. On Zakhor (“remember”), Deuteronomy 25:17–19 reminds Jews how they were attacked by Amalek in the wilderness after their Exodus from Egypt. This Sabbath precedes the festival of…

sheqel, monetary unit of Israel. The sheqel (plural: sheqalim) is divided into 100 agorot. Israel’s current monetary system, based on the New Israeli Sheqel (NIS), was established in 1985, when the old sheqel was replaced at a rate of 1,000 old sheqalim to 1 new sheqel (NIS 1). Israel has had

Sher Shah of Sur was the emperor of north India (1540–45) in the Islamic Sur (Afghan) dynasty of 1540–57 who organized a long-lived bureaucracy responsible to the ruler and created a carefully calculated revenue system. For the first time during the Islamic conquest the relationship between the

Delhi, city and national capital, and union territory, north-central India. The city of Delhi actually consists of two components: Old Delhi, in the north, the historic city; and New Delhi, in the south, since 1947 the capital of India, built in the first part of the 20th century as the capital of

Richard III: Adaptations: Alec Guinness, Kenneth Branagh, Antony Sher, Kevin Spacey, and Mark Rylance. Modern productions have focused on portraying Richard as realistically disabled rather than Shakespeare’s exaggerated “deformed,” with such actors as Peter Dinklage, who has a form of dwarfism, and Paralympic athelete and actress Katy Sullivan, taking the role.

Amrita Sher-Gil was a painter who was one of the pioneers of the Modernist movement in Indian art and whose works, frequently portraying women and their struggles, left an indelible mark on the history of art. Often called the Indian Frida Kahlo, Amrita Sher-Gil produced about 150 works during

Uzbekistan: Drainage: …the Amu Darya—the Surkhan and Sherabad, followed by the Zeravshan and Kashka—contribute little flow, for the last two trickle into nothing in the desert. The Syr Darya, the second largest river in Uzbekistan, forms there by the confluence of the Naryn and Qoradaryo rivers.

Amy Sherald is an American artist who gained fame for her portrait of former U.S. first lady Michelle Obama (2018), which was commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. She has also received acclaim for redefining contemporary portraiture through her

sherardizing, means of forming a uniform, corrosion-resistant coating of zinc on the surface of iron or steel objects. The process, practiced since about 1900, is named for its English inventor Sherard O. Cowper-Coles. The object is heated in a sealed container with finely divided zinc to a

Duncan Phyfe: …executing delicate furniture in the Sheraton, Regency, and French Directoire styles. By 1825, as taste changed, his pieces had developed into the Empire style. His Sheraton chairs, tables, and sofas often had delicate, reeded legs, and his Empire pieces had massive claw feet. His furniture, with its low relief carvings…

Thomas Sheraton was an English cabinetmaker and one of the leading exponents of Neoclassicism. Sheraton gave his name to a style of furniture characterized by a feminine refinement of late Georgian styles and became the most powerful source of inspiration behind the furniture of the late 18th

Adhemar Ferreira da Silva: In 1953 Soviet triple jumper Leonid Sherbakov set a world record that bested Ferreira da Silva’s mark by 0.01 metre. Two years later, in his 100th competition, Ferreira da Silva erased Sherbakov’s record with a 16.56-metre (54 foot 3.96 inch) leap, the longest of his career. At the 1956 Olympics…

First Amendment: Free exercise of religion: …for the court’s rulings in Sherbert v. Verner (1963) and Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972), in which the court strongly enforced this religious exemption requirement.

First Amendment: Free exercise of religion: …rule became known as the Sherbert/Yoder test, named for the court’s rulings in Sherbert v. Verner (1963) and Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972), in which the court strongly enforced this religious exemption requirement.

sherbet, frozen dessert usually flavoured with fruit, made from water, sugar, flavourings, and milk or cream. Egg white or gelatin may be added to ensure a fine texture. Sherbets may also be flavoured with wine or liqueurs. By U.S. federal regulation, sherbets must contain a minimum of 1 percent

Vitaly Scherbo is a former gymnast from what is now Belarus who was the first in his sport to win six gold medals in one Olympics. Scherbo quickly advanced in Soviet sports, competing in his first gymnastics meet at the age of 7. At 15 years old he became a member of the Soviet national team, and

Sierra Leone: Ethnic groups: … in the east; and the Sherbro in the southwest. Minor groups include the coastal Bullom, Vai, and Krim and the Fulani and Malinke, who are immigrants from Guinea concentrated in the north and east. The Creoles—descendants of liberated blacks who colonized the coast from the late 18th to the mid-19th…

Sherbro Island, island in the Atlantic Ocean off the southwestern coast of Sierra Leone, separated from the African mainland by the Sherbro River (north) and the Sherbro Strait (east). It is 32 miles (51 km) long and up to 15 miles (24 km) wide. The western extremity is Cape St. Ann; Bonthe, on the

Sherbrooke, city, Estrie region, southern Quebec province, Canada, at the confluence of the Magog and Saint-François rivers. It originated as a fur-trading post, about 75 miles (120 km) east of Montreal city and 30 miles (48 km) north of the Vermont, U.S., boundary, and later served as a

Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke was a British Liberal Party politician whose effective opposition to the Liberals’ electoral Reform Bill of 1866 made it possible for the Conservatives to sponsor and take credit for the Reform Act of 1867. Despite his leadership of the renegade Liberals known as

Xerénte, Brazilian Indian group speaking Xerénte, a Macro-Ge language. The Xerénte live in northern Goias state, on a hilly upland plateau that is broken up by strips of forest that trace the courses of the rivers flowing through the region. They numbered approximately 500 in the late 20th century.

Amrita Sher-Gil was a painter who was one of the pioneers of the Modernist movement in Indian art and whose works, frequently portraying women and their struggles, left an indelible mark on the history of art. Often called the Indian Frida Kahlo, Amrita Sher-Gil produced about 150 works during

achondrite: howardites, lodranites, nakhlites, shergottites, and ureilites. The howardites, eucrites, and diogenites (HEDs) are from the large asteroid Vesta. The shergottites, nakhlites, and chassignites almost certainly came from Mars. In addition, a small group of achondrites are believed to be derived from the Moon.

Sheridan, city, seat (1888) of Sheridan county, northern Wyoming, U.S., at the confluence of Big Goose and Little Goose creeks, on the east slope of the Bighorn Mountains near the Montana border. It was founded in 1882 and named for General Philip H. Sheridan, Union cavalry leader during the

John Farrow: Early life and work: …She Loved a Fireman, with Ann Sheridan; and Men in Exile. In 1938 he helmed The Invisible Menace (again starring Karloff) and two Sheridan vehicles—Little Miss Thoroughbred and Broadway Musketeers—along with the Kay Francis tearjerker My Bill.

Caroline Norton was an English poet and novelist whose matrimonial difficulties prompted successful efforts to secure legal protection for married women. Granddaughter of the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, she began to write while in her teens. The Sorrows of Rosalie (1829) and The Undying

My Left Foot: Jim Sheridan adapted the text into a 1989 film starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker, both of whom received Academy Awards for their performances.

Martin Sheridan was an Irish-born American athlete, one of the most versatile performers of his day. He was the winner of three Olympic gold medals and excelled at the 1906 Intercalated Games in Athens, winning six medals. Sheridan immigrated to the United States in 1897 and worked as a policeman

Martin Sheridan was an Irish-born American athlete, one of the most versatile performers of his day. He was the winner of three Olympic gold medals and excelled at the 1906 Intercalated Games in Athens, winning six medals. Sheridan immigrated to the United States in 1897 and worked as a policeman

Martin Sheridan was an Irish-born American athlete, one of the most versatile performers of his day. He was the winner of three Olympic gold medals and excelled at the 1906 Intercalated Games in Athens, winning six medals. Sheridan immigrated to the United States in 1897 and worked as a policeman

Michael Bolton: Personal life, charity work, and cancer diagnosis: …relationship with soap opera star Nicollette Sheridan in 1992, which ended five years later. The couple rekindled their romance in the 2000s and were engaged before splitting up again in 2008.

Philip H. Sheridan was a highly successful U.S. cavalry officer whose driving military leadership in the last year of the American Civil War was instrumental in defeating the Confederate Army. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. (1853), Sheridan served mostly at frontier

Philip H. Sheridan was a highly successful U.S. cavalry officer whose driving military leadership in the last year of the American Civil War was instrumental in defeating the Confederate Army. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. (1853), Sheridan served mostly at frontier

Richard Brinsley Sheridan was an Irish-born playwright, impresario, orator, and Whig politician. His plays, notably The School for Scandal (1777), form a link in the history of the comedy of manners between the end of the 17th century and Oscar Wilde in the 19th century. Sheridan was the third son

Richard Brinsley Sheridan was an Irish-born playwright, impresario, orator, and Whig politician. His plays, notably The School for Scandal (1777), form a link in the history of the comedy of manners between the end of the 17th century and Oscar Wilde in the 19th century. Sheridan was the third son

Taylor Sheridan is an American actor, writer, and director who first garnered attention for his roles on the television series Veronica Mars and Sons of Anarchy but found greater success behind the scenes, notably cocreating such popular TV shows as Yellowstone (2018–24). Born Sheridan Taylor

Thomas Sheridan was an Irish-born actor and theatrical manager and father of the dramatist Richard Brinsley Sheridan. While an undergraduate at Trinity College, Dublin, Sheridan wrote a farce, The Brave Irishman, or Captain O’Blunder, and after a successful appearance as Richard III at the Smock

sheriff, a senior executive officer in an English county or smaller area who performs a variety of administrative and judicial functions. Officers of this name also exist in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the United States. In England the office of sheriff existed before the Norman Conquest

Scottish law: Courts of law: …lower civil court is the sheriff court, which is an ancient court dating back to the 12th century. Scotland is divided into several sheriffdoms, each staffed by a sheriff-principal and a number of full-time sheriffs. Courts are held regularly in all the major towns of each sheriffdom. Sheriff courts have…

Raoul Walsh: Last films: The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958) was a light western comedy made in England with Kenneth More and Jayne Mansfield. A Private’s Affair (1959) was another lightweight product, a service comedy starring Sal Mineo and Barbara Eden.

Rugby: …for boys in 1567 by Laurence Sheriff, a local resident, and was endowed with sundry estates, including Sheriff’s own house. The school flourished under the headship of Thomas Arnold between 1828 and 1842 and became, under his rule, a model of the British public school for following generations. It was…

United Kingdom: Government of England: …inquiry into local administration, the Inquest of Sheriffs, was held, and many sheriffs were dismissed.

Hai ben Sherira: He assisted his father, Sherira ben Ḥanina, in teaching and later as chief of court of the academy. A false accusation to the caliph by Jewish adversaries caused them both to be imprisoned briefly (997). When they were freed, Hai’s father appointed him gaon (998).

Islamic world: Shah ʿAbbās I: …(1604) and the adventuring Sherley brothers from Elizabethan England. Just as his visitors hoped to use him to their own advantage, ʿAbbās hoped to use them to his, as sources of firearms and military technology, or as pawns in his economic warfare against the Ottomans, in which he was willing…

ʿAbbās I: Life: …Sir Anthony and Sir Robert Sherley—the former an adventurer, the latter a loyal servant of the Shah who distinguished himself in the wars against the Ottomans. The reign of Shah ʿAbbās was a period of intense commercial and diplomatic activity, and, in the Persian Gulf, the Portuguese, the Dutch, and…

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: …such as the BBC series Sherlock (2010–2017), Adler is both a femme fatale and a decided love interest of the great detective’s. Other highlights in the collection are the eerie “The Red-Headed League,” where criminals offer a red-headed man employment copying entries from Encyclopaedia Britannica as a ruse to keep…

Mary J. Blige: Acting career: …voice to the animated feature Sherlock Gnomes (2018) and Trolls World Tour (2020). Her other credits from 2020 include the horror thriller Body Cam, in which she played a police officer. During this time she also had recurring roles on such TV shows as Scream and The Umbrella Academy. In…

William K. Howard: Sound era: …struggle through hard times, and Sherlock Holmes, starring Clive Brook as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional detective and Ernest Torrence as the diabolical Professor Moriarty. That year also saw the release of The Trial of Vivienne Ware, which earned praise for its innovative camera work.

Jude Law: Other films: Watson in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and its sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), with Robert Downey, Jr., as Holmes.

William Hooker Gillette: … (1895); and his famous play Sherlock Holmes (1899). This play, first produced in New York and later in England, was often revived in both countries with Gillette in the leading role. His only motion-picture appearance was in 1915 as Holmes.

Robert Downey, Jr.: Iron Man series and Oppenheimer: …Award for his performance; a sequel followed in 2011.

Between Edgar Allan Poe’s invention of the detective story with “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” in 1841 and Arthur Conan Doyle’s first Sherlock Holmes story A Study in Scarlet in 1887, chance and coincidence played a large part in crime fiction. Wilkie Collins’s story “Who Killed Zebedee?” (1881)

Carry Back: The winner was Sherluck, a 65–1 outsider. Carry Back was retired to stud in 1963 and died in 1983. He was inducted into the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame in 1975.

Somalia: The era of Scientific Socialism: Cabdirashiid Cali Shermaʾarke (Abdirashid Ali Shermarke) on Oct. 15, 1969, provoked a government crisis, of which the military took advantage to stage a coup on October 21.

Sherman tank, main battle tank designed and built by the United States for the conduct of World War II. The M4 General Sherman was the most widely used tank series among the Western Allies, being employed not only by the U.S. Army and Marine Corps but also by British, Canadian, and Free French

Sherman, city, seat (1846) of Grayson county, northern Texas, U.S. It lies on a watershed split between the Red and Trinity rivers, near Lake Texoma and Denison. Founded in the 1840s, it was named for General Sidney Sherman, a cavalry officer during the Texas Revolution and an early railroad

Sherman Antitrust Act, first legislation enacted by the U.S. Congress (1890) to curb concentrations of power that interfere with trade and reduce economic competition. It was named for U.S. Sen. John Sherman of Ohio, who was an expert on the regulation of commerce. One of the act’s main provisions

United States: The silver issue: …antitrust law, it enacted the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, which required the secretary of the treasury to purchase each month 4,500,000 ounces (130,000 kilograms) of silver at the market price. This act superseded the Bland–Allison Act of 1878, effectively increasing the government’s monthly purchase of silver by more than 50…

Sherman tank, main battle tank designed and built by the United States for the conduct of World War II. The M4 General Sherman was the most widely used tank series among the Western Allies, being employed not only by the U.S. Army and Marine Corps but also by British, Canadian, and Free French

Sherman’s March to the Sea, (November 15–December 21, 1864) American Civil War campaign that concluded Union operations in the Confederate state of Georgia. After seizing Atlanta, Union Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman embarked on a scorched-earth campaign intended to cripple the South’s

Cindy Sherman is an American photographer known for her images—particularly her elaborately “disguised” self-portraits—that comment on social role-playing and sexual stereotypes. Sherman grew up on Long Island, New York. In 1972 she enrolled at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo and

Cindy Sherman is an American photographer known for her images—particularly her elaborately “disguised” self-portraits—that comment on social role-playing and sexual stereotypes. Sherman grew up on Long Island, New York. In 1972 she enrolled at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo and

James Sherman was the 27th vice president of the United States (1909–12) in the Republican administration of President William Howard Taft. Sherman was the son of Richard Updike Sherman, a newspaper editor and Democratic Party politician, and Mary Frances Sherman. Admitted to the New York bar in

John Sherman was an American statesman, financial administrator, and author of major legislation concerning currency and regulation of commerce. A younger brother of General William Tecumseh Sherman, he practiced law in Ohio before entering politics. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives

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Roger Sherman was an American politician whose plan for representation of large and small states prevented a deadlock at the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787. After learning shoemaking, Sherman moved to Connecticut in 1743, joining a brother there two years after his father had died, and

Sean Sherman is a chef, activist, ethnobotanist, educator, and member of the Oglala Lakota Sioux tribe. Sherman garnered attention for spotlighting traditional North American Indigenous foods and their ecological and human health advantages. Sherman’s food philosophy centers on his ancestry and

Vincent Sherman was an American director who was especially known for so-called “women’s pictures,” films that were geared to female audiences. Sherman began his film career as an actor and appeared in several productions, most notably William Wyler’s Counsellor at Law (1933). In the late 1930s he