Noah Webster's famous dictionary, published in 1828, shaped what we now consider American spelling. But ultimately, the choice of which spellings to adopt is made in the most democratic way possible: by public use and acceptance.
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Ford was an Irish American and a New Englander, born to immigrant parents. He began his movie work in the silent era, serving as a jack-of-all-trades apprentice on many early pictures made by his actor-director brother Francis. By the end of the silents, Ford had directed more than 60...
American Gigolo: Directed by Paul Schrader. With Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo, Nina van Pallandt. A Los Angeles escort is accused of a murder which he did not commit.
s relative aridity.Mogolloninnovationsin the use of small dams to pool rainfall and divert streams for watering crops made agriculture possible, and these innovations were adopted and further developed by theAncestral Pueblo(Anasazi) peoples; the neighboringHohokamalso depended on irrigation. In ...
andAunuu, along with an uninhabited coralatollnamedRose Atoll.Swains Island, an inhabited coral atoll, about 280 miles (450 km) northwest of Tutuila and physiographically separate from the archipelago, was made a part of American Samoa in 1925. The capital of American Samoa isPago Pago, on ...
the hunter throwing the bolas around the neck or legs of the game. Bolas were made by attaching stone weights to two or three short cords that, in turn, were fastened to a longer lasso. With the coming of the horse after the Spanish conquest, the bolas became very important, for from ...
made of different versions of a tale occurring within a tribe, there is still much to be discovered, for instance, in the telling of the same tale by the same narrator under different circumstances. These gaps in the study offolktalesindicate not a lack of interest but rather the difficulty...
Thecraftsof basketry andpotteryare moderately active. But very little pottery is made for native use; it is largely intended for the outside market. Although both pottery and basketry are produced in much smaller quantities than they were after first European contact, the quality of contemporary...
“We will take the facade down, piece by piece, and we will store it,” Glenn D. Lowry, the director of the Museum of Modern Art, said in an interview. “We have made no decision about what happens subsequently, other than the fact that we’ll have it and it will be preserved.”...