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Nicks was born to Barbara and Jess Nicks and has a...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/story/presidential-debate-bingo"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/66/249866-004-F38A3FC5/presidential-debate-bingo.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Presidential Debate Bingo. As candidates for the Republican Party's nomination for the 2024 presidential election take to the stage to debate the issues and each other, keep track of the facts you need to know with updated Britannica entries. As with every Bingo game, if you connect five tiles in a row, celebrate!"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Presidential Debate Bingo</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Learn about the people and topics likely to come up in upcoming presidential debates, with fact-checked articles from Britannica...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jason-Sudeikis"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/16/218216-050-84463C9F/American-actor-comedy-writer-Jason-Sudeikis-2017.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Jason Sudeikis"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Jason Sudeikis</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Jason Sudeikis, American comedian, actor, and writer who first garnered attention for his work (2003–13) on the TV show Saturday Night Live (SNL) and later starred in the hugely popular series Ted Lasso (2020–23). Sudeikis is the eldest of three children born to Kathryn (née Wendt) Sudeikis, who...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Brett"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/70/249870-050-C93F3AC6/George-Brett-Kansas-City-Royals-1980.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="George Brett"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">George Brett</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">George Brett, American baseball player for the Kansas City Royals known for hitting .390 in 1980, at the time the highest batting average since Ted Williams hit .406 in 1941. The youngest of four boys born to Jack Brett, an accountant, and Ethel (née Hansen) Brett, a bookkeeper, George Brett grew...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/place/history-of-Fiji"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/86/3286-050-F16637E1/Flag-Fiji.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Fiji"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">history of Fiji</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">History of Fiji, a survey of notable events and people in the history of Fiji, a country and archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean. It surrounds the Koro Sea and is about 1,300 miles (2,100 km) north of Auckland, New Zealand. The archipelago consists of some 300 islands and 540 islets scattered...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Germany"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/97/897-050-0BFECDA5/Flag-Germany.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Germany"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">history of Germany</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">History of Germany, a survey of important events and people in the history of Germany from ancient times to the present. Germanic peoples occupied much of the present-day territory of Germany in ancient times. The Germanic peoples are those who spoke one of the Germanic languages, and they thus...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Denmark"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/07/8007-050-D4170843/Flag-Denmark.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Denmark"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">history of Denmark</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">History of Denmark, Occupying the peninsula of Jutland (Jylland), which extends northward from the center of continental western Europe, and an archipelago of more than 400 islands to the east of the peninsula, Denmark is a part of the northern European region known as Scandinavia. Though small in...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/tea-tree-oil"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/mendel-resources/3-103/images/shared/default3.png?v=3.103.19" class="default "/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">tea tree oil</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Tea tree oil, essential oil derived from the tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia), a species of tall shrub or tree in the myrtle family (Myrtaceae) originally native to the Bungawalbin Valley in New South Wales, eastern Australia. Tea tree oil historically was used by Australian Aboriginal peoples in...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mychal-Judge"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/61/249661-050-6103A6A2/Reverend-Mychal-Judge-Fire-Department-chaplain-2001.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Mychal Judge"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Mychal Judge</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Mychal Judge, American Roman Catholic priest, Franciscan friar, and New York City Fire Department chaplain who was the first identified casualty of the September 11 attacks. Several groups have called for his canonization in the Roman Catholic Church. Judge was the son of Irish immigrants, Michael...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Tonga"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/01/3301-050-64DF653A/Flag-Tonga.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Tonga"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">history of Tonga</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">History of Tonga, a survey of notable events and people in the history of Tonga. Located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, Tonga consists of some 170 islands divided into three main island groups: Tongatapu in the south, Ha‘apai in the center, and Vava‘u in the north. Isolated islands include...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/science/e-mathematics"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/45/445-004-1997049E/functions-logarithm-other-value-symmetry-respect-line.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="exponential and natural logarithm functions"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">e</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">E, mathematical constant that is the base of the natural logarithm function f(x) = ln x and of its related inverse, the exponential function y = ex. To five decimal places, the value used for the constant is 2.71828. The number e is an irrational number; that is, it cannot be expressed as the ratio...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-the-Czech-Republic"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/86/7886-050-9D2D04BC/Flag-Czech-Republic.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Czech Republic"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">history of the Czech Republic</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">History of the Czech Republic, a survey of important events and people in the history of the Czech Republic (Czechia) from 1993 to the present. For earlier history of the area, including Bohemia and Moravia as well as Czechoslovakia, see Czechoslovak history. The Czech Republic came into being on...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Suni-Lee"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/36/227636-050-E9DA4198/Suni-Lee-Balance-Beam-Tokyo-2020-Olympics-July-29-2021.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Suni Lee on the balance beam at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Suni Lee</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Suni Lee, American gymnast who won three medals at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo (delayed until 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Lee captured the individual all-around gold medal, becoming the fifth consecutive American woman to claim the sport’s most coveted prize. She also earned the...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Steve-Winwood"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/41/160641-050-3F7CE70B/Steve-Winwood.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Steve Winwood"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Steve Winwood</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Steve Winwood, British singer and songwriter, considered one of Britain’s foremost rhythm and blues vocalists. Beginning in the mid-1960s, Winwood wrote and performed a wide array of hits that combined blues, folk, rock, pop, and jazz. He was a member of the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, and Blind...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/economic-sanctions"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/89/197789-050-9D029879/forces-Athenian-harbour-Syracuse-Sicily-Peloponnesian-War.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Peloponnesian War"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">economic sanctions</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Economic sanctions, restrictions, including those on trade, travel, and access to financial assets, imposed by a national government upon another government, an organization, or an individual for the purpose of compelling or preventing certain actions or policies on the part of the targeted entity...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Priscilla-Presley-A-Life-in-Pictures-2232226"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/79/246379-050-7B8D1FD8/Priscilla-Presley-2006.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Priscilla Presley"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Priscilla Presley: A Life in Pictures</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Priscilla Presley is widely known for her marriage to the “King of Rock and Roll,” Elvis Presley. In the years after Elvis’s death, she became an executor of Graceland, his estate in Memphis, Tennessee, which she helped grow into a hugely successful tourist attraction. She also pursued an acting...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Chris-Pine"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/49/216649-050-A2DB06D6/American-actor-Chris-Pine-2018.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Chris Pine"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Chris Pine</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Chris Pine, American actor who is especially adept at portraying intelligent and world-weary characters. He is perhaps best known for the role of Capt. James T. Kirk in the Star Trek movie series. Pine was born into a family of actors. His father, Robert Pine, has appeared in films and television...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Padma-Lakshmi"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/28/247528-050-DA758BD7/Padma-Lakshmi-Top-chef-host-2022.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Padma Lakshmi"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Padma Lakshmi</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Padma Lakshmi, Indian-American fashion model, television personality, and author best known for her role as the host of the cooking competition show Top Chef (2006– ) and of the food and travel series Taste the Nation (2020– ). Born in Chennai, India, Lakshmi moved to New York City in 1974, at the...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Paris-Street-Rainy-Day"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/77/66477-050-BD1CF0F1/Rainy-Day-Paris-Street-canvas-Gustave-Caillebotte-1877.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Gustave Caillebotte: Paris Street; Rainy Day"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Paris Street; Rainy Day</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Paris Street; Rainy Day, oil-on-canvas painting (1877) by French artist Gustave Caillebotte depicting contemporary Parisians holding umbrellas as they crisscross the city just as a rain shower seems to have subsided. Considered the artist’s masterpiece, Paris Street; Rainy Day merges the modern...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Spencer-Haywood"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/67/249667-050-F749B96A/Spencer-Haywood-Naismith-Memorial-Basketball-Hall-of-Fame-2014.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Spencer Haywood"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Spencer Haywood</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Spencer Haywood, American professional basketball player whose lawsuit forced the National Basketball Association (NBA) to end its requirement that a player be out of high school for four years to be eligible to compete in the league. Haywood won an NBA championship with the Los Angeles Lakers in...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Arrested-Development"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/47/242847-050-2EB78082/Promotional-photo-Cast-of-Arrested-Development.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Arrested Development"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Arrested Development</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Arrested Development, American television sitcom created by Mitchell Hurwitz and executive produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. Arrested Development aired from 2003 to 2006 on the Fox network, followed by a two-season reboot on Netflix in 2013 and 2018–19. The series follows the dysfunctional...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/science/biosphere-reserve"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/92/225092-050-F1695018/American-flamingo-birds-Phoenicopterus-ruber-Quintana-Roo-Mexico.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Yum Balam Biosphere Reserve"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">biosphere reserve</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Biosphere reserve, in general, a discrete parcel of terrestrial, marine, or coastal ecosystems that is managed according to special regulations for the purpose of conserving habitats and biological communities within the context of highlighting how people live in balance with their environment....</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Encyclopaedia-Britannica-First-Edition-Dogs-2232114"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/91/120091-004-DA20337F.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="shepherd's dog"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Encyclopædia Britannica First Edition: Dogs</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">The following is taken from the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1768–71), where it forms part of the first section of the article “Canis” in volume 2. Editor William Smellie adapted this material from the account in French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon’s Histoire...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Tuvalu"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/03/3303-050-D72C968A/Flag-Tuvalu.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Tuvalu"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">history of Tuvalu</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">History of Tuvalu, a survey of notable events and people in the history of Tuvalu, from ancient times to the present day. Tuvalu, located in the west-central Pacific Ocean, is composed of nine small coral islands scattered in a chain lying approximately northwest to southeast over a distance of...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/science/organic-chemistry"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/50/192350-050-1C85C02C/Tsung-Min-Kuo-Karen-Ray-Agricultural-Research.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="organic chemistry"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">organic chemistry</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Organic chemistry, field of science concerned with the composition, properties, and structure of chemical elements and compounds that contain carbon atoms. Carbon is unique in the variety and extent of structures that can result from the three-dimensional connections of its atoms. Organic chemistry...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/place/history-of-Solomon-Islands"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/95/3295-050-2D02630B/Solomon-Islands-map-islands-cities-boundaries-locator.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Solomon Islands"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">history of Solomon Islands</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">History of Solomon Islands, a survey of notable events and people in the history of Solomon Islands, a country lying in the southwestern Pacific Ocean and part of the island group known as Melanesia. Solomon Islands consists of a double chain of volcanic islands and coral atolls in Melanesia. The...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/art/Standard-Station-Amarillo-Texas"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/86/247486-050-AC364D59/Ed-Ruscha-Station-Station-Amarillo-Texas-1963.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Ed Ruscha with Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas, oil painting created in 1963 by American artist Ed Ruscha. The image is an icon of the Pop art movement. Ruscha was born in Nebraska but grew up in Oklahoma City, and in 1956 he moved to Los Angeles, California. There, he enrolled at the Chouinard Art Institute...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mike-Davis"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/mendel-resources/3-103/images/shared/default3.png?v=3.103.19" class="default "/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Mike Davis</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Mike Davis, American historian, urban theorist, and political activist whose works reflected his commitment to Marxist ideology. He lived most of his life in southern California, and much of his work sought to explain the region’s geography and political economy. His 1990 book City of Quartz:...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/event/Richard-Nixons-last-press-conference"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/mendel-resources/3-103/images/shared/default3.png?v=3.103.19" class="default "/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Richard Nixon’s “last” press conference</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Richard Nixon’s “last” press conference, (1962) press conference at which Republican politician Richard Nixon, the former U.S. vice president (1953–61), having lost a close race for the presidency to John F. Kennedy (1960) and a run for the governorship of California to incumbent Edmund G. (“Pat”)...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lydia-Villa-Komaroff"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/mendel-resources/3-103/images/shared/default3.png?v=3.103.19" class="default "/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Lydia Villa-Komaroff</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Lydia Villa-Komaroff, American molecular biologist whose research led to the discovery that bacteria could be engineered to produce insulin, a hormone that plays a critical role in regulating glucose levels in the blood. Villa-Komaroff’s breakthrough ultimately improved the production and...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-Debicki"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/77/239377-050-27EFD31A/Elizabeth-Debicki-2019.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Elizabeth Debicki"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Elizabeth Debicki</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Elizabeth Debicki, Australian screen and stage actress best known for playing Diana, princess of Wales, in the fifth season (2022) of the Netflix series The Crown and Jordan Baker in Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (2013). Debicki was born in Paris to an...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/science/calcium-carbonate"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/94/176094-050-40C6CB53/Calcite-calcium-carbonate-variety-crystals-development.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="calcite"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">calcium carbonate</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Calcium carbonate (CaCO3), chemical compound consisting of one atom of calcium, one of carbon, and three of oxygen that is the major constituent of limestone, marble, chalk, eggshells, bivalve shells, and corals. Calcium carbonate is either a white powder or a colorless crystal. When heated, it...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jeanne-Baret"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/83/249583-050-E9F0061C/Jeanne-Baret-botanist-circumnavigated-globe.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Jeanne Baret"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Jeanne Baret</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Jeanne Baret, French botanist and explorer, the first woman to circumnavigate the globe. Disguised as a man aboard a French naval vessel, she collected samples of more than 6,000 plant specimens from around the world. Baret was born in a rural village in France to a family of laborers who likely...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Keith-Richards"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/94/249694-050-B4B686AA/Keith-Richards-Rolling-Stones-1988.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Keith Richards"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Keith Richards</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Keith Richards, British musician and guitar innovator best known as the guitarist and songwriter for the British rock band the Rolling Stones. The hard-edged, energetic rock act, one of the most successful in music history, owes much of its success to Richards’s chord-heavy playing style, which is...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/art/The-Painters-Studio"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/14/181214-050-FDBCB42C/Studio-Artist-canvas-oil-easel-Gustave-Courbet.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="The Painter's Studio"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">The Painter’s Studio</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">The Painter’s Studio, oil painting created in 1854–55 by French artist Gustave Courbet. The most mysterious of his paintings, this relatively early work initially garnered the praise of Eugène Delacroix alone. 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Turner’s increasingly experimental work drew heavy criticism during the 1840s, and this painting was damned by some critics as “soapsuds and whitewash.” Influential contemporary...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Snap-the-Whip-painting-by-Homer"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/70/249570-050-01E647B3/Snap-the-Whip-Winslow-Homer-1872.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Snap the Whip"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Snap the Whip</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Snap the Whip, oil painting created in 1872 by American artist Winslow Homer. When Snap the Whip appeared, Homer was already a somewhat well-known and admired painter. However, this painting can be said to have ushered in a new period in Homer’s career, a transition from his earliest years through...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Sleeping-Gypsy"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/78/249478-050-CF656261/The-Sleeping-Gypsy-Henri-Rousseau-1897.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="The Sleeping Gypsy"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">The Sleeping Gypsy</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">The Sleeping Gypsy, oil painting created in 1897 by French naïve artist Henri Rousseau. This work is perhaps the most important of the period when Rousseau began to receive recognition as an artist and is one of the most famous images of the modern era. 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He wrote a...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/interjection"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/mendel-resources/3-103/images/shared/default3.png?v=3.103.19" class="default "/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">interjection</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Interjection, an exclamatory word or phrase used to express an emotional reaction or to emphasize a thought. It is one of eight parts of speech in English grammar. Interjections are grammatically independent from the words around them, and they can often be removed from a sentence or context...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Israeli-Saudi-peace-deal"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/mendel-resources/3-103/images/shared/default3.png?v=3.103.19" class="default "/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Israeli-Saudi peace deal</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Israeli-Saudi peace deal, anticipated agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia to normalize ties. Serious discussions toward normalized ties between the countries began after the Abraham Accords were announced in 2020. 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Jones grew up in poverty, sleeping with his three siblings in a...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Narayana-Guru"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/69/156969-004-E0D19F55/Narayana-Guru.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Narayana Guru"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Narayana Guru</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Narayana Guru, Indian social reformer, poet, and Hindu sage who led a movement against the Hindu caste system. Guru believed that all people are equal and thus belong to just one caste, the caste of humankind. He expressed this idea in his famous saying, “One caste, one religion, one god for...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/timeline-of-the-Holocaust-2231792"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/84/174484-050-D523769D/concentration-camp-Prisoners-Buchenwald-Elie-Wiesel-troops-April-16-1945.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Buchenwald concentration camp prisoners"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">timeline of the Holocaust</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Even before the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, they had made no secret of their anti-Semitism. As early as 1919 Adolf Hitler had written, “Rational anti-Semitism, however, must lead to systematic legal opposition.…Its final objective must unswervingly be the removal of the Jews...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jonny-Kim"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/76/249576-050-501E9B4D/Jonny-Kim-Navy-SEAL-astronaut.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Jonny Kim"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Jonny Kim</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Jonny Kim, Korean American Navy SEAL, doctor, aviator, and astronaut who is a member of NASA’s Artemis team, which aims to land humans on the Moon for the first time since 1972. Kim is a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy. Kim was born to South Korean immigrants in Los Angeles on February 5,...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mandy-Patinkin"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/14/249514-050-26C13B8A/actor-Mandy-Patinkin-2012.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Mandy Patinkin"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Mandy Patinkin</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Mandy Patinkin, American actor and singer known for his award-winning performances on stage, film, and television. His notable credits include the movies Yentl (1983) and The Princess Bride (1987), the stage musical Sunday in the Park with George (1984–85), and the TV series Homeland (2011–20)....</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lynda-Barry"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/24/249324-050-D04158C4/Cartoonist-Lynda-Barry.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Lynda Barry"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Lynda Barry</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Lynda Barry, American cartoonist and author known for her syndicated weekly comic strip Ernie Pook’s Comeek (1979–2008) and the graphic novels The Good Times Are Killing Me (1988) and What It Is (2008). Barry was born to a father of Irish and Norwegian descent who worked as a butcher and a mother...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Constitution-of-the-United-States-2231775"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/43/97343-050-9280C23B/copy-Constitution-of-the-United-States-America.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Constitution of the United States of America"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Text of the Constitution of the United States</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">On September 17, 1787, the United States Constitution—the oldest written constitution still in effect today—was approved and signed in Philadelphia by thirty-nine delegates to the federal convention. The document has been hailed as the most successful work of its kind in modern history. The...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/science/index-case"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/mendel-resources/3-103/images/shared/default3.png?v=3.103.19" class="default "/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">index case</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Index case, in public health, the first case of a disease or other condition that is noticed by health authorities. Index cases may be reported in relation to infectious disease outbreaks or to occurrences of noninfectious diseases or health conditions. They may also be reported within a region or...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-the-Netherlands"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/82/2982-050-4A783E03/flag-prototype-Netherlands-countries-European-flags.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Netherlands"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">history of the Netherlands</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">History of the Netherlands, a survey of notable events and people in the history of the Netherlands, from its founding in 1579 to the present. 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More than 2,900 people were killed and 5,500 people injured in the shallow magnitude-6.8 temblor and its aftershocks. The earthquake heavily damaged parts of the ancient...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/global-food-security"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/86/249586-050-EE9599B3/food-security-government-subsidized-urban-community-farm-Quezon-City-Philippines.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="global food security"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">global food security</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Global food security, the availability of and access to resources in sufficient quantities to achieve adequate nutrition for the world population. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, in 2022 some 2.4 billion people—about 29.6 percent of the world...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Connie-Chung"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/23/159823-004-B4A12806/Connie-Chung.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Connie Chung"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Connie Chung</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Connie Chung, American broadcast journalist who helped break down gender barriers in the late 20th century to become one of the first woman reporters on national television in the United States. She was also the first Asian American anchor of a major network newscast. Among the many exclusive...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hunter-Biden"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/29/249529-050-63531B7A/Hunter-Biden-Departs-Federal-Court-Wilmington-Delaware-July-2023.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Hunter Biden"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Hunter Biden</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Hunter Biden, American attorney and businessman and the sole surviving son of Joe Biden, 46th president of the United States. The Yale-educated lawyer has held an array of positions at law firms, financial institutions, and lobbying firms that have raised questions about whether he has profited...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Jerusalem-in-the-Israeli-Palestinian-conflict-Whose-capital-is-it-2231643"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/mendel-resources/3-103/images/shared/default3.png?v=3.103.19" class="default "/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Jerusalem in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Whose capital is it?</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">For decades Jerusalem’s status has been among the most contentious issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The city is home to hundreds of thousands of people who belong to either nationality, Israeli or Palestinian, and both Israelis and Palestinians want the historic city to serve as their...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marc-Brown"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/30/249030-050-08CE2228/Marc-Brown-Childrens-author-illustrator-Arthur.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Marc Brown"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Marc Brown</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Marc Brown, American children’s book author and illustrator, best known as the creator of the Arthur series, of which he wrote dozens of books. He also helped to create the Arthur television series, which aired in more than 80 countries. Brown grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania. His father, LeRoy Brown,...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/technology/cross-validation-computer-science"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/mendel-resources/3-103/images/shared/default3.png?v=3.103.19" class="default "/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">cross-validation</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Cross-validation, data resampling technique used in machine learning to evaluate the performance of predictive models. Cross-validation is used to assess a model’s predictive capability by testing its generalizability with different portions of a dataset. Cross-validation is one of the most common...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ian-Hacking"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/52/249452-050-B7BCE73B/Philosopher-Ian-Hacking.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Ian Hacking"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Ian Hacking</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Ian Hacking, Canadian philosopher whose historical analyses of the natural and social sciences as well as mathematics greatly influenced 20th- and 21st-century philosophical discourse. Hacking was the only child of Harold and Margaret (née MacDougall) Hacking. He grew up in Vancouver and attended...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Soros"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/71/249471-050-120D0931/Alex-Soros-2018.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Alexander Soros"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Alexander Soros</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Alexander Soros, American philanthropist and a son of financier and philanthropist George Soros. Alexander Soros was born in New York City in 1985 to George Soros and Susan Weber, then a decorative arts specialist. He was George’s fourth child but the first from his marriage to Weber. Soros grew up...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joan-Benoit-Samuelson"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/83/161783-004-1ECA7F18/Joan-Benoit.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Joan Benoit Samuelson"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Joan Benoit Samuelson</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Joan Benoit Samuelson, American long-distance runner who won the first Olympic gold medal awarded for the women’s marathon, which debuted at the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles. 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He earned the nickname “The Freak” for his unconventional pitching delivery that involved a high-kicking windup, an extraordinarily long stride down the mound, and a whiplike...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/sustainable-development"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/94/246094-050-1AFC3E02/Earth-Summit-Rio-1992.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="United Nations Conference on Environment and Development"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">sustainable development</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Sustainable development, approach to social, economic, and environmental planning that attempts to balance the social and economic needs of present and future human generations with the imperative of preserving, or preventing undue damage to, the natural environment. Sustainable development lacks a...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/list-of-country-calling-codes-2231578"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/mendel-resources/3-103/images/shared/default3.png?v=3.103.19" class="default "/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">list of country calling codes</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">This is an alphabetically ordered list of the countries of the world with their calling codes. 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The party, which had been known...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/technology/gum-arabic"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/82/145382-050-AC9872A7/Gum-arabic-Acacia-species-thickening-agent-food.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="gum arabic"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">gum arabic</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Gum arabic, dried water-soluble exudate that comes primarily from two species of acacia in sub-Saharan Africa, Acacia senegal and A. seyal, and that has numerous applications, particularly in the food industry and in areas such as ceramics, painting, photography, and printmaking. Humans have in...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Grace-Slick"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/69/249469-050-65CFB3AD/American-singer-songwriter-Grace-Slick-Jefferson-Airplane-1970.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Grace Slick"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Grace Slick</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Grace Slick, American musician and artist best known as the colead vocalist of the classic rock band Jefferson Airplane and its spinoff bands, Jefferson Starship and Starship. Slick’s striking beauty, stage presence, and dynamic contralto voice enabled Jefferson Airplane to become one of the most...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Cameroon"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/42/5042-050-CE5D885F/Flag-Cameroon.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Cameroon"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">history of Cameroon</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">History of Cameroon, a survey of the notable events and people in the history of Cameroon, from the 5th century ce to the present day. Cameroon is located at the junction of western and central Africa. The country’s name is derived from Rio dos Camarões (“River of Prawns”)—the name given to the...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/science/reaction-formation"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/mendel-resources/3-103/images/shared/default3.png?v=3.103.19" class="default "/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">reaction formation</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Reaction formation, in the field of psychoanalysis, a defense mechanism wherein an anxiety-producing impulse is replaced by an opposite idea or behaviour. Reaction formation was first conceptualized by Austrian-born British psychoanalyst Anna Freud; it was one of 10 types of defense mechanisms...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/National-Lampoon-magazine"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/28/249528-050-E67B1DE2/cast-movie-National-Lampoons-Animal-House-1978.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="National Lampoon's Animal House"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">National Lampoon</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">National Lampoon, American adult-oriented humour magazine published between 1970 and 1998, notable for its spot-on parodies as well as its influence on popular culture. National Lampoon was established by Harvard University graduates Henry Beard, Robert Hoffman, and Doug Kenney, all of whom had...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Hudner"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/74/249374-050-E2ED0EB7/Thomas-Hudner-Jr-Medal-of-Honor-ship-naming-ceremony-2012.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Thomas Hudner"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Thomas Hudner</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Thomas Hudner, American naval officer and the first Medal of Honor recipient of the Korean War. He was a subject of the 2022 film Devotion. Hudner grew up in a manufacturing town in Massachusetts. After attending Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, he was accepted into the United States...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/member-states-of-the-Commonwealth-2231190"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/94/107094-050-F74A925A/Flag-Commonwealth.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Commonwealth flag"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">member states of the Commonwealth</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">The 56 member states of the Commonwealth, which is also called Commonwealth of Nations, encompass the United Kingdom and 55 of its former dependencies. After becoming independent, these 55 states have chosen to work with one another and with the United Kingdom in cooperation while also recognizing...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/paranormal"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/40/248940-050-9500A6DD/ghostly-transparent-woman.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="ghostly figure"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">paranormal</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Paranormal, term commonly applied to experiences or events that seem unusual or unnatural. Those who experience paranormal events often attribute them to magical, supernatural, or folkloric origins while disregarding the steps normally taken to attain rational scientific explanations. Because of...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jodie-Comer"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/72/249472-050-EEF456C9/Jodie-Comer-2023.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Jodie Comer"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Jodie Comer</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Jodie Comer, English actress best known for playing psychopathic assassin Villanelle on the award-winning BBC America spy thriller Killing Eve (2018–22). Comer is the eldest of two children born to Donna Comer, a Merseyrail employee, and James Comer, a physiotherapist for Everton Football Club. The...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Freaks-and-Geeks"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/22/249422-050-9EA5E575/promotional-image-cast-of-television-show-Freaks-and-Geeks.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Freaks and Geeks"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Freaks and Geeks</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Freaks and Geeks, cult-classic teen coming-of-age television series focusing on two groups of high-school students in suburban Michigan in 1980. Freaks and Geeks aired on the NBC network for one season from 1999 to 2000 before its cancellation. Created by Paul Feig with Judd Apatow serving as its...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/science/Fermi-paradox"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/45/186845-050-BCC55D23/Enrico-Fermi.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Enrico Fermi"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Fermi paradox</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Fermi paradox, contradiction between the seemingly high likelihood for the emergence of extraterrestrial intelligence and the lack of evidence for its existence. The paradox has two broad forms: (1) Why has Earth not already been visited? and (2) Why is there no evidence for extraterrestrial...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Awkwafina"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/07/249407-050-1ADBD9A9/Awkwafina-2023.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Awkwafina"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Awkwafina</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Awkwafina, American comedian, actress, and rapper known for her low raspy voice, explicit comedy raps, and quick delivery of comedic one-liners. After she posted her rap song “My Vag” on YouTube in 2012, her fame steadily rose, and she soon landed parts in such movies as Ocean’s Eight (2018), Crazy...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Diane-Nash"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/57/249457-050-AE0B6B2C/Diane-Nash-Civil-Rights-2011.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Diane Nash"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Diane Nash</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Diane Nash, American civil rights activist who was a leading figure in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s, especially known for her involvement in sit-ins and the Freedom Rides. Nash’s efforts contributed to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965....</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Edmund-Pettus-Bridge"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/69/148869-050-06375CCD/site-Edmund-Pettus-Bridge-Bloody-Sunday-Selma-2006.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Edmund Pettus Bridge"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Edmund Pettus Bridge</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Edmund Pettus Bridge, bridge crossing the Alabama River in Selma, Alabama, that was the site of what became known as “Bloody Sunday,” a landmark event in the history of the American civil rights movement. On that day, March 7, 1965, white law-enforcement officers violently dispersed protesters, the...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Herb-Alpert"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/26/249026-050-A7A14DC7/Herb-Alpert-with-trumpet-1984.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Herb Alpert"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Herb Alpert</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Herb Alpert, American trumpeter and music industry executive known for leading the band Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass and for cofounding A&M; Records. Hit albums by Herb Alpert, one of the best-selling instrumentalists of all time, helped A&M; Records become an industry powerhouse. Alpert was the...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Oslo-Accords"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/69/20969-004-AEB323BC/Pres-Bill-Clinton-Yitzhak-Rabin-Yasser-Arafat-September-1993.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Oslo Accords: Declaration of Principles on Palestinian Self-Rule"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Oslo Accords</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Oslo Accords, set of agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) that established a peace process for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a mutually negotiated two-state solution. The agreements resulted in limited self-governance for Palestinians in the West Bank...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/story/ghost-forests-are-becoming-the-new-haunts-of-climate-change"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/90/248990-050-EE67FEA9/Ghost-Forest-Lewis-Gut-Coast-North-Carolina.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Ghost forest along the Lewis Gut - a stream along the coast near Core Point, North Carolina. Photographed in 2022"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Ghost Forests Are Becoming the New Haunts of Climate Change</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">What are ghost forests? How do ghost forests emerge, and how do they affect the global environment?...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/womanism"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/59/226659-050-4BD113B3/Alice-Walker-2005.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Alice Walker"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">womanism</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Womanism, feminist intellectual framework that focuses on the conditions and concerns of women of colour, especially Black women. Womanists work to address injustices that have not been generally recognized within mainstream feminism. The term womanist was coined by the American author Alice Walker...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Old-Testament-Trinity"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/19/247319-050-294E0F1D/The-Old-Testament-Trinity-15th-century-Andrei-Rublev.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="The Old Testament Trinity"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">The Old Testament Trinity</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">The Old Testament Trinity, tempera icon created about 1410 by Andrey Rublyov, who is regarded as one of the greatest medieval Russian painters of icons and frescoes. The Old Testament Trinity is perhaps the most revered and valued icon in Russia. Rublyov is thought to have received his training...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Prismes-Electriques"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/21/247321-050-B336D533/Prismes-Electriques-Sonia-Delaunay-Terk-1914.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Prismes Électriques"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Prismes Électriques</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Prismes Électriques, Orphist oil painting created in 1914 by Russian-born artist Sonia Delaunay. This painting is an icon of the full and mature expression of Orphism. Delaunay was born in Gradizhsk, Ukraine (then in the Russian Empire) and grew up in St. Petersburg before moving to Paris in 1905,...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Portrait-of-Mademoiselle-Charlotte-du-Val-dOgnes"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/25/247325-050-89352F8C/Marie-Josephine-Charlotte-du-Val-d-Ognes-Marie-Denise-Villers-1801.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Portrait of Mademoiselle Charlotte du Val d'Ognes"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Portrait of Mademoiselle Charlotte du Val d’Ognes</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Portrait of Mademoiselle Charlotte du Val d’Ognes, unsigned oil painting believed to have been created about 1801 that is attributed to French artist Marie Denise Villers. 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Baker was widely considered rock’s first superstar drummer, serving as the drummer for the seminal British rock outfits...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/St-Joseph-the-Carpenter"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/23/247323-050-D84F942E/St-Joseph-the-Carpenter-Georges-de-la-Tour-1642-44.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="St. Joseph the Carpenter"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">St. Joseph the Carpenter</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">St. Joseph the Carpenter, oil painting created about 1642–44 by French artist Georges de la Tour. One of the candle-lit paintings for which Tour is best known, this intimate religious scene is also touchingly human. The story of the artist’s life and works is patchy. Although he enjoyed success and...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Red-Studio-by-Matisse"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/22/247322-050-07166AE0/The-Red-Studio-1911-Henri-Matisse.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="The Red Studio"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">The Red Studio</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">The Red Studio, oil painting created in 1911 by French artist Henri Matisse. It is a challenging painting that has confounded critics and viewers and is regarded as a foundational piece of modern art. Matisse is known as the great colourist of the 20th century, and The Red Studio is one of the best...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Malcolm-Jamal-Warner"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/53/249453-050-C957022F/Malcolm-Jamal-Warner.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Malcolm-Jamal Warner"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Malcolm-Jamal Warner</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Malcolm-Jamal Warner, American actor, director, and musician who is perhaps best known for his work on The Cosby Show (1984–92), one of the most popular sitcoms in television history. He also is a noted spoken-word artist. Warner was born in New Jersey. His parents—Pamela Warner, who later became...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Berko-Gleason"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/43/249643-050-5385A03A/psychologist-Jean-Berko-Gleason.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Jean Berko Gleason"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Jean Berko Gleason</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Jean Berko Gleason, American psycholinguist best known as the creator of the Wug Test, a tool used to study children’s language acquisition. A pioneer in the field of children’s language, Gleason has been called the founder of experimental developmental psycholinguistics. She created the Wug Test...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Stanley-Cup-champions-2231225"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/19/249619-050-CEC5A64E/Nathan-MacKinnon-with-Stanley-Cup-after-Colorado-Avalanche-NHL-championship-over-Tampa-Bay-Lightning-2022.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Nathan MacKinnon"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Stanley Cup champions</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Stanley Cup champions, winners of the annual best-of-seven series of ice hockey games that determines that season’s titlist in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Stanley Cup is named for its donor, Frederick Arthur, Lord Stanley of Preston, a former governor-general of Canada. He originally...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/science/McGurk-effect"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/mendel-resources/3-103/images/shared/default3.png?v=3.103.19" class="default "/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">McGurk effect</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">McGurk effect, an audiovisual speech illusion that demonstrates the impact of visual cues on speech perception, particularly the identification of spoken syllables. The effect was named after cognitive psychologist Harry McGurk, who, along with cognitive psychologist John MacDonald, discovered the...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anna-O"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/97/249397-050-C0424885/Bertha-Pappenheim-Anna-O.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Bertha Pappenheim"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Bertha Pappenheim</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Bertha Pappenheim, Austrian Jewish activist who was a founder of the League of Jewish Women and who is widely considered to have been the first patient of psychoanalysis. Pappenheim was a well-documented patient of Austrian physician Josef Breuer in the early 1880s; she became known by the...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Roxane-Gay"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/41/249041-050-EDC128B8/Roxane-Gay-2022.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Roxane Gay"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Roxane Gay</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Roxane Gay, American writer and cultural critic who gained acclaim in 2014 for her book Bad Feminist, a collection of essays that reflects on her personal experiences, pop culture, and hot-button social issues. A prolific writer, she also published works of fiction and memoir, served as an editor...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Dominican-Republic"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/14/5114-050-E4DD455C/Flag-Dominican-Republic.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Dominican Republic"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">history of the Dominican Republic</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">History of the Dominican Republic, a survey of important events and people in the history of the Dominican Republic from the time of European settlement. The Dominican Republic occupies the eastern two-thirds of Hispaniola, the second largest island of the Greater Antilles chain in the Caribbean...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Heavy-Metal-film"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/31/248831-050-28E5E879/movie-still-Heavy-Metal-science-fantasy-anthology-film-1981.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Heavy Metal"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Heavy Metal</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Heavy Metal, Canadian animated science-fiction anthology film directed by Gerald Potterton and released in 1981. The film features stories that originally appeared in Heavy Metal magazine, as well as tales conceived specifically for the film. Aimed at an adult audience, Heavy Metal was hailed as an...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Understanding-the-depth-of-Earths-oceans-2231362"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/06/153206-050-9EA44788/bow-vehicle-Titanic-expedition-Hercules-wreck-2004.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="bow of the Titanic, 2004"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">How deep is the ocean?</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">The prospect of comprehending just how vast and deep Earth’s oceans are is a challenging one. Earth’s surface is dominated by the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern oceans, which together cover some 71 percent of the planet and whose average collective depth is 12,100 feet (3,688...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Litvinenko"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/83/249083-050-36570290/Alexander-Litvinenko-Intensive-Care-Unit-hospital-London-2006-former-KGB-spy.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Alexander Litvinenko"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Alexander Litvinenko</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Alexander Litvinenko, Russian security agent who investigated domestic organized crime in his role as a member of the KGB and its successor (from 1994) the Federal Security Service (FSB). He died after being intentionally poisoned with polonium-210; numerous investigatory bodies ruled that the...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sarah-Ferguson"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/51/249351-050-8AE00106/Sarah-Duchess-of-York-Sarah-Ferguson-Fergie-2012.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Sarah, Duchess of York"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Sarah, Duchess of York</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Sarah, Duchess of York, former wife (1986–96) of Prince Andrew, Duke of York. After they divorced in 1996, Sarah became a prolific author, television personality, entrepreneur, and public figure. A descendant of British royalty, Ferguson was the second daughter of parents who divorced when she was...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elliot-Page"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/41/249341-050-E5F7039C/Actor-Elliot-Page-2022.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Elliot Page"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Elliot Page</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Elliot Page, Canadian actor best known for his performances in the comedy-drama film Juno (2007) and the Netflix television series The Umbrella Academy (2019– ). Page was assigned female at birth and named Ellen by his parents, graphic designer Dennis Page and elementary school teacher Martha...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rudolf-Vrba"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/65/249165-050-DD8F436D/Rudolf-Vrba-1964-Auschwitz-escapee.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Rudolf Vrba"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Rudolf Vrba</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Rudolf Vrba, Slovak Jewish biochemist, one of five Jewish prisoners to ever escape Auschwitz, the most lethal of the extermination camps in existence during World War II. Vrba’s detailed retelling of events at Auschwitz informed the 1944 Vrba-Wetzler Report, a critical account of the protocol for...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Genie-feral-child"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/mendel-resources/3-103/images/shared/default3.png?v=3.103.19" class="default "/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Genie</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Genie, American child raised in social isolation and subject to severe abuse and neglect prior to being discovered by a social worker in 1970. The child, called Genie by scientists to protect her identity, was physically underdeveloped, incontinent, barely able to walk, and unable to speak when she...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Super-Bowl-champions-2231227"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/25/181325-050-8668AD36/MVP-Super-Bowl-Malcolm-Smith.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Malcolm Smith"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Super Bowl champions</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Super Bowl champions, winners of the annual American football title game in the National Football League (NFL). The Super Bowl was first played in 1967 and was initially called the AFL-NFL World Championship Game, as it was, at the time, contested between the winners of two separate football...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/cursive-handwriting"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/32/169732-050-AFDE0171/Reading-word-chart-How-Words-Work-English.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="the word for “cat” in English, French, and Spanish"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">cursive</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Cursive, style of handwriting distinguished by rounded shapes in a word and, frequently, connection of characters. Cursive style allows the pen to flow in continuous strokes, accelerating the handwriting speed of a practiced hand. Though modern cursive is often associated with languages that use...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-H-Bork"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/73/71273-050-81C71B22/Robert-Bork-Supreme-Court-confirmation-hearings.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Robert H. Bork"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Robert H. Bork</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Robert H. Bork, American legal scholar, federal judge, and onetime U.S. solicitor general (1973–77) whose nomination to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court by Republican Pres. Ronald Reagan in 1987 was rejected by a bipartisan majority of the U.S. Senate. The opposition to Bork’s nomination among...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/science/means-ends-analysis"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/mendel-resources/3-103/images/shared/default3.png?v=3.103.19" class="default "/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">means-ends analysis</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Means-ends analysis, heuristic, or trial-and-error, problem-solving strategy in which an end goal is identified and then fulfilled via the generation of subgoals and action plans that help overcome obstacles encountered along the way. Solving a problem with means-ends analysis typically begins by...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Creature-from-the-Black-Lagoon"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/68/248868-050-1AB8FE4A/lobby-card-Creature-from-the-Black-Lagoon.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Creature from the Black Lagoon"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Creature from the Black Lagoon</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Creature from the Black Lagoon, American science-fiction film released in 1954 about the discovery of a prehistoric amphibious humanoid in the waters of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest. Directed by Jack Arnold and shot in black-and-white 3-D, the film spawned two sequels, Revenge of the Creature...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-ice-hockey"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/50/219150-050-0032E44D/Marc-Andre-Fleury-Vegas-Golden-Knights-Stanley-Cup-Final-2018.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="2018 Stanley Cup finals"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">history of ice hockey</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">History of ice hockey, notable events and people in the development of ice hockey since its creation during the 19th century. Known simply as “hockey” throughout North America (despite the confusion this creates with the less-prominent field hockey), it is unique among popular team sports in that...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/bycatch"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/47/149847-050-2E49F1D7/gill-net-fish-sharks-Mexico-Gulf-of.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="vaquita"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">bycatch</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Bycatch, term for any fish, mammal, bird, or other animal or group of animals captured unintentionally by the commercial fishing industry. Bycatch is closely related to the term discard, which is the amount of haul that is discarded back into the ocean, alive or dead. Bycatch becomes discard when...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/food-insecurity"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/77/223277-050-CFDE2CAA/Somali-refugees-food-aid-near-Mogadishu-airport-2011.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="food insecurity"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">food insecurity</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Food insecurity, the limited or uncertain access to nutritious food, which also includes limitations on the ability to obtain nutritious food in ways that are socially acceptable. Approximately 2.4 billion people worldwide (some 29.6 percent of the human population) experience moderate or severe...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Djibouti"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/06/06-050-86528B6B/Flag-Djibouti.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Djibouti"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">history of Djibouti</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">History of Djibouti, a survey of notable events and people in the history of Djibouti, from the late 19th century to the present day. Djibouti is a small country on the northeast coast of the Horn of Africa. It is situated on the Bab el Mandeb Strait, which lies to the east and separates the Red...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Ethiopia"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/12/12-050-F610849C/Flag-Ethiopia.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Ethiopia"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">history of Ethiopia</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">History of Ethiopia, a survey of notable events and people in the history of Ethiopia, from the prehistoric era to the present day. Ethiopia is the largest and most populated country in the Horn of Africa. It is also one of the world’s oldest countries (sometimes referred to as Abyssinia in...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Fortune-500"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/mendel-resources/3-103/images/shared/default3.png?v=3.103.19" class="default "/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Fortune 500</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Fortune 500, annual list published by Fortune magazine ranking 500 of the largest companies incorporated and operated in the United States. Using publicly available data, Fortune ranks public and private companies on the basis of their previous year’s annual revenue. This widely known ranking is...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/science/Spongiforma-squarepantsii"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/50/249150-050-90D412BF/Songiforma-squarepantsii-fungus-Spongebob-Squarepants-mushroom.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Spongiforma squarepantsii"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Spongiforma squarepantsii</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Spongiforma squarepantsii, species of fungus found on the island of Borneo, in the extreme southwestern Pacific Ocean, and known in particular for its shape, which is similar to that of a sea sponge, and for its pale orange colour. Spongiforma squarepantsii was discovered in 2010 by mycologists...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/place/Vredefort-Dome"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/10/167210-050-3EAEE234/Vredefort-Dome-remnant-province-meteorite-impact-crater-1985.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Vredefort Dome impact structure"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Vredefort Dome</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Vredefort Dome, the largest known meteorite impact structure on Earth. The Vredefort Dome is an area of raised land near the town of Vredefort in the Free State province of South Africa. The dome is at the centre of a crater formed by the impact of a very large meteorite about 2.023 billion years...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Chris-Van-Allsburg"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/54/164954-050-A88E13F6/Chris-Van-Allsburg.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Chris Van Allsburg"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Chris Van Allsburg</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Chris Van Allsburg, American author and illustrator who created several critically acclaimed children’s books. Van Allsburg made narrative and pictures work together to convincingly blur the line between fantasy and reality. He won the Caldecott Medal twice, for his books Jumanji (1981) and The...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/1960s-counterculture"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/18/194518-050-AEEE0F57/Timothy-Leary.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Timothy Leary"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">1960s counterculture</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">1960s counterculture, a broad-ranging social movement in the United States, Canada, and western Europe that rejected conventional mores and traditional authorities and whose members variously advocated peace, love, social justice, and revolution. The 1960s counterculture movement, which generally...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ayrton-Senna"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/84/222384-050-625DC898/Ayrton-Senna-holds-trophy-after-victory-Brazilian-Grand-Prix-Rio-circuit-March-23-1986.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Ayrton Senna"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Ayrton Senna</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race-car driver who gained fame for being a fierce competitor renowned for his ruthless and risky maneuvers on the Grand Prix circuit. He rose quickly through the ranks of professional racing, capturing 41 Grand Prix titles and three circuit world championships (1988, 1990,...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mont-Sainte-Victoire"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/42/249042-050-634D3A97/Mont-Sainte-Victorie-1902-1904-Paul-Cezanne.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Mont Sainte-Victoire"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Mont Sainte-Victoire</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Mont Sainte-Victoire, oil painting created in 1902–04 by French artist Paul Cézanne, one of more than 80 works in which he portrayed the limestone mountain ridge. This rendering was one of his later and more analytical such studies. At the heart of Cézanne’s ambitions for painting was the desire to...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jill-Tarter"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/66/249066-050-A244B43B/Jill-Tarter-American-astronomer.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Jill Tarter"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Jill Tarter</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Jill Tarter, American astronomer known for her work in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Tarter traces her own fascination with outer space and the possibility of alien life back to time she spent with her father walking on the beaches of Florida and looking at the stars. Her...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/art/Nude-1917"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/18/247318-050-E1A8D2D3/Nude-1917-Amedeo-Modigliani.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Nude (1917)"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Nude (1917)</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Nude (1917), oil painting created in 1917 by Italian painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani, one of dozens of nudes that he painted between 1916 and 1919. These nudes are among the most important portraits of the 20th century. Modigliani was born in Livorno, Italy. He briefly attended art classes...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/covariance"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/mendel-resources/3-103/images/shared/default3.png?v=3.103.19" class="default "/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">covariance</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Covariance, measure of the relationship between two random variables on the basis of their joint variability. Covariance primarily indicates the direction of a relationship and can be calculated by finding the expected value of the product of each variable’s deviations from its mean. Although its...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Jimson-Weed-White-Flower-No-1"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/17/247317-050-186947A8/Jimson-Weed-White-Flower-No-1-by-Georgia-O-Keeffe-1932.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1, oil painting created in 1932 by pioneering American artist Georgia O’Keeffe. The painting, which hung for several years in the private dining room at the White House, set a record price for a work by a female artist in 2014 when it was purchased for $44.4 million by...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Laughing-Cavalier"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/14/190314-050-0D588F45.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="The Laughing Cavalier"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">The Laughing Cavalier</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">The Laughing Cavalier, oil painting created in 1624 by Dutch artist Frans Hals. This painting belongs to the artist’s middle period, when the joie de vivre that characterized his early work had begun to disappear, and it gained its title when it was exhibited in London in the 1870s. Hals was born...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/list-of-Indian-spices-2231028"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/96/235996-050-2E42C4CC/spices-spice-blend-garam-masala.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="garam masala"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">list of Indian spices</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">The cuisine of India is varied thanks to the country’s diverse cultures and history. The following are 10 Indian spices that are central to the flavours of the...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/art/Nocturne-in-Black-and-Gold-the-Falling-Rocket"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/95/246595-050-781C5F55/Nocturne-in-Black-and-Gold-the-Falling-Rocket-James-Abbott-McNeill-Whistler.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket, oil painting created about 1875 by American-born artist James McNeill Whistler. This work is famous for having led to a lawsuit between Whistler, an instrumental figure within the English Aesthetic movement, and the art critic John Ruskin. In 1877,...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/proxy-war"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/60/201060-050-CE310D0C/Italian-troops-shelling-Navalcarnero-Madrid-Spanish-Civil-War-1936.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Spanish Civil War"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">proxy war</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Proxy war, a military conflict in which one or more third parties directly or indirectly support one or more state or nonstate combatants in an effort to influence the conflict’s outcome and thereby to advance their own strategic interests or to undermine those of their opponents. Third parties in...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Malkovich"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/42/218342-050-C2D61D1D/American-actor-John-Malkovich-2018.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="John Malkovich"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">John Malkovich</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">John Malkovich, American actor who is best known for his roles in a number of commercially and critically successful films, as well as for his work on stage and on television. He gained fame for his performances in the films Dangerous Liaisons (1988), In the Line of Fire (1993), and Being John...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lynn-Redgrave"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/33/146233-050-D2262B65/Lynn-Redgrave.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Lynn Redgrave"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Lynn Redgrave</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Lynn Redgrave, British-born stage and screen actress who is perhaps best known for her breakout performance in the motion picture Georgy Girl (1966), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. Although she never achieved the same fame as her elder sister, Vanessa Redgrave, and her elder...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/casualties-of-World-War-II-2231003"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/38/205338-050-8E2112B0/Les-Dunes-de-Madeleine-German-pillbox-Utah-June-6-1944.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Normandy Invasion"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">casualties of World War II</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Casualties of World War II, World War II, the deadliest and most destructive war in human history, claimed between 40 and 50 million lives, displaced tens of millions of people, and cost more than $1 trillion to prosecute. The financial cost to the United States alone was more than $341 billion...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Chaka-Khan"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/27/249427-050-BF39531D/Chaka-Khan-performs-concert-2022.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="Chaka Khan, 2022"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">Chaka Khan</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Chaka Khan, American singer whose incredible vocal range and dynamic stage presence helped make her the “Queen of Funk.” She has sold some 70 million records, backed by such hits as “I Feel for You” and “Through the Fire” (both 1984). Yvette Stevens is the eldest of five children born to Sandra...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/S-letter"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/06/67706-004-867F47F6/history-letter-S.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="evolution of the Latin letter s"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">s</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">S, nineteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. It corresponds to the Semitic sin “tooth.” The Greek treatment of the sibilants that occur in the Semitic alphabet is somewhat complicated. The Semitic samech appears in Greek as Ξ (xi) with the value in early times of /ss/, later and more...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/topic/gender-symbol"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/mendel-resources/3-103/images/shared/default3.png?v=3.103.19" class="default "/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">gender symbol</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">Gender symbol, visual signifier of an individual’s self-conception as male or female, as some combination thereof, or as someone outside those categories altogether. Gender symbols are frequently used to represent and distinguish individuals based on their gender identity or biological sex. The...</span> </div> </a> </li> <li> <a class="d-flex p-10" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043/https://www.britannica.com/biography/G-Gordon-Liddy"> <div class="new-article-thumbnail"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230925081043im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/95/248595-050-3AFD82D7/G-Gordon-Liddy-1996-Watergate.jpg?w=200&h=200&c=crop" alt="G. Gordon Liddy"/> </div> <div class="w-100"> <span class="new-article-title d-block">G. Gordon Liddy</span> <span class="new-article-description d-block">G. Gordon Liddy, American political operative and a mastermind of the break-ins that led to the Watergate scandal, which ultimately resulted in the resignation of U.S. Pres. Richard Nixon. Later, Liddy became a successful right-wing radio talk-show host. 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