This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Ronnie Lott, an American gridiron football player who earned first-team All-Pro honors at all three defensive backfield positions during his standout 14-year National Football League (NFL)...

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Sammy Price, an American pianist and bandleader, a jazz musician rooted in the old rhythm and blues and boogie-woogie traditions who had a long career as a soloist and accompanist.

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, an English composer who enjoyed considerable acclaim in the early years of the 20th century.

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Samuel David Ferguson, the first African American bishop of the Episcopal Church.

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Samuel Freeman Miller, an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1862-90), a leading opponent of efforts to use the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution to protect business...

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Savion Glover, an American dancer and choreographer who became known for his unique pounding style of tap dancing, called "hitting." He brought renewed interest in dance, particularly...

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Serena Williams, an American tennis player who-along with her sister Venus-revolutionized women's tennis with her powerful style of play, becoming one of the game's most dominant athletes...

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Sheryl Swoopes, an American basketball player who won three Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards (2000, 2002, 2005) and four WNBA titles...

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Solomon Burke, an American singer whose success in the early 1960s in merging the gospel style of the African American church with rhythm and blues helped to usher in the soul music era.

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Sonny Boy Williamson, an American blues vocalist and the first influential harmonica virtuoso, a self-taught player who developed several technical innovations on his instrument.

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Sonny Stitt, a black American jazz musician, one of the first and most fluent bebop saxophonists.

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Sonny Terry, an American blues singer and harmonica player who became the touring and recording partner of guitarist Brownie McGhee in 1941.

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Spike Lee, an American filmmaker known for his uncompromising, provocative approach to the controversial subject matter.

A terrific introduction from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy to the conventions of notation and form in logic, and indeed to logical philosophy in general. Discusses the logical semantics of propositions, description, analysis,...

Read a brief description of the National Reclamation Act and its aim of making more agricultural land available in the arid West by financing irrigation projects. Some information is specific to the Klamath Basin project in Oregon.

One of the 'Regina Five', Ron Bloore displayed his work in the 1961 National Gallery of Canada's exhibition "Five Painters from Regina". This article is a biography of his life and works.

Biographical entry on landscape painter Ted Godwin, a member of the Regina Five who came onto the Canadian art scene with their 1961 exhibition, "Five Painters from Regina". He has won many honors and has exhibited his work across Canada...

Biographical information on Canadian born painter and teacher, Ken Lochhead. He directed the Regina College School of Art and started the Mackenzie Art Gallery. In 1961, he displayed his paintings at the National Gallery of Canada with...

Find out how family life in Cincinnati, as elsewhere in mid-nineteenth-century America, was fundamentally different from traditional family life in the eighteenth century.

Information and photos on this website about Nellie McClung's private life, public life and career provide excellent information about Nellie McClung--both for the educator and the learner. In addition, McClung's article "Reading...

This brief biography highlights Condoleeza Rice's distinguished career in politics.

Biographical overview of the life and career of legendary football coach John Heisman, for whom the Heisman Trophy was named.

Ozzie Smith is featured in this brief biography highlighting his career as a Hall of Fame major league baseball player for the St.Louis Cardinals.

Paul "Bear" Bryant is featured in this biographical account highlighting his career as one of the most successful college football coaches in history mostly at the University of Alabama.