Index
Acosta, Carlos, 100
Adams, Ansel, 44
Alexander the Great, 9, 145, 177
American Civil War, 138
American Institute of Architects’ awards, 14
Analytical engine, 236
Animals, most numerous, 251
Animals/relatives, 229
Aquinas, St. Thomas, 132, 178
Architectural preservation, 54
Aristotle, 145, 176, 177
ARPANET, 248
Art and architecture checklists, 1–58
artist’s works and, 2
Art Nouveau architecture and, 48
Ashcan artists and, 40
Christian iconography and, 14
churches and, 15
civic buildings and, 32
early American works and, 30
Egyptian art and, 9
examples of human art and, 3
Expressionism and, 42
famous twentieth century buildings and, 51
Federal-style architecture and, 10
Frank Capra films and, 26
glass house and, 35
grand hotels and, 6
The Great Train Robbery and, 23
Greek art and, 5, 10
Greek influences and, 9
Hudson River School and, 32
John Ford and, 12
landscape painters and, 34
mannerism and, 26
Moscow architecture and, 27
museums and, 2, 48
nineteenth century American paintings and, 52
Ohio architecture and, 41
organic architecture and, 17
photography and, 38, 44
post-impressionist artists and, 49
postmodern buildings and, 16
postmodernism and, 19
prize winning buildings and, 4
Realism and, 36, 46
Renaissance buildings and, 13
Roman antiquities and, 13
styles and, 8
Thomas Jefferson and, 12
Top Green projects and, 45
world’s tallest buildings and, 28. See also motion pictures
Art Nouveau, 54
Art Nouveau architecture, 48
Art-oriented magazines, 56
Ashcan School, 40
Atlanta buildings, 38
Audubon, John James, 28
Babbage, Charles, 235–36
Babylonians, 226
Bacon, Sir Francis, 133
Ballet
books on, 107
celebrities and, 102
changes in, 104, 112
companies, 108, 113
dancers, 100
Duncan and, 109–10
early forms of, 103
historical facts of, 102, 104
modern dance and, 111, 112
modern dance innovators and, 110
names of, 99, 106
Russian influence on, 105
schools, 98
terms, 101
training methods of, 106
venues, 100
Baltimore buildings, 43
Bardeen, John, 234
Beauvoir, Simone de, 173
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 98
Boston, 25
Bryant, William Cullen, 75
Bulfinch, Charles, 11
Burke, Edmund, 180
Capra, Frank, 26
Catastrophism, 230
Catlin, George, 28
Cave art, 3
Chicago buildings, 39
Chopin, FrÉdÉric, 96
Christian iconography, 14
Christianity, 178
Christian thought/theology, 132
Civilization, 218
Clay, Henry, 140
Codebreaking, 240
Cojocaru, Alina, 100
Cold War, 158–61
Colossus (programmable digital electronic computer), 240
Communism, 160
The Communist Manifesto (Marx), 169
Computers, history of, 235–37, 241–42
Comte, Auguste, 169
Confucius/Confucianism, 156–58
Coolidge, Calvin, 198–99
Copley, John Singleton, 30
Coppola, Francis Ford, 33
Counting boards, 215
Counting systems, 232
Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), 165
Cunningham, Merce, 112
Dante’s Inferno, 65
Darwin, Charles, 220–25
da Vinci, Leonardo, 21
De Moura, Eduado Souto, 4
Descartes, RenÉ, 162
The Descent of Man (Darwin), 224
Dickinson, Emily, 78
Dictionaries, 71–74
A Dictionary of the English Language (Samuel Johnson), 71
Digital computing, 237
Donatello, 20
Dowel, Anthony, 100
Duncan, Isadora, 109, 110
Eakins, Thomas, 36
Early humans, 216–17
Edison, Thomas, 6, 7
Egyptian art, 9
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 209–10
Electromagnetic spectrums, 248
Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), 241
Elements (Euclid), 226
Eliot, T. S., 79
El Nino/La Nina, 250
Empiricism, 133
The Enlightenment, 164–65
Euclid, 226
Eukaryote/prokaryote, 245
Evans, Walker, 44
Evolution, 220, 225
Existentialism, 173
Expressionism, 42
Faulkner, William, 93
Fermat’s Last Theorem, 243
Fichte, Johann, 168
FitzRoy, Robert, 220
Flowers, Thomas, 240
Ford, John, 12
Free Soil Party, 141
French New Wave cinema, 53
Frost, Robert, 78
Gases, noble, 233
Geology, 230
German Enigma codes, 240
Godard, Jean-Luc, 57
Great Depression, 199–200, 202
Greek art, 5, 10
Greeks, 10, 63, 132, 134, 136, 150, 226
Harding, Warren, 200
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 168
History/philosophy checklists, 131–74
absolute idealism and, 168
American Civil War and, 138
American speeches and, 166
Aristotle and, 145
books on World War I, 146–49
books on World War II and, 155
Christian thought/theology and, 132
Civil War books and, 143
Cold War and, 158–61
Communism and, 160
Confucius/Confucianism and, 156–58
consequences of World War II and, 154
early thinkers and, 134
empiricism and, 133
the Enlightenment and, 164–65
existentialism and, 173
Free Soil Party and, 141
Greeks and, 134, 136, 150
Hellenistic period, 150
historical sites and, 134
inventions and, 135
League of Nations and, 148
Middle Ages and, 132
national war memorials and, 166
new thinkers/philosophies and, 169
nineteenth-century irrationalist philosophers and, 170
nineteenth century philosophy and, 167
Plato and, 144
pre-American Civil War events and, 142
Protagoras and, 137
relations between East and West and, 162
Renaissance and, 133, 135
Roman Empire and, 132
Romanticism and, 168
schools of philosophy and, 150
Slavery and, 138–41
Socrates and, 134, 144, 151
Sophists and, 136
stoicism and, 151
theory of logical atomism and, 172
Treaty of Versailles and, 148
twentieth century philosophy, and, 170–71
Union stability and, 142
United States Constitution and, 136, 139
war and, 146
Wilmot Proviso and, 141
Wilson and, 148
World War I and, 146–49
World War II and, 152, 153, 154
Hitchcock, Alfred, 42
Hitler, Adolf, 148, 152
HMS Beagle, 220
Hobbes, Thomas, 163, 179
Hollerith, Herman, 237
Homer (Greek poet), 60, 61, 63
Homer, Winslow, 34
Hoover, Herbert, 200–201
Human art, 3
Huston, John, 40
Idealism, 168
Iliad/Odyssey (Homer), 61, 62
Incas, 238
International Business Machines (IBM), 237
Internet, the, 248
Jaspers, Karl, 173
Jazz, 125
Jefferson, Thomas, 12, 140
Johnson, Philip, 35
Johnson, Samuel, 71
Kant, Immanuel, 165
Kazan, Elia, 42
Kennedy, John F., 211
Kepler, Johannes, 243
Kinetograph, 6
Kinetoscope, 6, 7
Kurosawa, Akira, 57
League of Nations, 148, 152, 197
Lean, David, 46
Leeuwenhoek, Anton van, 228
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 239
Life, earliest forms of, 246
Liszt, Franz, 98
Literature checklists, 59–94
author’s complete works and, 81
Dante’s Inferno and, 65
dictionaries and, 71–74
Greek/Roman gods/goddesses and, 64
Homer (Greek poet) and, 60, 61,
Iliad/Odyssey and, 61, 62
language facts and, 70
literary magazines and, 88
National Book Award winners and, 87–88
nonfiction bestselling books and, 93
personal libraries and, 74
poets and, 76–80
presidential biographies/autobiographies and, 90
prize-winning novels and, 82, 83–86
reading habits and, 86
recommended nonfiction and, 82
Roman literature and, 62
subscriptions and, 88
Locke, John, 180
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 76
Los Angeles buildings, 37
Lovelace, Ada, 236
Lumière brothers, 7
Lyell, Charles, 230–31
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 178
Mannerism, 26
Marx, Karl, 169, 187
Mathematician/contribution, 232
Mathematics development, 214, 226, 243, 244
Matter, states of, 234
Measuring standards, 218
MÉliès, Georges, 8
Michelangelo, 20
Microbes, 228
Mill, John Stuart, 169
mono-cellular animals, 228
Motion pictures
about, 7
beginnings of, 6
commercial opportunities and, 8
Coppola films and, 33
Hitchcock films and, 42
Huston films and, 40
Lean films and, 46
popularity of, 30, 31
Stevens films and, 47
Wilder films and, 50
Wyler films and, 50
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 96
Murray, James, 72
Museums, 2, 10, 48
Music checklists, 95–130
celebrities and, 102
classical forms and, 97
concertos and, 98
dance companies and, 113
dynamics and, 128
funeral marches and, 126
Haydn’s students, 114
instruments and, 96
jazz albums and, 125
modern dance and, 110, 111, 112
Mozart and, 119
musical textures and, 128
Romanticism, 104
Russian influence and, 121
sonatas and, 96
symphonies and, 129
symphony orchestras/conductors and, 126
twentieth-century works and, 127
Voyager spacecraft and, 114. See also Ballet; Opera
Mussolini, Benito, 152
Natural oddities, 251
Neanderthals, 217
Neolithic Revolution, 218
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Murray), 72
New Orleans, 24
Newton, Sir Isaac, 238–39
New Wave school, 57
New York City, 24
Nishizawa, Ryue, 4
Nouvel, Jean, 4
Numbers, 215
Ohio architecture, 41
O’Keeffe, Georgia, 55
Opera
arias, 115
comic, 124
era composed in, 116
fanatics, 122, 123
historical facts of, 118
houses, 116
Mozart and, 119
Pulitzer Prize-winning and, 124
Russian influence on, 121
singers, 122
terms, 117
Verdi and, 120
Wagner and, 120
Organic architecture, 17
On the Origin of Species (Darwin), 220, 222, 223
Osipova, Natalia, 100
Oxford English Dictionary, 72
Peale, Charles Willson, 28
Plato, 144, 177
Poetry/poets, 76–80, 91, 92
Political science, 176, 182, 183
Politics checklists, 175–212
Aristotle and, 176, 177
Burke and, 180
Christianity and, 177
Coolidge and, 198–99
Eisenhower and, 209–10
exercising rights and, 186
Great Depression and, 199–200, 202
Hobbes and, 179
Hoover and, 200–201
Kennedy and, 211
Locke and, 180
Machiavelli and, 178
Marx and, 187
museums/memorials and, 191
Politics checklists—continued
“New Deal” programs and, 203, 206
Plato and, 177
political books and, 189, 190
political magazines and, 187
political science and, 176, 182, 183
presidential nominees and, 184
pro-democracy rebellions/protests and, 189
refinements and, 181
Roman ideas and, 177
Roosevelt, Franklin D. and, 202–06
seats of government power and, 190
Supreme Court decisions and, 188
Truman and, 206–08
unique aspects and, 185
United Nations and, 192–95
Wilson and, 196–97
Porter, Edwin S., 29
Post-impressionist artists, 49
Postmodernism, 19
Post–World War II painters, 55
Pound, Ezra, 79
The Prince (Machiavelli), 178
Principia (Newton), 239
Principles of Geology (Lyell), 231
Prokofiev, Sergei, 106
Protagoras, 137
Pythagoras, 219
Raphael, 22
Realism, 36, 46
Renaissance, 13, 18, 21, 22, 26, 69, 133, 135
Rogers, Richard, 4
Roman
antiquities, 13
Empire, 132
ideas, 177
literature, 62
Romanticism, 168
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 202–06
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 164–65
Russell, Bertrand, 172
Russian influence, 105, 121
San Francisco buildings, 37
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 173
Schubert, Franz, 98
Scientific classification system, 227
Scientist’s contributions, 214
Sejima, Kazuyo, 4
Shakespeare, William, 66–69
Slavery, 138–41
Smith, Adam, 181
Socrates, 134, 144, 151
Sophists, 136
Stevens, George, 47
Stieglitz, Alfred, 38
Stoicism, 151
Stravinsky, Igor, 98
Stuart, Gilbert, 30
Tabulating Machine Company, 237
Tartini, Guiseppi, 96
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 181
Transistors, 234, 242
Treaty of Versailles, 148
Truffaut, François, 53
Truman, Harry S., 206–08
Trumbull, John, 30
Turing, Alan, 240
Turner, Nat, 140
Two Treatises of Government (Locke), 180
Uniformitarianism, 230
United Nations, 192–95
United States Constitution, 136, 139
Universe, knowledge of, 216
Vasiliev, Ivan, 100
Verdi, 120
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (Darwin), 222
Virgil, 62
Volcanic islands, 246
Volcanoes, 247
Wagner, Richard, 120
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 222
Wavelengths, types of, 249
Weather patterns, 250
West, Benjamin, 30
Whitman, Walt, 76–77
Wilder, Billy, 50
Williams, William Carlos, 80
Wilson, Woodrow, 148, 196–97
World War I, 146–49
World War II, 152, 153, 154
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 5, 17
Wyler, William, 50
Zeuxis, 5
Zinnemann, Fred, 52
Zumthor, Peter, 4
Zuse, Konrad, 237