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Edinburgh

(Encyclopedia) Edinburgh Edinburgh ĕdˈĭnbərə [key], city (2021 pop. 542,599) and council area, royal burgh, capital of…

Duke Ellington

Distributor:Weston Woods Studios, Inc. Duke Ellington's biography and legacy as “King of the Keys” is brought to life in the swing and sway of an edited soundtrack that features some of the…

The Star-Spangled Banner

—Francis Scott Key, 1814O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,O'er…

Budd Boetticher

Oscar Boetticher Jr.film directorBorn: 7/29/1916Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois director who helmed several low-budget but highly regarded Westerns in the 1950s and '60s. Randolph Scott starred in…

Moon walkers

The Question: How many people have walked on the Moon? The Answer: Twelve astronauts have walked on the Moon, the last in 1972. Here…

Danbury

(Encyclopedia) Danbury Danbury dănˈbĕrˌē, –bərē [key], city (2020 pop. 86,518),…

Georgetown, cities, United States

(Encyclopedia) Georgetown. 1 Town (2020 pop. 37,086), Scott co., N central Ky., in the bluegrass country; settled 1776, inc. 1790. In a rich…

Parks, Gordon

(Encyclopedia) Parks, Gordon (Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks), 1912–2006, African-American photographer, filmmaker, writer, and composer, b. Fort Scott, Kans. Parks purchased his first camera…

Bowman, Scotty

(Encyclopedia) Bowman, Scotty (William Scott Bowman), 1933–, Canadian hockey coach. A serious head injury in junior hockey led him to turn to coaching, and in 1967 he moved to the National Hockey…