property law: Nuisance law and continental parallels: …of the smoke-emitting plant ( Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co. [1970]).

boomerang, curved throwing stick used chiefly by the Aboriginals of Australia for hunting and warfare. Boomerangs are also works of art, and Aboriginals often paint or carve designs on them related to legends and traditions. In addition, boomerangs continue to be used in some religious ceremonies

Halle Berry: …by Spike Lee, and in Boomerang (1992), starring Eddie Murphy, first brought her notice. She starred with Jessica Lange in Losing Isaiah (1995), a drama about adoption, before earning acclaim for her portrayal of film star Dorothy Dandridge, the first African American to be nominated for a best-actress Oscar, in…

Elia Kazan: Films of the 1940s: …Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, and Boomerang! (1947), a taut film noir thriller with a cast that included Lee J. Cobb, Arthur Kennedy, and Dana Andrews. Kazan’s next effort, the Darryl F. Zanuck-produced Gentleman’s Agreement (1947), won him an Academy Award for best director and also took the award for best…

Belgian literature: The turn of the 19th century: …group associated with the review De Boomgaard (1909–11; “The Orchard”), which included André de Ridder and Paul Gustave van Hecke, strove to be more cosmopolitan than Van Nu en Straks and defended a more dilettante attitude to culture. The elegiac poet Jan van Nijlen had affinities with this group.

boomslang, (Dispholidus typus), venomous snake of the family Colubridae, one of the few colubrid species that is decidedly dangerous to humans. This moderately slender snake grows to about 1.8 metres (6 feet) in length and occurs in savannas throughout sub-Saharan Africa. When hunting, it lies in

Bob Geldof: …who is a member of The Boomtown Rats rock group. He founded the charitable supergroup Band Aid in 1984 and organized the Live Aid concert in 1985 for the relief of famine in Ethiopia.

Belgian literature: After World War II: …(Het begeren, 1952; “Desire”) and Louis-Paul Boon (De kapellekensbaan, 1953; Chapel Road), who examined the bleak lives of the poor and downtrodden; the anguished Existentialism of Jan Walravens (Negatief, 1958; “Negative”); and the experimental novels of Hugo Claus. Boon, Walravens, and Claus belonged to a review group called Tijd en…

comic strip: Women and minorities: from minor characters to creators: Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks (1997–2006), which was syndicated in some 300 newspapers and transformed into an animated television series, featured a black child of the inner city named Huey Freeman as its main character. This character was the only consistent voice of dissent in American comic strips…

Boone, city, Boone county, central Iowa, U.S., just east of the Des Moines River, 15 miles (25 km) west of Ames. Founded in 1865, it was originally called Montana but was renamed (1871) to honour Captain Nathan Boone, son of frontiersman Daniel Boone. The railroad arrived in 1866 and contributed to

Boone, town, seat of Watauga county, northwestern North Carolina, U.S. It is situated atop the Blue Ridge Mountains at an elevation of 3,266 feet (995 metres) near the Tennessee border. On the Daniel Boone Trail at the fork of the Wilderness Road, the settlement was incorporated in 1871 and named

Pat Boone is an American singer and television personality known for his wholesome pop hits in the 1950s and for hosting evangelical radio and television programs later in life. Boone began performing in public at a young age. After winning a local talent show in the early 1950s, he appeared on

Daniel Boone was an early American frontiersman and legendary hero who helped blaze a trail through Cumberland Gap, a notch in the Appalachian Mountains near the juncture of Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Boone had little formal schooling but learned to read and write. As a youth, he moved with

Julian Schnabel: …the young New York dealer Mary Boone.

Oskaloosa: …was founded there by Captain Nathan Boone, nephew of Daniel Boone, who explored the area in 1835. Settled by Quakers in 1843, it takes its name (meaning “the last of the beautiful”) from a wife of the Seminole chief Osceola. Iowa’s first coal was mined near there by Welsh miners…

Pat Boone is an American singer and television personality known for his wholesome pop hits in the 1950s and for hosting evangelical radio and television programs later in life. Boone began performing in public at a young age. After winning a local talent show in the early 1950s, he appeared on

Richard Boone was an American actor and director who was best known for his work on the television series Have Gun—Will Travel (1957–63). Boone attended Stanford University and later served in the navy during World War II. He subsequently pursued an acting career, and in 1947 he made his Broadway

Boonesborough, resort village, Madison county, east-central Kentucky, U.S., on the Kentucky River, 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Lexington. It is the site of Fort Boonesborough, built about 1775 by frontiersman Daniel Boone and a company of North Carolina men under pioneer Colonel Richard

Boonesborough, resort village, Madison county, east-central Kentucky, U.S., on the Kentucky River, 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Lexington. It is the site of Fort Boonesborough, built about 1775 by frontiersman Daniel Boone and a company of North Carolina men under pioneer Colonel Richard

Boonville, city, seat (1818) of Cooper county, central Missouri, U.S. It lies along the Missouri River, 27 miles (43 km) west of Columbia. Settled in 1810 (by Kentuckians, among others) and named for Daniel Boone, Boonville was enlarged as a fort during the War of 1812 and became an important

Andrew Boorde was an English physician and the author of the first English guidebook to Europe. Boorde (also spelled Borde) was educated at the University of Oxford and was admitted as a member of the Carthusian order while still a minor. In 1521 he was “dispensed from religion” to act as suffragan

John Boorman is a British movie director who is one of the most distinctive stylists of his generation. Boorman began writing film reviews while a teenager. After a stint in the British military, he moved to television in 1955, editing and filming documentaries. He joined the BBC a few years later,

Daniel J. Boorstin was an influential social historian and educator known for his studies of American civilization, notably his major work, The Americans, in three volumes: The Colonial Experience (1958), The National Experience (1965), and The Democratic Experience (1973; Pulitzer Prize, 1974).

Somalia: Settlement patterns: Mogadishu, Berbera, and Boosaaso (Bosaso).

stand-up comedy: Countercultural comedy: them Richard Lewis, Freddie Prinze, Elayne Boosler (one of the few women in a largely male-dominated crowd), and later Jerry Seinfeld—developed an intimate “observational” style, less interested in sociopolitical commentary than in chronicling the trials of everyday urban life, dealing with relationships, and surviving in the ethnic melting pot.

rocket and missile system: Design principles: In the first, called the boost phase, the rocket engine (or engines, if the missile contains two or three stages) provides the precise amount of propulsion required to place the missile on a specific ballistic trajectory. Then the engine quits, and the final stage of the missile (called the payload)…

rocket and missile system: Design principles: In the first, called the boost phase, the rocket engine (or engines, if the missile contains two or three stages) provides the precise amount of propulsion required to place the missile on a specific ballistic trajectory. Then the engine quits, and the final stage of the missile (called the payload)…

atomic bomb: The properties and effects of atomic bombs: In addition, “boosted fission” devices incorporate such fusionable materials as deuterium or tritium into the fission core. The fusionable material boosts the fission explosion by supplying a superabundance of neutrons.

thermonuclear warhead: Basic two-stage design: featuring a fission or boosted-fission primary (also called the trigger) and a physically separate component called the secondary. Both primary and secondary are contained within an outer metal case. Radiation from the fission explosion of the primary is contained and used to transfer energy to compress and ignite the secondary.…

rocket and missile system: Navaho: The rocket booster (which launched the missile until the ramjet ignited) eventually became the Redstone engine, which powered the Mercury manned spacecraft series, and the same basic design was used in the Thor and Atlas ballistic missiles. The guidance system, an inertial autonavigation design, was incorporated into…

water supply system: Pumps: …elevated storage tank are called booster pumps. Well pumps lift water from underground and discharge it directly into a distribution system.

atomic bomb: The properties and effects of atomic bombs: In addition, “boosted fission” devices incorporate such fusionable materials as deuterium or tritium into the fission core. The fusionable material boosts the fission explosion by supplying a superabundance of neutrons.

clothing and footwear industry: Special footwear processes: slip-ons, oxfords, ankle-support shoes, and boots. The term shoe refers to footwear exclusive of sandals and boots. Sandals cover only the sole and are held onto the foot by strapping. Slip-ons cover the sole, instep, and may or may not cover the entire heel; styles include pumps and moccasins. Oxfords…

boot camp, a correctional institution, usually in the United States, modeled after military basic training, where strict discipline, rigorous physical training, and unquestioning obedience are emphasized. The term boot camp encompasses a wide variety of publicly and privately run facilities (both

Tombstone: Restored sites include Boot Hill Cemetery, Bird Cage Theater, the O.K. Corral, and the Tombstone Epitaph (newspaper, 1880) office. Inc. 1881. Pop. (2000) 1,504; (2010) 1,380.

Boötes, constellation in the northern sky, at about 15 hours right ascension and 30° north in declination. The brightest star in Boötes is Arcturus, the fourth brightest star in the sky. The radiant of the Quadrantid meteor shower, which happens in early January, is found in Boötes. The name Boötes

Newhouse family: …record-breaking sum of $305,000,000 for Booth Newspapers, which published eight Michigan newspapers and Parade magazine. Though he paid close attention to his newspapers’ profitability, Newhouse did not impose any editorial policies on his papers; local editors were free to express their own political views.

Winthrop Ames: … in New York and the Booth Theatre. Productions in the two theatres, which he managed into the 1930s, included The Philanderer (1913), by George Bernard Shaw, Galsworthy’s Old English (1924), George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly’s Beggar on Horseback (1924), an extremely successful series of Gilbert and Sullivan revivals at…

Salvation Army: In 1896 Ballington Booth, another son of the general and national commander in the United States, resigned after a dispute and set up the Volunteers of America. The Volunteers endured and is a national organization with headquarters in New York City.

Catherine Booth was the wife of the founder of the Salvation Army (William Booth), and herself an eloquent preacher and social worker. Her father was a carriage builder and sometime Methodist lay preacher, her mother a deeply religious woman of Puritan type. Catherine, in adolescence an invalid,

Charles Booth was an English shipowner and sociologist whose Life and Labour of the People in London, 17 vol. (1889–91, 1892–97, 1902), contributed to the knowledge of social problems and to the methodology of statistical measurement. In 1866 Booth and his brother Alfred began a shipping service

Cherie Booth is a British attorney specializing in issues of public law and human rights, among others. She is also the wife of Tony Blair, who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007. Booth’s parents, Anthony Booth and Gale Smith, were actors, socialists, and Roman

Fawlty Towers: …by American actress and writer Connie Booth and British comic actor and writer John Cleese, who had been a cast member in the acclaimed British sketch comedy television series Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969–73). Booth and Cleese married in 1968 and have one daughter, Cynthia Cleese, who went on to…

Edwin Booth was a renowned tragedian of the 19th-century American stage, best remembered as one of the greatest performers of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. He was a member of a famous acting family; his brother was John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln. At 13 years of age Edwin

Edwin Booth was a renowned tragedian of the 19th-century American stage, best remembered as one of the greatest performers of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. He was a member of a famous acting family; his brother was John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln. At 13 years of age Edwin

Evangeline Cory Booth was an Anglo-American Salvation Army leader whose dynamic administration expanded that organization’s services and funding and who became its fourth general. Born in the South Hackney section of London, Eva Booth was the daughter of William Booth, soon afterward founder of the

Evangeline Cory Booth was an Anglo-American Salvation Army leader whose dynamic administration expanded that organization’s services and funding and who became its fourth general. Born in the South Hackney section of London, Eva Booth was the daughter of William Booth, soon afterward founder of the

Cranbrook Academy of Art: …by a Detroit newspaper publisher, George G. Booth, and his wife, Ellen Scripps Booth, and is named for his father’s birthplace in England. The art museum (built 1940–41, opened 1942) is one of several buildings of Cranbrook Educational Community on the Booth estate; it is surrounded by landscaped gardens containing…

John Wilkes Booth was a member of one of the United States’ most distinguished acting families of the 19th century and the assassin who killed U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln. Booth was the 9th of 10 children born to the actor Junius Brutus Booth. He showed excellent theatrical potential early on but

John Chilembwe: …of an egalitarian fundamentalist missionary, Joseph Booth. Though proud and independent-minded, Chilembwe was eager to learn from whites and to believe the best of them. In 1897 Booth took him to the United States, where Chilembwe received a degree from a black theological college. When he returned to Nyasaland in…

Edwin Booth: …his eccentric father, the actor Junius Brutus Booth (born in London, 1796), who in 1821 had moved to the United States, where he achieved popularity second only to that of the American actor Edwin Forrest.

Fort Pillow Massacre: Initial attack: Lionel Booth, the fort’s commander, was killed by a sniper’s bullet. His second in command, Maj. William Bradford—who would prove to be an inept leader—assumed control. Even the Union gunboat New Era, tasked with aiding the defense of the fort from the river, proved ineffectual…

Mary Louise Booth was an American journalist, prolific translator from the French, and the first editor of Harper’s Bazar (later Bazaar). Booth supplemented her regular schooling with voracious reading and study of languages. At age 14 she taught for a year in a school of which her father was

Maud Ballington Booth was a Salvation Army leader and cofounder of the Volunteers of America. Maud Charlesworth grew up from the age of three in London. The examples of her father, a clergyman, and her mother, who worked with her husband in his slum parish, predisposed Maud to social service, and

Shirley Booth was an American actress who was equally deft in both dramatic and comedic roles and who was the recipient of three Tony Awards, two Emmy Awards, and an Oscar. An amateur actress at age 12, Booth made her professional debut in a regional theatre production of The Cat and the Canary

George Booth, 1st Baron Delamere was an English politician who led an abortive Royalist revolt against the Commonwealth government in August 1659. His insurrection foreshadowed the Royalist upsurge that resulted in the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660. Booth sat in the Long Parliament in

Wayne C. Booth was an American critic and teacher associated with the Chicago school of literary criticism. Booth attended Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah (B.A., 1944), and the University of Chicago (M.A., 1947; Ph.D., 1950), where he became devoted to neo-Aristotelian critical methods

Wayne C. Booth was an American critic and teacher associated with the Chicago school of literary criticism. Booth attended Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah (B.A., 1944), and the University of Chicago (M.A., 1947; Ph.D., 1950), where he became devoted to neo-Aristotelian critical methods

William Booth was the founder and general (1878–1912) of the Salvation Army. The son of a speculative builder, Booth was apprenticed as a boy to a pawnbroker. At 15 he underwent the experience of religious conversion and became a revivalist preacher. In 1849 he went to London, where he worked in a

William Bramwell Booth was the second general of the Salvation Army (1912–29) and the eldest son of William and Catherine Booth. He became an active full-time collaborator in 1874 and, from 1880, was the Army’s chief organizer. He carried into practice the social services plans outlined by his

Boothbay Harbor, town, Lincoln county, southern Maine, U.S. It lies on a peninsula of the Atlantic coast between the Sheepscot and Damariscotta rivers, 59 miles (95 km) east-northeast of Portland. The town includes the communities of Boothbay Harbor, Bayville, and West Boothbay Harbor. Originally

Clare Boothe Luce was an American playwright, politician, and celebrity, noted for her satiric sense of humour and for her role in American politics. Luce was born into poverty and an unstable home life; her father, William Franklin Boothe, left the family when she was eight years old. Through

John Boorman: From Deliverance to Hope and Glory: …tribe until his father (Powers Boothe) finds him after a 10-year search. The film was inspired by a true story.

Boothia Peninsula, northernmost portion of mainland North America, reaching latitude 71°58′ N, in Kitikmeot region, Nunavut territory, Canada. It was discovered in 1829 by the British explorer James (later Sir James) Ross, who named it Boothia Felix in honour of Sir Felix Booth (the expedition’s

Boothia Peninsula, northernmost portion of mainland North America, reaching latitude 71°58′ N, in Kitikmeot region, Nunavut territory, Canada. It was discovered in 1829 by the British explorer James (later Sir James) Ross, who named it Boothia Felix in honour of Sir Felix Booth (the expedition’s

Betty Boothroyd was a British Labour Party politician who was the first female speaker of the House of Commons (1992–2000). Boothroyd, whose parents were textile workers, grew up in northern England. She originally envisioned a career as a dancer, and after attending Dewsbury College of Commerce

Betty Boothroyd was a British Labour Party politician who was the first female speaker of the House of Commons (1992–2000). Boothroyd, whose parents were textile workers, grew up in northern England. She originally envisioned a career as a dancer, and after attending Dewsbury College of Commerce

Philippi, city, seat (1844) of Barbour county, northeastern West Virginia, U.S. It lies in the Tygart Valley River valley, about 13 miles (21 km) south of Grafton. Settled in 1780, it was early called Anglin’s Ford and then Booths Ferry until it was chartered in 1844 and named for Philip Pendleton

Sukkot, Jewish autumn festival of double thanksgiving that begins on the 15th day of Tishri (in September or October), five days after Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. It is one of the three Pilgrim Festivals of the Hebrew Bible. The Bible refers to ḥag ha-asif (“Feast of the Ingathering,” Exodus

ribbon worm, any member of the invertebrate phylum Nemertea (sometimes called Nemertinea, or Rhynchocoela), which includes mainly free-living forms but also a few parasites of crustaceans, mollusks, and sea squirts. The majority of the approximately 900 known nemertean species are found in marine

Sefton: …docks gradually extended north toward Bootle, which today has the main docks of Merseyside, including the Royal Seaforth Dock and Container Base. There are many associated dock industries, including grain milling and edible-oil refining, and new industrial estates have been developed. Bootle has also become important for office development and…

Bob Dylan: Meanwhile, rock’s first bootleg album, The Great White Wonder—containing unreleased, “liberated” Dylan recordings—appeared in independent record stores. Its distribution methods were shrouded in secrecy (certainly Columbia, whose contract with Dylan the album violated, was not involved).

bootlegging, in U.S. history, illegal traffic in liquor in violation of legislative restrictions on its manufacture, sale, or transportation. The word apparently came into general use in the Midwest in the 1880s to denote the practice of concealing flasks of illicit liquor in boot tops when going

fusion reactor: Toroidal confinement: This current is called the bootstrap current. It can be considered a type of thermoelectric effect, but its origin is in the complex particle dynamics that arise in a toroidal plasma. It has been observed in experiments and is now included routinely in advanced experiments and in tokamak reactor designs.

John Boozman is an American politician who was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 2010 and began representing Arkansas the following year. He previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives (2001–11). John Boozman—who was born in Louisiana, where his father was stationed in the

John Boozman is an American politician who was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 2010 and began representing Arkansas the following year. He previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives (2001–11). John Boozman—who was born in Louisiana, where his father was stationed in the

bottom of the pyramid (BOP), term in economics that refers to the poorest two-thirds of the economic human pyramid, a group of more than four billion people living in abject poverty. More broadly, BOP refers to a market-based model of economic development that promises to simultaneously alleviate

Deepwater Horizon oil spill: Leaking oil: … attempted to activate the rig’s blowout preventer (BOP), a fail-safe mechanism designed to close the channel through which oil was drawn, the device malfunctioned. Forensic analysis of the BOP completed the following year determined that a set of massive blades known as blind shear rams—designed to slice through the pipe…

bebop, the first kind of modern jazz, which split jazz into two opposing camps in the last half of the 1940s. The word is an onomatopoeic rendering of a staccato two-tone phrase distinctive in this type of music. When it emerged, bebop was unacceptable not only to the general public but also to

basic oxygen process (BOP), a steelmaking method in which pure oxygen is blown into a bath of molten blast-furnace iron and scrap. The oxygen initiates a series of intensively exothermic (heat-releasing) reactions, including the oxidation of such impurities as carbon, silicon, phosphorus, and

Cambodia: Music and dance forms: King Norodom Sihanouk’s daughter, Princess Bopha Devi, a former star performer in the royal troupe, vigorously supported the revival of classical dance during her tenure as minister of culture at the beginning of the 21st century. The Royal University of Fine Arts has been integral to the resurrection of Cambodian…

Bophuthatswana, former republic (though never internationally recognized as such) and Bantustan that was the legally designated homeland for the Republic of South Africa’s Tswana people. It consisted of seven distinct territorial units located north or west of the Witwatersrand, in north-central

Bopolu, town, western Liberia. Once the centre of the Malinke-dominated Kondo Confederation—including the Gola, Vai, De (Dei), and Loma peoples—the area surrounding Bopolu probably reached its height under King Bosan (Boatswain; 1775–1836). Slaves, ivory, gold, and camwood from the north were sent

Bopolu, town, western Liberia. Once the centre of the Malinke-dominated Kondo Confederation—including the Gola, Vai, De (Dei), and Loma peoples—the area surrounding Bopolu probably reached its height under King Bosan (Boatswain; 1775–1836). Slaves, ivory, gold, and camwood from the north were sent

Bopolu, town, western Liberia. Once the centre of the Malinke-dominated Kondo Confederation—including the Gola, Vai, De (Dei), and Loma peoples—the area surrounding Bopolu probably reached its height under King Bosan (Boatswain; 1775–1836). Slaves, ivory, gold, and camwood from the north were sent

Franz Bopp was a German linguist who established the importance of Sanskrit in the comparative study of Indo-European languages and developed a valuable technique of language analysis. Bopp’s first important work, Über das Conjugationssystem der Sanskritsprache . . . (1816; “On the System of

Comet Hale-Bopp: …1995, by Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp, two American amateur astronomers, at the unusually far distance of 7.15 astronomical units (AU; about 1 billion km [600 million miles]) from the Sun, well beyond Jupiter’s orbit. The comet reached perihelion (closest distance to the Sun) at 0.914 AU on April 1,…

Boppard, city, Rhineland-Palatinate Land (state), western Germany. Boppard is located on the left bank of the Rhine, some 12 miles (20 km) south of the city of Koblenz. The city was the site of an early Celtic settlement and of the Roman fort of Baudobriga, from which the modern name is derived.

polio vaccine: …the disease was endemic, a bivalent oral vaccine, or bOPV, targeting PV1 and PV3 was developed. In the first decade of the 21st century, this vaccine was found to be more effective than either mOPV or tOPV in reducing the number of cases in polio-endemic countries.

stagecraft: Costume of the 18th and 19th centuries: …the stage by Martin’s successor, Louis-René Boquet. His designs were theatricalized versions of the new fashionable silhouette. Boquet clothes were delicate, artificial, and pale in tone, trimmed with garlands and Rococo finery. All of Europe imitated the French ideas, although the English and German facsimiles lacked Boquet’s innate good taste.

Wong Kar-Wai: …by the fragmentary narrative of Heartbreak Tango (1969).

Bor, city, eastern Serbia. Bor is the site of one of the largest copper mines in Europe, and it has been a mining centre since 1904, when a French company began operations there. The city is situated on a road and railroad running southeast from Belgrade to Zaječar and Niš. The massive Bor Mining

Bor, town, South Sudan, located on the eastern bank of the Al-Jabal River about 87 miles (140 km) north of Juba. It is located at an elevation of 1,394 feet (425 metres). In 1840 Bor was the headquarters of the second expedition under Selim “Caputan” sent by Muḥammad ʿAlī, the viceroy of Egypt, for

Netherlands: Culture: …chronicles of the revolt by Pieter Bor and Emanuel van Meteren; the highly polished account by Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, a masterpiece of narration and judgment in the spirit of Tacitus; the heavily factual chronicle of Lieuwe van Aitzema, with its interspersed commentary of skeptical wisdom; Abraham de Wicquefort’s

Warsaw Uprising: Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, the Warsaw corps of 50,000 troops attacked the relatively weak German garrison on August 1. Within three days the Poles had regained control of most of the city, but they failed to capture main transportation and communications arteries such as railway stations and…

bora, originally defined as a very strong cold wind that blows from the northeast onto the Adriatic region of Italy, Slovenia, and Croatia. The word is from the Greek boreas, “northwind.” It is most common in winter and occurs when cold air crosses the mountains from the east and descends to the

Martin Luther: Controversies after the Diet of Worms: …June 13, 1525, Luther married Katherine of Bora, a former nun. Katherine had fled her convent together with eight other nuns and was staying in the house of the Wittenberg town secretary. While the other nuns soon returned to their families or married, Katherine remained without support. Luther was likewise…

Bora-Bora, volcanic island, Îles Sous le Vent (Leeward Islands), in the Society Islands of French Polynesia. It lies in the central South Pacific Ocean, about 165 miles (265 km) northwest of Tahiti. The mountainous island, some 6 miles (10 km) long and 2.5 miles (4 km) wide, has Mount Otemanu

Fanny Brice was a popular American singing comedienne who was long associated with the Ziegfeld Follies. Brice appeared first at age 13 in a talent contest at Keeney’s Theatre in Brooklyn, where she sang “When You Know You’re Not Forgotten by the Girl You Can’t Forget” and won first prize. In 1910

boric acid, (H3BO3), white crystalline, oxygen-bearing acid of boron found in certain minerals and volcanic waters or hot springs (see