authorDied: February 8, 2008Best Known as: author of best-selling romantic mystery, young-adult, and children's mystery novels Deathplace: Faber, Virginia…
actorBorn: 11/6/1970Birthplace: Austin, Texas Young actor best known for portraying the quintessential slacker opposite Winona Ryder in Reality Bites (1994) and the sensitive young student in Dead…
(Encyclopedia) Fairfax, Edward, 1580?–1635, English translator. His excellent translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme liberta was published in 1600 under the title Godfrey of Buloigne. He also wrote a…
(Encyclopedia) Stewart, Jackie (John Young Stewart), 1939–, Scottish automobile race driver. He began racing in 1961 and by 1973 had won 27 world championship Grand Prix victories. A dominant force…
FLAKE, Jeff, a Representative from Arizona; born in Snowflake, Navajo County, Ariz., December 31, 1962; graduated from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 1986; M.A. Brigham Young…
actorBorn: 5/16/1905Birthplace: Grand Island, Nebraska Academy and Tony Award-winning film and stage actor who as a young man portrayed honest, hardworking men, and as an adult often played…
Biographies of U.S. representatives and senators from Delaware Member Name Birth-Death ADAMS, Wilbur Louis 1884-1937 ALLEE, James Frank 1857-1938 ALLEN…
(Encyclopedia) Sedley, Sir Charles, 1639?–1701, English dramatist and poet, b. London. Famous for his wit, he was a member of the intimate circle of young rakes at the court of Charles II. He wrote…
(Encyclopedia) Pinkie, battlefield, E of Edinburgh, Scotland. There the English under Edward Seymour, duke of Somerset, defeated a larger Scottish force on Sept. 10, 1547. Somerset's invasion of…
