Dictionary - Trees,: Sai Baba Dictionary On Krishna About Vriksha
Trees,: Trees, (Krishna about) [vriksha]: (SB 10:22)   'O Stoka Krishna and Ams'u; o S'ridama, Subala and Arjuna; o Vis'ala, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rosa Parks: Encyclopedia Ii - Rosa Parks - Awards And Honors
Parks received most of her national accolades very late in life, with relatively few awards and honors being given to her until many deca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Truman Show: Encyclopedia Ii - The Truman Show - Awards
The Truman Show was nominated for three Oscars and six Golden Globes. It won three Golden Globes. The movie won the 1999 Hugo Award for B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Citizen Kane: Encyclopedia Ii - Citizen Kane - Awards And Recognition
The 1941 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay was shared by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz as the only Oscar awarded for the fi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Academy Award For Best Picture: Encyclopedia Ii - Academy Award For Best Picture - 1920s
Best Production 1927-28 Wings - Paramount Famous Lasky - Lucien Hubbard The Racket - Caddo, United Artists - Howard Hughes Seventh Heav...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Academy Award For Costume Design: Encyclopedia - Academy Award For Costume Design
This Academy Award was first given for movies made in 1948 when separate awards were given for black-and-white and color movies. Academy ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Albert Finney: Encyclopedia Ii - Albert Finney - Acclaim
Finney's accolades are numerous. He's received several nominations and awards from the prestigious awards societies of the entertainment ...   » Read the article

Article - Spiritual Awakening: Two Streams Of Future Probability
Kiara Windrider is a therapist, poet, astrologer, healer, explorer of mystic and shamanic paths and the author of the award-winning book ...   » Read the article

Article - Highly Sensitive People: Emotional Sensitivity
Emotional Sensitivity Empathic people do have observable traits that are easily identified. Interestingly, the traits are a set of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - United States Border Patrol: Encyclopedia Ii - United States Border Patrol - Newton-azrak Award
The Border Patrol bestows the Newton-Azrak Award (medal) to Border Patrol agents killed in the line of duty as well as presented to agent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eminem: Encyclopedia Ii - Eminem - Children
Hailie Jade Scott is the daughter of Eminem and his ex-wife Kimberly Ann Scott. She was born on December 25, 1995. The songs "Mockingbird...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Daisaku Ikeda: Encyclopedia - Daisaku Ikeda
Daisaku Ikeda (池田 大作, born January 2, 1928) is the president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI), a Buddhist association of m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ernest Hemingway: Encyclopedia Ii - Ernest Hemingway - Influence And Legacy
The influence of Hemingway's writings on American literature was considerable and continues today. Indeed, the influence of Hemingway's s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Michael Jordan: Encyclopedia Ii - Michael Jordan - Baseball Career
After retiring from basketball, Jordan spent the next year pursuing a childhood dream: professional baseball. He signed a minor league co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Muppets: Encyclopedia Ii - The Muppets - Famous Muppets
Famous Muppets include Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, Big Bird, Bert and Ernie, Elmo, and Oscar the Grouch. The most wi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joseph Cotten: Encyclopedia Ii - Joseph Cotten - Biography And Career
Joseph Cotten - Early Life and Career. Born in Petersburg, Virginia, Cotten worked as an advertising agent after graduating from the Wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cloris Leachman: Encyclopedia Ii - Cloris Leachman - Career
Leachman has won numerous awards during her lengthy career. In 1978 she earned the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre. S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Social Work: Encyclopedia Ii - Social Work - Qualifications For Social Work
In a number of countries and jurisdictions where registration of people working as social workers is required there are mandated qualific...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dolly Parton: Encyclopedia Ii - Dolly Parton - Honors
[3] Parton is perhaps the most-honored female country performer of all time. She holds 25 U.S. gold, platinum and multi-platinum honors f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Honours System: Encyclopedia Ii - British Honours System - Modern Honours
As the head of state, the Sovereign remains the "fount of honour", but the system for identifying and recognising candidates to honour ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nobel Prize: Encyclopedia Ii - Nobel Prize - Other Prizes
Some fields without a Nobel prize have instituted prizes of their own, most of which are not as well-known: the Léonie Sonning Music Pri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christopher Eccleston: Encyclopedia Ii - Christopher Eccleston - Biography
As a child his ambition was to play football for his beloved Manchester United, but he found himself to be a much better actor than he wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jodie Foster: Encyclopedia Ii - Jodie Foster - Life And Career
Foster was born to Lucius Foster and Brandy Almond in Los Angeles, California, where she attended an exclusive prep school, the Lycée Fr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brandy Entertainer: Encyclopedia Ii - Brandy Entertainer - Music Career
Brandy entertainer - Early career. When Brandy was 14, she was able to land a record deal with Atlantic Records, and in 1994 her first ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Encyclopedia Ii - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Multimedia
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Music. On June 30, 1993, between seasons one and two, DS9 followed other Treks in releasing the original s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of India: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of India - Regional Film Industries
India is a large country where many languages are spoken. Each of the larger languages supports its own film industry: Urdu/Hindi, Bengal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Andre Norton: Encyclopedia Ii - Andre Norton - Biography
The parents of Alice Mary Norton were Adalbert Freely Norton, owner of a rug company, and Bertha Stemm. She began writing at the Collinwo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dumbo: Encyclopedia Ii - Dumbo - History
Dumbo - Production. The film was designed as a economical feature, to help generate income for the Disney studio after the financial fa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pretty Woman: Encyclopedia Ii - Pretty Woman - Trivia
Possibly due to the controversial subject matter, the movie was heavily edited. Groundbreaking on account of its sympathetic depiction of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - August Wilson: Encyclopedia - August Wilson
August Wilson (April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright. His singular achievement and literar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Bridge On The River Kwai: Encyclopedia Ii - The Bridge On The River Kwai - Fiction Versus Fact
Although the suffering caused by the building of the Burma Railway and its bridges is true, the incidents in the film are entirely fictio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1998 In Literature: Encyclopedia - 1998 In Literature
See also: 1997 in literature, other events of 1998, 1999 in literature, list of years in literature. 1998 in literature - Events. Novem...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Woody Allen: Encyclopedia Ii - Woody Allen - Film Career
Woody Allen - Early films. His first movie production was What's New, Pussycat? in 1965, for which he wrote the screenplay. It was a la...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Casablanca Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Casablanca Film - Plot
Humphrey Bogart plays Rick Blaine, the owner of an upscale cafe/bar/gambling den in the Moroccan city of Casablanca which attracts a mixe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Woody Allen: Encyclopedia Ii - Woody Allen - Musical Career
Allen studied the clarinet since adolescence. When he changed his name for show business, he took his first name from an idol, famed clar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of People From Nebraska: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of People From Nebraska - Entertainment
List of people from Nebraska - Film/Theater. Adele Astaire (1897-1981), dancer and entertainer Fred Astaire (1899-1987), dancer and ac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dreamgirls: Encyclopedia Ii - Dreamgirls - History
Dreamgirls - Original Broadway production. The original Broadway production of Dreamgirls starred Jennifer Holliday as Effie White, She...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Claude Elwood Shannon: Encyclopedia - Claude Elwood Shannon
Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001), an American electrical engineer and mathematician, has been called "the fat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marching Band: Encyclopedia Ii - Marching Band - The Sudler Trophy
The Sudler Trophy is an award bestowed by the John Philip Sousa Foundation on one university marching band each year. No school may win t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Homer Simpson: Encyclopedia Ii - Homer Simpson - Overview
Homer works as a safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, in Sector 7G, although "working" in this case refers largely to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julia Stiles: Encyclopedia Ii - Julia Stiles - Career
Julia Stiles - Television career. Stiles began her acting career in television roles. After two appearances as the computer punk "Erica...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bill Finger: Encyclopedia - Bill Finger
Bill Finger (February 8, 1914 - January 24, 1974) was an American writer who is best remembered (though never officially credited) as the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Surrealism: Encyclopedia Ii - Surrealism - Philosophy
Surrealist philosophy emerged around 1920, partly as an outgrowth of Dada, with French writer André Breton as its initial principal theo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Taxi Driver: Encyclopedia Ii - Taxi Driver - Plot Summary
Travis Bickle (De Niro) is an alienated, sexually frustrated young man of 26 from the Midwest, who claims that he has recently been disch...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bee Gees: Encyclopedia Ii - Bee Gees - Awards And Success
The Bee Gees have been incredibly successful, selling in excess of 180 million records and singles worldwide. Their songs have been cover...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alfred Hitchcock: Encyclopedia Ii - Alfred Hitchcock - Filmography
(all dates are for release) Alfred Hitchcock - Silent films. No. 13 (Unfinished, also known as Mrs. Peabody) (1922) Always Tell Your W...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geography Of Pakistan: Encyclopedia Ii - Geography Of Pakistan - Boundaries
Pakistan occupies a position of great geostrategic importance, bordered by Iran on the west, Afghanistan on the northwest, China on the n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Audrey Hepburn: Encyclopedia Ii - Audrey Hepburn - Marriages And Death
In the early 1950s she was engaged to a wealthy man named James Hanson. She called it "love at first sight." However, after having the we...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jessica Simpson: Encyclopedia Ii - Jessica Simpson - Biography
Jessica Simpson - Early life and beginning. Simpson was born in Abilene, Texas and raised in Richardson, a suburb of Dallas, Texas. She...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jayakanthan: Encyclopedia Ii - Jayakanthan - His Life
Jayakanthan was born in 1934 in a family of agriculturists in Cuddalore, in the South Arcot district of Tamil Nadu. He quit school after ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - James Dean: Encyclopedia Ii - James Dean - Acting Career
Dean began his acting career with a Pepsi-Cola television commercial followed by a stint as a stunt tester in the game show Beat the Cloc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ingmar Bergman: Encyclopedia Ii - Ingmar Bergman - Biography And Style Characteristics
Born in Uppsala, Sweden, to a Lutheran minister of Danish descent, Bergman grew up surrounded by religious imagery and discussion. Bergma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goldeneye 007: Encyclopedia Ii - Goldeneye 007 - Reaction
GoldenEye 007 is one of few cases in which a video adaptation of a film or novel is rated highly amongst gamers. At the time of its relea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Warrick Dunn: Encyclopedia - Warrick Dunn
Warrick De'Mon Dunn (born January 5, 1975 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is an American Football player who currently plays running back for ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Glenn Gould: Encyclopedia Ii - Glenn Gould - Health
Gould was addicted to many prescription drugs, some of which had contradictory effects and his use of these drugs may have had a deleteri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Don Rosa: Encyclopedia Ii - Don Rosa - History
The name Don Rosa originates from Italy. His grandfather, Gioachino Rosa, lived in Moniago, a small village at the foot of the Alps in No...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philip K. Dick: Encyclopedia Ii - Philip K. Dick - Early Life
Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy Kindred Dick. His father, Edgar Dick, was a fraud investigator for the United St...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Robertson Davies: Encyclopedia Ii - Robertson Davies - Biography
Robertson Davies - Early life. Growing up, Davies was surrounded by books and language. His father, Senator William Rupert Davies, was ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Princeton University: Encyclopedia Ii - Princeton University - Significant Places
Princeton University - Nassau Hall. Nassau Hall is the main administrative building of the University. For more information on this his...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carl Hiaasen: Encyclopedia - Carl Hiaasen
Carl Hiaasen [pronounced "hiya-sun"] (born March 12, 1953) is an American journalist and novelist. Born and raised in Plantation, Florida...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carnegie Mellon University: Encyclopedia Ii - Carnegie Mellon University - Campus
Carnegie Mellon's 103 acre (0.4 km²) main campus is five miles (8 km) from downtown Pittsburgh, in the Squirrel Hill and Oakland neighbo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neil Young: Encyclopedia Ii - Neil Young - Health Scare Recovery And Prairie Wind
On March 31, 2005, Young was admitted to a hospital in New York for treatment for a brain aneurysm. He was treated successfully by a mini...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gold: Encyclopedia Ii - Gold - Symbolism
Gold has been associated with the extremities of utmost evil and great sanctity throughout history. The Golden Calf is a widely-recognise...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dawson's Creek: Encyclopedia Ii - Dawson's Creek - Music
The theme song, "I Don't Wanna Wait" was written and performed by Paula Cole. For the first season, international broadcasts used "Run Li...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alan Turing: Encyclopedia Ii - Alan Turing - Recognition
Since 1966, the Turing Award has been given by the Association for Computing Machinery to a person for technical contributions to the com...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Magnolia Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Magnolia Film - Music And Soundtracks
Paul Thomas Anderson has stated that the screenplay was written largely around the songs of Aimee Mann. Two songs were written expressly ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - James Dean: Encyclopedia Ii - James Dean - Legacy
James Dean is one of only five people to have been nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award for their first feature role and the only one...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - United Press International: Encyclopedia - United Press International
United Press International (UPI) is a global news agency headquartered in the United States filing news in English, Spanish and Arabic. W...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hernando De Soto Economist: Encyclopedia Ii - Hernando De Soto Economist - Other
The original Spanish-language title of de Soto's book The Other Path is El Otro Sendero. This was an allusion to countering the Shining P...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Carpenter: Encyclopedia Ii - John Carpenter - Biography
Although born in Carthage, New York, Carpenter was raised in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He attended Western Kentucky University (where his ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - R. Lee Ermey: Encyclopedia Ii - R. Lee Ermey - Biography
Born in Emporia, Kansas, Ermey enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1961. Ermey was arrested several times as a teenager and the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Hispanics: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Hispanics - Literature
See also List of Spanish language authors List of Hispanics - A–D. Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (1581?–1639), dramatist. Rafael Albert...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ernest Hemingway: Encyclopedia Ii - Ernest Hemingway - Works
Ernest Hemingway - Novels/Noveletta. (1925) The Torrents of Spring (1926) The Sun Also Rises (1929) A Farewell to Arms (1937) To Have ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frank Herbert: Encyclopedia Ii - Frank Herbert - Biography
Frank Herbert was born in 1920 in Tacoma, Washington. He knew from an early age that he wanted to be a writer, and in 1939 he lied about ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - United Parcel Service: Encyclopedia - United Parcel Service
United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) NYSE: UPS is the world's largest package delivery company, delivering over 14 million packages a day to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eason Chan: Encyclopedia Ii - Eason Chan - Biography
Chan was an Architecture major at University of Kingston in London before entering show business. At the age of 21, when coming back to H...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cary Grant: Encyclopedia Ii - Cary Grant - Hollywood
After some success in light Broadway comedies, he came to Hollywood in 1931, where he acquired the name "Cary Grant". In 1932 he met fell...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bugs Bunny: Encyclopedia Ii - Bugs Bunny - History
Bugs Bunny - A suggested early influence. A number of animation historians believe Bugs to have been influenced by an earlier Disney ch...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Barbara Stanwyck: Encyclopedia - Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck (July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American film and television actress. Born Ruby Katherine Stevens in New Yor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gloria Estefan: Encyclopedia Ii - Gloria Estefan - Charity
In early 2005, Estefan participated in two charity concerts to aid the victims of the 2004 Asian tsunami. She sang "There's Always Tomorr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gloria Estefan: Encyclopedia Ii - Gloria Estefan - Discography
Releases with the Miami Sound Machine: Renacer (1977) Miami Sound Machine (1978) Imported (1979) MSM (1980) Otra Vez (1981) Rio (1982) A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amy Grant: Encyclopedia Ii - Amy Grant - Career
Signed to a record company at the age of sixteen, Grant's first, self-titled album (largely self-composed) in 1977, was a runaway success...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Guinness: Encyclopedia Ii - Guinness - Marketing
Guinness has a long history of marketing campaigns, from award-winning television commercials to beer mats and posters. Nigeria is the th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ogre: Encyclopedia Ii - Ogre - Ogres In Modern Fiction
Literature for children has plenty of tales mentioning ogres and kidnapped princesses who were rescued by valiant knights and, sometimes,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 2r: Encyclopedia - 2r
2R is a pop group in Hong Kong. The group consists of Race Wong and Rosanne Wong, two sisters raised in Singapore. Rosanne is the older s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greg Bear: Encyclopedia Ii - Greg Bear - Work
The scientific details in his work are such that he is usually classified as a hard science fiction author, but not all of the speculatio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alan Shearer: Encyclopedia Ii - Alan Shearer - Later Years At Newcastle 2000-2006
At Newcastle, Shearer continued to score regularly, but the club have not won a trophy during his time at the club. He was appointed an O...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Elvis Presley: Encyclopedia Ii - Elvis Presley - Lasting Legacy
By 1957 Elvis Presley was the most famous entertainer in the world. After pioneer band leader Bill Haley spawned interest in rock and rol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Patpong: Encyclopedia Ii - Patpong - In Popular Culture
The final part of the popular musical Miss Saigon is set in the bar scene of Patpong. Many western films have featured Patpong, including...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - François Truffaut: Encyclopedia Ii - François Truffaut - Life
Truffaut was born out of wedlock in 1930s Paris, where he was raised by his mother and his adoptive father, Roland Truffaut, both of whom...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Saroyan: Encyclopedia Ii - William Saroyan - Works
William Saroyan - Stories. The Daring Young Man On The Flying Trapeze (1934) The Human Comedy (1943) Tracy's Tiger (1943) The Summer o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Criss Angel: Encyclopedia - Criss Angel
Criss Angel (born Christopher N. Sarantakos on December 19, 1967 in East Meadow, New York) is a musician, magician, illusionist, escapolo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rod Stewart: Encyclopedia Ii - Rod Stewart - Never A Dull Moment 1969-1975
The US band Cactus offered Stewart a job as lead singer but he decided to join The Faces with Ron Wood. (Wood had played bass guitar with...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jackie Robinson: Encyclopedia Ii - Jackie Robinson - Post-dodgers
Robinson retired from the game on January 5, 1957. He had wanted to manage or coach in the major leagues, but received no offers. He beca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hell: Encyclopedia Ii - Hell - Hell In Entertainment And Other Popular Culture
Philip José Farmer in his Riverworld series (1971) created perhaps the best science fiction depiction of a "man" made hell created with ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theatre: Encyclopedia Ii - Theatre - Styles Of Theatre
There are a variety of genres that writers, producers and directors can employ in theatre to suit a variety of tastes: Musical theatre: ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sarah Mclachlan: Encyclopedia Ii - Sarah Mclachlan - Biography
Sarah McLachlan was born on January 28, 1968, and adopted in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As a child, she took voice lessons, along with studies...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Insurance: Insurance Glossary Dictionary Ii - Insurance
Definition and meaning of Insurance :   A contract whereby an insurer promises to pay the insured a sum of money or some other ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Quick Links To Archives And Dictionary Related To Mysticism - He - Ho
Links to archives related to mysticism: Hesperos, Hestia, Het Conspiracy, Hetaerae, Heteremeroi, Heterogeneity and Homogeneity, ...   » Read the article