…(fl. circa 13th century bc), the Israelite leader who succeeded Moses and led his people into the Promised Land…
…a yucca which grows as a tree and has clusters of spiky leaves, native to arid regions of south-western North America…
…(1908–88), US director and playwright; full name Joshua Lockwood Logan III. He directed Broadway shows, including Annie Get Your Gun (1946), Mister Roberts (1948), South Pacific (1949) and Fanny (1954), as well as motion pictures, including Picnic (1955), Bus Stop (1956), South Pacific (1958), and Camelot (1967). He wrote or cowrote several of these and other titles, and in 1950 shared the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with his South Pacific cowriters Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II…
…(1917–99), Zimbabwean statesman; full name Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo. He became leader of the ZAPU party in 1961; in 1976 he formed the Patriotic Front with Robert Mugabe, leader of ZANU, and he held a cabinet post in the first post-independence government. He was Vice President 1990-9…
…(1723–92), English painter. The first president of the Royal Academy (1768), he sought to raise portraiture to the status of historical painting by adapting poses and settings from classical statues and Renaissance paintings…
…a national preserve in southern California, noted for its desert plant and animal life…
…(b.1930), American composer and lyricist; full name Stephen Joshua Sondheim. He became famous with his lyrics for Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story (1957). He has since written a number of musicals, including A Little Night Music (1973) and Sweeney Todd (1979)…
…(1908–88), US director and playwright; full name Joshua Lockwood Logan III. He directed Broadway shows, including Annie Get Your Gun (1946), Mister Roberts (1948), South Pacific (1949) and Fanny (1954), as well as motion pictures, including Picnic (1955), Bus Stop (1956), South Pacific (1958), and Camelot (1967). He wrote or cowrote several of these and other titles, and in 1950 shared the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with his South Pacific cowriters Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II…
…(1917–99), Zimbabwean statesman; full name Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo. He became leader of the ZAPU party in 1961; in 1976 he formed the Patriotic Front with Robert Mugabe, leader of ZANU, and he held a cabinet post in the first post-independence government. He was Vice President 1990-9…
