(Encyclopedia) White Sands, uninhabited desert area, S central N.Mex. It is a center for U.S. military-weapons research and testing. On July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was exploded at Holloman…
Author:Yasunari KawabataPublisher:Counterpoint Yasunari Kawabata's short-story collection First Snow on Fuji debuted in 1958, a decade before Kawabata won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Now…
(Encyclopedia) White Pass, 2,888 ft (880 m) high, in the Coast Mts., on the Alaska–British Columbia border, NE of Skagway. A hazardous trail through the pass was made (1897) by prospectors going to…
It is said that the devil has no white in his eyes, and hence the French locution, “Celui qui n`a point de blanc en l'oeil. ” “Do you see any white in…
Director: Bille AugustWriter: Ann BidermanDirector of Photography:Jorgen PerssonEditor:Janus Billeskov JansenMusic:Hans Zimmer and Harry Gregson WilliamsProduction Designer:Anna AspProducers:…
(Encyclopedia) White Mountain or White Hill, Czech Bílá Hora, hill near Prague, Czech Republic. There, in Nov., 1620, the Czech Protestants under Christian of Anhalt were routed by the combined…
by EmilyDickinsonNovemberThe Blue JayThe Snow The Snow It sifts from leaden sieves,
It powders all the wood,
It fills with alabaster wool
The wrinkles of the road. It makes an even face…
Gustavus Adolphus, of Sweden. (1594, 1611-1632.) “At Vienna he was called in derision the Snow King, who was kept together by the cold, but would melt and disappear as he approached a…
(Encyclopedia) White, William, 1748–1836, American Episcopal bishop, b. Philadelphia, grad. College of Philadelphia (now Univ. of Pennsylvania), 1765. He was ordained in England in 1772, returning to…
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