art criticism: Other Criteria: Rosenberg and Alloway: …the American scholar and critic Leo Steinberg criticized Greenberg from an art-historical point of view, stating that in Greenberg’s “formalist ethic, the ideal critic remains unmoved by the artist’s expressive intention, uninfluenced by his culture, deaf to his irony or iconography, and so proceeds undistracted, programmed like an Orpheus making…

Booker T. and the MG’s: …Willow Springs, Missouri), and bassist Lewie Polk Steinberg (b. September 13, 1933, Memphis—d. July 21, 2016, Memphis). Bassist Donald (“Duck”) Dunn (b. November 24, 1941, Memphis—May 13, 2012, Tokyo, Japan) replaced Steinberg about 1965.

Booker T. and the MG’s: …Willow Springs, Missouri), and bassist Lewie Polk Steinberg (b. September 13, 1933, Memphis—d. July 21, 2016, Memphis). Bassist Donald (“Duck”) Dunn (b. November 24, 1941, Memphis—May 13, 2012, Tokyo, Japan) replaced Steinberg about 1965.

Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra: …(1997–2005), György Győriványi-Ráth (2011–14), and Pinchas Steinberg (2014– ). The orchestra recorded for the Supraphon, Qualiton, and Hungaroton labels, on occasion under Zoltán Kodály’s direction.

Saul Steinberg was a Romanian-born American cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his line drawings that suggest elaborate, eclectic doodlings. Steinberg studied sociology and psychology at the University of Bucharest and architecture in Milan. From 1936 to 1939 he published his cartoons in

William Steinberg was a German-born American conductor who directed the Pittsburgh Symphony from 1952 to 1976. Steinberg worked as an apprentice under Otto Klemperer at the Cologne Opera and in 1924 became principal conductor there. He conducted opera at Prague (1925–29) and Frankfurt-am-Main

Jack Steinberger was a German-born American physicist who, along with Leon M. Lederman and Melvin Schwartz, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1988 for their joint discoveries concerning neutrinos. Steinberger immigrated to the United States in 1934. He studied physics at the University of

George Steinbrenner was an American businessman and principal owner of the New York Yankees (1973–2010). His exacting methods and often bellicose attitude established him as one of the most controversial personalities in major league baseball. Though he was often criticized, under his ownership the

George Steinbrenner was an American businessman and principal owner of the New York Yankees (1973–2010). His exacting methods and often bellicose attitude established him as one of the most controversial personalities in major league baseball. Though he was often criticized, under his ownership the

New York Yankees: …his two sons, Hank and Hal, and in 2008 Hal was given control of the team, while George remained the nominal chairman until his death in 2010. In 2009 the Yankees returned to the World Series for the first time in six years, under Joe Girardi, who had become the…

Peer Steinbrück is a German politician who was the candidate of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) for chancellor of Germany in 2013. After Steinbrück graduated from high school in 1968, he completed 18 months of compulsory military service. He elected to extend his enlistment by six

Gloria Steinem is an American feminist, political activist, and editor who was an articulate advocate of the women’s liberation movement during the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Steinem spent her early years traveling with her parents in a house trailer. After their divorce in 1946, Gloria

Gloria Steinem is an American feminist, political activist, and editor who was an articulate advocate of the women’s liberation movement during the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Steinem spent her early years traveling with her parents in a house trailer. After their divorce in 1946, Gloria

Adolf Loos: It was followed by the Steiner House, Vienna (1910), which has been referred to by some architectural historians as the first completely modern dwelling; the main (rear) facade is a symmetrical, skillfully balanced composition of rectangles. His essays from this period, denouncing ornament and decoration, were equally influential. Loos’s best-known…

Waldorf school, school based on the educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian educator and the formulator of anthroposophy. Steiner’s first school opened in 1919 in Stuttgart, Germany, for the children of the Waldorf-Astoria Company’s employees; his schools thereafter became known as

Jakob Steiner: …to one point on the Steiner surface (also known as the Roman surface). Steiner never published these and other findings concerning the surface. A colleague, Karl Weierstrass, first published a paper on the surface and Steiner’s results in 1863, the year of Steiner’s death. Steiner’s other work was primarily on…

George Steiner was an influential French-born American literary critic who studied the relationship between literature and society, particularly in light of modern history. His writings on language and the Holocaust reached a wide, nonacademic audience. Steiner was born in Paris of émigré Austrian

George Steiner was an influential French-born American literary critic who studied the relationship between literature and society, particularly in light of modern history. His writings on language and the Holocaust reached a wide, nonacademic audience. Steiner was born in Paris of émigré Austrian

Jakob Steiner was a Swiss mathematician who was one of the founders of modern synthetic and projective geometry. As the son of a small farmer, Steiner had no early schooling and did not learn to write until he was 14. Against the wishes of his parents, at 18 he entered the Pestalozzi School at

Leslie Howard was an English actor, producer, and film director whose acting had a quiet, persuasive English charm. After working as a bank clerk, Howard served in World War I, where he was able to strengthen an early interest in the stage. Adopting his stage name, he first appeared on stage in

Max Steiner was an Austrian-born U.S. composer and conductor. A prodigy, he wrote an operetta at age 14 that ran in Vienna for a year. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1914 and worked in New York City as a theatre conductor and arranger, and then he moved to Hollywood in 1929. He became one of the

Max Steiner was an Austrian-born U.S. composer and conductor. A prodigy, he wrote an operetta at age 14 that ran in Vienna for a year. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1914 and worked in New York City as a theatre conductor and arranger, and then he moved to Hollywood in 1929. He became one of the

Rudolf Steiner was an Austrian-born spiritualist, lecturer, and founder of anthroposophy, a movement based on the notion that there is a spiritual world comprehensible to pure thought but accessible only to the highest faculties of mental knowledge. Attracted in his youth to the works of Goethe,

Otto Steinert was a German photographer, teacher, and physician, who was the founder of the Fotoform movement of postwar German photographers. Steinert studied medicine at various universities from 1934 to 1939 and was a medical officer during World War II. He abandoned medicine for photography

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Premise and summary: …a girl named Gwen (Hailee Steinfeld), whom he seems to connect with. After school he spends the evening with his Uncle Aaron (Mahershala Ali), who helps him express his frustrations by spray-painting a graffiti mural on an abandoned subway wall. During this adventure Miles is bitten by a large…

faience fine, fine white English lead-glazed earthenware, or creamware, imported into France from about 1730 onward. Staffordshire “salt glaze” was imported first, followed by the improved Wedgwood “Queen’s ware” and the Leeds “cream-coloured ware.” It was cheaper than French faience, or tin-glazed

Steinhart Aquarium, public aquarium in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, noted for its innovative displays. The facility was opened in 1923 and is administered by the California Academy of Sciences. Besides having about 5,000 specimens of some 350 species of fish, the aquarium maintains a collection

quasicrystal: Quasiperiodicity: Paul Steinhardt, physicists at the University of Pennsylvania, proposed a resolution of this apparent conflict. They suggested that the translational order of atoms in quasicrystalline alloys might be quasiperiodic rather than periodic. Quasiperiodic patterns share certain characteristics with periodic patterns. In particular, both are deterministic—that…

Dominikus Zimmermann: The first, in Steinhausen (now in Baden-Württemberg), was begun in 1727. The floor plan is an oval, with 10 slender freestanding piers supporting a vault painted in exemplary style by Zimmermann’s brother. This structure has been regarded by some as the first truly Rococo church because of its…

microscope: Types of magnifiers: More-complex magnifiers, such as the Steinheil or Hastings forms, use three or more elements to achieve better correction for chromatic aberrations and distortion. In general, a better approach is the use of aspheric surfaces and fewer elements.

Karl August Steinheil was a German physicist who did pioneering work in telegraphy, optics, and photometry. Steinheil received the Ph.D. at Königsberg in 1825 and in 1832 began to teach physics and mathematics at Munich University. From 1849 to 1852 he organized the Austrian telegraph system,

Steinheim skull, human fossil remnant found in 1933 along the Murr River about 20 km (12 miles) north of Stuttgart, Germany. Found in association with bones of elephants and rhinoceroses, the specimen has been dated to approximately 350,000 years ago. The skull is characterized by an estimated

Judaism: Solomon Steinheim: Solomon Ludwig Steinheim (1789–1866), the author of Die Offenbarung nach dem Lehrbegriff der Synagoge (“The Revelation According to the Doctrine of the Synagogue”), was apparently influenced by the antirationalism of the German philosopher Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743–1819). His criticism of science is based…

Lower Saxony: Physical features: …state are two sizable lakes: Steinhuder Lake (about 12 square miles [30 square km]) and Dümmer Lake (about 6 square miles [15 square km]). The highland area occupies the southern portions of the state and contains the Weser, Deister, and Harz mountains. The important Mittelland Canal runs east-west across the…

arithmetic: Theory of rationals: …1910 by the German mathematician Ernst Steinitz. In considering the set of all number pairs (a, b), (c, d), … in which a, b, c, d, … are positive integers, the equals relation (a, b) = (c, d) is defined to mean that ad = bc, and the two operations…

Wilhelm Steinitz was an Austrian-American chess master who is considered to have been the world champion longer than any other player, winning the championship in 1866 from Adolf Anderssen (although the first official claim to hold the title was not made until 1886) and losing it in 1894 to Emanuel

Steinkjer, town, north-central Norway. Located at the head of Beitstad Fjord, an inlet of Trondheims Fjord and situated at the mouth of the By River, the port town was incorporated in 1857 as Steinker, a union of several neighbouring agricultural areas. More than 1,000 farms remain within its

bituminous coal, the most abundant form of coal, intermediate in rank between subbituminous coal and anthracite according to the coal classification used in the United States and Canada. In Britain bituminous coal is commonly called “steam coal,” and in Germany the term Steinkohle (“rock coal”) is

comic strip: The 19th century: …Busch were Adolphe Willette and Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, both pioneers in Le Chat Noir (“The Black Cat”)—house magazine of the world’s first cabaret—of the wordless, or “silent,” strip (first employed by Busch). Willette created a black-clad Pierrot, a volatile, poetic, and amoral trickster (1882–84), and Steinlen specialized in cats (1884–86); in…

David Barnard Steinman was an American engineer whose studies of airflow and wind velocity helped make possible the design of aerodynamically stable bridges. Steinman’s thesis for his Ph.D. from Columbia University (1911) was published as The Design of the Henry Hudson Memorial Bridge as a Steel

Ralph M. Steinman was a Canadian immunologist and cell biologist who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (with American immunologist Bruce A. Beutler and French immunologist Jules A. Hoffmann) for his codiscovery with American cell biologist Zanvil A. Cohn of the dendritic cell

Ralph M. Steinman was a Canadian immunologist and cell biologist who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (with American immunologist Bruce A. Beutler and French immunologist Jules A. Hoffmann) for his codiscovery with American cell biologist Zanvil A. Cohn of the dendritic cell

Frank-Walter Steinmeier is a German Social Democratic Party (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands; SPD) politician who in the early 21st century served as vice-chancellor (2007–09) and foreign minister (2005–09; 2013–17) of Germany in grand coalition governments led by Angela Merkel of the

Charles Proteus Steinmetz was a German-born American electrical engineer whose ideas on alternating current systems helped inaugurate the electrical era in the United States. At birth Steinmetz was afflicted with a physical deformity, hunchback, and as a youth he showed an unusual capability in

Charles Proteus Steinmetz was a German-born American electrical engineer whose ideas on alternating current systems helped inaugurate the electrical era in the United States. At birth Steinmetz was afflicted with a physical deformity, hunchback, and as a youth he showed an unusual capability in

Judaism: Developments in scholarship: In particular, Moritz Steinschneider (1816–1907), who owes his fame to towering achievements in bibliography, was concerned above all with the contribution of Jews to science, medicine, and mathematics. These scholars set out to praise Judaism as one of the cofounders of the Western tradition; they argued that,…

Moritz Lazarus: Steinthal, the journal Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft (1859). His chief philosophical work is Das Leben der Seele, 3 vol. (1855–57; “The Life of the Soul”).

Henry Engelhard Steinway was a German-born American piano builder and founder of a leading piano manufacturing firm, Steinway and Sons, which remained under family ownership until 1972. Steinway fought in the Battle of Waterloo (1815) and in 1835 opened a piano business in the duchy of Brunswick;

mass spectrometry: Ion-velocity spectrometers: …German physicists Wolfgang Paul and Helmut Steinwedel described the development of a quadrupole mass spectrometer. The application of superimposed radio frequency and constant potentials between four parallel rods can be shown to act as a mass separator in which only ions within a particular mass range will perform oscillations of…

Henry Engelhard Steinway was a German-born American piano builder and founder of a leading piano manufacturing firm, Steinway and Sons, which remained under family ownership until 1972. Steinway fought in the Battle of Waterloo (1815) and in 1835 opened a piano business in the duchy of Brunswick;

loosestrife: Fringed loosestrife (Steironema ciliatum), a yellow-flowered perennial, is native to moist parts of North America and is common in Europe.

Thomas Steitz was an American biophysicist and biochemist who was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, along with Indian-born American physicist and molecular biologist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath, for his research into the atomic structure and

stela, standing stone slab used in the ancient world primarily as a grave marker but also for dedication, commemoration, and demarcation. Although the origin of the stela is unknown, a stone slab, either decorated or undecorated, was commonly used as a tombstone, both in the East and in Grecian

stela, standing stone slab used in the ancient world primarily as a grave marker but also for dedication, commemoration, and demarcation. Although the origin of the stela is unknown, a stone slab, either decorated or undecorated, was commonly used as a tombstone, both in the East and in Grecian

angiosperm: Roots: …converge into a single central vascular cylinder in the root, forming a continuous system of vascular tissue from the root tips to the leaves. At the centre of the vascular cylinder of most roots is a solid, fluted (or ridged) core of primary xylem (Figure 9). The primary phloem lies…

stela, standing stone slab used in the ancient world primarily as a grave marker but also for dedication, commemoration, and demarcation. Although the origin of the stela is unknown, a stone slab, either decorated or undecorated, was commonly used as a tombstone, both in the East and in Grecian

furniture: Greece and Rome: …the klismos depicted on the Hegeso Stele at the Dipylon burial place outside Athens (c. 410 bce). It is a chair with a backward-sloping, curved backboard and four curving legs, only two of which are shown. These unusual legs were presumably executed in bent wood and were therefore subjected to…

Lagash: …of that period is the Stele of the Vultures, erected to celebrate the victory of King Eannatum over the neighbouring state of Umma. Another is the engraved silver vase of King Entemena, a successor of Eannatum. Control of Lagash finally fell to Sargon of Akkad (reigned c. 2334–2279 bce), but…

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Sturm und Drang (1770–76) of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Stella (1776; Eng. trans. Stella), in a picturesque blend of realism and self-indulgence, shows a man in love with two women who finds an unconventional resolution to his conventional conflict by setting up a ménage à trois. (A similar device concludes the potentially even more…

Jonathan Swift: Years at Moor Park: Here, too, he met Esther Johnson (the future Stella), the daughter of Temple’s widowed housekeeper. In 1692, through Temple’s good offices, Swift received the degree of M.A. at the University of Oxford.

Stella Adler: …teacher, and founder of the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting in New York City (1949), where she tutored performers in “the method” technique of acting (see Stanislavsky method).

Rudolph Maté: …notable credits included Dodsworth (1936), Stella Dallas (1937), Love Affair (1939), My Favorite Wife (1940), and Gilda (1946).

Cormac McCarthy: The companion work Stella Maris was published later that year. McCarthy also wrote the plays The Stonemason (2001) and The Sunset Limited (2006; television movie 2011) and the screenplay for The Counselor (2013), a drama about drug trafficking.

Hans Carossa: …a book of lyric poetry, Stella Mystica (1902; “Mystical Star”), in which a reflective, philosophical attitude dominates the expression of emotions. This attitude of detachment toward his own life and a desire to seek and bring forth the most noble in humankind remains dominant throughout his work. His first novel,…

Frank Stella was an American painter who began as a leading figure in the Minimalist art movement and later became known for his irregularly shaped works and large-scale multimedia reliefs. Stella studied painting at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and history at Princeton

Frank Stella was an American painter who began as a leading figure in the Minimalist art movement and later became known for his irregularly shaped works and large-scale multimedia reliefs. Stella studied painting at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and history at Princeton

Stellantis, multinational automotive company formed in 2021 by the merger of Fiat Chrysler and PSA Group (known legally as Peugeot S.A.). The company has 14 well-known automobile brands, including Dodge, Jeep, and Maserati. Stellantis is headquartered in Amsterdam. Chrysler was an American

Stellantis, multinational automotive company formed in 2021 by the merger of Fiat Chrysler and PSA Group (known legally as Peugeot S.A.). The company has 14 well-known automobile brands, including Dodge, Jeep, and Maserati. Stellantis is headquartered in Amsterdam. Chrysler was an American

climate: Snow and sleet: …types of snow crystals: plates, stellars, columns, needles, spatial dendrites, capped columns, and irregular crystals. The size and shape of the snow crystals depend mainly on the temperature of their formation and on the amount of water vapour that is available for deposition. The two principal influences are not independent;…

stellar association, a very large, loose grouping of stars that are of similar spectral type and relatively recent origin. Stellar associations are thought to be the birthplaces of most stars. The stars in stellar associations are grouped together much more loosely than they are in star clusters of

stellar classification, scheme for assigning stars to types according to their temperatures as estimated from their spectra. The generally accepted system of stellar classification is a combination of two classification schemes: the Harvard system, which is based on the star’s surface temperature,

Milky Way Galaxy: The stellar density near the Sun: The density distribution of stars near the Sun can be used to calculate the mass density of material (in the form of stars) at the Sun’s distance within the Galaxy. It is therefore of interest not only from the point…

astronomy: Measuring observable stellar properties: …several methods for measuring a star’s diameter. From the brightness and distance, the luminosity (L) can be calculated, and, from observations of the brightness at different wavelengths, the temperature (T) can be calculated. Because the radiation from many stars can be well approximated by a Planck blackbody spectrum (see Planck’s…

star: Star formation and evolution: …discovered stars that are well evolved or even approaching extinction, or both, as well as occasional stars that must be very young or still in the process of formation. Evolutionary effects on these stars are not negligible, even for a middle-aged star such as the Sun. More massive stars must…

optical interferometer: Michelson also developed the stellar interferometer, capable of measuring the diameters of stars in terms of the angle, as small as 0.01″ of an arc, subtended by the extreme points of the star at the point of observation.

luminosity, in astronomy, the amount of light emitted by an object in a unit of time. The luminosity of the Sun is 3.846 × 1026 watts (or 3.846 × 1033 ergs per second). Luminosity is an absolute measure of radiant power; that is, its value is independent of an observer’s distance from an object.

Milky Way Galaxy: The stellar luminosity function: The stellar luminosity function is a description of the relative number of stars of different absolute luminosities. It is often used to describe the stellar content of various parts of the Galaxy or other groups of stars, but it most commonly refers…

astronomy: Star formation and evolution: …of stellar evolution depends on stellar mass. Some stars pass through an unstable stage in which their dimensions, temperature, and luminosity change cyclically over periods of hours or days. These so-called Cepheid variables serve as standard candles for distance measurements (see above Determining astronomical distances). Some stars blow off their…

Karl Schwarzschild: His hypothesis of stellar motion is one of the most important results to come out of his fundamental work in modern statistical methods in astronomy. He also made theoretical studies of the pressure exerted on small, solid particles by radiation.

Arthur Eddington: Early life: In Stellar Movements and the Structure of the Universe (1914) he summarized his mathematically elegant investigations of the motions of stars in the Milky Way.

parallax: Stellar parallax: The stars are too distant for any difference of position to be perceptible from two places on Earth’s surface, but, as Earth revolves at 149,600,000 km from the Sun, stars are seen from widely different viewpoints during the year. The effect on their…

Milky Way Galaxy: Stars and stellar populations: The concept of different populations of stars has undergone considerable change over the last several decades. Before the 1940s, astronomers were aware of differences between stars and had largely accounted for most of them in terms of different masses, luminosities, and orbital characteristics…

star: Stellar activity and mass loss: …types are active and have stellar winds analogous to the solar wind. The importance and ubiquity of strong stellar winds became apparent only through advances in spaceborne ultraviolet and X-ray astronomy as well as in radio and infrared surface-based astronomy.

nuclear fusion: Magnetic confinement: …other approaches such as the stellarator, the compact torus, and the reversed field pinch (RFP) have also been pursued. In these approaches, the magnetic field lines follow a helical, or screwlike, path as the lines of magnetic force proceed around the torus. In the tokamak the pitch of the helix…

Caryophyllaceae: Major genera and species: …common chickweed, or stitchwort (S. media), a widely naturalized lawn weed.

human nervous system: Sympathetic ganglia: …middle cervical ganglion, and the cervicothoracic ganglion (also called the stellate ganglion). The superior ganglion innervates viscera of the head, and the middle and stellate ganglia innervate viscera of the neck, thorax (i.e., the bronchi and heart), and upper limbs. The thoracic sympathetic ganglia innervate the trunk region, and the…

chondrostean: Distribution: The starry sturgeon (A. stellatus) occurs in rivers leading to the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, and the Caspian Sea. The lake sturgeon of North America (A. fulvescens) occurs in the Mississippi River valley, in Lake Huron, and northward into Canada. The white, Oregon, or…

renal system: Veins and venules: …beneath the renal capsule, called stellate venules because of their radial arrangement, drain into interlobular venules. In turn these combine to form the tributaries of the arcuate, interlobar, and lobar veins. Blood from the renal pyramids passes into vessels, called venae rectae, which join the arcuate veins. In the renal…

Capena: Out of its territory the Stellatine tribe (one of the tribes of the Roman people) was formed in 367 bc. In addition to remains of Roman buildings, many tombs, especially of the 8th and 7th centuries bc, have been found in the neighbouring hills.

Stellenbosch, town, Western Cape province, South Africa. It lies east of Cape Town, in the fertile Eerste River valley bordering mountains on the east. Founded in 1679 and named for Governor Simon van der Stel, it is South Africa’s next oldest settlement after Cape Town. Stellenbosch is known for

Stone Age: Southern Africa: …what is called the pre-Stellenbosch, which is found in the oldest gravels of the Vaal and which includes artifacts made on pebbles that recall both the Kafuan and the Oldowan. The true Stellenbosch complex occurs in the next-younger series of deposits; it is simply a Southern African version of…

Danie Craven: …for him, as was the University of Stellenbosch’s rugby stadium, which hosted matches during the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

sea lion: The northern, or Steller, sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) is a pale- to golden-brown sea lion of the Bering Sea and both sides of the North Pacific Ocean. It is the largest member of the eared seals. Males are about 3.3 metres in length and weigh 1,000…

jay: …by the dark blue, black-crested Steller’s jay (C. stelleri). The gray jay (Perisoreus canadensis) inhabits the northern reaches of the United States and most of Canada.

sea cow, (Hydrodamalis gigas), very large aquatic mammal, now extinct, that once inhabited nearshore areas of the Komandor Islands in the Bering Sea. Steller’s sea cows were wiped out by hunters in the 18th century less than 30 years after they were first discovered by Arctic explorers. Today, the

eagle: The largest sea eagle is Steller’s sea eagle (H. pelagicus), of Korea, Japan, and Russia’s Far East (particularly the Kamchatka Peninsula). This bird has a wingspan surpassing 2 metres (6.6 feet) and can weigh up to 9 kg (20 pounds). The only sea eagle of North America is the bald…

Georg W. Steller was a German-born zoologist and botanist who served as a naturalist aboard the ship St. Peter during the years 1741–42, as part of the Great Northern Expedition, which aimed to map a northern sea route from Russia to North America. During that expedition, while stranded on what is

Georg W. Steller was a German-born zoologist and botanist who served as a naturalist aboard the ship St. Peter during the years 1741–42, as part of the Great Northern Expedition, which aimed to map a northern sea route from Russia to North America. During that expedition, while stranded on what is

echinoderm: Annotated classification: Class Stelleroidea Features as subphylum above. †Class Somasteroidea Lower Ordovician to Upper Devonian about 350,000,000 years ago. Superficially like Asteroidea, without a groove for tube feet. Class Asteroidea(starfishes or sea stars)

Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny: Maturity and disillusionment.: In Stello (1832) Vigny put together a series of consultations, or dialogues, between two symbolic figures: Doctor Noir (the Black Doctor), who represents Vigny’s own intellect; and Stello, who represents the poet’s desire for an active part in the public arena. In seeking to preserve Stello…