Carmichael, Hoagy (Hoagland Howard Carmichael), 1899–1981, American songwriter, pianist, and singer, b. Bloomington, Ind. While still a student at Indiana Univ. he was influenced by a number o...

Carmichael, Stokely, 1941–98, African-American social activist, b. Trinidad. He lived in New York City after 1952 and graduated from Howard Univ. in 1964. Carmichael participated in the Congre...

Stopes, Marie Carmichael, 1880–1958, English paleobotanist and eugenicist, b. Edinburgh, D.Sc. Univ. of London, Ph.D. Univ. of Munich. She lectured on paleobotany at the universities of London...

Makeba, Miriam, 1932–2008, South African singer. She became the first black South African to achieve international fame and she played a fundamental role in introducing African music to the We...

Mercer, Johnny (John Herndon Mercer)

Loesser, Frank (Frank Henry Loesser), 1910–69, American lyricist and songwriter, b. New York City. He is noted for smart, often witty lyrics that catch the tone and rhythms of vernacular speec...

Weizmann, Chaim, 1874–1952, scientist and Zionist leader, first president (1948–52) of Israel, b. Russia, grad. Univ. of Freiburg, 1899. He lectured in chemistry at the Univ. of Geneva (1901–3...

Trinidad and Tobago, officially Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, republic (2005 est. pop. 1,088,000), 1,980 sq mi (5,129 sq km), West Indies. The capital is Port of Spain. The country consists...

Canadian art and architecture, the various types and styles arts and structures produced in the geographic area that now constitutes Canada.For a discussion of the art of indigenous peoples of...

Gaelic literature, literature in the native tongue of Ireland and Scotland. Since Scots Gaelic became separate from Irish Gaelic only in the 17th cent., the literature is conventionally divide...