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10 Downing Street ... 9to5, National Association of Working Women

10 Downing Street address in London of the official office and residence of the prime minister of the United Kingdom and, by extension, the name of the building itself. It has been associated with the prime minister since that office came into being in the 18th century, and it has served as the ... 1000 Genomes Project an international collaboration in which researchers aimed to sequence the genomes of a large number of people from different ethnic groups worldwide with the intent of creating a catalog of genetic variations occurring with a frequency of at least 1 percent across all human populations. A major goal of the ... 1054, Schism of event that precipitated the final separation between the Eastern Christian churches (led by the patriarch of Constantinople, Michael Cerularius) and the Western Church (led by Pope Leo IX). The mutual excommunications by the Pope and the Patriarch that year became a watershed in church history. The excommunications were not lifted ... 12 Angry Men American courtroom film drama, released in 1957, considered a classic of the genre. It marked the feature-film directorial debut of Sidney Lumet. 12-tone music large body of music, written roughly since World War I, that uses the so-called 12-tone method or technique of composition. The Austrian-born composer Arnold Schoenberg is credited with the invention of this technique, although other composers (e.g., the American composer Charles Ives and the Austrian Josef Hauer) anticipated Schoenberg's invention ... 120 Days of Sodom a sexually explicit account of several months of debauchery, written in 1785 in French as Cent vingt journees de Sodome, ou l'ecole du libertinage by the Marquis de Sade while he was imprisoned in the Bastille. It was not published until 1904. 16th Street Baptist Church bombing terrorist attack in Birmingham, Ala., on Sept. 15, 1963, on the predominantly African American 16th Street Baptist Church by local members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Resulting in 14 injuries and the death of four girls, the attack garnered widespread national outrage. 1763, Proclamation of proclamation declared by the British crown at the end of the French and Indian War in North America, mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. In the centuries since the proclamation, it has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law ... 1789 Judiciary Act act establishing the organization of the U.S. federal court system, which had been sketched only in general terms in the U.S. Constitution. The act established a three-part judiciary-made up of district courts, circuit courts, and the Supreme Court-and outlined the structure and jurisdiction of each branch. 1801, Concordat of agreement reached on July 15, 1801, between Napoleon Bonaparte and papal and clerical representatives in both Rome and Paris, defining the status of the Roman Catholic Church in France and ending the breach caused by the church reforms and confiscations enacted during the French Revolution. The Concordat was formally promulgated ... 1812, War of (June 18, 1812-Feb. 17, 1815), conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights. It ended with the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty of Ghent. 1830, Revolutions of rebellions against conservative kings and governments by liberals and revolutionaries in different parts of Europe in 1830-32. 1848, Revolutions of series of republican revolts against European monarchies, beginning in Sicily, and spreading to France, Germany, Italy, and the Austrian Empire. They all ended in failure and repression, and were followed by widespread disillusionment among liberals. 1850, Compromise of series of compromise measures passed by the U.S. Congress in an effort to settle several outstanding slavery issues and to avert the threat of dissolution of the Union. The crisis arose from the request of the territory of California (Dec. 3, 1849) to be admitted to the Union with a ... 1945--A Watershed Year: Year in Review 1996 The year 1995 has been called "the 50th anniversary of almost everything," and the hyperbole is arguably slight. The only world many of us have known came into existence in the period from 1945 to 1947. Although that world may have come to its end with the breakup of the ... 1983 Beirut barracks bombings terrorist bombing attacks against U.S. and French armed forces in Beirut on Oct. 23, 1983 that claimed 299 lives. The attacks, which took place amid the sectarian conflict of the extremely damaging Lebanese civil war (1975-90), hastened the removal of the international peacekeeping force from Lebanon in February 1984. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea American dramatic film, released in 1954, that was the acclaimed adaptation of Jules Verne's classic nautical adventure of the same name. 2001 Mars Odyssey U.S. spacecraft that studied Mars from orbit and served as a communication relay for the Mars Exploration Rovers and Phoenix. The 2001 Mars Odyssey was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on April 7, 2001, and was named after the science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). 2001: A Space Odyssey American science-fiction film, released in 1968, that set the benchmark for all subsequent movies in the genre and consistently ranks among the top 10 movies ever made, especially known for its groundbreaking special effects and unconventional narrative. The complex and thought-provoking film was directed by Stanley Kubrick and cowritten by ... 2008 World Series Welcome to Britannica's special coverage of the 2008 World Series. Often referred to as the "Fall Classic," the World Series is one of the most popular and historic sporting events in the United States and has been contested annually between the champions of the American League (AL) and the National ... 2009 World Series Welcome to Britannica's coverage of Major League Baseball's World Series. For last year's feature, see our 2008 World Series article. 21-centimetre radiation electromagnetic radiation of radio wavelength emitted by cold, neutral, interstellar hydrogen atoms. The hydrogen atom is composed of a positively charged particle, the proton, and a negatively charged particle, the electron. These particles have some intrinsic angular momentum called spin. (However, this spin is not an actual physical rotation; it ... 24 American prime-time television action-suspense series that aired on the Fox Network in 2001-10 and was syndicated globally. The show was one of Fox's most successful programs in the 21st century, garnering dozens of Emmy Award nominations and winning the award for outstanding drama series in 2006. 26th of July Movement revolutionary movement led by Fidel Castro that overthrew the regime of Fulgencio Batista in Cuba (1959). Its name commemorates an attack on the Santiago de Cuba army barracks on July 26, 1953. The movement began formally in 1955 when Castro went to Mexico to form a disciplined guerrilla force. The ... 3-D motion-picture process that gives a three-dimensional quality to film images. It is based on the fact that humans perceive depth by viewing with both eyes. In the 3-D process, two cameras or a twin-lensed camera are used for filming, one representing the left eye and the other the right. The ... 30 Doradus (catalog number NGC 2070) immense ionized-hydrogen region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way system (in which the Earth is located). The nebula consists of a cloud of interstellar gas-principally hydrogen-lit from within by young, hot stars that ionize the gas around them. As the ... 38th parallel popular name given to latitude 38 N that in East Asia roughly demarcates North Korea and South Korea. The line was chosen by U.S. military planners at the Potsdam Conference (July 1945) near the end of World War II as an army boundary, north of which the U.S.S.R. was to ... 3D printing in manufacturing, any of several processes for fabricating three-dimensional objects by layering two-dimensional cross sections sequentially, one on top of another. The process is analogous to the fusing of ink or toner onto paper in a printer (hence the term printing) but is actually the solidifying or binding of a ... 4-H Club one of an organization of clubs for youth aged 10 to 21 who engage in programs of "learning by doing." The clubs are found principally in the United States and Canada, though some 80 other nations have adopted the idea. The 4-H Club emblem is the four-leaf clover with the ... 400 Blows, The French film drama, released in 1959, that defined the New Wave cinema movement created by young French directors in the late 1950s and '60s. It was the first film in Francois Truffaut's acclaimed Antoine Doinel series, which followed a character widely considered to be the director's alter ego. 401(k) in the United States, a retirement savings program organized by employers but funded primarily by workers through paycheck deductions. Because employees generally do not make withdrawals from the fund until after they have retired, the 401(k) is considered a deferred compensation plan. As a result, the worker is not taxed ... 42nd Street American musical film, released in 1933, that featured innovative production numbers choreographed by Busby Berkeley. It was named for the Manhattan street that hosts many Broadway theatres. An instant and enduring classic, 42nd Street transformed the musical genre. 51 Pegasi fifth-magnitude star located 48 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pegasus, the first sunlike star confirmed to possess a planet. 51 Pegasi, which has physical properties (luminosity and temperature, for example) very similar to those of the Sun, became the focus of attention in 1995 when astronomers announced the ... 60 Minutes prime-time American television news show. Since its debut in 1968 on the Columbia Broadcast System (now CBS Corporation), the show has become one of the most successful programs in broadcast history. 61 Cygni first star whose distance from Earth was measured. German astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel obtained a value of 10.3 light-years in 1838; the European Space Agency satellite Hipparcos made much more accurate distance measurements than ground-based telescopes had accomplished and obtained a distance to 61 Cygni of 11.4 light-years. The star ... 77 Dream Songs volume of verse by American poet John Berryman, published in 1964. It was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1965 and was later published together with its sequel, His Toy, His Dream, His Rest (1968), as The Dream Songs (1969). The entire sequence of 385 verses, consisting of three six-line stanzas ... 9to5, National Association of Working Women organization established in 1973 and dedicated to improving the working conditions and ensuring the rights of women office workers in the United States.