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• John Huston John Huston (1906-1987), American motion-picture director and actor, who created some of the most critically acclaimed films of American cinema in his long and distinguished career.

• American Wirehair.

• American Shorthair.

• Relativity I INTRODUCTION Albert Einstein In 1905 German-born American physicist Albert Einstein published his first paper outlining the theory of relativity.

  in calculating very large distances or very large aggregations of matter. As the quantum theory applies to the very small, so the relativity theory applies to the verylarge. Until 1887 no flaw had appeared in the rapidly developing body of classical physics. In that year, the Michelson-Morley experiment, named after the American physicistAlbert Michelson and the American chemist Edward Williams Morley, was performed. It was an attempt to determine the rate of the motion of the earth through t...

• American League: Gold Glove Award Winners.

  1957 Sherm Lollar Chicago White Sox 1958 Sherm Lollar Chicago White Sox 1959 Sherm Lollar Chicago White Sox 1960 Earl Battey Washington Senators 1961 Earl Battey Minnesota Twins 1962 Earl Battey Minnesota Twins 1963 Elston Howard New York Yankees 1964 Elston Howard New York Yankees 1965 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1966 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1967 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1968 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1969 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1970 Ray Fosse Cleveland Indians 1971 Ray Fosse Clev...

• Romanticism I INTRODUCTION Romanticism, in art, European and American movement extending from about 1800 to 1850.

  and the composition so dynamic that the effect is of chaos engulfing the immobile and indifferent figure of the dying king. IV GERMANY Two Men on a SeashoreTwo Men on a Seashore (1835) by German artist Caspar David Friedrich can be interpreted as a symbolic expression ofthe artist’s Christian faith. The sea is a symbol of death and the rocks on the beach stand for faith and the future. Themoon symbolizes Christ. This drawing in pencil and sepia ink closely resembles in its design a painting by...

• American University

• American Legion

  tanta dea deux guertes mondiales et des guefres de Corée et du VIetnam. Ses 17 000 • postes .. (sections locales), dont certains sont situés à l'étranger, forment une pyramide hiérarchique jusqu'au Comité national que préside le commandant national. La ConvenUon nationale (1 500 délégués) définit les orientations sociales et poli­ tiques. Elle donne lieu à des réjouissances de style car­ navalesque. 5 A Washington, I'American Legion financ...

• African American

  encou rages Af r ican Ame r icans to vote (t he bal lo t) bu t i f t hey fa i l, t hey x i l l have no opt ion bu t resor t to v io lence (bu l le t). I n second p lace, I am going to t a l k abou t t he ach ievemen ts. M any b lack people enjoyed success i n t he wor ld of pol i t ics, spor ts, media and en te r ta i n men t. However, t he black people a re p rog ress i n pa r t icu la r i n educa t ion, some shools al low b lack chi ld ren...

• Maya Angelou Maya Angelou, born in 1928, American author, poet, performer, and civil rights activist, best known for portrayals of strong African American women in her writings.

• American Progress

• Keino Outdistances American Runner Jim Ryun.

  Jipcho, who later apologized to Ryun, echoed the American's sentiments in an interview for the Olympic Series. “It was unfair to people like Jim Ryun, to Tümmler, and probably to me. I feel Jim Ryun would have won the gold medal. But because of the whole thing, it destroyed almost everybody,” Jipcho said in a documentary. Immediately following the race, Keino denied that such a strategy existed. “[We] had no plan at all,” he told the New York Times. “I knew Jim Ryun to have a fast kick i...

• American Express.

• American Gothic - - art.

• AMÉRICANISME, n.

• African-American religions

• American Eskimo Dog.

• American Samoa - geography.

• American Civil War.

  free state to keep the balance in the Senate. It also provided that slavery would be excluded from the still unorganized part of the Louisiana Territory. A line was drawnfrom Missouri’s southern boundary, at the latitude of 36°30’, and slavery would not be allowed in the territory north of that line,with the exception of Missouri. B Compromise of 1850 Agitation against slavery continued in the North. The South reacted by defending it ever more strongly. The Mexican War, by which the United Stat...

• John Wayne John Wayne (1907-1979), American motion-picture actor, beloved as the archetype of rugged, honest American manhood, and a Hollywood star for 40 years.

• Cy Young Award Winners Cy Young Award Winners (American League).

  1956 Don Newcombe Brooklyn Dodgers 1957 Warren Spahn Milwaukee Braves 1960 Vernon Law Pittsburgh Pirates 1962 Don Drysdale Los Angeles Dodgers 1963 Sandy Koufax Los Angeles Dodgers 1964 Dean Chance Los Angeles Angels 1965 Sandy Koufax Los Angeles Dodgers 1966 Sandy Koufax Los Angeles Dodgers 1967 Mike McCormick San Francisco Giants 1968 Bob Gibson St. Louis Cardinals 1969 Tom Seaver New York Mets 1970 Bob Gibson St. Louis Cardinals 1971 Ferguson Jenkins Chicago Cubs 1972 Steve Carlton Philadelph...

• RESHAPING THE AMERICAN DREAM

  mostly realized, while the dream of the sons bas not yet been successfully formulated. In its traditional form, it included both our purpose as a nation, embodied in such propositions as "liberty and justice for ali", as weil as the personal goals that echo in the familiar phrase, the land of promise. But dreams achieved become mondane (1). The achievements bring new problems. Not many Americans are so naïve as to think that money auto­...

• American Civil War - U.

  free state to keep the balance in the Senate. It also provided that slavery would be excluded from the still unorganized part of the Louisiana Territory. A line was drawnfrom Missouri’s southern boundary, at the latitude of 36°30’, and slavery would not be allowed in the territory north of that line,with the exception of Missouri. B Compromise of 1850 Agitation against slavery continued in the North. The South reacted by defending it ever more strongly. The Mexican War, by which the United Stat...

• Pilgrims (American history) - U.

• The 1960’s and the American Woman: the transition from the “housewife” to the feminist

  beyond traditional roles. She was a bright student, Friedan excelled at Smith College, graduating in 1942 with a bachelor's degree in psychology. Although she received a fellowship to study at the University of California. In New York, Friedan worked for a short time as a reporter. She was a strong supporter of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution. In 1966, Friedan founded and was elected the first president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), which aimed to bring wo...

• National Museum of American History.

• Définition: AMÉRICANISME, substantif masculin.

  C.? Emplois sp?ciaux. 1. DIDACTIQUE. Ensemble des disciplines qui ont pour objet l'?tude des langues et des civilisations am?ricaines. 2. LINGUISTIQUE. Idiotisme propre au parler anglais d'Am?rique du Nord. 3. RELIGION. " Ensemble (...) d'aspirations naturalistes et lib?rales, plus accus?es sur le terrain pratique de l'action que dans le domaine th?orique des id?es. " (Dictionnaire de th?ologie catholique (A. VACANT, E. MANGENOT) tome 1, 1 1909)?: ? 4. C'est que le pape et Rome savent qu...

• AMERICAN MERCURY (résumé)

• American Museum of Natural History.

• Audiencia americana - historia.

• American Staffordshire Terrier.

• American Express

• american history

• North American Free Trade Agreement.

• The American Dream, myth or reality ?

• African-American soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen

• Native Americans of Middle and South America.

  A line that snakes across central Mexico near the Tropic of Cancer forms the northern boundary of Mesoamerica; north of this line rainfall sharply declines and theclimate is much drier. The ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica all arose and developed in the area between this line and the Guatemalan highlands far to the south. Richvolcanic soils are found throughout much of the region. A2 People and Languages Mesoamerica was a great melting pot, home to many peoples and interrelated cultures. In...

• J. P. Morgan. I INTRODUCTION J. P. Morgan (1837-1913), American investment banker, art

• F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), American writer, whose novels

• F. Scott Fitzgerald. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), American writer, whose novels

• Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong (1901-1971), American jazz, cornet, and trumpet player, singer, bandleader, and popular entertainer.

• F. Scott Fitzgerald - Biography. American novelist and short-story writer Birth September

• Film Noir I INTRODUCTION Lynch's Blue Velvet The motion picture Blue Velvet (1986) brought wide acclaim to American director David Lynch.

  Double IndemnityBarbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray are featured in Double Indemnity (1944), a story of lust and greed in the film noirtradition, directed by Billy Wilder. The film’s events are related in flashbacks by protagonist Walter Neff (MacMurray), whomakes a dying confession about a plot to kill a man for his insurance money.Bettmann/Corbis Another common aspect of film noir is the femme fatale, a seductive woman who lures the protagonist into actions that ultimately lead to his downfall...

• Poetry I INTRODUCTION Phyllis McGinley American poet and author Phyllis McGinley composed light, witty verse, much of which deals with family life.

  repetition of certain lines and the rhyming of certain lines. The Provençal sestina features a set of six words that end lines (end-words), repeated in a dizzyingly complexpattern. The range of effects created by the poetic line varies tremendously depending on its length, its patterns of repetition, and whether the sentence stops at the end of theline (end-stopped) or carries over the end of the line (enjambed). Many of the earliest examples of Old English poetry feature an accentual line with...

• Spike Lee Spike Lee, born in 1957, American motion-picture maker, whose works examine race relations in the United States.

• Wilt Chamberlain I INTRODUCTION Wilt Chamberlain (1936-1999), American professional basketball player, one of the greatest players in the history of the sport.

  The Lakers returned to the NBA finals the following year, but they lost to the Knicks. Chamberlain then retired as a player. He coached the San Diego Conquistadores ofthe American Basketball Association (ABA) for the 1973-74 season before leaving basketball for good. Many NBA teams tried to convince Chamberlain to return to thesport, but he refused their offers. In 1978 he was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. V LATER YEARS Chamberlain remained active during the remaining years of his lif...

• Ernest Hemingway I INTRODUCTION Ernest Hemingway Twentieth-century American author Ernest Hemingway wrote novels and stories that reflected his rich life experiences as a war correspondent, outdoor sportsman, and bullfight enthusiast.

  In his early work Hemingway used themes of helplessness and defeat, but in the late 1930s his writing began to reflect concerns about social problems. His novel To Have and Have Not (1937) and his play The Fifth Column, published in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-nine Stories (1938), strongly condemned economic and political injustice. Two of his best short stories, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” and “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” were part of the story collection. In thecla...

• Michael Jordan I INTRODUCTION Michael Jordan, born in 1963, American professional basketball player, considered by many to be the greatest player in basketball history.

  playoffs the Bulls pushed the Pistons to seven games in the Eastern Conference Finals before losing again. As he grew older, Jordan made a concerted effort to help his teammates reach their own potential. The result of his renewed commitment to team-oriented play was theBulls’ first NBA championship title. After the 1990-91 season the Bulls swept the Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals and then defeated the Los Angeles Lakers inthe NBA Finals. Jordan won the league MVP award for the second...

• Analyse American Beauty de Sam Mendez