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Aldridge-Brownhills

(Encyclopedia) Aldridge-Brownhills Aldridge-Brownhills ôlˈdrĭj-brounˈhĭlz [key], town, Walsall metropolitan district, central England. It was created in 1966 through the…

Ira Frederick Aldridge

19th-century American actor Born: July 24, 1804 Birthplace: New York, N.Y. Aldridge was born to free blacks in New York City, and educated at the New York African Free School, where he developed…

Grainger, Percy Aldridge

(Encyclopedia) Grainger, Percy AldridgeGrainger, Percy Aldridgegrānˈjər [key], 1882–1961, Australian-American pianist and composer. A friend of Grieg, whose music he often played, he settled (1914)…

lily

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Wood lily, Lilium philadelphicum lily, common name for the Liliaceae, a plant family numbering several thousand species of as many as 300 genera, widely distributed over the…

day lily

(Encyclopedia) day lily: see lily.