Search results for "The Space Odyssey series" - New World Encyclopedia
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- materials (e.g., a trilogy), or linked from the catalog (e.g., a webpage) ... The card catalog was a familiar sight to library users for generations ...14 KB (2,172 words) - 22:33, 25 October 2022
- inventor, and futurist, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey ... Clarke served in the Royal Air Force as a radar instructor and technician ...45 KB (6,700 words) - 11:08, 16 August 2023
- Special effects (abbreviated SPFX or SFX) are used by the film, television ... They are also used when creating the effect by normal means is prohibitively ...30 KB (4,494 words) - 19:11, 7 February 2023
- A flight simulator is a system that tries to replicate, or simulate ... Flight simulators are extensively used by the aviation industry for ...23 KB (3,448 words) - 17:38, 28 March 2024
- Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in our solar system and is ... Like the Earth, Mars has a rocky surface and polar ice caps. Its rotational ...47 KB (7,206 words) - 16:13, 6 November 2022
- Khachaturian made a notable contribution to the world of music while preserving ... family. In his youth, he was fascinated by the music he heard around him ...10 KB (1,319 words) - 21:29, 11 August 2023
- an Academy Award for Special Effects. He was the director of a number of critically ... foibles and how they are not consonant with the ideologies and beliefs. ...59 KB (9,500 words) - 19:51, 9 February 2023
- ), was an ancient Iranian prophet and the founder of Zoroastrianism ... as an authentic historical figure, but the period in which he lived remains ...25 KB (3,791 words) - 06:11, 13 June 2023
- educator, and prolific writer, and one of the leading exponents of neo-Kantian ... Cassirer played a mediating role between the two major traditions ...13 KB (1,820 words) - 19:34, 13 February 2024
- A video game is a game that involves the interaction with a user interface ... The "video" in "video game" traditionally refers ...26 KB (4,049 words) - 20:12, 3 May 2023
- marketing contexts can be synonymous with, the broader definition of speculative ... Science fiction often involves one or more of the following elements: ...54 KB (7,938 words) - 02:35, 21 April 2023
- September 8, 1949) was a German composer of the late Romantic era, particularly ... M. Abell, Strauss disclosed that he had read the work of the Swedish mystic ...15 KB (2,261 words) - 01:47, 14 December 2022
- was a notorious English pirate in the Caribbean Sea and western ... pistols at his disposal. It was reported in the General History of the Pirates ...25 KB (4,026 words) - 23:53, 12 February 2024
- The theremin is an electronic musical instrument controlled without ... The instrument's controlling section usually consists of two ...52 KB (7,562 words) - 23:57, 12 March 2023
- awards and honors for her writing, including the Man Booker Prize, Arthur C ... Atwood is also the inventor and developer of the LongPen and associated ...39 KB (5,259 words) - 03:53, 6 November 2022
- ) was one of the most important religious sites in ancient Greece ... Delphi is located in lower central Greece, on multiple terraces along ...21 KB (3,318 words) - 09:23, 28 January 2024
- Venus is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224 ... planet” or “Earth’s twin,” as the two are similar in size and ...45 KB (7,026 words) - 17:37, 3 May 2023
- pilot, and businessman. In 1961, he became the first American to travel into ... A graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Shepard ...57 KB (8,455 words) - 04:33, 17 June 2023
- was a renowned Czech photographer, dubbed the "Poet of Prague." Born when Bohemia was a kingdom in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he ...21 KB (3,355 words) - 03:36, 6 August 2022
- Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music ... As the world is increasingly globalized, preservation of traditional ...24 KB (3,693 words) - 06:15, 1 April 2024
- "distribution-mother" from the noun of the Indo-European ... She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of the Eleusinian ...20 KB (3,054 words) - 09:24, 28 January 2024
- artist, author, multi-talented musician, and the lead guitarist and vocalist ... emigrated with his family in 1919 from the Galicia region of northwest ...37 KB (5,901 words) - 08:01, 3 April 2024
- Poetry (from the Greek " ποίησις ," poiesis, a "making ... such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric ...69 KB (10,532 words) - 00:11, 5 March 2023
- African-Americans, or Black Americans, are citizens of the United ... Before the American Civil War, 3.5 million African-Americans lived ...38 KB (5,325 words) - 06:03, 16 June 2023
- :For the Three Kingdoms general, see Zhang He. [[Image:ZhengHeShips ... diplomat and fleet admiral, who made the voyages collectively referred ...33 KB (5,055 words) - 06:00, 13 June 2023
- * The Function of the Orgasm (1927) * Character Analysis (1933) * The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933) * The Sexual Revolution (1936) ...34 KB (4,898 words) - 20:11, 17 November 2023
- consumer electronics and software products. The company's best-known ... co-founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, the company was called "Apple ...56 KB (7,806 words) - 15:54, 11 August 2023
- colonial roots in his writing. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature ... Walcott was born and raised in Castries, Saint Lucia, in the West ...47 KB (6,423 words) - 09:51, 29 January 2024
- written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a ... story of something new," itself from the novella , a singular ...82 KB (12,058 words) - 20:51, 27 February 2023
- singer, songwriter, and dancer. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he ... The eighth child of the Jackson family, Michael made his professional ...200 KB (27,687 words) - 00:08, 13 March 2023