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1 day ago · This is a list of minor-planet discoverers credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of one or several minor planets (such as near-Earth and main-belt asteroids, Jupiter trojans and distant objects).
14 hours ago · Isle of Wight West. Isle of Wight ( / waɪt / WYTE) [1] was a constituency [n 1] that was last represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 2017 until 2024 by Bob Seely, a Conservative . Created by the Great Reform Act for the 1832 general election, it covered the whole of the Isle of Wight. It had the largest electorate of any ...
2 days ago · Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. [1] In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 feature films, [a] many of which are still widely watched and studied today.
2 days ago · Also known as: Charles Philip Arthur George, prince of Wales and earl of Chester, duke of Cornwall, duke of Rothesay, earl of Carrick and Baron Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland. Written and fact-checked by. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
4 days ago · Arthur Laurents (B.A. 1937 English) – playwright, screenwriter, director, author, credits include West Side Story, Rope, and Gypsy Leonard "Lenny" Lipton – author, filmmaker, and stereoscopic vision system inventor; founder of StereoGraphics
4 days ago · The name Arthur’s Seat, in a variety of forms, continued in use during the 16th century. A several theories exist for the enduring use of this name. These include the site’s emblematic value to Edinburgh as the seat of the Scottish Court and then of James VI & I’s royal power as ruler of Britain, harking back as it does to an ancient legendary ruler of Britain.
5 days ago · Sir Arthur Evans (born July 8, 1851, Nash Mills, Hertfordshire, England—died July 11, 1941, Youlbury, near Oxford, Oxfordshire) was a British archaeologist who excavated the ruins of the ancient city of Knossos in Crete and uncovered evidence of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization, which he named Minoan.
