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Nathan BRYAN, Congress, NC (1748-1798)

BRYAN, Nathan, a Representative from North Carolina; born in Craven (now Jones) County, N.C., in 1748; member of the house of commons of North Carolina in 1787 and 1791-1794; elected as a…

Lynn Redgrave

actressBorn: 3/8/1943Birthplace: London, England Already a veteran of television and the stage, Redgrave made her first film appearance in Tom Jones (1963) and received an Oscar nomination for her…

James Crawford FREEMAN, Congress, GA (1820-1885)

FREEMAN, James Crawford, a Representative from Georgia; born in Clinton (later Gray), Jones County, Ga., April 1, 1820; attended the common schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits; moved to…

Biographies of Famous African Americans

  Aaliyah–Ewing | Farmer–Innis | Jackson–Ludacris | Mac–Puckett | Rabb–Swoopes | Tanner–Van Der Zee Browse by category Government Officials Civil…

Henson, Jim

(Encyclopedia) Henson, Jim (James Maury Henson), 1936–90, American puppeteer, creator of the Muppets, b. Greenville, Miss., grad. Univ. of Maryland (A.B., 1960). In 1954 he got his first job as a…

Newport News

(Encyclopedia) Newport News, independent city (1990 pop. 170,045), SE Va., on the Virginia peninsula, at the mouth of the James River, off Hampton Roads, near Norfolk; inc. 1896. It is a port for…

Parsons, Lucy

(Encyclopedia) Parsons, Lucy, 1851–1942, American anarchist and labor activist. Although she claimed publicly to have been born of Mexican and Native American descent as Lucia Gonzalez, she was…

Ripon, Frederick John Robinson, 1st earl of

(Encyclopedia) Ripon, Frederick John Robinson, 1st earl ofRipon, Frederick John Robinson, 1st earl ofrĭpˈən [key], 1782–1859, British statesman, better known as Viscount Goderich. Entering Parliament…

Bazille, Frédéric

(Encyclopedia) Bazille, Frédéric, 1841–70, early French impressionist painter. He abandoned medical school to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, where he met and became friends with Monet,…