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Mildred Loving Biography

prevailed in Supreme Court caseDied: May 2, 2008Best Known as: A Black woman whose marriage to a white man led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling Deathplace: Central Point, Virginia In 1958, Mildred…

Andy Garcia

(Andres Arturo Garcia-Menendez)actorBorn: 4/12/1956Birthplace: Havana, Cuba Cuban-American actor whose smoldering good looks have helped establish him as a favorite Hollywood leading man, usually…

Cliff Robertson

(Clifford Parker Robertson III)actorBorn: 9/9/1925Birthplace: La Jolla, California A polished leading man, Robertson began his career in film and TV in the 1950s. It is said that he was chosen by…

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Madách, Imré

(Encyclopedia) Madách, ImréMadách, Imréĭmˈrĕ mŏˈdäch [key], 1823–64, Hungarian poet and dramatist. Madách is best known for his dramatic epic, The Tragedy of Man (1861, tr. 1908), which relates the…

Savage, Richard

(Encyclopedia) Savage, Richard, 1697?–1743, English poet. The now discredited story of his illegitimate descent from a noble line and of his persecutions, which are set forth in a biography by Samuel…

anagram

(Encyclopedia) anagram [Gr.,=something read backward], rearrangement of the letters of a word or words to make another word or other words. A famous Latin anagram was an answer made out of a question…

Gonda

(Encyclopedia) Gonda Gonda gōnˈdə [key], town, Uttar Pradesh state, N India, on the Sarayu River and the…

Gordon, Charles William

(Encyclopedia) Gordon, Charles William, pseud. Ralph Connor, 1860–1937, Canadian clergyman and novelist. His popular stories were based on his experience as a Presbyterian missionary in the lumber…