Treasure Island, classic adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, serialized in the magazine Young Folks from October 1881 to January 1882 under the title The Sea-Cook; or, Treasure Island and published in book form in 1883. Although not the first book about pirates, Treasure Island is considered

Byron Haskin: Haskin’s version of Treasure Island (1950), derived from Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, starred Robert Newton and Bobby Driscoll; it was Walt Disney Productions’s first live-action production. Tarzan’s Peril (1951), with Lex Barker as the jungle king, was enhanced by Dorothy Dandridge

Victor Fleming: The 1930s: …turned to family fare with Treasure Island, a solid adaptation of the oft-filmed Robert Louis Stevensonnovel; it starred Wallace Beery as Long John Silver and Jackie Cooper as Jim Hawkins. Reckless (1935), however, was one of Fleming’s rare misfires at MGM. The musical featured

Steve Wynn: Hotel and casino career: In 1993 Wynn opened Treasure Island, a pirate-themed hotel and casino. That year, Wynn’s 26-year-old daughter Kevyn was kidnapped from her home. After Wynn paid the kidnappers a ransom of $1.4 million, she was found alive and bound in a car at the Las Vegas airport.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, American adventure film, released in 1948, that was written and directed by John Huston. It has been recognized as one of the first Hollywood movies for which most of the shoot took place on location outside the United States. Set in Mexico in the 1920s, the film

Montana, constituent state of the United States of America. Only three states—Alaska, Texas, and California—have an area larger than Montana’s, and only two states—Alaska and Wyoming—have a lower population density. Montana borders the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, and

treasure trove, in law, coin, bullion, gold, or silver articles, found hidden in the earth, for which no owner can be discovered. In most of feudal Europe, where the prince was looked on as the ultimate owner of all lands, his claim to the treasure trove became, according to the founder of

G.W. Pabst: …film was Der Schatz (1923; The Treasure), about the passions aroused during a search for hidden treasure. His first successful film as a director was Die freudlose Gasse (1925; The Joyless Street), which became internationally famous as a grimly authentic portrayal of life in inflation-ridden postwar Vienna. His second successful…

Robert Benchley: His monologue “The Treasurer’s Report,” initially delivered as a skit in an amateur revue for the Algonquin group in 1922, was the basis for one of the first all-talking cinema short subjects. He subsequently acted in and sometimes wrote motion-picture short subjects—The Sex Life of a Polyp…

Damien Hirst: …his own solo exhibition, “Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable,” in two venues. The monumental installation featured sculptures and other objects presented as the remains from a fictional 2,000-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Africa.

Penelope Lively: …other novels for adults included Treasures of Time (1979), which won the British National Book Award; Judgement Day (1980); Moon Tiger (1987; Booker Prize), based partly on her recollections of Egypt; Passing On (1989); City of the Mind (1991); and Cleopatra’s Sister (1993). Heat Wave (1996) is the story of…

government budget: The United Kingdom: …preparation of the budget, the Treasury appears to have virtually complete authority over the government departments on matters of detail. Major issues are settled in Cabinet discussions, the records of which are not available. The British system thus vests extensive controls in the Treasury bureaucracy.

Iranian art and architecture: Architecture: The character of the Treasury is indicated by security precautions in its planning. In this building the columns were of wood, heavily plastered and painted in bright colours. Elsewhere, columns are fluted in the Greek manner, while the more elaborate capitals and bases have a floral treatment that, like…

government economic policy: Monetary policy: In time of unemployment the central bank may stimulate private investment expenditure, and possibly also household spending on consumer goods, by reducing interest rates and taking measures to increase the supply of credit, liquid assets, and money. The customary tools for doing this are open market operations, the discount rate…

treasury bill, short-term U.S. government security with maturity ranging from 4 weeks to 52 weeks. Treasury bills are usually sold at auction on a discount basis with a yield equal to the difference between the purchase price and the maturity value. In contrast to longer-term government securities,

treasury note, government security, usually marketable, with maturity ranging from one to five years. Because their relatively shorter maturities make them a more liquid investment than long-term securities, notes have the advantage of lower interest costs. The maturities and terms of notes can be

Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP), smallest of the federal visual arts projects conceived under the New Deal to help Depression-stricken American artists in the 1930s. It was directed by the painter Olin Dows and designed to embellish existing federal buildings that lacked construction

Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture, most important of the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s three visual arts programs conceived during the Great Depression of the 1930s by the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration and designed to embellish new federal buildings with murals and sculpture. It

U.S. Department of the Treasury, executive division of the U.S. federal government responsible for fiscal policy. Established in 1789, it advises the president on fiscal matters, serves as fiscal agent for the government, performs certain law-enforcement activities, manufactures currency and

treated gem, genuine gem material whose colour has been artificially enhanced or produced to increase the value of the stone; staining, heat treatment, and irradiation are among the treatments used. Relatively porous material may be stained or dyed to change its colour. Agate may be stained a

treated gem, genuine gem material whose colour has been artificially enhanced or produced to increase the value of the stone; staining, heat treatment, and irradiation are among the treatments used. Relatively porous material may be stained or dyed to change its colour. Agate may be stained a

Encyclopædia Britannica: First edition: …Britannica consisted of including “treatises” on the arts (i.e., practical arts) and sciences in the same alphabetical series as short articles on technical terms and other subjects, with plentiful cross references from the one type of entry to the other. It was thus intended to satisfy two kinds of…

Ralph Cudworth: …ethics, Cudworth’s outstanding work is A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality, directed against Puritan Calvinism, against the divine omnipotence discussed by René Descartes, and against the Hobbesian reduction of morality to civil obedience. Cudworth stressed the natural good or evil inherent in an event or an act in contrast…

Jonathan Edwards: Pastorate at Northampton: …in New England (1742), and A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections (1746).

George Berkeley: Period of his major works: ” In his A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Part I (1710), he brought all objects of sense, including tangibles, within the mind; he rejected material substance, material causes, and abstract general ideas; he affirmed spiritual substance; and he answered many objections to his theory and…

Colin Maclaurin: His two-volume Treatise of Fluxions (1742), a defense of the Newtonian method, was written in reply to criticisms by Bishop George Berkeley of England that Newton’s calculus was based on faulty reasoning. Apart from providing a geometric framework for Newton’s method of fluxions, the treatise is notable…

Émile Haug: His Traité de Geologie, 2 vol. (1907–11; “Treatise of Geology”), contains his ideas about geosynclines.

David Hume: Early life and works: …old Anjou, studying and writing A Treatise of Human Nature. The Treatise was Hume’s attempt to formulate a full-fledged philosophical system. It is divided into three books: Book I, “Of the Understanding,” discusses, in order, the origin of ideas; the ideas of space and time; knowledge and probability, including the…

lacquerwork: Europe: John Stalker and George Parker’s Treatise of Japanning and Varnishing (London, 1688) was the first text with pattern illustrations. The English term japanning was inspired by the superiority of Japanese lacquer, which Stalker found “…in fineness of Black, and neatness of draught…more beautiful, more rich, or Majestick” than the lacquer…

Lorenzo Valla: His Declamatio (Treatise of Lorenzo Valla on the Donation of Constantine), written in 1440, attacked the crude Latin of its anonymous author and from that observation argued that the document could not possibly have dated from the time of Constantine. As King Alfonso was at war…

Karl, baron von Rokitansky: (1842–46; Treatise of Pathological Anatomy, 1849–52), represented an elevation of the discipline to the status of an established science.

figure skating: Pioneers of the sport: A Treatise on Skating (1772) by Robert Jones, an Englishman, is apparently the first account of figure skating. The sport had a cramped and formal style until American Jackson Haines introduced his free and expressive techniques based on dance movement in the mid-1860s. Although popular…

Sir William Petty: …main contribution to political economy, Treatise of Taxes and Contributions (1662), examined the role of the state in the economy and touched on the labour theory of value.

Henry Briggs: …subject of exploration later with A Treatise of the Northwest Passage to the South Sea, Through the Continent of Virginia and by Fretum Hudson (1622). In addition, Briggs’s advice was avidly sought on surveying, shipbuilding, mining, and drainage.

John Wallis: …Wallis published, in 1685, his Treatise on Algebra, an important study of equations that he applied to the properties of conoids, which are shaped almost like a cone. Moreover, in this work he anticipated the concept of complex numbers (e.g., a + b − 1, in which a and b…

John Milton: Works on history and theology: …and published in 1825 as A Treatise on Christian Doctrine. The comprehensive and systematic theology presented in this work reflects Milton’s close engagement with Scripture, from which he draws numerous proof texts in order to buttress his concepts of the Godhead and of moral theology, among others. Like his historical…

William Chambers: His books, notably A Treatise on Civil Architecture (1759), had widespread influence.

Francis Maitland Balfour: …animal morphology and there published A Treatise on Comparative Embryology (1880–81), which laid the foundations of modern embryology. Such was his fame that he was invited to succeed the eminent biologists George Rolleston at the University of Oxford and Sir Charles Wyville Thomson at Edinburgh, but he refused both offers…

Léon Duguit: …his most important works is Traité de droit Constitutionnel, 5 vol. (1921–25; “Treatise on Constitutional Law”).

Catharine Beecher: Her major work, A Treatise on Domestic Economy, first published in 1841, went through 15 editions and was the first American work to deal with all facets of domestic life. The Treatise helped to standardize domestic practices and reinforce domestic values, arguing that a woman’s proper role was…

Epicureanism: Epicureanism and egoism in modern philosophy: …the Syntagma philosophiae Epicuri (Treatise on Epicurean Philosophy), was issued posthumously at The Hague 10 years later. At the same time, in England, Thomas Hobbes, a friend of Gassendi, took up again the theory of pleasure and interpreted it in a dynamic sense, which was therefore closer to the…

Zhang Zhongjing: …han za bing lun (Treatise on Febrile and Other Diseases), which greatly influenced the practice of traditional Chinese medicine. The original work was later edited and divided into two books, Shang han lun (Treatise on Febrile Diseases) and Jin gui yao lue (Jingui Collection of Prescriptions). Today, Zhang’s work…

Henri, baron de Jomini: , 1805; Treatise on Grand Military Operations, 1865). Rejoining the army in 1804 as a volunteer, he was appointed staff colonel in 1805 by Napoleon, who had read his book. Jomini served under Marshal Michel Ney at the battles of Ulm (1805), Jena (1806), and Eylau (1806)…

Alexander Bryan Johnson: In his Treatise on Language; or, The Relation Which Words Bear to Things (1836), Johnson asserted that language is “subordinate” to nature because there are not enough words to describe limitless experiences. To reconcile this inconsistency, he devised an operational method of studying the function of language,…

Christiaan Huygens: …Traité de la Lumière (Treatise on Light), already largely completed by 1678, was also published in 1690. In it he again showed his need for ultimate mechanical explanations in his discussion of the nature of light. But his beautiful explanations of reflection and refraction—far superior to those of Newton—were…

Adolphe Quetelet: …essai de physique sociale (1835; A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties), he presented his conception of the homme moyen (“average man”) as the central value about which measurements of a human trait are grouped according to the normal distribution. His studies of the numerical constancy of…

Taoism: Literary developments: The Treatise on Maoshan (Maoshanzhi; 1329) is among the most monumental. It includes lives of the saints and patriarchs, notes on topography and history, and a valuable selection from 1,000 years of literary testimony and inscriptions on the mountain and its Taoism. The new Taoist…

Marie-François-Xavier Bichat: This view he developed in Traité des membranes (1800; “Treatise on Membranes”). Although Bichat did not use the microscope, he distinguished 21 kinds of tissues that enter into different combinations in forming the organs of the body. His Recherches physiologiques sur la vie et la mort (1800; “Physiological Researches on…

F.A. Hayek: Life and major works: …review of Keynes’s 1930 book, A Treatise on Money, to which Keynes forcefully replied, in the course of which he attacked Hayek’s own recent book, Prices and Production (1931). Both economists were criticized by other economists, and this caused each to rethink his framework. Keynes finished first, publishing in 1936…

aerial perspective: …term aerial perspective in his Treatise on Painting, in which he wrote: “Colours become weaker in proportion to their distance from the person who is looking at them.” It was later discovered that the presence in the atmosphere of moisture and of tiny particles of dust and similar material causes…

Cennino Cennini: …writing Il libro dell’arte (1437; The Craftsman’s Handbook), the most informative source on the methods, techniques, and attitudes of medieval artists. Painting, according to Cennini, holds a high place among human occupations because it combines theory or imagination with the skill of the hand. In Il libro dell’arte, Cennini gave…

Friedrich Karl von Savigny: Education and early career: …Das Recht des Besitzes (Treatise on Possession; or, The Jus Possessionis of the Civil Law), a book that was the beginning of the 19th-century scholarly monograph in jurisprudence.

John Westlake: Westlake’s Treatise on Private International Law (1858) was a pioneering work in the field as practiced in England, and it exercised profound influence on numerous subsequent judicial decisions. His other works include International Law (part 1, Peace, 1904; part 2, War, 1907). His Collected Papers were…

Paolo Frisi: …fiumi, e i torrenti (1762; A Treatise on Rivers and Torrents), a summary of the best information in this field, was widely used as an engineering handbook. The commentaries he wrote on the work of such scientists as Galileo Galilei and Sir Isaac Newton were influential in bringing their ideas…

Sir Thomas Littleton: …was a jurist, author of Littleton on Tenures (or Treatise on Tenures), the first important English legal text neither written in Latin nor significantly influenced by Roman (civil) law. An edition (1481 or 1482?) by John Lettou and William de Machlinia was doubtless the first book on English law to…

Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker: …theory of relativity, Whittaker published A Treatise on the Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies, with an Introduction to the Problem of Three Bodies (1904), an epoch-making summary of classical dynamics. He also contributed pioneering work on the effects of the relativistic curved space on electromagnetic phenomena. In A…

John Henry Wigmore: …scholar and teacher whose 10-volume Treatise on the Anglo-American System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law (1904–05), usually called Wigmore on Evidence, is generally regarded as one of the world’s great books on law.

Nicholas Hilliard: In his Treatise on the Arte of Limning (c. 1600) he gives an account of his method and many sidelights on his own mercurial and engaging temperament. Throughout his life he had financial difficulties, and he was imprisoned for debt for a short period in 1617. His…

navigation: The lodestone and the compass card: …by Geoffrey Chaucer in his Treatise on the Astrolabe (1391). It also has been said that the navigators of Amalfi, Italy, first expanded the number of compass points to 32, and they may have been the first to attach the card to the needle.

William Stokes: …two most important works were A Treatise on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Chest, published in 1837, and The Diseases of the Heart and Aorta, published in 1854. He was also the author of one of the first works in English on the use of the stethoscope.…

Benedict de Spinoza: Rijnsburg and The Hague: …1661 Spinoza began writing the Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione (Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect), a presentation of his theory of knowledge, which he left unfinished. In about 1662 he completed his only work in Dutch, Korte verhandeling van God, de mensch en deszelfs welstand (Short Treatise on God,…

Gary S. Becker: In studies such as A Treatise on the Family (1981), Becker analyzed the household as a sort of factory, producing goods and services such as meals, shelter, and child care. Applying theories of production to household behaviour, he was able to make predictions about family size, divorce, and the…

Leopold Mozart: …Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule (A Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing), coincidentally published in 1756, the year of Wolfgang’s birth, was long a standard text and was widely reprinted and translated. Among his musical compositions are concerti for various instruments, symphonies, and other pieces.

Robert Fulton: His Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation, in 1796, dealt with a complete system of inland water transportation based on small canals extending throughout the countryside. He included details on inclined planes for raising boats—he did not favour locks—aqueducts for valley crossings, boats for specialized…

Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope, one of the confessional writings of Lutheranism, prepared in 1537 by Philipp Melanchthon, the German Reformer. The Protestant political leaders who were members of the Schmalkaldic League and several Protestant theologians had assembled at Schmalkalden

mathematics: Projective geometry: In 1822 Poncelet published the Traité des propriétés projectives des figures (“Treatise on the Projective Properties of Figures”). From his standpoint every conic section is equivalent to a circle, so his treatise contained a unified treatment of the theory of conic sections. It also established several new results. Geometers who…

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac: …his most significant work, the Traité des sensations, Condillac questioned Locke’s doctrine that the senses provide intuitive knowledge. He doubted, for example, that the human eye makes naturally correct judgments about the shapes, sizes, positions, and distances of objects. Examining the knowledge gained by each sense separately, he concluded that…

history of medicine: Arabian medicine: …De variolis et morbillis (A Treatise on the Smallpox and Measles), distinguishes between these two diseases and gives a clear description of both.

The Social Contract, major work of political philosophy by the Swiss-born French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78). Du Contrat social (1762; The Social Contract) is thematically continuous with two earlier treatises by Rousseau: Discours sur les sciences et les arts (1750; A Discourse on

dentistry: Development of dentistry in Europe: …dentistry in a monumental book, The Surgeon Dentist, or Treatise on the Teeth. In it he discussed and described all facets of diagnosis and treatment of dental diseases, including orthodontics, prosthetics, periodontal diseases, and oral surgery. Fauchard effectively separated dentistry from the larger field of surgery and thus established dentistry…

Andrew Jackson Downing: His first book, A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America (1841), established him as a national authority on that subject and went through numerous editions (the last was printed in 1921). In Cottage Residences (1842) he applied the principles of landscape and…

history of medicine: Medicine in the 18th century: His well-known Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery, published in three volumes in 1752–64, contained the first systematic discussion on the safe use of obstetrical forceps, which have since saved countless lives. Smellie placed midwifery on a sound scientific footing and helped to establish obstetrics…

Auguste-Arthur de La Rive: …d’électricité théorique et appliquée (1854–58; Treatise on Theoretical and Applied Electricity), was translated into several languages. Later, while carrying out research on the discharge of electricity through gases, he discovered that ozone is created when electrical sparks pass through oxygen.

Eugenius Bulgaris: Prominent also was his Treatise on Tolerance, written at Leipzig in 1768 to refute the right assumed by Russian ecclesiastical and civil authorities to compel the largely Roman Catholic Poles to conform to the national religion.

history of logic: Other 19th-century logicians: …Lutwidge Dodgson); and Whitehead, whose A Treatise on Universal Algebra (1898) was the last major English logical work in the algebraic tradition. Little of this work influenced Russell’s conception, which was soon to sweep through English-language logic; Russell was more influenced by Frege, Peano, and Schröder. The older nonsymbolic syllogistic…

Hector Berlioz: Mature career of Hector Berlioz: …Berlioz produced the leading treatise, Traité d’instrumentation et d’orchestration modernes (1844). Much more than a technical handbook, it served later generations as an introduction to the aesthetics of expressiveness in music. As Albert Schweitzer has shown, its principle is as applicable to Bach as to Berlioz, and it is in…

combinatorics: BIB (balanced incomplete block) designs: , υ} objects called treatments and a family of subsets B1, B2, . . ., Bb of T, called blocks, such that the block Bi contains exactly ki treatments, all distinct. The number ki is called the size of the block Bi, and the

therapeutics, treatment and care of a patient for the purpose of both preventing and combating disease or alleviating pain or injury. The term comes from the Greek therapeutikos, which means “inclined to serve.” In a broad sense, therapeutics means serving and caring for the patient in a

pharmaceutical industry: The Investigational New Drug application: …under what is called a Treatment IND. A Treatment IND, which has sometimes been called a compassionate use protocol, is subject to regulatory requirements very similar to those of a regular IND.

pharmaceutical industry: The Investigational New Drug application: …under what is called a Treatment IND. A Treatment IND, which has sometimes been called a compassionate use protocol, is subject to regulatory requirements very similar to those of a regular IND.

hazardous-waste management: Transport of hazardous waste: …requires transport to an approved treatment, storage, or disposal facility (TSDF). Because of potential threats to public safety and the environment, transport is given special attention by governmental agencies. In addition to the occasional accidental spill, hazardous waste has, in the past, been intentionally spilled or abandoned at random locations…

depression: Treatments for depression: …with depression are affected by treatment-resistant depression (TRD), meaning that they are refractory to existing therapies. For those individuals, scientists have been investigating alternative therapeutic approaches, including deep brain stimulation (DBS) and gene therapy. In DBS, experimental research has focused on the implantation of an electrode in a region of…

treaty, a binding formal agreement, contract, or other written instrument that establishes obligations between two or more subjects of international law (primarily states and international organizations). The rules concerning treaties between states are contained in the Vienna Convention on the Law

insurance: Reinsurance: …is effected through contracts called treaties, which specify how the premiums and losses will be shared by participating insurers.

Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, treaty signed in Moscow on August 5, 1963, by the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom that banned all tests of nuclear weapons except those conducted underground. The origins of the treaty lay in worldwide public concern over the danger posed by

Treaty of Rome, international agreement, signed in Rome on March 25, 1957, by Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, that established the European Economic Community (EEC), creating a common market and customs union among its

Treaty of Rome, international agreement, signed in Rome on March 25, 1957, by Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, that established the European Economic Community (EEC), creating a common market and customs union among its

Treaty of Rome, international agreement, signed in Rome on March 25, 1957, by Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, that established the European Economic Community (EEC), creating a common market and customs union among its

Treaty of Edirne, (Sept. 14, 1829), pact concluding the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–29, signed at Edirne (ancient Adrianople), Tur.; it strengthened the Russian position in eastern Europe and weakened that of the Ottoman Empire. The treaty foreshadowed the Ottoman Empire’s future dependence on the

Alfonso II: …Valencia; and, in 1179, the pact of Cazorla with his ally, Alfonso VIII of Castile, fixed the future zones of reconquest for the two countries. In his will Alfonso followed the Spanish custom of dividing his kingdom; Provence was thus lost to the Aragonese crown.

Pinckney’s Treaty, (Oct. 27, 1795), agreement between Spain and the United States, fixing the southern boundary of the United States at 31° N latitude and establishing commercial arrangements favourable to the United States. U.S. citizens were accorded free navigation of the Mississippi River

Peace of the Pyrenees, peace treaty that was agreed to on November 7, 1659, by Louis XIV of France and Philip IV of Spain. It ended the Franco-Spanish War of 1648–59, and it is often understood as the beginning of French hegemony in Europe. During the years from the end of the Thirty Years’ War

Treaty of Rome, international agreement, signed in Rome on March 25, 1957, by Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, that established the European Economic Community (EEC), creating a common market and customs union among its

treaty port, any of the ports that Asian countries, especially China and Japan, opened to foreign trade and residence beginning in the mid-19th century because of pressure from powers such as Britain, France, Germany, the United States, and, in the case of China, Japan and Russia. In China the

Dame Juliana Berners: …and the purported author of A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle (1496), the earliest known volume on sport fishing. Berners’s work predates Englishman Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler (1653), the best-known example of early angling literature, by approximately 150 years.

Trebbia River, river, Emilia-Romagna region, northern Italy, rising in the Ligurian Apennines at an elevation of 4,613 feet (1,406 metres) northeast of Genoa and flowing 71 miles (115 km) north-northeast across the northern Apennines and the Po lowland to enter the Po River just west of Piacenza

Battle of the Trebbia River, (December 218 bce), first major battle of the Second Punic War, in which the Carthaginian forces of Hannibal defeated the Roman army under Tiberius Sempronius Longus on the banks of the Trebbia River. It was Hannibal’s first major victory in Italy, and it swayed many of

Karakoram Range: Study and exploration: …as the Englishmen William Moorcroft, George Trebeck, and Godfrey Thomas Vigne plotted the locations of major rivers, glaciers, and mountains. The extraordinary topography, along with protracted military tensions in the Karakorams between Russia and Britain and more recently between China, Pakistan, and India, prompted many expeditions in the 19th and…

Alex Trebek was a Canadian-born American television personality best known as the host of the TV game show Jeopardy! (1984–2020). He holds the Guinness World Record for the “most game show episodes hosted by the same presenter.” The son of a French Canadian mother and a Ukrainian immigrant father

Alex Trebek was a Canadian-born American television personality best known as the host of the TV game show Jeopardy! (1984–2020). He holds the Guinness World Record for the “most game show episodes hosted by the same presenter.” The son of a French Canadian mother and a Ukrainian immigrant father