(Encyclopedia) Taylor, city (1990 pop. 70,811), Wayne co., SE Mich., a suburb of Detroit adjacent to Dearborn; founded 1847 as a township, inc. as a city 1968. A small rural village until World War…
(Encyclopedia) Margaret I, 1353–1412, queen of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, daughter of Waldemar IV of Denmark. She was married (1363) to King Haakon VI of Norway, son of Magnus VII of Norway and…
(Encyclopedia) Margaret, 1930–2002, British princess, second daughter of King George VI and sister of Queen Elizabeth II, b. Glamis, Scotland. In 1960 she married a commoner, the photographer Antony…
political commentator In 1988 Carlson left her position as managing editor of The New Republic, a liberal political magazine, to become a reporter at Time magazine, eventually being named a White…
TV news reporter A graduate of Yale University, Warner was a reporter for The Concord (New Hampshire) Monitor, The San Diego Union, and The Wall Street Journal. In 1983 she transferred to Newsweek…
actress, comedianBorn: 12/5/1968Birthplace: San Francisco Cho, the daughter of Korean immigrants, grew up in San Francisco's Haight district in the 1970s. Needless to say, her childhood was…
(Encyclopedia) Smith, Dame Maggie (Dame Margaret Natalie Cross), 1934–, English actress. Smith first appeared on stage in Twelfth Night (1952). With her precise, sometimes rapid-fire, articulation…
An illustrated guide to the first ladies of the United States
Please note: Martha Jefferson, Rachel Jackson, Hannah Hoes Van Buren, and Ellen Arthur all died before their husbands became president…
actressBorn: 5/11/1892Birthplace: London, England Rutherford's film career began in her middle years, and she soon built a reputation for playing the brainy spinster and the dotty British eccentric…
photographerBorn: 1815 Julia Margaret Cameron dressed her family, friends, and visitors in interesting costumes and photographed them in dramatic scenes. Some of her imaginative, romantically lit…
