Ladysmith Black Mambazo: …recording category for the album Shaka Zulu.

Social Democratic Party of Japan: …movement combined to form the Social Mass Party (Shakai Taishūtō) in 1932. The left failed to elect many candidates before World War II, and all of Japan’s traditional parties were dissolved in 1940.

Luba: …of a Universal Creator (Shakapanga), the afterlife, the communion between the living and the dead, and the observance of ethical conduct as a sine qua non condition for being welcomed in the village of the ancestors after death.

wood: Variation of structure and defects: …grain, compression and tension wood, shakes, and pitch pockets. Knots are caused by inclusion of dead or living branches. Because branches are indispensable members of a living tree, knots are largely unavoidable, but they can be reduced by silvicultural means, such as spacing of trees and pruning. Spiral grain is…

Roméo Dallaire: …nightmare and published the autobiography Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, which won the Governor General’s Award for English-language nonfiction and was later made into a documentary film. The following year Dallaire received a fellowship at Harvard University’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy to…

Taylor Swift: Kanye West incident at the VMAs, Red, and 1989: …strength of the upbeat “Shake It Off,” the album proved to be another blockbuster for Swift, its first-week sales surpassing those of Red. It went on to sell more than five million copies in the United States and earned Swift her second Grammy for album of the year. In…

Zendaya: Early life and Disney career: …characters in the Disney Channel’s Shake It Up, a comedy about two Chicago teenagers attempting to realize their dreams of becoming professional dancers. The show ran until 2013, and during that time Zendaya released her first single, “Swag It Out” (2011), and her first full album, Zendaya (2013), which featured…

the Cars: Origins and early years: ” Shake It Up (1981), the band’s fourth album, is less edgy and more commercially oriented than the previous three. It features the singles “Shake It Up,” “Since You’re Gone” (released as a single in 1982), and “I’m Not the One” (released as a single in…

Sonia Sanchez: …Your House Have Lions? (1997); Shake Loose My Skin (1999); and Morning Haiku (2010). In 2018 Sanchez received the Academy of American Poets’ Wallace Stevens Award.

heraldry: Ordinaries: The pall, or shakefork, is the upper half of a saltire (St. Andrew’s cross) with the lower half of a pale, forming a Y-shape. The pile is a triangle pointing downward. The flaunch, or flanch, is a segment of a circle drawn from the top of…

floral decoration: Japan: …of small realistic landscapes called shakei, sometimes referred to as memory sketches. In these, exposed water surface was a part of the design. In 1930 a group of art critics and flower masters proclaimed a new style of floral art called zen’ei ikebana (avant-garde flowers), free of all ties with…

Shaker, member of the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, a celibate millenarian group that established communal settlements in the United States in the 18th century. Based on the revelations of Ann Lee and her vision of the heavenly kingdom to come, Shaker teaching emphasized

Shaker furniture, furniture designed for the religious colonies of Shakers founded in America in the last quarter of the 18th century, characterized by austerity of decoration and truth to materials. Deeply dedicated to ideals of communal living and asceticism, the Shakers designed and constructed

Shaker Heights, city and southeastern residential suburb of Cleveland, Cuyahoga county, northeastern Ohio, U.S. It was planned and developed after 1905 by Oris P. and Mantis J. van Sweringen, two entrepreneurs from Cleveland, on the site of North Union, a former Shaker colony (1822–89), and was

Doris Humphrey: Dance of the Chosen (1931; later and better known as The Shakers) added drums, accordions, and incoherent speech to portray the ecstatic nature of the Shakers’ religious fervour. Her trilogy known as New Dance, after the title of the third section, was completed in 1936…

Adam Sandler: …parts in such comedies as Shakes the Clown (1991); Coneheads (1993), which was based on an SNL sketch; and Mixed Nuts (1994). He established himself as a star with Billy Madison (1995), the first of a number of movies he cowrote; in it he played the oafish scion of a…

enclosed rhyme: …first verse of Matthew Arnold’s “Shakespeare”:

Shakespeare and Company, bookstore, established on the Left Bank in Paris in 1919 by Sylvia Beach and operated by her until it was closed in 1941. In addition to offering the usual bookselling services, Beach’s shop functioned as a literary centre during the 1920s and ’30s, providing a lending

If William Shakespeare’s ascendancy over Western theatre has not extended to the opera stage—a fact explained by the want of Shakespeare-congenial librettists, the literary indifference of composers, and the difficulties involved in setting iambic pentameters to music—the Shakespeare canon has

In 1567 John Brayne went east of Aldgate to Stepney, where he erected a theatre called the Red Lion. It was the first permanent building designed expressly for dramatic performances to be constructed in Europe since late antiquity; the civic authorities of London, already unhappy with playing in

Charles Cowden Clarke: …his wife had compiled her Shakespeare Concordance (1845), the couple collaborated in an edition of Shakespeare (completed in 1868) and The Shakespeare Key: Unlocking the Treasures of His Style (1879). Clarke was mainly interested in character study, as was his wife, whose Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines appeared in 1851–52. The…

Shakespeare in Love, American-British film, released in 1998, that was a lighthearted and clever imagining of how William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet came to be written and produced. The movie, which satirizes theatre life and plays with what is known and what is unknown about Shakespeare’s

Charles Cowden Clarke: …Shakespeare (completed in 1868) and The Shakespeare Key: Unlocking the Treasures of His Style (1879). Clarke was mainly interested in character study, as was his wife, whose Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines appeared in 1851–52. The Clarkes left London for Nice in 1856 and in 1861 settled in Genoa, where Clarke…

Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), English theatrical company based in Stratford-upon-Avon that has a long history of Shakespearean performance. Its repertoire continues to centre on works by William Shakespeare and other Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights. Modern works are also produced. The

Sir Anthony Quayle: …before becoming director of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon. He appeared in more than 20 roles with the company and directed nine of its productions. After he left Stratford in 1956, his stage work included touring Europe in Titus Andronicus (1957), directing and appearing as Moses in The Firstborn…

A hundred yards or so southeast of the new Globe Theatre is a vacant lot surrounded by a corrugated-iron fence marked with a bronze plaque as the site of the original Globe Theatre of 1599. A little closer to the new Globe, one can peer through dirty slit windows into a dimly lit space in the

Lewis Theobald: …1726 Theobald brought out his Shakespeare Restored; or, A Specimen of the Many Errors As Well Committed As Unamended by Mr. Pope, in His Late Edition of This Poet, Alexander Pope, whose edition of William Shakespeare had appeared a year earlier, was enraged and made Theobald the chief target of…

Edward Dowden: …to accompany the illustrations in Shakespeare Scenes and Characters (1876).

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: …for Merchant and Ivory included Shakespeare Wallah (1965), Heat and Dust (1983), Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990), Jefferson in Paris (1995), and adaptations of Henry James’s The Europeans (1979), The Bostonians (1984), and The Golden Bowl (2000).

Joseph Papp: …York City, Papp founded the New York Shakespeare Festival, which became a unique institution in the New York theatrical milieu. The festival gave free performances of Shakespearean plays in various locations around the city, including outdoor productions in Central Park. (In 1962 the company received a newly built, permanent home…

Nick Hornby: the Dirt (2006), Shakespeare Wrote for Money (2008), More Baths, Less Talking (2012) and Ten Years in the Tub (2013).

“He was not of an age, but for all time!” exclaimed Ben Jonson in his poem “To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare,” one of several dedicatory poems prefacing the great 1623 Folio of Comedies, Histories & Tragedies, the first collected volume of Shakespeare’s works. Time

theatre design: The 20th century and beyond: …the Globe Tokyo (1988), and Shakespeare’s Globe in London (1997). This vogue led to the proliferation of thrust stages throughout the world. In the third quarter of the 20th century, theatre designers focused their efforts on the creation of adaptable spaces that could easily be converted into at least two…

Germaine Greer: biography of Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare’s Wife (2007), casts doubt on earlier portrayals of Hathaway as being little more than an illiterate seductress with whom Shakespeare had an unhappy marriage; it was well received by critics. The memoir White Beech: The Rainforest Years (2013) documents her efforts to restore a…

William Shakespeare: Early life in Stratford: His father, John Shakespeare, was a burgess of the borough, who in 1565 was chosen an alderman and in 1568 bailiff (the position corresponding to mayor, before the grant of a further charter to Stratford in 1664). He was engaged in various kinds of trade and appears…

William Shakespeare was a poet, dramatist, and actor often called the English national poet. He is considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of all time. Shakespeare occupies a position unique in world literature. Other poets, such as Homer and Dante, and novelists, such as Leo Tolstoy and

fishing: Early history: In 1896 William Shakespeare, Jr., of Kalamazoo, Michigan, devised the level-wind, a traveling bracket on the reel that automatically spread the line evenly as it was wound. The next significant tackle development took place in 1905, when English textile magnate Holden Illingworth filed the first patent on…

American literature: Theory: …The Western Canon (1994) and Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998), both of which explored and defended the Western literary tradition.

William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman: Together, the Friedmans wrote The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined (1957), in which they denied Francis Bacon’s purported authorship of the William Shakespeare plays and sonnets.

sonnet: …other major form is the English (or Shakespearean) sonnet.

A.C. Bradley: His Shakespearean Tragedy (1904), praised not only for penetrating analysis but also for its lucid prose style, is recognized as a classic of modern Shakespeare criticism. His psychological analysis of Shakespeare’s characters anticipated post-Freudian criticism; his cataloging of images from the plays foreshadowed the sensitive analysis…

artificial intelligence: Microworld programs: …of the microworld approach was Shakey, a mobile robot developed at the Stanford Research Institute by Bertram Raphael, Nils Nilsson, and others during the period 1968–72. The robot occupied a specially built microworld consisting of walls, doorways, and a few simply shaped wooden blocks. Each wall had a carefully painted…

Neil Young is a Canadian guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for his idiosyncratic output and eclectic sweep, from solo folkie to grungy guitar-rocker. Young grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with his mother after her divorce from his father, a well-known Canadian sportswriter. Having

Pamirs: Physiography: …Pamirs are occupied by the Shakhdarin Range, composed of north-south (Ishkashim Range) and east-west elements, rising to Mayakovsky Peak (19,996 feet [6,095 metres]) and Karl Marx (Karla Marksa) Peak (22,067 feet [6,726 metres]). In the extreme southeast, to the south of Lake Zorkul (Sarī Qūl), lie the east-west Vākhān Mountains.

Boris Anfiyanovich Shakhlin was a Soviet gymnast who set a career record of 10 individual titles in the world championships and who also won gold medals at three successive Olympic Games. His tally of seven gold, four silver, and two bronze Olympic medals placed him among the most-decorated at the

Turkistan Range: …Ŭroteppa and Dushanbe crosses the Shakhristan Pass at 11,083 feet (3,378 m).

Shakhtarsk, city, eastern Ukraine. Shakhtarsk was established in 1953 by the amalgamation of three local settlements, two of which dated from the 18th century, and was granted city status in 1958. Located on the Donets Basin coalfield, the city features mines that historically have produced

Shakhtarsk, city, eastern Ukraine. Shakhtarsk was established in 1953 by the amalgamation of three local settlements, two of which dated from the 18th century, and was granted city status in 1958. Located on the Donets Basin coalfield, the city features mines that historically have produced

Shakhty, city, Rostov oblast (region), western Russia. It lies along the upper Grushevka River, 47 miles (75 km) northeast of Rostov-na-Donu. Shakhty developed in the early 19th century as a coal-mining centre and became a city in 1881. It is now the main city of the eastern end of the Donets Basin

Soviet Union: Toward the second Revolution: 1927–30: …of sabotage in the so-called Shakhty Case. The theme, repeated in endless propaganda over the following years, was that bourgeois specialists could not be trusted. Large numbers were subsequently arrested. By 1930 more than half of the surviving engineers had no proper training. In all institutes and academies, ideological hacks…

Shakhtarsk, city, eastern Ukraine. Shakhtarsk was established in 1953 by the amalgamation of three local settlements, two of which dated from the 18th century, and was granted city status in 1958. Located on the Donets Basin coalfield, the city features mines that historically have produced

Saki, town, Oyo state, western Nigeria. It lies near the source of the Ofiki River (the chief tributary of the Ogun River), about 40 miles (60 km) from the Benin border. Originally part of the Oyo empire, Saki became a Yoruba refugee settlement after the destruction in 1835 of Old Oyo (Katunga), 70

the Guess Who: Early years: …Kidd and the Pirates’ “Shakin’ All Over” was released to radio stations under the moniker “Guess Who?” in the hope that disc jockeys would be more inclined to play a song by a mysterious new British band. Whether this marketing ploy had anything to do with the song’s success…

parkinsonism, a group of chronic neurological disorders characterized by progressive loss of motor function resulting from the degeneration of neurons in the area of the brain that controls voluntary movement. Parkinsonism was first described in 1817 by the British physician James Parkinson in his

mineral processing: Gravity separation: …spirals or impact forces on shaking tables. Spirals consist of a vertical spiral channel with an oval cross section. As the pulp flows from the top to the bottom of the channel, heavier particles concentrate on the inner side of the stream, where they can be removed through special openings.…

divination: Types of divination: The “Shaking Tent” rite of the Algonquians of Canada illustrates the use of uncanny phenomena to lend credence to a mediumistic performance. The diviner, bound and cloaked, is no sooner placed in his barrel-shaped tent than the tent begins to shake with astonishing vigour and to…

Shakira is a Colombian singer, songwriter, musician, and dancer who built a successful career in both Spanish- and English-speaking markets to become one of the most popular Latin American recording artists of the early 21st century. Shakira, the daughter of a Lebanese father and a Colombian

Shinran was a Buddhist teacher recognized as the founder of the Jōdo Shinshū (True Pure Land School), which advocates that faith, recitation of the name of the buddha Amida (Amitabha), and birth in the paradise of the Pure Land. For centuries Jōdo Shinshū has been one of the largest schools of

grenadier: …and tall, mitre-shaped headdress (shako). Armed with heavy hatchets for chopping through barricades and other obstructions, they were employed particularly in siege and trench warfare.

shakshouka, a Maghrebi (North African) dish, popular throughout the region, featuring poached eggs in a spicy tomato sauce, seasoned with peppers, onion, garlic, and various spices. The word shakshouka comes from Maghrebi Arabic dialect and means “mixed.” The dish developed after the arrival and

Brander Matthews: …Life and His Works (1910); Shakspere as a Playwright (1913), a work notable for its consideration of Shakespeare as a theatrical rather than a literary figure; and French Dramatists of the 19th Century (1881). His collections and mementoes are the foundation of the Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum at Columbia University,…

William Shakespeare was a poet, dramatist, and actor often called the English national poet. He is considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of all time. Shakespeare occupies a position unique in world literature. Other poets, such as Homer and Dante, and novelists, such as Leo Tolstoy and

Edward Dowden: His Shakspere: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art (1875) was the first book in English to attempt a unified and rounded picture of Shakespeare’s development as an artist, studying him in terms of successive periods. His other works on Shakespeare include the primer Shakspere…

Navratri: …the divine feminine principle, or shakti. While the pattern varies somewhat by region, generally the first third of the festival focuses on aspects of the goddess Durga, the second third on the goddess Lakshmi, and the final third on the goddess Sarasvati. Offerings are often made to the goddesses and…

Hinduism: Shaivism: Shakti is in turn personified in the form of many different goddesses, often said to be aspects of her.

Dilip Kumar: …his performance in Ramesh Sippy’s Shakti (1982; “Strength”). Kumar’s last film was the family drama Qila (1998; “Fort”).

Shaktism, worship of the Hindu goddess Shakti (Sanskrit: “Power” or “Energy”). Shaktism is, together with Vaishnavism and Shaivism, one of the major forms of modern Hinduism and is especially popular in Bengal and Assam. Shakti is conceived of either as the paramount goddess or as the consort of a

sokutai: …carries an ivory tablet (shaku), undoubtedly inspired by jade tablets carried by Chinese emperors as symbols of imperial power.

Fujiwara Shunzei was a Japanese poet and critic, an innovator of waka (classical court poems) and compiler of the Senzaishū (“Collection of a Thousand Years”), the seventh Imperial anthology of classical Japanese poetry. As a member of the aristocratic Fujiwara clan, Shunzei followed a career in

Buddhism: Nichiren: …a technique of evangelism called shakubuku (Japanese: “break and subdue”), in which the resistance of the other person is destroyed by forceful argument. Although its practice of shakubuku was curtailed by Ikeda Daisaku, the society’s third president, Sōka-gakkai continued to grow throughout the second half of the 20th century and…

shakuhachi, a Japanese end-blown bamboo flute that was originally derived from the Chinese xiao in the 8th century. The shakuhachi’s blowing end is cut obliquely outward, and a small piece of ivory or bone is inserted at the edge so that subtle varieties of tone colour can be produced. The bell

Abhijnanashakuntala, drama by Kalidasa composed about the 5th century ce that is generally considered to be the greatest Indian literary work of any period. Taken from legend, the work tells of the seduction of the nymph Shakuntala by King Dushyanta, his rejection of the girl and his child, and

Shakuntala, fictional character, heroine of the Sanskrit drama Abhijnanashakuntala (“The Recognition of Shakuntala”) by the 5th-century North Indian poet

Tupac Shakur was an American rapper and actor who was one of the leading names in 1990s gangsta rap. Lesane Crooks was born to Afeni Shakur (née Alice Faye Williams), a member of the Black Panther Party, and she renamed him Tupac Amaru Shakur—after Peruvian revolutionary Túpac Amaru II—when he was

Tupac Shakur was an American rapper and actor who was one of the leading names in 1990s gangsta rap. Lesane Crooks was born to Afeni Shakur (née Alice Faye Williams), a member of the Black Panther Party, and she renamed him Tupac Amaru Shakur—after Peruvian revolutionary Túpac Amaru II—when he was

Rashid Sunyaev: With Russian astrophysicist Nikolay Shakura, he also developed the Shakura-Sunyaev model, which describes the accretion of matter onto a black hole.

Rashid Sunyaev: The Shakura-Sunyaev model became the basis for much of the subsequent theoretical work that described cataclysmic variable stars and quasars.

India: Political systems: …of the Koliyas, Moriyas, Jnatrikas, Shakyas, and Licchavis. The Jnatrikas and Shakyas are especially remembered as the tribes to which Mahavira (the founder of Jainism) and Gautama Buddha, respectively, belonged. The Licchavis eventually became extremely powerful.

Shakyamuni, epithet applied to Gautama Buddha. See Buddha;

Buddha was the founder of Buddhism, one of the major religions and philosophical systems of southern and eastern Asia and of the world. Buddha is one of the many epithets of a teacher who lived in northern India sometime between the 6th and the 4th century before the Common Era. His followers,

Buddha was the founder of Buddhism, one of the major religions and philosophical systems of southern and eastern Asia and of the world. Buddha is one of the many epithets of a teacher who lived in northern India sometime between the 6th and the 4th century before the Common Era. His followers,

Ishkur: Ishkur’s wife was the goddess Shala. In his role as god of rain and thunder, Ishkur corresponded to the Sumerian deities Asalluhe and Ninurta. He was identified by the Akkadians with their god of thunderstorms, Adad.

Lake Shala, lake in south-central Ethiopia, lying in the Great Rift Valley. It is some 16 miles (26 km) long and 12 miles (19 km) wide, and in parts it exceeds a depth of 850 feet (260 metres). The lake has no outlet and its water is saline. A hot spring situated in the lake’s northeastern corner

Donna Shalala is an American educator, administrator, and public official who was secretary of health and human services (1993–2001) under U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton and who later served in the U.S. House of Representatives (2019–21). Shalala attended Western College in Oxford, Ohio, earning a B.A. in

Donna Shalala is an American educator, administrator, and public official who was secretary of health and human services (1993–2001) under U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton and who later served in the U.S. House of Representatives (2019–21). Shalala attended Western College in Oxford, Ohio, earning a B.A. in

Naim Suleymanoglu was a Bulgarian-born Turkish weightlifter who dominated the sport in the mid-1980s and ’90s. Suleymanoglu, the son of a miner of Turkish descent, began lifting weights at age 10, and at age 14 he came within 2.5 kg (5.5 pounds) of a world record. At age 15 he set his first world

Varlam Shalamov was a Russian writer best known for a series of short stories about imprisonment in Soviet labour camps. In 1922 Shalamov went to Moscow and worked in a factory. Accused of counterrevolutionary activities while a law student at Moscow State University, Shalamov served two years at

Varlam Shalamov was a Russian writer best known for a series of short stories about imprisonment in Soviet labour camps. In 1922 Shalamov went to Moscow and worked in a factory. Accused of counterrevolutionary activities while a law student at Moscow State University, Shalamov served two years at

Adad: His consort was Shalash, which may be a Hurrian name. The symbol of Adad was the cypress, and six was his sacred number. The bull and the lion were sacred to him. In Babylonia, Assyria, and Aleppo in Syria, he was also the god of oracles and divination.…

shale, any of a group of fine-grained, laminated sedimentary rocks consisting of silt- and clay-sized particles. Shale is the most abundant of the sedimentary rocks, accounting for roughly 70 percent of this rock type in the crust of the Earth. Shales are often found with layers of sandstone or

shale gas, natural gas obtained from sheetlike formations of shale, frequently at depths exceeding 1,500 metres (5,000 feet). Shales are fine-grained sedimentary rocks consisting of silt- and clay-sized particles that were laid down hundreds of millions of years ago as organic-rich mud at the

naphtha: Shale naphtha is obtained by the distillation of oil produced from bituminous shale by destructive distillation. Petroleum naphtha is a name used primarily in the United States for petroleum distillate containing principally aliphatic hydrocarbons and boiling higher than gasoline and lower than kerosene.

shale oil, in fossil fuel production, either a synthetic crude oil that is extracted from oil shale by means of pyrolysis or a naturally occurring crude oil that is extracted from underground shale deposits by means of fracking (hydraulic fracturing). In the extraction of oil from oil shales,

Nathaniel Southgate Shaler was a geologist known for his studies of crustal tectonics (structure) and Earth history. He was a professor of paleontology at Harvard University (1868–87) and director of the Kentucky Geological Survey (1873–80). Beginning in 1884, he was also geologist in charge of the

Silurian Period: Graptolites: Shaley facies generally represent deeper-water environments, such as those under which the Road River Group in the Yukon, the Aberystwyth Grit Formation in Wales, and the Longmaqi Formation of southern China accumulated. Fossils of graptolites—small, colonial, planktonic animals—are abundant in these dark Silurian shales. Graptolites…

Tony Shalhoub is an American actor who was perhaps best known for his comedic roles, most notably the “defective detective” (a sufferer from obsessive-compulsive disorder) Adrian Monk in the USA network television series Monk (2002–09). Shalhoub was the son of a Lebanese immigrant, and he was drawn

Omar Sharif was an Egyptian actor of international acclaim, known for his dashing good looks and for iconic roles in such films as Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Doctor Zhivago (1965). Shalhoub was born in Alexandria, the only son of a prosperous lumber merchant. When he was four years old, he moved

Tony Shalhoub is an American actor who was perhaps best known for his comedic roles, most notably the “defective detective” (a sufferer from obsessive-compulsive disorder) Adrian Monk in the USA network television series Monk (2002–09). Shalhoub was the son of a Lebanese immigrant, and he was drawn

Indian philosophy: The logical period: …centuries), Mandana Mishra (8th century), Shalikanatha (9th century), and Parthasarathi Mishra (10th century) belong to this age. The greatest Indian philosopher of the period, however, was Shankara. All these men defended Brahmanism against the “unorthodox” schools, especially against the criticisms of Buddhism. The debate between Brahmanism and Buddhism was continued,…

John Shalikashvili was a U.S. Army officer who served as supreme allied commander of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces in Europe (1992–93) and as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1993–97). Shalikashvili was descended from Georgian aristocracy. His maternal grandfather was a