Katherine Paterson - Parzival: The Quest of the Grail Knight, 1998. Non-Fiction: Gates of Excellence: On Reading and Writing Books for Children, 1981. Consider the Lilies: Plants of the Bible, 1986. The Spying Heart: More Thoughts on Reading and Writing Books for Children, 1989. Who Am I?, 1992. A Sense of Wonder: On Reading and Writing Books for Children, 1995. (combined text of Gates of Excellence and The Spying Heart) The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children, 2001 Christmas Short Story Collections: Angels & Other Strangers: Family Christmas Stories, 1979. A Midnight Clear: Twelve Family Stories for the Christmas Season, 1995. Star of Night: Stories for Christmas, 1980. Awards for Body of Work: Literary Light, Boston Public Library 2000 Living Legend, Library of Congress 2000 Literary Light, Boston Public Library 2000.
Verbena Tragica - It was written by Jean Bart and Miguel de Zárraga, and directed by Charles Lamont. The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry..
Vertigo (movie) - visits to San Juan Batista, and the famous nightmare sequence. When Taylor attempted to take sole credit for the screenplay, Coppel protested to the Writers Guild, who determined that both writers were entitled to credit. Vertigo was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White or Color and Best Sound. The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. In 2002 it was chosen the second greatest film of all time (behind Citizen Kane) by the Sight & Sound critic's poll. Vertigo is notable for the first use of the "Hitchcock zoom", an in-camera perspective distortion special effect, created by Hitchcock to suggest the dizzying effect of disorientation that gives the film its title. Francois.
Kievan Rus' - Centers Kievan Rus' was not able to maintain its position as a powerful and prosperous state, in part because of the amalgamation of disparate lands under the control of a ruling clan. As the members of that clan became more numerous, they identified themselves with regional interests rather than with the larger patrimony. Thus, the princes fought among themselves, frequently forming alliances with outside groups such as the Polovtsians, Poles, and Hungarians. The Crusades brought a shift in European trade routes that accelerated the decline of Kievan Rus'. In 1204 the forces of the Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople, making the Dnepr trade route marginal. As it declined, Kievan Rus' splintered into many principalities and several large regional centers. The inhabitants of those regional centers then evolved into three nationalities: Ukrainians in.
Kiss Me Deadly - It is considered to be the American godfather to the French New Wave, directed with skill by Robert Aldrich and introducing Cloris Leachman. In 1999 the film was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry..
King: a Filmed Record...Montgomery To Memphis - Lumet and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary, Features. In 1999 the film was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry..
Kingdom of Laos - Laotian officers. On February 7, 1950, the United States and United Kingdom recognized Laos. Later that year, the United States opened a legation in Vientiane. Immediately thrust into the broader conflict of the Second Indochina War, the Kingdom of Laos would survive coup d'etats and civil war until 1975, when the communist Pathet Lao assumed power, forced the abdication of the king and declared the birth of the Lao People's Democratic Republic. Symbols of the Kingdom of Laos See also: Laos History of Laos Reference Initial text adapted from The Library of Congress Country Studies.
K - G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z Kilo represents the letter K in the NATO phonetic alphabet. K is also: As k, kilo, an SI prefix meaning 103 = 1,000 (one thousand) or K, a binary prefix used in computing to mean 210 = 1,024. The symbol for kelvin (K) in the SI system In chemistry, a symbol for the element potassium (from its latin name kalium) An abbreviation for ketamine In the Library of Congress classification, the designation for books about law The stock symbol for Kellogg Company In baseball, the abbreviation for strike-out In Hong Kong, from 2002-now, the informal abbreviation for karaoke. The simplest system of modal logic (K stands for Kripke). Note that k.
Knute Rockne, All American - by Ronald Reagan gave him the nickname of "The Gipper" for the rest of his life. The movie was written by Robert Buckner and directed by Lloyd Bacon. The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Famous Quotation: The last thing he said to me, "Rock," he said, "sometime when the team is up against it and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go out there with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper.".
Koyaanisqatsi - Glass recomposing what he'd submitted, etc. The Philip Glass Ensemble has toured the United States, playing the music for Koyaanisqatsi live, in front of the movie screen. Koyaanisqatsi, out of print for over a decade, was rereleased on DVD in late 2002. Much of the reason for the film's disappearance from the market centered around a complicated rights dispute. Reggio's Institute for Regional Education claimed original copyright on the film, but Francis Ford Coppola's was also contending for the film's rights, as it had been funded through his American Zoetrope studio. The film had originally been distributed through Island Entertainment / Palm Pictures, which had subsequently been sold to PolyGram -- and after the dissolution of PolyGram Pictures, the entire PolyGram film library had been sold to Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. The IRE.
Kolkata - populous city in India until the 1980s, when it was overtaken by Mumbai (formerly Bombay). Much of the overpopulation and the attendant problems were due to various British policies. The last straw was the partition of India when it attracted a huge burden of refugee Hindus from the eastern part of the province of Bengal, first included in Pakistan, later declaring independence to form the republic of Bangladesh in 1971. A lot of discussion is still going on how the city got its name. There are different views on the issue. The more popular one is that the city got its name from the Hindu goddess Kali. The city is home to the National Library of India, and is the cultural capital of India, famous for the book-fairs every winter. Other.
Kofun - from Korea, probably in A.D. 538, exposing Japan to a new body of religious doctrine. The Soga, a Japanese court family that rose to prominence with the accession of the Emperor Kimmei about A.D. 531, favored the adoption of Buddhism and of governmental and cultural models based on Chinese Confucianism. But some at the Yamato court--such as the Nakatomi family, which was responsible for performing Shinto rituals at court, and the Mononobe, a military clan--were set on maintaining their prerogatives and resisted the alien religious influence of Buddhism. The Soga introduced Chinese-modeled fiscal policies, established the first national treasury, and considered the Korean peninsula a trade route rather than an object of territorial expansion. Acrimony continued between the Soga and the Nakatomi and Mononobe clans for more than a century, during.
Kong Le - 1963 Kong Le's second in command, Colonel Ketsana, was assassinated. Shortly afterwards Quinim Polsena and his deputy were also assassinated. Fearing for their lives, the left wing ministers fled to Khang Khay, capital of the Pathet Lao zone. The Pathet Lao and neutralist-leftists attacked the Plain of Jars but Kong Le now allied with Phoumi, repulsed the attack. The neutralist government was deposed by the right-wing generals Kouprasith Abhay and Siho Lamphouthakoun April 19th, 1964, but following international pressure, Souvanna Phouma was reinstalled as premiere. On January 31, 1965 Phoumi and Siho led a coup d'etat, but Kong Le troops defeated them by February 4th. Phoumi and Siho fled to Thailand. The right wing parliament was dissolved by Souvanna Phouma on October 7, 1966. There was a strong reaction from the.
Jam Session (movie) - his orchestra performing C Jam Blues. In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry..
Jaws - Music, Original Score (John Williams) and Best Sound. It was also nominated for Best Picture. The film is consistently on the Internet Movie Database's list of top 250 films and was #48 on American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Movies and #2 on its 100 Years, 100 Thrills. In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. It was filmed at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. In a bit of serendipity, the mechanical shark didn't work most of the time so Spielberg was forced to shoot many of the scenes with the shark only hinted at. This is widely thought to have increased the suspense of many scenes. Another key factor was John Williams' acclaimed film score, especially the.
Jazz on a Summer's Day - Farmer, Jo Jones and Armando Pareza. The movie was written by Albert D'Annibale and Arnold Perl and directed by Bert Stern. In 1999 the film was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry..
James M. Cox - was defeated in the 1920 Presidential Election by Warren G. Harding. His running mate was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Cox recorded for the Nation's Forum several times. The campaign speech featured here accuses the Republicans of failing to acknowledge that President Wilson's successful prosecution of the war had, according to Cox, saved "civilization." Source: Library of Congress.
James Merrill - Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Divine Comedies. Merrill suffered writer's block and sought psychiatric help to overcome its effects. Merrill won the National Book Critics Circle Award for his epic poem The Changing Light at Sandover (composed partly of supposedly supernatural messages received via ouija board), and the first Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry awarded by the Library of Congress for The Inner Room. He won National Book Awards for Nights and Days and later for Mirabell. James Merrill's significance as a writer lies in his deliberate use of his personal relationships to fuel his poetry. He died on 6 February 1995 while vacationing in Arizona from a heart attack related to AIDS. He served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1979 until his death. Works by.
James Bowdoin - of Sir Francis Bernard's term as governor he spoke and wrote against the royal governors and their actions. He was proposed as a continuing Council member in 1769, but the new governor Thomas Hutchinson rejected his membership. Boston promptly elected him to the assembly. When Hutchinson was formally commissioned as governor in 1760, he restored Bowdoin to the Council, reasoning that he was less dangerous there than as an outspoken critic in the assembly. Bowdoin as named as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1774 but did not attend, citing health reasons. In 1775 he was elected President of the Council and held that office until 1777. With the turmoil of the American Revolutionary War, he sometimes acted as council president in an executive, rather than legislative role. When Massachusetts.
James Manahan - consumers, and anti-railroad groups. He also provides anecdotes regarding some local political figures (i.e. Robert La Follette, John P. Altgeld, and William Jennings Bryan). Source Information: Ancestry.com. James Manahan, Trials of a Lawyer [database online]. Orem, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc., 1999. Original data: Library of Congress. Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910. [database on-line] Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1999. Manahan, James. Trials of a Lawyer. Minneapolis, MN: Franham Printing Co., 1933. See Minnesota Historical Society archives..
