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Mia Farrow

(Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow)actressBorn: 2/9/1945Birthplace: Los Angeles Actress whose intelligent and sensitively shaped roles have more often been overshadowed by her relationships with…

Allen, Woody

(Encyclopedia) Allen, Woody, 1935–, American actor, writer, and director, one of contemporary America's leading filmmakers, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., as Allen Stewart Konigsberg. Allen began his career…

Samuel FARROW, Congress, SC (1759-1824)

FARROW, Samuel, a Representative from South Carolina; born in Virginia in 1759; moved to South Carolina with his father’s family, who settled in Spartanburg District in 1765; served in the…

Daniel John RONAN, Congress, IL (1914-1969)

RONAN, Daniel John, a Representative from Illinois; born in Chicago, Ill., July 13, 1914; attended parochial schools; graduated from St. Ignatius High School in 1933, from Loyola University,…

I Love You Like Crazy Cakes

Distributor:Weston Woods Mia Farrow narrates a moving iconographic presentation of a picture book based on author Rose Lewis’ experience adopting a baby girl from China.

Transcendental Meditation

(Encyclopedia) Transcendental Meditation, service mark for a meditation technique and program founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and based on Vedic philosophy. Stressing natural meditation and the…

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Halley, Edmond

(Encyclopedia) Halley, EdmondHalley, Edmondhălˈē, hôˈlē [key], 1656–1742, English astronomer and mathematician. He is particularly noted as the first astronomer to predict the return of a comet and…