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(Encyclopedia) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans., case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954. Linda Brown was denied admission to her local elementary school in Topeka because she was black. When, com...
(Encyclopedia) Gates, Bill (William Henry Gates 3d),
1955–, American business executive, b. Seattle, Wash. At the age of
19, Gates founded (1975) the Microsoft Corp....
(Encyclopedia) microcredit, the extension to individuals of small loans to be used for income-generating activities that will improve the borrowers' living standards. The borrowers, most of whom usually are poor wom...
(Encyclopedia) pearl, hard, rounded secretion formed inside the shell of certain mollusks, used as a gem. It is secreted by the epithelial cells of the mantle, a curtain of tissue between the shell and body mass, an...
(Encyclopedia) Neolithic period or New Stone Age. The term neolithic is used, especially in archaeology and anthropology, to designate a stage of cultural evolution or technological development characterized by the ...
(Encyclopedia) Assange, Julian Paul
äsänjˈ
[key], 1971–, Australian Internet journalist and activist, founder of WikiLeaks, a
whistleblower website that publishes documents and imag...
(Encyclopedia) Montessori, Maria märēˈä mōntās-sôˈrē [key], 1870–1952, Italian educator and physician. She was the originator of the Montessori method of education for young children and was the first wom...
(Encyclopedia) digital versatile disc or digital video disc (DVD), a small plastic disc used for the storage of digital data. The successor media to the compact disc (CD), a DVD can have more than 100 times the stor...
(Encyclopedia) Crenshaw, Kimberlé,
1959–, American legal scholar and critical race theorist, b. Canton,
Ohio, J.D. Harvard University, 1984. An influential writer o...
(Encyclopedia) Japanese jăpˌənēzˈ [key], language of uncertain origin that is spoken by more than 125 million people, most of whom live in Japan. There are also many speakers of Japanese in the Ryukyu Islands, ...