lead singer of the Dave Clark FiveDied: February 28, 2008 (London, England) Best Known as: former lead singer of the Dave Clark Five Mike Smith was the lead…
aviatorBorn: 8/17/1911Died: 3/19/2010 ( Palo Alto, Calif.) Best Known as: pioneering female aviator One of the youngest pioneers of aviation, Elinor Smith (born…
former prime ministerDied: Nov. 20, 2007 (South Africa) Best Known as: former prime minister of Rhodesia Former prime minister of Rhodesia, who avowed that white…
Senate Years of Service: 1816-1825Party: Democratic Republican; Adams-Clay RepublicanTAYLOR, Waller, a Senator from Indiana; born in Lunenburg County, Va., before 1786; attended the common…
TAYLOR, William Penn, a Representative from Virginia; born in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Va., birth date unknown; received a limited schooling; held several local offices; elected as…
Here are some facts about women who have served or are currently serving in the U.S. Congress. 313 women have been elected or appointed to the U.S. Congress. Jeannette Rankin, Republican from…
(Encyclopedia) Taylor, Alan John Percivale, 1906–90, English historian, primarily interested in diplomatic and Central European history. Educated at Oxford, he became a fellow of Magdalen College in…
(Encyclopedia) Taylor, John, 1578?–1653, English writer. He was a boatman on the Thames and hence is often called the Water Poet. A traveler throughout England and the Continent, he recorded his…
(Encyclopedia) Taylor, Joseph Hooton, Jr., 1941–, American astrophysicist, b. Philadelphia, Ph.D. Harvard, 1968. Taylor was a professor at the Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst from 1969 to 1980,…
