Studs Terkel: Terkel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Good War (1984) is an oral history of World War II that presents reminiscences of people, both famous and relatively unknown, who experienced it overseas and at home. Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My Times (1977) was the first of Terkel’s autobiographies; the…

F. Murray Abraham: …roles in the TV shows The Good Wife (2009–16) and Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet (2020– ). He also played a CIA operative in the series Homeland (2011–18), which starred Claire Danes. In 2022 Abraham appeared in the second season of the anthology series The White Lotus, portraying a flirtatious grandfather…

Ben Affleck: Academy Award for Good Will Hunting: The result was Good Will Hunting (1997), a drama that starred Damon as Will Hunting, a brilliant mathematician working as a janitor at MIT, and Affleck as his childhood friend; the film also featured Affleck’s brother, Casey, as well as Minnie Driver and Robin Williams. A critical and…

The Good Woman of Setzuan, drama, a “parable in 10 scenes,” by Bertolt Brecht, produced in 1943 and published in 1953 as Der gute Mensch von Sezuan. The title has many English-language variants, including The Good Person of Szechwan and The Good Soul of Szechuan. The play is set in China between

Lucille Clifton: …piece celebrating her origins, and Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir, 1969–1980 (1987) collects some of her previously published verse. The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton: 1965–2010 (2012) aggregated much of her oeuvre, including a substantial number of unpublished poems.

Wilfrid Sheed: …Luce (1982), the essay collections The Good Word & Other Words (1978) and Essays in Disguise (1990), and Baseball and Lesser Sports (1991). In 1995 Sheed published In Love with Daylight: A Memoir of Recovery, about his battle with alcoholism and cancer of the tongue and his disappointment with the…

common good, that which benefits society as a whole, in contrast to the private good of individuals and sections of society. From the era of the ancient Greek city-states through contemporary political philosophy, the idea of the common good has pointed toward the possibility that certain goods,

Death Cab for Cutie: …1975, Bothell, Washington), and drummer Nathan Good. Later members included Michael Schorr and Jason McGerr.

Salem witch trials: Three witches: …of whom attended church regularly: Sarah Good, an irascible beggar, and Sarah Osborn (also spelled Osborne), an elderly bed-ridden woman who was scorned for her romantic involvement with an indentured servant. On March 1 two magistrates from Salem Town, John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin, went to the village to conduct…

ethics: Plato: …one knows the Form of the Good, a perfect, eternal, and changeless entity existing outside space and time, in which particular good things share, or “participate,” insofar as they are good.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Italian western film, released in 1966, that was the third and arguably best installment in director Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy, which starred Clint Eastwood as the iconic Man with No Name. The movie is widely regarded as the definitive “spaghetti western.” The

Good-Bye to All That, autobiography by Robert Graves, published in 1929 and revised in 1957. It is considered a classic of the disillusioned postwar generation. Divided into anecdotal scenes and satiric episodes, Good-Bye to All That is infused with a dark humour. It chronicles the author’s

Goodbye, Mr. Chips, novel by James Hilton, published serially and in book form in 1934. The work depicts the career of Mr. Chipping, a gentle schoolteacher at an English public school. Mr. Chips—the name is bestowed by his students—is a middle-aged bachelor who falls in love with and marries a

good-night, sensational type of broadside ballad (q.v.), popular in England from the 16th through the 19th century, purporting to be the farewell statement of a criminal made shortly before his execution. Good-nights are usually repentant in tone, containing a sketchy account of how the criminal

good-reasons theory, in American and British metaethics, an approach that tries to establish the validity or objectivity of moral judgments by examining the modes of reasoning used to support them. The approach first appeared in An Examination of the Place of Reason in Ethics (1950) by Stephen

Jane Goodall is a British ethologist, known for her exceptionally detailed and long-term research on the chimpanzees of Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. Goodall, who was interested in animal behaviour from an early age, left school at age 18. She worked as a secretary and as a film

Jane Goodall is a British ethologist, known for her exceptionally detailed and long-term research on the chimpanzees of Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. Goodall, who was interested in animal behaviour from an early age, left school at age 18. She worked as a secretary and as a film

Sir Reginald Goodall was a British conductor noted for his interpretations of operas, especially those of Richard Wagner. Goodall studied at the Royal College of Music in London and in Munich, Salzburg, and Vienna before joining the Sadler’s Wells company in 1944. The next year he conducted the

Eric Clapton: …Wheels of Fire (1968), and Goodbye (1969).

Anatole Litvak: Later films: Goodbye Again (1961) offered Bergman as an interior decorator who, upset that her longtime boyfriend (Yves Montand) continually cheats, begins romancing a much-younger man (Anthony Perkins). Le Couteau dans la plaie (1963; Five Miles to Midnight) was a murder drama, in which Perkins portrayed an…

Ellen Burstyn: …cast in director Vincente Minnelli’s Goodbye Charlie, her first significant studio picture. She returned to New York later that year, began studying with Lee Strasberg at The Actors Studio, and in 1964 married actor and writer Neil Burstyn (also known as Neil Nephew; divorced 1972).

Elvis Costello: …Almost Blue (1981) and released Goodbye Cruel World (1984); both albums had only limited critical and commercial success. In 1985 Costello divorced his wife, and he married Cait O’Riordan, the bassist of the British band the Pogues, the following year.

the Chicks: …singles, the morbidly comic “Goodbye Earl,” became one of the group’s best-known songs. In 2003 Home (2002), a return to their acoustic roots that featured a popular cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide,” was named best country album at the Grammy Awards, and the songs “Long Time Gone” and “Lil’…

Herbert Ross: Films of the mid-1970s: The Goodbye Girl (1977), a slick adaptation of Simon’s play of the same name, was an even bigger commercial success. It featured Richard Dreyfuss as a struggling actor and Marsha Mason as a single mom who fall in love after being reluctant roommates in a…

Martin Short: Career: …musical for his performance in The Goodbye Girl (1993). However, he turned down a chance to play Leo Bloom in The Producers, Mel Brooks’s hit Broadway musical based on his earlier film. Matthew Broderick wound up with the part. Nonetheless, Short did get another chance, playing the timid accountant in…

Avril Lavigne: …The Best Damn Thing (2007), Goodbye Lullaby (2011), and Avril Lavigne (2013). Lavigne was diagnosed with a severe case of Lyme disease in 2014 and took a break from performing and recording to recuperate. Her medical struggles informed her sixth studio album, Head Above Water (2019). Love Sux was released…

Sally Bowles: …and of his collected stories Goodbye to Berlin (1939). Bowles is a young iconoclastic, minimally talented English nightclub singer in the Berlin of the Weimar Republic period (1919–33). She paints her fingernails green, affects an artless decadent manner, and has woeful luck in her relationships with men.

Jean-Luc Godard: Later work and awards of Jean-Luc Godard: …and Adieu au langage (2014; Goodbye to Language), a fragmented narrative about a man, a woman, and a dog, filmed in 3-D. Le Livre d’image (2018; The Image Book) is a cinematic essay, featuring a montage of film clips, photographs, and wartime footage, with Godard providing commentary.

Elton John: …a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding” on Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973). Other notable songs from this period included “Rocket Man” on Honky Château (1972) and “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me” on Caribou (1974).

Philip Roth: …with Goodbye, Columbus (1959; film 1969), whose title story candidly depicts the boorish materialism of a wealthy Jewish suburban family. The collection earned a National Book Award. Roth’s first novel, Letting Go (1962), was followed in 1967 by When She Was Good, but he did not recapture the success of…

Philip Roth: He first achieved fame with Goodbye, Columbus (1959; film 1969), whose title story candidly depicts the boorish materialism of a wealthy Jewish suburban family. The collection earned a National Book Award. Roth’s first novel, Letting Go (1962), was followed in 1967 by When She Was Good, but he did not…

Helmut Käutner: …for a Russian prince, and Auf Wiedersehen, Franziska! (1941; “Goodbye, Franziska!”), which concerns the marital troubles between a reporter and his neglected wife. When the authorities forced Käutner to add an illogical upbeat ending to the latter film, he responded by making the enforced sequence deliberately contrived and farcical. Käutner…

Goodbye, Mr. Chips, novel by James Hilton, published serially and in book form in 1934. The work depicts the career of Mr. Chipping, a gentle schoolteacher at an English public school. Mr. Chips—the name is bestowed by his students—is a middle-aged bachelor who falls in love with and marries a

Herbert Ross: First films: …directed his first motion picture, Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969), a musical version of Sam Wood’s 1939 classic film of the same name, which, in turn, was based on James Hilton’s novella Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1934). British pop singer-actress Petula Clark starred opposite Peter O’Toole, who played the titular schoolmaster, in…

Goodbye, Mr. Chips, British film drama, released in 1939, that was based on James Hilton’s highly successful novel of the same name. Goodbye, Mr. Chips is a touching, sentimental tale of a beloved British schoolmaster (played by Robert Donat). The film traces his life and career from his days as a

Vincent Sherman: Women’s pictures: …Crawford collaborated once more on Goodbye, My Fancy (1951), an adaptation of a Broadway romantic comedy about a congresswoman who returns to her alma mater, where she hopes to rekindle an old romance. In 1952 Sherman made the Clark Gable–Ava Gardner western Lone Star as well as Affair in Trinidad,…

Charles Mingus: …recorded by others is “Goodbye, Porkpie Hat,” a tribute to Lester Young, and his most frequently cited extended work is “Pithecanthropus Erectus,” a musical interpretation of human evolution. His volatile personality and opinions were captured in his autobiography, Beneath the Underdog, published in 1971.

North Cascades National Park: Natural history: …park’s high point is on Goode Mountain in the centre of the south unit, which reaches 9,206 feet (2,806 metres); the highest peak in the north unit is Mount Shuksan in the west, at 9,131 feet (2,783 metres).

G. Brown Goode was an American zoologist who directed the scientific reorganization and recataloging of the collection at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. After graduating from Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut, he spent a year at Harvard University studying

G. Brown Goode was an American zoologist who directed the scientific reorganization and recataloging of the collection at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. After graduating from Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut, he spent a year at Harvard University studying

Pop art: Pop art in the United States: Chryssa, Marjorie Strider, Joe Goode, Dorothy Grebenak, Richard Artschwager, Billy Al Bengston, Allan D’Arcangelo, Ray Johnson, Mel Ramos, and John Wesley.

Philadelphia: The 20th century: …elected its first Black mayor, W. Wilson Goode, whose first administration was marred by the 1985 MOVE tragedy (a stand-off between a radical group and police that led to the bombing of the MOVE compound, the burning of the surrounding neighborhood, and the death of 11 people, including 5 children).…

atheriniform: Annotated classification: Family Goodeidae (Mexican topminnows) Live-bearing, but male lacks elaborate intromittent organ found in poeciliids. About 10 genera, in rivers draining the Mexican Plateau; length to about 10 cm (4 in.). Family Jenynsiidae Small fishes with asymmetrical genital organs; 1 genus; rivers of South America. Family Anablepidae (four-eyed

Roger Goodell: …prominent New York family—his father, Charles Ellsworth Goodell, was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1959–68) and served two years (1968–71) in the U.S. Senate after the assassination in 1968 of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The younger Goodell graduated (1981) from Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania with…

Roger Goodell American sports executive who served as commissioner (2006– ) of the National Football League (NFL). Goodell was born into a prominent New York family—his father, Charles Ellsworth Goodell, was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1959–68) and served two years (1968–71) in

Roger Goodell American sports executive who served as commissioner (2006– ) of the National Football League (NFL). Goodell was born into a prominent New York family—his father, Charles Ellsworth Goodell, was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1959–68) and served two years (1968–71) in

Dwight Gooden was a phenomenal right-handed pitcher who helped rejuvenate the New York Mets in the 1980s and lead the team to the World Series championship in 1986. Fans and players alike marveled at Gooden’s array of powerful pitches and his pinpoint accuracy. His career, however, was plagued by

Dwight Gooden was a phenomenal right-handed pitcher who helped rejuvenate the New York Mets in the 1980s and lead the team to the World Series championship in 1986. Fans and players alike marveled at Gooden’s array of powerful pitches and his pinpoint accuracy. His career, however, was plagued by

Goodeniaceae, the goodenia family of the aster order (Asterales), containing 12 genera and about 440 species, chiefly native to Australia. Some species are widespread tropical beach shrubs such as Scaevola plumieri and S. frutescens. Both have oval, leathery leaves and small, starry, white flowers

Goodeniaceae, the goodenia family of the aster order (Asterales), containing 12 genera and about 440 species, chiefly native to Australia. Some species are widespread tropical beach shrubs such as Scaevola plumieri and S. frutescens. Both have oval, leathery leaves and small, starry, white flowers

Goodenough Island, one of the D’Entrecasteaux Islands of Papua New Guinea, in the Solomon Sea, southwestern Pacific Ocean. It lies about 20 miles (32 km) across Ward Hunt Strait from the eastern tip of the island of New Guinea and northwest of Fergusson Island across Moresby Strait. The forested

John B. Goodenough American physicist who won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on developing lithium-ion batteries. He shared the prize with British-born American chemist M. Stanley Whittingham and Japanese chemist Yoshino Akira. Goodenough was the oldest person to win a Nobel Prize.

John B. Goodenough American physicist who won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on developing lithium-ion batteries. He shared the prize with British-born American chemist M. Stanley Whittingham and Japanese chemist Yoshino Akira. Goodenough was the oldest person to win a Nobel Prize.

Battle of Dogger Bank: Dogger Bank and the pursuit of the German fleet: …Light Cruiser Squadron under Commodore William Goodenough aboard the Southampton. Beatty planned to proceed to a point in the North Sea some 200 miles (320 km) west-northwest of the German naval base at Helgoland. There he would rendezvous with a Harwich-based force of three light cruisers and 35 destroyers under…

Adam Goodes Australian rules football player who was one of the game’s leading scorers. He was named Australian of the Year in 2014. Goodes’s mother was of Adnyamathanha and Narungga descent, a member of the “stolen generation” of Aboriginal children who were forcibly removed from their families.

GoodFellas, is a critically acclaimed American gangster film, released in 1990, that is regarded as one of the finest works of director Martin Scorsese’s career. Its creative cinematography and outstanding performances by actors including Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, and Lorraine Bracco

Target Corporation, American mass-market retail company operating large-scale food and general-merchandise discount stores. It is one of the largest discount retailers in the United States, and its red bull’s-eye logo is familiar throughout the country. Corporate headquarters are in Minneapolis,

Western architecture: United States: …Adams Cram and his partners, Bertram G. Goodhue and Frank W. Ferguson, who regarded it as particularly suitable for educational establishments. The Graduate College (1913) and University Chapel (1929) at Princeton University are among their finest achievements. Other powerful Gothic buildings include their Cadet Chapel, United States Military Academy, West…

Grace Coolidge American first lady (1923–29), the wife of Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States. Grace Goodhue was the only child of Andrew Issachar Goodhue, a mechanical engineer, and Lemira Barrett Goodhue. After attending local schools, Grace enrolled at the University of Vermont,

aerosol container: …1941 by the American chemist Lyle D. Goodhue and others for dispensing insecticides. Since that time a wide variety of products ranging from disinfectants to whipping cream have been packaged in aerosol containers.

CeeLo Green: …friends, formed the hip-hop act Goodie Mob. Three years later the group appeared on the first album by fellow Atlanta rappers OutKast, and their own debut, Soul Food (1995), soon followed. With its optimistic attitude and its incorporation of live instrumentation infused with the sounds of classic soul and funk…

Cuba Gooding, Jr. American actor who was perhaps best known for his scene-stealing performance as a professional football player who is the only loyal client of a sports agent played by Tom Cruise in the blockbuster film Jerry Maguire (1996). Gooding earned an Academy Award for best supporting

John Goodlad Canadian-born educator and author who, as a critic of the U.S. educational system, argued that the fundamental focus of education should not be on the promotion of standards-based testing but instead be on preparing young people to be active and engaged citizens in a participatory

John Goodlad Canadian-born educator and author who, as a critic of the U.S. educational system, argued that the fundamental focus of education should not be on the promotion of standards-based testing but instead be on preparing young people to be active and engaged citizens in a participatory

Robert Falls: …artistic director of Chicago’s renowned Goodman Theatre. There he extended a reputation he had gained for shocking the audience with what some considered to be gratuitous violence, nudity, and couplings. Nevertheless, during his tenure at the Goodman, he directed a number of highly successful productions, including Horton Foote’s The Young…

Amy Goodman American journalist, columnist, and author, best known as the cofounder and host of Democracy Now! The War and Peace Report, a liberal-progressive daily news program produced in New York City. It is syndicated on radio and television in the United States and broadcast on the Internet.

Benny Goodman was an American jazz musician and bandleader and a renowned 20th-century clarinet virtuoso. Dubbed the “King of Swing,” Goodman was also a complex personality whose relentless pursuit of perfection was reflected in his approach to music. The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Goodman

Benny Goodman was an American jazz musician and bandleader and a renowned 20th-century clarinet virtuoso. Dubbed the “King of Swing,” Goodman was also a complex personality whose relentless pursuit of perfection was reflected in his approach to music. The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Goodman

novelty song: …such as Bill Buchanan and Dickie Goodman’s “The Flying Saucer” (1956) and Sheb Wooley’s “Purple People Eater” (1958), sold particularly well in the 1950s. Comedians such as Stan Freberg and Peter Sellers were specializing in musical satire and directing their wit at the new music at the time when rock…

John Goodman American actor who was perhaps best known for his long-running role as Dan Conner in the television series Roseanne (1988–97; 2018). His imposing physical stature often garnered him movie roles playing over-the-top, larger-than-life figures. Goodman attended Southwest Missouri State

John Goodman American actor who was perhaps best known for his long-running role as Dan Conner in the television series Roseanne (1988–97; 2018). His imposing physical stature often garnered him movie roles playing over-the-top, larger-than-life figures. Goodman attended Southwest Missouri State

superhero: Marvel’s rise: the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man: …golf game with his contemporary, Martin Goodman, publisher of Marvel Comics. Marvel, then limping along in the marketplace with a handful of monster and thriller series, needed a boost, and so Goodman directed his staff editor and writer Stan Lee to create a group of superheroes to compete with Justice…

aesthetics: Symbolism in art: Nelson Goodman of the United States is one such philosopher. His Languages of Art (1968) was the first work of analytical philosophy to produce a distinct and systematic theory of art. Goodman’s theory has attracted considerable attention, the more so in that it is an…

Theda Bara was an American silent-film star who was the first screen vamp who lured men to destruction. Her films set the vogue for sophisticated sexual themes in motion pictures and made her an international symbol of daring new freedom. (Read Lillian Gish’s 1929 Britannica essay on silent film.)

Mae West: The title of her autobiography, Goodness Had Nothing to Do with It (1959), captured her style precisely—it was a retort one of her characters made to the exclamation “Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!”

Alice Dunbar Nelson: Her short-story collection The Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories was published as a companion piece to her husband’s Poems of Cabin and Field in 1899. The volume helped establish her as a skillful portrayer of Creole culture. She moved to Delaware after she and Dunbar separated in…

statistics: Hypothesis testing: A goodness-of-fit test refers to a hypothesis test in which the null hypothesis is that the population has a specific probability distribution, such as a normal probability distribution. Nonparametric statistical methods also involve a variety of hypothesis-testing procedures.

Canadian literature: Drama: Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (1990), which juxtaposes a contemporary academic with Shakespeare’s Othello, Romeo, and Juliet, has been produced across Canada and worldwide. Brad Fraser’s quirky Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love (1990) presents seven disturbing characters communicating through an answering…

Billy Joel: …conscious songs, “Allentown” and “Goodnight Saigon” (about unemployed steel workers and Vietnam War veterans, respectively). In the early 1980s Joel was among the first established rock performers to make music videos. During that period he married supermodel Christie Brinkley (the second of his four marriages). From An Innocent Man

Goodnight-Loving Trail, historic cattle trail that originated in Young county, western Texas, U.S. The trail ran southwest to connect with the Pecos River and thence up the river valley to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, and north to the railhead at Denver, Colorado. The trail was established in 1866 by

Charles Goodnight American cattleman, who helped bring law and order to the Texas Panhandle. Goodnight’s mother and stepfather brought him to Texas in 1846. He became a cattleman in 1856, then a Texas Ranger (1861?) and an Indian fighter, and finally a rancher and cattle driver, laying out a cattle

Lead Belly: …six months his song “Goodnight, Irene” became a million-record hit for the singing group the Weavers; along with other pieces from his repertoire, among them “The Midnight Special” and “Rock Island Line,” it became a standard.

Danica McKellar: McKellar also published Goodnight, Numbers (2017), Ten Magic Butterflies (2018), and Bathtime Mathtime (2018), books for young children, and Do Not Open This Math Book! (2018) and The Times Machine!: Learn Multiplication and Division…Like, Yesterday! (2020), for elementary-school students.

Goodnight-Loving Trail, historic cattle trail that originated in Young county, western Texas, U.S. The trail ran southwest to connect with the Pecos River and thence up the river valley to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, and north to the railhead at Denver, Colorado. The trail was established in 1866 by

Frank J. Goodnow educator, long-time president of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and political scientist known for his contributions to the study of public administration. Goodnow earned his law degree at Columbia University (1882) and, after a year of study in Paris and Berlin, taught

immune system disorder: Other autoimmune disorders: …different example is provided by Goodpasture syndrome, a disorder in which autoantibodies form against the basement membrane of the blood vessels in the kidney glomeruli and in the air sacs of the lung. The autoantibodies cause severe kidney damage and lung hemorrhage.

immune system disorder: Other autoimmune disorders: …different example is provided by Goodpasture syndrome, a disorder in which autoantibodies form against the basement membrane of the blood vessels in the kidney glomeruli and in the air sacs of the lung. The autoantibodies cause severe kidney damage and lung hemorrhage.

E.W. Goodpasture was an American pathologist whose method (1931) for cultivating viruses and rickettsia in fertile chicken eggs made possible the production of vaccines for such diseases as smallpox, influenza, yellow fever, typhus, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and other illnesses caused by agents

E.W. Goodpasture was an American pathologist whose method (1931) for cultivating viruses and rickettsia in fertile chicken eggs made possible the production of vaccines for such diseases as smallpox, influenza, yellow fever, typhus, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and other illnesses caused by agents

B.F. Goodrich Company, major American brand and manufacturing company of the 20th century, for 90 years a maker of automobile tires and related products. Founded in Akron, Ohio, the company grew out of a partnership—Goodrich, Tew and Company—formed in 1870 by Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, a medical

radio: Variety shows: Rudy Vallee, who starred in The Fleischmann Yeast Hour for a decade on NBC, beginning on October 24, 1929. The wavy-haired heartthrob not only crooned and provided dance music but also bantered with guest stars and introduced a lengthy dramatic sketch on each program.

Abigail Goodrich Whittelsey American editor whose mission in her magazine work was to provide information and instruction on the role of mothers. Abigail Goodrich was the daughter of a clergyman and was an elder sister of Samuel Griswold Goodrich, later famous as Peter Parley, author of scores of

The Diary of Anne Frank: The screenplay was written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, who adapted their Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name.

Samuel Griswold Goodrich was an American publisher and author of children’s books under the pseudonym of Peter Parley. Largely self-educated, Goodrich became a bookseller and publisher at Hartford and later in Boston. There, beginning in 1828, he published for 15 years an illustrated annual, the

Roscoe Arbuckle was a rotund American comedian and film director of the silent era whose successful career was halted by the first of the major Hollywood scandals. (Read Lillian Gish’s 1929 Britannica essay on silent film.) Arbuckle began entering five-dollar amateur shows in his preteen years, and

John Goodricke was an English astronomer who was the first to notice that some variable stars (stars whose observed light varies noticeably in intensity) were periodic. He also gave the first accurate explanation for one type of periodic variable. Goodricke was deaf, probably because of a serious

Sarah Goodridge American painter of exceptional natural talent who overcame her untutored beginnings to become a highly successful miniaturist. Goodridge attended district schools and briefly, at age 17, a school in Milton, Massachusetts, where she had gone to live with her elder brother’s family.

marketing: Product: The first marketing-mix element is the product, which refers to the offering or group of offerings that will be made available to customers. In the case of a physical product, such as a car, a company will gather information about the features…

Canada: The administration of Brian Mulroney, 1984–93: …a highly unpopular (and visible) tax on goods and services (GST). In December 1992 Canada signed the multilateral North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with the United States and Mexico.

India: Monetary and tax reforms: …tax regime known as the Goods and Services Tax (GST) was implemented. The new tax system replaced a number of taxes levied throughout the country by various jurisdictions and unified them under one system and thus eliminated the problem of cascading tax. Its implementation caused temporary confusion among businesses, but…