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Gates McFadden

(Jesse Stuart Gates, Cheryl McFadden, Cheryl Gates McFadden)actress, dancer, choreographerBorn: 3/2/1949Birthplace: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Gates McFadden is most readily identified through her…

Famous Shakespearean Actors

From John Barrymore to Emma Thompson   Sir Lawrence Olivier as Hamlet Related Links Shakespeare on Film Royal Shakespeare Company Quiz: Shakespeare's Life…

Gage, Thomas, English traveler

(Encyclopedia) Gage, Thomas, d. 1656, English traveler. He went (1612) to Spain to study and became a Dominican. He lived and traveled among the Native populations of Central America from 1625 to…

South Platte

(Encyclopedia) South PlatteSouth Platteplăt [key], river, c.450 mi (720 km) long, rising in the Rocky Mts. in many branches, which then join in central Colorado. It flows in a narrow canyon E and NE…

Huckabee, Mike

(Encyclopedia) Huckabee, Mike (Michael Dale Huckabee), 1955–, American politican and Baptist minister, b. Hope, Ark. He attended Ouachita Baptist Univ. (B.A., 1975) and Southwestern Baptist…

Carthage, city, United States

(Encyclopedia) Carthage. <1> City (2020 pop. 15,522), seat of Jasper co., SW Mo., on the Spring River; inc. 1873. Its gray marble quarries are…

Coues, Elliott

(Encyclopedia) Coues, ElliottCoues, Elliottkouz [key], 1842–99, American ornithologist, b. Portsmouth, N.H., grad. Columbian College, later Columbian Univ. and now George Washington Univ. (B.A., 1861…

Fort Collins

(Encyclopedia) Fort Collins, city (2020 pop. 169,810), seat of Larimer co., N Colo., on the Cache la Poudre River, at the foot of the Rocky Mts., inc.…