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Cedella Booker Biography

writer and singerDied: April 8, 2008Best Known as: mother of reggae musician Bob Marley Deathplace: Miami, Florida Cedella Booker was best known as the mother of…

Booker Prize

(Encyclopedia) Booker Prize, an award of £50,000 (originally £5,000) for the best novel of the year published in English in Great Britain; prior to 2014, it was only given to a British, Irish, or…

Cory, William Johnson

(Encyclopedia) Cory, William Johnson, 1823–92, English poet and classicist. He was assistant master at Eton from 1845 to 1872. His verse, of which Ionica (1858) is the best known, consists primarily…

Booth, Evangeline Cory

(Encyclopedia) Booth, Evangeline Cory, 1865–1950, general of the Salvation Army, b. England; daughter of William Booth. At the age of 17, she began evangelistic preaching. She was field commissioner…

Cory GARDNER, Congress, CO (1974)

GARDNER, Cory, a Representative from Colorado; born in Yuma, Yuma County, Colorado, on August 22, 1974; B.A., Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo., 1997; J.D., University of Colorado,…

Man Booker Prize

(Encyclopedia) Man Booker Prize and Man Booker International Prize: see Booker Prize.

Washington, Booker Taliaferro

(Encyclopedia) Washington, Booker Taliaferro, 1856–1915, American educator, b. Franklin co., Va. Washington was born into slavery; his mother was a mulatto slave on a plantation, his father a white…

Booker, Corey Anthony

(Encyclopedia) Booker, Corey Anthony, 1969- , African American politician, b. Washington, D.C., Stanford University (B.A., 1991; M.A., 1992),…