(Encyclopedia) Waller, Edmund, 1606–87, English poet. He studied at Eton and Cambridge and became a prominent speaker in Parliament at a young age. He married twice (1631 and 1644), but his early…
(Encyclopedia) Adams, Franklin Pierce, pseud. F. P. A., 1881–1960, American columnist and author, b. Chicago. He began (1903) work as a columnist on the Chicago Journal and continued it on the New…
(Kathryn Murray)writer, political activist, artistBorn: 9/14/1934Birthplace: St. Paul, Minnesota Kate Millet's Columbia University Ph.D. dissertation, Sexual Politics (1970), placed her at the…
actressBorn: 11/22/1961Birthplace: Mill Valley, California Competent actress, granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway and younger sister of actress/model Margaux Hemingway, Mariel was almost destined to…
Born: 6/12/1924Birthplace: Milton, Mass. George Herbert Walker Bush was born June 12, 1924, in Milton, Mass., to Prescott and Dorothy Bush. The family later moved to Connecticut. The youth studied…
actress, singerBorn: 6/10/1922Birthplace: Grand Rapids, Minnesota Academy and Grammy Award-winning actress and singer remembered for her role as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (1939). Her other…
First LadyBorn: 6/8/1925Birthplace: Rye, New York After growing up in Rye, New York, Barbara Pierce attended the Ashley Hall school in South Carolina. It was at a school dance that she met George…
