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Curie was a chemist who studied crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity, and radioactivity. He and his wife Marie worked to isolate polonium and radium and were the first to use the term 'radioactivity,' pioneering its study. He and one of his students discovered nuclear energy by identifying the continuous emission of heat from radium particles. Pierre and Marie were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1903. How many other Curies have received Nobel Prizes?
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Avatar Posted by lanerough 52 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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Lucas is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter famous for his epic Star Wars saga and the Indiana Jones film series. Lucas has his own studio, Lucasfilm, in northern California. Skywalker Sound and Industrial Light and Magic, the sound and visual effects subdivisions of Lucasfilm, respectively, are among the most respected firms in their fields. Lucasfilm Games, renamed LucasArts, is highly regarded in the gaming industry. What was Lucas' first feature-length film?
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Avatar Posted by lanerough 53 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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Ole Worm was a Danish physician and antiquarian who was the personal physician of King Christian IV of Denmark. Worm's chief contributions to medical science were in embryology, and as a natural philosopher, he assembled a vast collection of stuffed and mounted animals, fossils, and other curiosities. A collector of early literature in the Scandinavian languages, he wrote a number of treatises on rune stones and collected texts written in the runic alphabet. What are the Wormian bones?
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Avatar Posted by lanerough 55 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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Carpeaux was a French sculptor and painter who studied under Francois Rude. After winning the Prix de Rome in 1854, he moved there and studied the works of Michelangelo, Donatello, and Verrocchio. He obtained a taste for movement and spontaneity, which he joined with the great principles of baroque art. In 1861, he made a bust of Princess Mathilde, which brought him several commissions from Napoleon III. His controversial sculpture, La Danse, is on the facade of what building in Paris?
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Avatar Posted by lanerough 56 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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David "Oliver" Selznick was an iconic producer who worked during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He was employed by several Hollywood studios before founding his own Selznick International Pictures in 1936. He is best known for producing the epic blockbuster Gone with the Wind (1939) which earned him an Oscar for Best Picture. Selznick also won the Irving G. Thalberg award that same year. He made film history the next year, when he won a second consecutive Best Picture Oscar for what film?
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Sir James Matthew Barrie was a Scottish novelist and dramatist best known for creating the character Peter Pan, whom he based on his friends, the Llewelyn Davies boys. Educated at Dumfries Academy and Edinburgh University, he became a journalist and, later, a celebrated novelist who counted Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Thomas Hardy amongst his friends and acquaintances. Why was Barrie disappointed with the statue of Peter Pan erected in Kensington Gardens, London?
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Eva Per贸n was an actress who became a political and cultural icon as the wife of Argentinean president Juan Per贸n. When Juan entered office in 1946, Eva became his chief adviser, virtually co-governing the country alongside her husband. Commonly known by the affectionate diminutive Evita, she presided over the creation of a charitable foundation that built homes and schools for the poor and gave them access to free healthcare. What sector of government blocked her 1951 vice-presidential bid?
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Avatar Posted by lanerough 60 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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Sigmund Freud founded psychoanalysis, a system of interpretation and therapeutic treatment of psychological disorders based on the idea of the unconscious. Psychoanalysis attributes neurosis to the barring of libidinal ideations from consciousness, and, as a means of treatment, it proposes that patients become aware of these unconscious thoughts through the free association of ideas. Freud was an early user of what highly-addictive narcotic, of which he was an outspoken proponent?
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