Hugh Miller: …his remaining works on geology, Footprints of the Creator (1849) was the most nearly original. The book recorded Miller’s reconstruction of the extinct fishes he had discovered in the Old Red Sandstone and contended, on theological grounds, that their perfection of development disproved the theory of evolution. He also discovered…

ancient Olympic Games: Events: …apparently only one event, a footrace that covered one length of the track at Olympia, but other events were added over the ensuing decades. The race, known as the stade, was about 192 meters (210 yards) long. The word stade also came to refer to the track on which the…

theatrical production: Nondramatic theatre: In the 1980s the Footsbarn company began traveling the world in a manner reminiscent of the medieval and Renaissance players, with productions of Shakespeare that used circus imagery and techniques. Samuel Beckett used the image of the clown in Waiting for Godot to create a parable on the absurdity…

Pramoedya Ananta Toer: …the tetralogy, Jejak langkah (1985; Footsteps) and Rumah kaca (1988; House of Glass), had to be published abroad. These late works comprehensively depict Javanese society under Dutch colonial rule in the early 20th century. In contrast to Pramoedya’s earlier works, they were written in a plain, fast-paced narrative style.

Lloyd Bacon: Warner Brothers: …to direct Errol Flynn in Footsteps in the Dark (1941), which featured Flynn not as a swashbuckler or a war hero but as a gentleman sleuth in a rare comedic performance. Affectionately Yours, with Rita Hayworth, Merle Oberon, and Dennis Morgan, was poorly cast, but Navy Blues (both 1941), with…

ottoman: The ottoman footstool, a closely allied piece of furniture, was an upholstered footstool on four legs, which could also be used as a fireside seat. By the 20th century the word ottoman had come to encompass both forms.

mining: Delineation: …ore body is called the footwall.

mining: Horizontal openings: drifts: …the footwall is called a footwall drift, and drifts driven from the footwall across the ore body are called crosscuts. A ramp is also a type of drift.

Brazil: Manufacturing of Brazil: The footwear industry, centered in Rio Grande do Sul, began in the 1820s with small leather works supplied by surplus hides from the meatpacking industry.

Vincenzo Foppa was an Italian painter, leading figure in 15th-century Lombard art, and an artist of exceptional integrity and power. His earliest dated work is a dramatic painting of the “Three Crosses” (1456). He spent the middle of his life in Pavia in the service of the dukes of Milan, and until

Che Guevara: The Cuban Revolution: …included Guevara’s delineation of his foco theory (foquismo), a doctrine of revolution in Latin America drawn from the experience of the Cuban Revolution and predicated on three main tenets: 1) guerrilla forces are capable of defeating the army; 2) all the conditions for making a revolution do not have to…

Congress of Racial Equality: …branch of the pacifist group Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) but resigned over a dispute in policy; he founded CORE as a vehicle for the nonviolent approach to combating racial prejudice that was inspired by Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi.

For a Few Dollars More, Italian western film, released in 1965, that was the second film in the popular Dollars series, director Sergio Leone’s “spaghetti western” trilogy that starred Clint Eastwood. The Man with No Name (played by Eastwood) teams with another bounty hunter, Col. Douglas Mortimer

Jean-François Vonck: …Pro Aris et Focis (For Altar and Hearth), which gained widespread support, and then organized a volunteer army based at Liège and commanded by a former Austrian officer, Jean-André van der Meersch.

Tyler Perry: …and a film (2008); and For Better or Worse (2011–17), which centred on characters from Why Did I Get Married? and its sequel. The latter series was picked up by Oprah Winfrey’s OWN channel in its third season following its cancellation by TBS. Perry created several additional television shows for…

Tyler Perry: …which he also starred, and For Colored Girls, an adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s groundbreaking ensemble theatre piece For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf (1975). He later wrote and directed himself in Good Deeds (2012), a drama about a CEO seeking personal fulfillment; Madea’s Witness Protection…

American literature: The Off-Broadway ascendancy: and Ntozake Shange, whose “choreopoem” For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf moved to Broadway in 1976. Other well-received women playwrights included Marsha Norman, Beth Henley, Tina Howe, and Wendy Wasserstein. In a series of plays that included Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (1984),

J.D. Salinger: …of his wartime experiences: “For Esmé—with Love and Squalor” (1950) describes a U.S. soldier’s poignant encounter with two British children; “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” (1948) concerns the suicide of the sensitive, despairing veteran Seymour Glass.

Rubén Blades: …films as Safe House (2012); For Greater Glory (2012), in which he portrayed Plutarco Elías Calles; and The Counselor (2013). He also had a recurring role (2015–17; 2019– ) on the television show Fear the Walking Dead.

20th-century Norwegian literature: After World War II: , Før hanen galer [1952; “Before the Cock Crows”]) and plays in a very concrete and drastic manner. In later works, such as Frihetens øyeblikk (1966; Moment of Freedom), he probed the nature of evil across all of Western civilization. In her early short stories Torborg…

George Seaton: Miracle on 34th Street and The Country Girl: …the Berlin airlift (1948–49), and For Heaven’s Sake, a whimsical fantasy starring Clifton Webb and Gwenn as angels on a mission to save a struggling married couple (Joan Bennett and Robert Cummings). Seaton then made Anything Can Happen (1952), a Cold War comedy with José Ferrer, and Little Boy Lost…

Deadmau5: Later albums included For Lack of a Better Name (2009), the Grammy-nominated 4x4=12 (2010), and Album Title Goes Here (2012). Album Title Goes Here topped the Billboard dance/electronic albums chart and earned Deadmau5 his second Grammy nomination.

English literature: Anglo-American Modernism: Pound, Lewis, Lawrence, and Eliot: …charismatic, masculine leadership, while, in For Lancelot Andrewes: Essays on Style and Order (1928), Eliot (whose influence as a literary critic now rivaled his influence as a poet) announced that he was a “classicist in literature, royalist in politics and anglo-catholic in religion” and committed himself to hierarchy and order.…

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: For Love of Biafra and Purple Hibiscus: In 1998 Adichie’s play For Love of Biafra was published in Nigeria. She later dismissed it as “an awfully melodramatic play,” but it was among the earliest works in which she explored the war in the late 1960s between Nigeria and its secessionist Biafra republic. She later wrote several…

A Rage in Harlem, crime novel by American writer Chester Himes that was the first book in what became known as his Harlem Detective cycle of novels. Published in French in 1957 with the title La reine des pommes (“The Queen of Fools”), it was released in the U.S. the same year as For Love of

Daniel Mann: For Love of Ivy (1968) was notable for being a romantic comedy about two African American characters (Sidney Poitier and Abbey Lincoln). In A Dream of Kings (1969), Quinn and Irene Papas were well cast as Greek immigrants trying to return to the old country.…

Kevin Costner: Dances with Wolves and The Bodyguard: …sports-themed Tin Cup (1996) and For Love of the Game (1999).

Louis Althusser: …philosophy of Karl Marx (1818–83), For Marx and Reading Capital (both published in 1965), Althusser sought to counter the prevalent interpretation of Marxism as an essentially “humanistic” and “individualist” philosophy in which history is a goal-directed process aimed at the realization and fulfillment of human nature under communism. Althusser asserted…

Busby Berkeley: Later films: For Me and My Gal (1942) was all his, with Gene Kelly and Garland as 1915 vaudeville performers. It was a hit, but there was friction between Berkeley and Garland. That tension and going over budget led to his removal from Garland and Rooney’s next…

Titus Annius Milo: …the trial; his extant oration Pro Milone is an expanded form of the unspoken defense. Milo retired into exile at Massilia (now Marseille, France). He joked that if Cicero had delivered the speech in his defense, he would never have been able to enjoy the fine mullets of Massilia. Milo…

Reba McEntire: Acting and later music: …the victims on the album For My Broken Heart (1991), which sold millions of copies.

Thomas B. Costain: …he published his first romance, For My Great Folly (1942), dealing with the 17th-century rivalry between England and Spain. An immediate success, it was followed almost yearly by historical adventure tales, the best known of which are The Black Rose (1945), whose medieval English hero ranges as far as Kublai…

African American literature: The 1940s: …of Hughes, Margaret Walker dedicated For My People (1942), the title poem of which remains one of the most popular texts for recitation and performance in African American literature, to the same Black American rank and file whom Hughes and Brown celebrated. By the early 1940s three figures, Melvin B.…

Stevie Wonder: …producer Henry Cosby), and “For Once in My Life,” songs that suited dancers as well as lovers. Where I’m Coming From, an album released in 1971, hinted not merely at an expanded musical range but, in its lyrics and its mood, at a new introspection. Music of My Mind…

Sigrid Nunez: First short stories and novels: For Rouenna (2001) explores the friendship between a novelist and a former military nurse who served in the Vietnam War. The Last of Her Kind (2006) centers on the relationship between two women who meet as roommates at Barnard College in the 1960s and follow…

Mark Rydell: …ignored by moviegoers, as were For the Boys (1991), a show business saga starring Midler and Caan as USO performers whose turbulent romance spans a half century, and Intersection (1994), in which Richard Gere portrayed a man who, during a fatal car crash, reexamines his love life.

homeschooling: Main theories, theorists, and methods: …of Susan Schaeffer Macaulay’s book For the Children’s Sake: Foundations of Education for the Home and School (1984). Mason advocated teaching Latin or other languages that once provided the foundation of a classical education. Private schools, correspondence schools, and curriculum providers—such as Montessori schools (originated by Italian educator Maria Montessori…

Kevin Young: Poetry collections: …Young published his next collection, For the Confederate Dead (2007), he had established himself as a prolific and masterful voice in American poetry. In its evaluation of the troubled legacy of the South, For the Confederate Dead freely mingles the past and present, using such forms as ballad and elegy.…

Laurence Binyon: …experience, and Binyon’s poem “For the Fallen” (1914) won immediate recognition as the expression of the feelings of a disillusioned generation. The poem was set to music by Sir Edward Elgar. His best poetry, though written after the war, employed the diction traditional in the prewar years. Collected Poems…

Kris Kristofferson: Music career: …produce hits, such as “For the Good Times,” recorded by Ray Price and then named song of the year for 1970 by the Academy of Country Music. That same year Cash’s recording of Kristofferson’s “Sunday Morning Coming Down” was named song of the year by the Country Music Association.…

guerrilla warfare: The Cold War period: …manual of murder (Carlos Marighela, For the Liberation of Brazil [1970]), New Left revolutionaries embraced assassination, robbery, indiscriminate bombing, and kidnapping to attain their ends—crimes that became the order of the day as did, on an international scale, airplane hijackings, kidnappings, and mass murder.

Damien Hirst: …diamond-studded platinum-cast human skull entitled For the Love of God, probably the most expensive work of art ever made. His references to other artistic movements and artists were many. The common format of massive vitrines, for example, relied on the precedent of minimalism, while his use of found materials and…

Frank Capra: Early life and work: …for the studio First National, For the Love of Mike (1927), Capra began his long association with Columbia Pictures and its head, Harry Cohn, as well as with cinematographer Joseph Walker. One of the so-called Poverty Row studios, Columbia lacked the financial wherewithal, big-name contract actors, and prestige of major…

Hart Crane: White Buildings: …contains his long poem “For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen,” which he wrote as an answer to what he considered to be the cultural pessimism of Eliot’s poem The Waste Land.

Shonda Rhimes: …of Romeo and Juliet; and For the People (2018–19), a legal drama.

propaganda: Connotations of the term propaganda: …was entitled Propagandistu politekonomii (For the Propagandist of Political Economy), and a pocket-sized booklet issued weekly to suggest timely slogans and brief arguments to be used in speeches and conversations among the masses was called Bloknot agitatora (The Agitator’s Notebook).

Walter Rauschenbusch: For the Right, a monthly periodical “in the interests of the working people,” was launched in November 1889 in an effort to reach the labouring classes and to aid in the formulation of a Christian socialist program. Publication ceased in March 1891 when Rauschenbusch left…

Elizabeth George: …in the Lynley series included For the Sake of Elena (1993), Playing for the Ashes (1995), With No One as Witness (2005), Careless in Red (2008), Just One Evil Act (2013), The Punishment She Deserves (2018), and Something to Hide (2022). Between 2001 and 2008 the

Australian literature: The century after settlement: Marcus Clarke’s His Natural Life (1874; the antecedent phrase For the Term of was inserted without authority after his death) is the first novel regarded as an Australian classic. It is a powerful account of the convict experience, drawing heavily on documentary sources. Within the rigours and…

W. H. Auden: Life: …religious in the Christmas oratorio For the Time Being (1944); aesthetic in the same volume’s Sea and the Mirror (a quasi-dramatic “commentary” on William Shakespeare’s The Tempest); and social-psychological in The Age of Anxiety (1947), the “baroque eclogue” that won Auden the Pulitzer Prize in 1948. Auden wrote no long…

Annie Dillard: For the Time Being (1999) presents Dillard’s wide-ranging reflections on, among other subjects, the meaning of suffering and death and the nature of God. The novel The Maytrees (2007) takes as its subjects Lou and Toby Maytree, a married couple living on Cape Cod. The…

For the Union Dead, title poem of a collection by Robert Lowell, published in 1964. Lowell originally titled the poem “Colonel Shaw and the Massachusetts 54th” to commemorate Robert Gould Shaw, a white Bostonian who had commanded a battalion of black Union troops during the American Civil War, and

graphic design: Modernist experiments between the world wars: …Vladimir Mayakovsky’s Dlya golosa (For the Voice) is a seminal work of graphic design. The title spread for each poem is constructed into a dynamic visual composition, with geometric elements having symbolic meaning. In the title page to one poem, Lissitzky used a large red circle to signify the…

AC/DC: …the United States alone, and For Those About to Rock (1981) was also a million-seller. The early to mid-1980s was the band’s peak period as a live group; a number of personnel changes occurred after that time.

Van Halen: Lineup changes: …culminating in the Grammy Award-winning For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge (1991). That album also produced the single “Right Now.” Featuring Eddie on piano as well as guitar, the song peaked at number 55 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Its music video, which features a series of captions, both serious and…

Buffalo Springfield: The group’s biggest hit, “For What It’s Worth” (1967), about clashes between youth and police on the Sunset Strip, remains evocative of the era’s spirit and its tensions. The band’s albums include its eponymous debut in 1966, Buffalo Springfield Again (1967), and Last Time Around (1968). Tension between its…

For Whom the Bell Tolls, novel by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1940. The novel is set near Segovia, Spain, in 1937 and tells the story of American teacher Robert Jordan, who has joined the antifascist Loyalist army. Jordan has been sent to make contact with a guerrilla band and blow up a bridge

For Whom the Bell Tolls, American adventure film, released in 1943, that was a romanticized adaptation of the 1940 novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The film was a popular and critical success, earning nine Academy Award nominations and winning one for best supporting actress (Katina

Christopher Guest: Filmmaking career: …a folk music impresario; and For Your Consideration (2006) satirizes Hollywood’s Oscar season. In 2013 Guest wrote (with Piddock), directed, and executive produced the HBO series Family Tree, starring O’Dowd as a young man tracking down his genealogy. Guest collaborated with Piddock again on the Netflix production Mascots (2016), which…

Roxy Music: …1972), and the follow-up album For Your Pleasure (1973) were hits in Britain, as Roxy Music’s fully textured sound and lush instrumentation set it apart from mainstream rock. When Eno departed to pursue his remarkable career as a solo performer and producer, Ferry became even more the band’s focal point,…

forage, vegetable food of wild or domestic animals. In agriculture, harvested, processed, and stored forage is called silage

agricultural technology: Harvesting machinery: Hay and forage machines include mowers, crushers, windrowers, field choppers, balers, and some machines that press the hay into wafers or pellets.

hunter-gatherer, any person who depends primarily on wild foods for subsistence. Until about 12,000 to 11,000 years ago, when agriculture and animal domestication emerged in southwest Asia and in Mesoamerica, all peoples were hunter-gatherers. Their strategies have been very diverse, depending

hunter-gatherer, any person who depends primarily on wild foods for subsistence. Until about 12,000 to 11,000 years ago, when agriculture and animal domestication emerged in southwest Asia and in Mesoamerica, all peoples were hunter-gatherers. Their strategies have been very diverse, depending

Roland Petit: …works included the realistic ballet Les Forains (1945; “The Strolling Players”), a study of indigent circus performers; the imaginative creation La Croqueuse de diamants (1950; “The Diamond Cruncher”), whose heroine eats the gems her associates steal; and L’Oeuf à la coque (1949; “The Soft-Boiled Egg”), in which the leading female…

Foraker Act, (April 12, 1900), measure enacted by the U.S. Congress to institute a civilian government in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico came under U.S. military administration in 1898 after the United States seized the island in the Spanish-American War. U.S. Gen. John R. Brooke became its military

Alaskan mountains: Physiography of the southern ranges: …a spectacular companion peak is Mount Foraker (17,400 feet [5,304 meters]), just to the southwest. Four great individual mountain masses dominate the Alaska group, divided by a number of low passes and river valleys, several of which provide routes of travel across the mountains. Great valley glaciers radiate from those…

foraminiferan, any unicellular organism of the rhizopodan order Foraminiferida (formerly Foraminifera), characterized by long, fine pseudopodia that extend from a uninucleated or multinucleated cytoplasmic body encased within a test, or shell. Depending on the species, the test ranges in size from

human skeleton: Interior of the cranium: …the jagged opening called the foramen lacerum. The lower part of the foramen lacerum is blocked by fibrocartilage, but through its upper part passes the internal carotid artery, surrounded by a network of autonomic nerves, as it makes its way to the interior of the cranial cavity.

foramen magnum, in anatomy, the opening in the base of the skull that connects the spinal cord to the brain. It is the largest foramen (opening) of the skull and is part of the occipital bone (the bone that forms the back and rear base of the skull). On each of its sides is an occipital condyle (a

crocodile: Form and function: …circulation by way of the foramen of Panizza, which opens between the two vessels leading separately from the ventricles. This connection operates when the crocodile holds its breath. It allows blood to bypass the lungs when the animal is submerged, and this structure has the effect of stabilizing blood oxygen…

circulatory system: Embryonic development of the circulatory system: …passes through an opening, the foramen ovale, into the left atrium, and then to the left ventricle and around the body. Deoxygenated blood entering the anterior vena cava fills the right ventricle; however, instead of passing to the lungs, it is shunted through the ductus arteriosus, between the pulmonary and…

human skeleton: Interior of the cranium: …the eye cavity; and the foramen rotundum, for the passage of the maxillary nerve, which serves the upper jaw and adjacent structures. Farther back are the conspicuous foramen ovale, an opening for the mandibular nerve to the lower jaw, and the foramen spinosum, for the middle meningeal artery, which brings…

human skeleton: Interior of the cranium: …the lower jaw, and the foramen spinosum, for the middle meningeal artery, which brings blood to the dura mater.

foraminiferan, any unicellular organism of the rhizopodan order Foraminiferida (formerly Foraminifera), characterized by long, fine pseudopodia that extend from a uninucleated or multinucleated cytoplasmic body encased within a test, or shell. Depending on the species, the test ranges in size from

foraminiferan: …sink and form the so-called foraminiferal ooze that covers about 30 percent of the ocean floor. Limestone and chalk are products of the foraminiferan bottom deposits.

foraminiferan, any unicellular organism of the rhizopodan order Foraminiferida (formerly Foraminifera), characterized by long, fine pseudopodia that extend from a uninucleated or multinucleated cytoplasmic body encased within a test, or shell. Depending on the species, the test ranges in size from

foraminiferan, any unicellular organism of the rhizopodan order Foraminiferida (formerly Foraminifera), characterized by long, fine pseudopodia that extend from a uninucleated or multinucleated cytoplasmic body encased within a test, or shell. Depending on the species, the test ranges in size from

Celtic literature: Late period: …all available material on the history of Ireland to 1616, directed by Michael O’Clery. Geoffrey Keating produced the first historical (as opposed to annalistic) work in his Foras Feasa ar Éirinn (written c. 1640; History of Ireland) as well as some fine verse in both old and new meters and…

cocoa: Fermentation: …pulp of common grades (Forastero) is allowed to ferment for five to seven days, and the pulp of the more distinctively flavoured grades (Criollo) for one to three days. Frequent turnings dissipate excess heat and provide uniformity. During fermentation, the juicy sweatings of the pulp are drained away, the…

Forbach, town, Moselle département, Grand Est région, northeastern France. It lies just southwest of Saarbrücken, Germany. Forbach, which has an important cokery and manufactures mining equipment, is at the edge of the Saar Coal Basin. Remains of the medieval castle of the counts of Forbach crown a

Friedrich Karl Forberg was a German philosopher and educator. An exponent of the Idealist school developed by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Forberg is best known for his essay Über die Entwicklung des Begriffs Religion (1798; “On the Development of the Concept of Religion”), a work that occasioned

Forbes, American business magazine owned by Forbes, Inc. Published biweekly, it features original articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics. Forbes also reports on related subjects such as technology, communications, science, and law. Headquarters are in New York City. Founded

Forbes, town, south-central New South Wales, Australia. It lies on the Lachlan River. Forbes, named for former New South Wales chief justice Sir Francis Forbes, was proclaimed a town in 1861 during a gold rush and became a municipality in 1870. The bushranger (outlaw) Ben Hall was shot and killed

Sarah Forbes Bonetta was a Yoruban woman who was captured as a child by a neighboring kingdom and later taken from western Africa to the United Kingdom by an abolitionist. She had her welfare and education funded by Queen Victoria, with whom she developed a close relationship. There is very little

Sarah Forbes Bonetta was a Yoruban woman who was captured as a child by a neighboring kingdom and later taken from western Africa to the United Kingdom by an abolitionist. She had her welfare and education funded by Queen Victoria, with whom she developed a close relationship. There is very little

Forbes family, U.S. publishing family. Bertie Charles Forbes (1880–1954) emigrated from Scotland to the U.S. in 1904. He founded Forbes magazine, a business and finance magazine, in 1916. He became a U.S. citizen in 1917. His son, Malcolm S. Forbes (1919–90), was decorated for his service in World

Pittsburgh Pirates: …the 1970s the Pirates left Forbes Field, their home for more than 60 years, to play in Three Rivers Stadium, where the power hitting of Willie Stargell and Dave Parker helped them clinch the NL Eastern Division six times and win World Series championships in 1971 and 1979. In the…

Forbes’ disease, rare hereditary disease in which the the metabolic breakdown of glycogen to the simple sugar glucose is incomplete, allowing intermediate compounds to accumulate in the cells of the liver. Affected persons lack the enzyme amylo-1,6-glucosidase, one of several enzymes involved in

Gibraltar remains: …and paleoanthropological evidence of occupation: Forbes’ Quarry, Devil’s Tower, Gorham’s Cave, and Vanguard Cave. The first locality yielded the second Neanderthal fossil ever discovered, the skull of an older adult female; though found in 1848, it was not announced to science until 1865. In 1926 the second site yielded a…

Warren G. Harding: Presidency: …Daugherty disclosed to Harding that Charles Forbes, director of the Veterans Bureau, had been illegally selling government medical supplies to private contractors. After violently berating Forbes in the White House, Harding allowed him to leave the country to escape prosecution. Shortly thereafter Charles Cranmer, general counsel of the Veterans Bureau,…

Duncan Forbes was a Scottish statesman whose loyalty to the Hanoverian king George II of Great Britain contributed markedly to the defeat of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745–46. Trained in law, Forbes entered local politics and in 1715 aided the Hanoverian cause during the unsuccessful Jacobite

Edward Forbes was a British naturalist, pioneer in the field of biogeography, who analyzed the distribution of plant and animal life of the British Isles as related to certain geological changes. While a medical student at Edinburgh, Forbes embarked upon a botanical tour of Norway (1833). Drawn to

children’s literature: Contemporary times: Johnny Tremain (1943), by Esther Forbes, a beautifully written, richly detailed story of the Revolution, stood out as one of the few high points, as did The Innocent Wayfaring (1943), a tale of Chaucer’s England by the equally scholarly Marchette Chute. Poetry for children had at least two talented…

George William Forbes was a farmer and politician who served as the prime minister of New Zealand during the depression years (1930–35). Forbes held a seat in the House of Representatives for thirty-five years as member for Hurunui (1908–43). He began his political career as a member of the Liberal

Steve Forbes: …and chief operating officer of Forbes, Inc. After the death of his father in 1990, Forbes became the chief executive officer of the company as well as editor in chief of the magazine, and under his leadership the company expanded its publishing ventures.

James David Forbes was a Scottish physicist noted for his research on heat conduction and glaciers. Educated at the University of Edinburgh, Forbes became a professor there in 1833. Between 1836 and 1844 he published four series of “Researches on Heat” in which he described the polarization

George Washington: Early military career: John Forbes led a new advance upon Fort Duquesne. Forbes resolved not to use Braddock’s road but to cut a new one west from Raystown, Pennsylvania. Washington disapproved of the route but played an important part in the movement. Late in the autumn the French…

Malcolm S. Forbes was an American business leader, owner-publisher of Forbes magazine, and promoter of capitalism known for his opulent lifestyle and lively self-promotion. After graduating from Princeton University (A.B., 1941) Forbes served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He entered New

Malcolm S. Forbes was an American business leader, owner-publisher of Forbes magazine, and promoter of capitalism known for his opulent lifestyle and lively self-promotion. After graduating from Princeton University (A.B., 1941) Forbes served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He entered New