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ZaSu Pitts

actressBorn: 1/3/1894Birthplace: Parsons, Kan. The name “ZaSu”" was created because her two aunts, Eliza and Susan, each wanted the baby named after them. Pitts started working as an extra in…

Why make dollar coins?

The Question: Why does the US keep introducing dollar coins even though nobody seems to use them? The Answer: It does seem pointless at first…

Motley, John Lothrop

(Encyclopedia) Motley, John Lothrop, 1814–77, American historian and diplomat, b. Dorchester, Mass. Author of two novels concerning Thomas Morton (1839 and 1849), as well as a number of articles for…

Weaver, Sigourney

(Encyclopedia) Weaver, Sigourney , 1949- , American actress, b. New York, N.Y., as Susan Alexandra Weaver, Stanford Univ. (B.A., 1972), Yale Univ. (M.…

Narnian History: Outline by C. S. Lewis

so far as it is known courtesy of HarperCollins 1 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 1 Creation of Narnia. The Beasts made able to talk. Digory plants the Tree of Protection. The White Witch…

L. William PAXON, Congress, NY (1954)

PAXON, L. William, (husband of Susan Molinari), a Representative from New York; born in Buffalo, Erie County, N.Y., April 29, 1954; graduated, St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute, Buffalo, N.Y…

Brooke Shields

  actress, model Born: 5/31/1965 Birthplace: New York City   A model and actress who started her career by performing in an Ivory Soap commercial when she was just 11 months old. By her…

Vito John FOSSELLA, Congress, NY (1965)

FOSSELLA, Vito John, (great grandson of James O’Leary), a Representative from New York; born in Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y., March 9, 1965; graduated from Monsignor Farrell High…

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

American reformerBorn: 1815 Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an influential champion of women’s rights for more than half a century. She was introduced to the reform movement by her husband, abolitionist…

neoexpressionism

(Encyclopedia) neoexpressionism, term given to an international art movement, mainly in painting, that began in the 1960s and 1970s, was a dominant mode in the 1980s, and has continued04/98 into the…