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Audion
Elementary radio tube developed by L. De Forest (patented 1907). It was the first triode vacuum tube, incorporating a control grid as well as a cathode and an anode. It was capable of more sensitive reception of wireless signals than were the electrolytic and Carborundum detectors then in use. The Audion made possible live radio broadcasting and became the key component of all radio, telephone, radar, television, and computer systems before the invention of the transistor.


Fujian
Province (pop., 1996 est.: 32,370,000), SE China. Located on the SE coast, it is bounded by Zhejiang, the E. China Sea, Taiwan Strait, Guangdong, and Jiangxi; its capital is Fuzhou. The province's boundaries were established during the Song dynasty (1127-1279), when it became an important shipbuilding and commercial center for overseas and coastal trade. It declined when the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) banned maritime commerce. Its coastal cities were occupied by the Japanese in World War II, and it was taken by the Communist regime in 1949. In addition to being an important agricultural region, it is an area of special economic zones established in 1979 to attract foreign investment to China.


Huston
U.S. film director and screenwriter. Born in Nevada, Mo., the son of W. Huston, he was briefly a boxer, Mexican cavalry officer, reporter, and actor before becoming a scriptwriter. His first work as a director, The Maltese Falcon (1941), began an illustrious career studded with film classics: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, Academy Awards for best director and screenplay), Key Largo (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), The Night of the Iguana (1964), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Prizzi's Honor (1985), and The Dead (1987). He wrote screenplays for many of his own films and such others as Jezebel (1938), Juarez (1939), and High Sierra (1941). He continued to act throughout his career, notably in Chinatown (1974). His daughter Anjelica (b.1951) proved herself an accomplished actress in Prizzi's Honor (1985, Academy Award), The Dead (1987), Enemies, A Love Story (1989), and The Grifters (1990), and made her directorial debut with Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) for television.

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