Carl Foreman, CBE (July 23, 1914 – June 26, 1984) was an American screenwriter and film producer who wrote the award-winning films The Bridge on the River Kwai and High Noon, among others.He was one of the screenwriters who were blacklisted in Hollywood in the 1950s because of their suspected communist sympathy or membership in the Communist Party.. He once said …

B, or b, is the second letter of the Latin-script alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.Its name in English is bee (pronounced / ˈ b iː /), plural bees. It represents the voiced bilabial stop in many languages, including English. In some other languages, it is used to represent other bilabial consonants

Linus Carl Pauling FRS (/ ˈ p ɔː l ɪ ŋ /; February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) was an American chemist, biochemist, chemical engineer, peace activist, author, and educator.He published more than 1,200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific topics. New Scientist called him one of the 20 greatest scientists of all time, and as of 2000, he was rated the 16th most ...

Linus Carl Pauling (Portland, 28 de fevereiro de 1901 — Big Sur, 19 de agosto de 1994) foi um químico quântico e bioquímico dos Estados Unidos.Também é reconhecido como cristalógrafo, biólogo molecular e pesquisador médico.. Pauling é amplamente reconhecido como um dos principais químicos do século XX.Foi pioneiro na aplicação da Mecânica Quântica em química …

Julie d'Aubigny (1670/1673 – 1707), better known as Mademoiselle Maupin or La Maupin, was a 17th-century French opera singer. Little is known for certain about her life; her tumultuous career and flamboyant lifestyle were the subject of gossip, rumor, and colourful stories in her own time, and inspired numerous fictional and semi-fictional portrayals afterwards.

Biography Early years. Carl Bosch was born in Cologne to a successful gas and plumbing supplier. His father was Carl Friedrich Alexander Bosch (1843–1904) and his uncle was Robert Bosch, who pioneered the development of the spark plug and founded the multinational company Bosch.Carl, trying to decide between a career in metallurgy or chemistry, studied at the …

La Navizence est une rivière suisse longue de 23 kilomètres située dans le val d'Anniviers, dans le canton du Valais.Elle est un affluent en rive gauche du Rhône, qu'elle rejoint à Chippis.. La rivière prend sa source dans le glacier de Zinal et elle est orientée vers le nord et le nord-nord-ouest. Elle traverse plusieurs encaissements, notamment à partir de Vissoie, où son lit se ...

Lantz was born in New Rochelle, New York, to Italian immigrant parents Francesco Paolo Lantz (formerly Lanza) and Maria Jarvis (changed to Jarvis to avoid prejudice) from Calitri. According to Joe Adamson's biography The Walter Lantz Story, Lantz's father was given his new surname by an immigration official who anglicized it. Walter Lantz was always interested in art, completing …

The title of "the father of algebra" is frequently credited to the Persian mathematician Al-Khwarizmi, supported by historians of mathematics, such as Carl Benjamin Boyer, Solomon Gandz and Bartel Leendert van der Waerden. However, the point is debatable and the title is sometimes credited to the Hellenistic mathematician Diophantus.

Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī (Persian: محمد بن موسی خوارزمی, romanized: Muḥammad ibn Musā al-Khwārazmi; c. 780 – c. 850), or al-Khwarizmi was a Persian polymath from Khwarazm, who produced vastly influential works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography.Around 820 CE, he was appointed as the astronomer and head of the library of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.