actorBorn: 2/21/1955Birthplace: St. Thomas, Virgin Islands Emmy Award-winning actor who played the highbrow, intellectual psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane on Cheers (1984–93) and now plays the same…
(Encyclopedia) March, Fredric, 1897–1975, American actor, b. Racine, Wis., as Frederick McIntyre Bickel. Equally distinguished on stage and screen, he won Academy Awards for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (…
(Encyclopedia) Eve, in genetics, popular term for a theoretical female ancestor of all living people, also known as Mitochondrial Eve. In 1987 biochemist Allan C. Wilson proposed that all living…
(Encyclopedia) anti–Vietnam War movement, domestic and international reaction (1965–73) in opposition to U.S. policy during the Vietnam War. During the four years following passage of the Tonkin Gulf…
(Encyclopedia) Goebbels, Joseph (Paul Joseph Goebbels)Goebbels, Josephpoul yōˈzĕf göbˈəls [key], 1897–1945, German National Socialist propagandist. He was kept out of the service in World War I by a…
(Encyclopedia) Ohio Company of Associates, organization for the purchase and settlement of lands on the Ohio River, founded at Boston in 1786. Its organizers were a group of New England men, most of…
(Encyclopedia) Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 1723–92, English portrait painter, b. Devonshire. Long considered historically the most important of England's painters, by his learned example he raised the…
The Question: Who invented the ambulance vehicle? The Answer: Vehicles used to transport soldiers injured during battle date back to 11th century Europe. But…
actor, directorBorn: 8/19/1956Birthplace: New York City A television and movie actor who appeared in and directed episodes of the hit television series Northern Exposure (1990–95). He starred in…
