Fort-de-France, city and capital of the French overseas département and région of Martinique, in the West Indies. It lies on the west coast of the island of Martinique, at the northern entrance to the large Fort-de-France Bay, at the mouth of the Madame River. The city occupies a narrow plain

Fdérik, mining village, north-central Mauritania, western Africa, just west of Zouîrât. It is important as the base for the exploitation of extensive iron-ore deposits in the nearby Mount Ijill. The iron ore is exported through the Atlantic port of Nouadhibou, via a 419-mile (674-kilometre)

N’Djamena, city, capital of Chad, located on the country’s southwestern border, adjacent to Cameroon. It lies on the east bank of the Chari River at its confluence with the Logone River, in an alluvial plain that is flooded during the rainy season (July–September). The city was founded in 1900

Detroit, city, seat of Wayne county, southeastern Michigan, U.S. It is located on the Detroit River (connecting Lakes Erie and St. Clair) opposite Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1701 by a French trader, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, who built a fort on the river and named it Fort

Fort-de-France, city and capital of the French overseas département and région of Martinique, in the West Indies. It lies on the west coast of the island of Martinique, at the northern entrance to the large Fort-de-France Bay, at the mouth of the Madame River. The city occupies a narrow plain

Waskaganish, village and trading post in Nord-du-Québec region, western Quebec province, Canada, on James Bay, at the mouth of the Rupert River. It was founded in 1668 as the first Hudson’s Bay Company post by the Médart Chouart, sieur de Groseilliers; it was at first called Fort-Charles (or

Waskaganish, village and trading post in Nord-du-Québec region, western Quebec province, Canada, on James Bay, at the mouth of the Rupert River. It was founded in 1668 as the first Hudson’s Bay Company post by the Médart Chouart, sieur de Groseilliers; it was at first called Fort-Charles (or

René-Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle: Attempts to expand New France: …following year La Salle built Fort-Saint-Louis at Starved Rock on the Illinois River (now a state park), and here he organized a colony of several thousand Indians. To maintain the new colony, he sought help from Quebec, but Frontenac had been replaced by a governor hostile to La Salle’s interests,…

Fort Frances, town, centre of the Rainy River district, western Ontario, Canada. It lies on the north bank of Rainy River (the Canada-U.S. boundary), opposite International Falls, Minnesota. Originating as a fur-trading post, Fort-Saint-Pierre, built near the present townsite in 1731, it was

Faroese literature: Development during the 20th century: …masterpiece De fortabte spillemænd (1950; The Lost Musicians). Here, as in the rest of his varied writings, Heinesen renders Faroese life as a microcosm illustrative of social, psychological, and cosmic themes. The other three authors—Christian Matras, Heðin Brú (Hans Jakob Jacobsen), and Martin Joensen—wrote in Faroese. The works of Matras…

Fortaleza, port city and state capital, northeastern Ceará estado (state), northeastern Brazil. The city lies at the mouth of the Pajeú River on a crescent-shaped indentation of the coastline. Fortaleza originated as a small village adjoining a Portuguese fort (built as a defense against Indian

This Is Spinal Tap: American talk show host Joe Franklin also was unaware that the band was a parody when he interviewed the actors in 1984.

Abe Fortas was a lawyer and associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1965–69). Nominated to replace Earl Warren as chief justice by Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968, Fortas became the first nominee for that post since 1795 to fail to win Senate approval. The following year he

New Madrid earthquakes of 1811–12: Possible causes of the New Madrid earthquakes: In 2006 Canadian Earth scientist Alessandro Forte proposed an alternate explanation: that movement along the fault was caused by local changes to the mantle flow beneath the NMSZ. Using high-resolution seismic tomography, he found evidence that the remains of the Farallon slab, a small tectonic plate that subducted beneath the…

rock: A Black and white hybrid: …such as Frankie Avalon and Fabian were replaced in the charts by vocal groups such as the Shirelles. A new rock-and-roll hybrid of Black and white music appeared: Spector derived the mini-dramas of girl groups such as the Crystals and the Ronettes from the vocal rhythm-and-blues style of doo-wop, the…

Andrea del Verrocchio: Paintings and sculptures: …to a Tuscan ecclesiastical dignitary, Niccolò Cardinal Forteguerri. Ordered in 1476, the cenotaph was still unfinished when Verrocchio died, and its completion was entrusted first to Lorenzo di Credi, then to Lorenzetti, and finally to a minor Italian Baroque sculptor. Though its effect has been altered by changes and additions…

Charlotte Forten Grimké was an American abolitionist and educator best known for the five volumes of diaries she wrote. They were published posthumously. Forten was born into a prominent free Black family in Philadelphia. Her father ran a successful sail-making business. Many members of her family

United States: Abolitionism of the United States: …such as David Walker and Robert Forten and formerly enslaved persons such as Frederick Douglass, who had the clearest of all reasons to work for the cause but who shared some broader humanitarian motives with their white coworkers.

keyboard instrument: The English action: …earlier instruments (sometimes called “fortepianos” to distinguish them from modern pianos) have come to be appreciated, and several builders have begun to make replicas of them.

Meyer Fortes was a British social anthropologist known for his investigations of West African societies. After studying at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, Fortes received his Ph.D. in psychology from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 1930. In 1932 he turned

Western Australia: Drainage: The De Grey, Fortescue, and Ashburton rivers drain the area surrounding the Hamersley Range in the Pilbara region. Usually dry, these rivers become raging torrents during the cyclone season. To the east of the Pilbara flows the Rudall River, which drains inland to the saline (and usually dry)…

Mabel Normand was an American film actress who was one of the greatest comedians of the silent era. Known for her gaiety and spontaneous spirit, Normand appeared in hundreds of films (and directed several of them) and rose to such heights of popularity that she briefly rivaled Mary Pickford as

Sir John Fortescue was a jurist, notable for a legal treatise, De laudibus legum Angliae (c. 1470; “In Praise of the Laws of England”), written for the instruction of Edward, prince of Wales, son of the deposed king Henry VI of England. He also stated a moral principle that remains basic to the

John Smeaton: Smeaton also constructed the Forth and Clyde Canal in Scotland, which opened a waterway between the Atlantic and the North Sea; built bridges at Perth, Banff, and Coldstream, Scot.; and completed the harbour at Ramsgate, Kent.

Forth Bridge, railway bridge over the Firth of Forth, the estuary of the River Forth in Scotland. It was one of the first cantilever bridges and for several years was the world’s longest span. Designed and built by Benjamin Baker and John Fowler in the late 1880s, its opening on March 4, 1890,

Forth Bridge, railway bridge over the Firth of Forth, the estuary of the River Forth in Scotland. It was one of the first cantilever bridges and for several years was the world’s longest span. Designed and built by Benjamin Baker and John Fowler in the late 1880s, its opening on March 4, 1890,

Forth River, river in northern Tasmania, Australia, rising in the lakes district near Mount Pelion West in the Central Plateau. Fed by its principal tributaries, the Dove and Wilmot, it flows 60 miles (95 km) north to Port Fenton, its estuarine mouth on Bass Strait. Falling steeply over the plateau

Forth Bridge: The Forth Road Bridge, completed in 1964, is a suspension structure with a main span of 1,000 metres (3,300 feet).

Patrick Ruthven, earl of Forth was the supreme commander of the Royalist forces of Charles I during the early phases of the English Civil Wars. A descendant of the 1st Lord Ruthven (d. 1528) in a collateral line, he distinguished himself in the service of Sweden, which he entered about 1606. As a

River Forth, river and estuary in eastern Scotland, flowing from west to east from its headwaters on the eastern slopes of Ben Lomond to the Firth of Forth (the estuary), near Kincardine. The river has a short highland section and a longer lowland section, falling only 80 feet (25 m) in 55 miles

fortification, in military science, any work erected to strengthen a position against attack. Fortifications are usually of two types: permanent and field. Permanent fortifications include elaborate forts and troop shelters and are most often erected in times of peace or upon threat of war. Field

Marc-René, marquis de Montalembert: …the first edition of his La Fortification perpendiculaire (“Perpendicular Fortification”) appeared. He emigrated for a time after the French Revolution of 1789 but returned to France and became a consultant to Lazare Carnot, the renowned military engineer and Revolutionary leader. Thereafter, Montalembert’s system was widely copied and soon prevailed throughout…

wine: Fortified wines: The addition of alcohol during or after alcoholic fermentation produces fortified wines of over 14 percent alcohol, generally called dessert wines in the United States. In most countries, these wines are taxed at higher rates than those of 14 percent or lower alcohol.…

English yew: For example, the Fortingall Yew, named for the small Scottish village where it has been growing for some 2,000 to 5,000 years, is the oldest living tree in Great Britain and one of the oldest living trees in Europe.

Niger-Congo languages: Tone: …certain depressor consonants, namely voiced fortis obstruents. The function of tone varies from language to language; sometimes it marks grammatical features, sometimes lexical contrasts. In general, the languages with more tone levels use tone to distinguish lexical items rather than grammatical constructions.

Alessandro Fortis was a statesman, of strong republican views during the Risorgimento, the 19th-century unification of Italy. Later, under the monarchy, he held several governmental posts, including that of premier (1905–06). Fortis fought as a volunteer with Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1866 and 1867.

Sandro Botticelli: Early life and career: …in his first dated work, Fortitude (1470), which was painted for the hall of the Tribunale dell’Are della Mercanzia, or merchants’ tribunal, in Florence. Botticelli’s art from that time shows a use of ochre in the shadowed areas of flesh tones that gives a brown warmth very different from Lippi’s…

Wolfgang Fortner was a progressive composer and influential music teacher in Germany. Fortner studied music and philosophy at the Leipzig Conservatory and the University of Leipzig, and at the age of 24 he went to Heidelberg as professor at the Institute for Evangelical Church Music. He later

calendar: Standard units and cycles: …of 14 days called a fortnight is derived.

history of publishing: Literary and scientific magazines: …as drama critics (1895–1910); the Fortnightly Review (1865–1954), which had the Liberal statesman John Morley as editor (1867–83); the Contemporary Review (founded 1866); the Nineteenth Century (1877; later the Twentieth Century, until it closed in 1974); and W.T. Stead’s Review of Reviews (1890–1936), a more limited version of Reader’s Digest.

Fortnum & Mason, in London, department store famous for the variety and high quality of its food products. It is located on Piccadilly (avenue) in the borough of Westminster. The store began as a grocery shop in 1707, and by the late 18th century it was known for its exotic imported foods, brought

Fortnum & Mason, in London, department store famous for the variety and high quality of its food products. It is located on Piccadilly (avenue) in the borough of Westminster. The store began as a grocery shop in 1707, and by the late 18th century it was known for its exotic imported foods, brought

FORTRAN, computer programming language created in 1957 by John Backus that shortened the process of programming and made computer programming more accessible. The creation of FORTRAN, which debuted in 1957, marked a significant stage in the development of computer programming languages. Previous

coarctation of the aorta: …a synthetic fibre such as Dacron™, or the defect is left but is bypassed by a Dacron™ tube opening into the aorta on either side of the defect—a permanent bypass for the blood flow. Surgery for this condition is most effective in young persons and is rarely performed on patients…

fortification, in military science, any work erected to strengthen a position against attack. Fortifications are usually of two types: permanent and field. Permanent fortifications include elaborate forts and troop shelters and are most often erected in times of peace or upon threat of war. Field

Qian Zhongshu: …short stories; and Weicheng (1947; Fortress Besieged), a novel. Although it was widely translated, Qian’s novel did not receive much recognition in China until the late 1970s. It became a best-seller in China in the 1980s and was made into a television drama series in 1991.

Germany: The 1860s: the triumphs of Bismarck: …militant among them formed the Fortschrittspartei (Progressive Party), which sought to hasten the enactment of liberal legislation by exerting pressure on the government. The monarch, afraid that he was being pushed farther to the left than he wanted to go, became more adamant and uncompromising. Sooner or later a conflict…

Johann Klaj: …the Fortsetzung der Pegnitzschäferey (1645; The Pursuit of Pegnitz’s Meadows). He also specialized in religious oratorios and mystery plays, such as Die Auferstehung Jesu Christi (1644; The Resurrection of Jesus Christ), Freudengedicht auf die Geburt Christi (1645; Joyful Verses on the Birth of Christ), Trauerspiel vom leidenden Christus (1645; The…

García: His son Fortún (or Fortunio) was captured and imprisoned by the Moors in 860, and not until about 880 was he free to proclaim himself king of Pamplona. On Fortún’s death (905), Sancho I Garcés reigned as the first indisputable king of Pamplona.

Fortuna, in Roman religion, goddess of chance or lot who became identified with the Greek Tyche; the original Italian deity was probably regarded as the bearer of prosperity and increase. As such she resembles a fertility deity, hence her association with the bounty of the soil and the fruitfulness

history of Europe: Renaissance thought: …shape, if not totally control, fortuna—the play of external forces—Guicciardini was skeptical about men’s ability to learn from the past and pessimistic about the individual’s power to shape the course of events. All that was left, he believed, was to understand. Guicciardini wrote his histories of Florence and of Italy…

Ishtar Terra: Fortuna Tessera, the main feature of eastern Ishtar, appears extraordinarily rugged and highly deformed in radar images, displaying many different trends of parallel ridges and troughs that cut across one another at a wide range of angles. The geologic processes that formed Ishtar are not…

podium: …in Nîmes, France, and the Temple of Fortuna Virilis (c. 40 bc) in the Forum Boarium at Rome.

Fortunata y Jacinta, naturalistic novel by Benito Pérez Galdós, published in four volumes in 1886–87 and considered a masterwork of Spanish fiction. Fortunata y Jacinta offers deft characterizations and incisive details of the social, personal, and psychological aspects of its era. The novel was

Fortunata y Jacinta, naturalistic novel by Benito Pérez Galdós, published in four volumes in 1886–87 and considered a masterwork of Spanish fiction. Fortunata y Jacinta offers deft characterizations and incisive details of the social, personal, and psychological aspects of its era. The novel was

Australian literature: Literature from 1970 to 2000: …recounting his life experience in A Fortunate Life (1981), accepted what life had offered, not with bitterness but with gratitude. Robert Dessaix in Night Letters: A Journey Through Switzerland and Italy (1996) wrote a series of highly cultivated reflections on the poignancy of life, art, and, ultimately, death. Drusilla Modjeska…

Mario Puzo: …The Dark Arena (1955) and The Fortunate Pilgrim (1964), attracted good reviews but few buyers.

Creedence Clearwater Revival: …referring to those events; “Fortunate Son” (1969) was a furious blast at wealth and status. From the beginning of 1969 until the end of 1970, Creedence ruled the American pop charts. Their other albums from this period—Green River (1969), Willy and the Poorboys (1969), and Cosmo’s Factory (1970)—collected hits…

Derek Walcott: The Fortunate Traveller (1981) and Midsummer (1984) explore his own situation as a black writer in America who has become increasingly estranged from his Caribbean homeland.

Venantius Fortunatus was a poet and bishop of Poitiers, whose Latin poems and hymns combine echoes of classical Latin poets with a medieval tone, making him an important transitional figure between the ancient and medieval periods. Probably in fulfillment of a vow to St. Martin of Tours, Fortunatus

bingo, game of chance using cards on which there is a grid of numbers, a row of which constitute a win when they have been chosen at random. Bingo is one of the most popular forms of low-priced gambling in the world. To play bingo, which is a form of lottery, each player purchases one or more cards

history of Europe: Renaissance thought: …shape, if not totally control, fortuna—the play of external forces—Guicciardini was skeptical about men’s ability to learn from the past and pessimistic about the individual’s power to shape the course of events. All that was left, he believed, was to understand. Guicciardini wrote his histories of Florence and of Italy…

John Kenneth Galbraith: …and served as editor of Fortune magazine (1943–48) before resuming his academic career at Harvard in 1948. He established himself as a politically active liberal academician with a talent for communicating with the reading public. A key adviser to President John F. Kennedy, Galbraith served as ambassador to India from…

Fortuna, in Roman religion, goddess of chance or lot who became identified with the Greek Tyche; the original Italian deity was probably regarded as the bearer of prosperity and increase. As such she resembles a fertility deity, hence her association with the bounty of the soil and the fruitfulness

Fortune 500, annual list published by Fortune magazine ranking 500 of the largest companies incorporated and operated in the United States. Using publicly available data, Fortune ranks public and private companies on the basis of their previous year’s annual revenue. This widely known ranking is

Canadian literature: Drama: …productions were mounted, such as John Herbert’s Fortune and Men’s Eyes (1967), on homosexuality in prison; George Ryga’s The Ecstasy of Rita Joe (1971), about an indigenous woman who is a prostitute; and James Reaney’s Donnelly trilogy (1976–77), about the feuds and the massacre of an Irish immigrant family in…

Fortune Brands, Inc., U.S. industrial conglomerate headquartered in Deerfield, Ill. Its corporate history began with the American Tobacco Co. (founded in 1890), which grew out of the tobacco business established in North Carolina by the Duke family (see James B. Duke) and which controlled the U.S.

The Fortune Cookie, American screwball comedy film, released in 1966, that featured the first teaming of Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Sports cameraman Harry Hinkle (played by Lemmon) is accidentally injured on the field during a football game. Although not seriously hurt, he is browbeaten by his

Émile Zola: Life: La Fortune des Rougon (The Rougon Family Fortune), the first novel in the series, began to appear in serial form in 1870, was interrupted by the outbreak of the Franco-German War in July, and was eventually published in book form in October 1871. Zola went on to produce these…

Émile Zola: Life: La Fortune des Rougon (The Rougon Family Fortune), the first novel in the series, began to appear in serial form in 1870, was interrupted by the outbreak of the Franco-German War in July, and was eventually published in book form in October 1871. Zola went on to produce these…

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta: The celebrated “Fortune Teller” is dated 1740. “The Pastoral” and the “Idyll by the Seashore,” both in the same Rococo-pastoral vein, must have been painted about the same time or a little before. In his last years he carried out a number of large-scale decorations with subjects…

Fortune Theatre, Elizabethan public playhouse on the northern edge of London, built in 1600 by Philip Henslowe to compete with the newly constructed Globe Theatre. Named after the goddess of fortune, whose statue stood over the front doorway, the Fortune resembled the Globe except that it was

Lucio Tan: …started his own tobacco company, Fortune Tobacco Corp.

Castries: A fortress on Mount Fortune (852 feet [260 metres]) overlooks the town. There is a botanical station, and Vigie Beach and an airport are nearby. Pop. (2010 prelim.) city, 4,173; urban area, 22,111.

Robert Fortune was a Scottish botanist and traveler. He was employed by the Edinburgh Botanical Garden and afterward in the Royal Horticultural Society’s garden at Chiswick. Upon the termination of the first Opium War in 1842, he was sent out by the society to collect plants in China. Another

T. Thomas Fortune was the leading black American journalist of the late 19th century. The son of slaves, Fortune attended a Freedmen’s Bureau school for a time after the Civil War and eventually became a compositor for a black newspaper in Washington, D.C. Moving to New York City about 1880, he

Mike Nichols: Early films: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate, and Carnal Knowledge: …with the frenetic comic caper The Fortune (1975), which featured Nicholson and Warren Beatty as a pair of 1920s con artists who first romance an heiress (Stockard Channing) and then try to steal her inheritance. Although Beatty and Nicholson demonstrated some talent for slapstick, this was not the type of…

T. Thomas Fortune was the leading black American journalist of the late 19th century. The son of slaves, Fortune attended a Freedmen’s Bureau school for a time after the Civil War and eventually became a compositor for a black newspaper in Washington, D.C. Moving to New York City about 1880, he

fortune-telling, the forecasting of future events or the delineation of character by methods not ordinarily considered to have a rational basis. Evidence indicates that forms of fortune-telling were practiced in ancient China, Egypt, Chaldea, and Babylonia as long ago as 4000 bce. Prophetic dreams

kumquat, (genus Fortunella), genus of evergreen shrubs or trees of the family Rutaceae, grown for their tart orange fruits. Native to eastern Asia, these small trees are cultivated throughout the subtropics. Kumquat fruits may be eaten fresh, or they may be preserved and made into jams and jellies.

kumquat: The egg-shaped Meiwa kumquat (F. crassifolia), in which both the pulp and the rind of the fruit are sweet, is widely grown in China. In the United States, hybrids have been produced with limes, mandarin oranges, and other citrus fruits.

kumquat: The round, or Marumi, kumquat is F. japonica; it is indigenous to Japan and has orangelike fruits that are about 2.5 cm in diameter. The egg-shaped Meiwa kumquat (F. crassifolia), in which both the pulp and the rind of the fruit are sweet, is widely grown…

kumquat: The oval, or Nagami, kumquat (Fortunella margarita) is the most common species. It is native to southern China and bears yellowish orange fruits that are about 3 cm (1.2 inches) in diameter. The round, or Marumi, kumquat is F. japonica; it is indigenous to Japan and…

Dover Wilson: …reading of that play, and The Fortunes of Falstaff (1943) presents a picture of Falstaff as a force of evil ultimately rejected by the king. His other works include Life in Shakespeare’s England: A Book of Elizabethan Prose (1911); The Essential Shakespeare: A Biographical Adventure (1932); Shakespeare’s Happy Comedies (1962);…

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: …other novels, including Valperga (1823), The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck (1830), Lodore (1835), and Falkner (1837); The Last Man (1826), an account of the future destruction of the human race by a plague, is often ranked as her best work. Her travel book History of a Six Weeks’ Tour (1817)…

Australian literature: Nationalism and expansion: Her three-volume masterpiece, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (1917–29), traces the fluctuating fortunes of the immigrants who established the new urban Australia in the late 19th century. The last volume, Ultima Thule, graphically describes conditions in the goldfields and brings its character studies of the temperamentally opposite spouses…

Fortunian Stage, first of two internationally defined stages of the Terreneuvian Series, encompassing all rocks deposited during the Fortunian Age (541 million to approximately 529 million years ago) of the Cambrian Period. The name of this interval is derived from the town of Fortune on the island

García: His son Fortún (or Fortunio) was captured and imprisoned by the Moors in 860, and not until about 880 was he free to proclaim himself king of Pamplona. On Fortún’s death (905), Sancho I Garcés reigned as the first indisputable king of Pamplona.

theatre: The influence of Appia and Craig: …Fortuny y Madrazo constructed a dome that backed the stage area with a gentle curve and overhung the stage. At first he covered the dome with white translucent cloth, an extension of an earlier experiment in which he hung strips of cloth from the ceiling of the stage and diffused…

Mariano Fortuny was a painter, inventor, photographer, and fashion designer best known for his dress and textile designs. Fortuny was the son of a Spanish genre painter, Mariano Fortuny. His father died in 1874, and the boy was reared in Paris, where he studied painting with his uncle. In 1889 he

Mariano Fortuny was a Spanish painter whose vigorous technique and anecdotal themes won him a considerable audience in the mid-19th century. After four years at the Academy of Barcelona, Fortuny in 1858 won the Prix de Rome, which enabled him to complete his studies at Rome. In 1859 he was chosen

Mariano Fortuny was a painter, inventor, photographer, and fashion designer best known for his dress and textile designs. Fortuny was the son of a Spanish genre painter, Mariano Fortuny. His father died in 1874, and the boy was reared in Paris, where he studied painting with his uncle. In 1889 he

Mariano Fortuny was a Spanish painter whose vigorous technique and anecdotal themes won him a considerable audience in the mid-19th century. After four years at the Academy of Barcelona, Fortuny in 1858 won the Prix de Rome, which enabled him to complete his studies at Rome. In 1859 he was chosen

Franz Werfel: …Tage des Musa Dagh (1933; The Forty Days of Musa Dagh), an epic novel in which Armenian villagers resist Turkish forces until rescued by the French.

Luzerne: …slaughtered 360 settlers gathered at Forty Fort in the Wyoming Massacre (July 3, 1778). Located near Hazleton, the Eckley Miners’ Village is a restored company mining town.

Samuel Fuller: Films of the 1950s: Forty Guns (1957) was a western, with Barbara Stanwyck as the haughty head of Tombstone until being tamed by lawman Barry Sullivan. China Gate (1957) was an anticommunist action film that featured Gene Barry and Nat King Cole as mercenaries working for the French to…

Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, group of Roman Catholic martyrs executed by English authorities during the Reformation, most during the reign of Elizabeth I. An act of Parliament in 1571 made it high treason to question the queen’s title as head of the Church of England—thus making the practice

English literature: Drama: …first work for the theater, Forty Years On (1968), was an expansive, mocking, and nostalgic cabaret of cultural and social change in England between and during the two World Wars. His masterpieces, though, are dramatic monologues written for television—A Woman of No Importance (1982) and 12 works he called Talking…

India: Consolidation of the sultanate: …came to be known as the Forty (Chihilgān), a political faction whose membership was characterized by talent and by loyalty to the family of Iltutmish.

The Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 846–893, collection of 48 preludes and fugues by Johann Sebastian Bach, published in two books (1722 and 1742). It explores the intricacies of each of the 12 major and 12 minor keys and constitutes the largest-scale and most-influential undertaking for solo keyboard