(Encyclopedia) GueuxGueuxgö [key] [Fr.,=beggars], 16th-century Dutch revolutionary party. In 1566 more than 2,000 Dutch and Flemish nobles and burghers (both Protestants and Roman Catholics) signed a…
(Encyclopedia) Medici, Alessandro de'Medici, Alessandro de'älĕs-sänˈdrō dā [key]Medici, Alessandro de' mĕˈdĭchē, Ital. māˈdēchē [key], 1510?–37, duke of Florence (1532–37); probably an illegitimate…
(Judy Sussman)writerBorn: 2/12/1938Birthplace: Elizabeth, New Jersey Blume began writing stories for her own children, but quickly became the definitive author of books on the many adventures and…
activistBorn: 7/8/1943Birthplace: St. Louis, Mo. Wattleton was only the second woman to serve as president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America since Margaret Sanger founded the…
actressBorn: 6/19/1928Birthplace: Buffalo, New York versatile character actress who most recently portrayed feisty matriarch Livia Soprano on HBO's Sopranos. Theatrically trained, Marchand started…
(Margaret Tilly)actressBorn: 2/14/1960Birthplace: Texada Island, British Columbia Tilly first trained as a dancer and made a brief appearance as such in the film Fame (1980). She rose to fame…
(Margaret Kidder)actressBorn: 10/17/1948Birthplace: Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada Margot Kidder made her film debut in Gaily, Gaily (1969) and starred in various 1970s cult films…
(Margaret Jane Pauley)TV journalistBorn: 10/31/1950Birthplace: Indianapolis, Indiana Most recently Pauley has served as co-anchor of Dateline NBC, anchor of Time and Again on MSNBC Cable, and…
(Encyclopedia) Pearson, John, 1613–86, English prelate and scholar. He was a royalist chaplain (1645) in the civil war, but during Cromwell's regime he lived quietly in London. His Exposition of the…
