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KEAN, John, Congress, NJ (1852-1914)

Senate Years of Service: 1899-1911 Party: Republican KEAN, John, (brother of Hamilton Fish Kean, great-grandson of John Kean [1756-1795], and uncle of Robert Winthrop Kean), a Representative…

First Ladies Gallery

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…

Princess Anne

(Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise Windsor)Princess RoyalBorn: 8/15/1950Birthplace: London, England The second child of Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Anne has shed her adolescent…

Aaron OGDEN, Congress, NJ (1756-1839)

Senate Years of Service: 1801-1803Party: FederalistOGDEN, Aaron, a Senator from New Jersey; born in Elizabeth (formerly Elizabethtown), N.J., December 3, 1756; graduated from the College of…

Dee, John

(Encyclopedia) Dee, John, 1527–1608, English mathematician and occultist. He was educated at Cambridge. Accused of practicing sorcery against Queen Mary I, he was acquitted and later was a favorite…

Ascham, Roger

(Encyclopedia) Ascham, RogerAscham, Rogerăsˈkəm [key], 1515–68, English humanist and scholar, b. Yorkshire. Ascham was a major intellectual figure of the early Tudor period. His Toxophilus (1545), an…

Richard Burton

(Richard Jenkins)actorBorn: 11/10/1925Birthplace: Pontrhydfen, Wales Tony Award-winning film and stage actor who gained fame working with the Old Vic, London's premier theater company. Burton…

Clydebank

(Encyclopedia) Clydebank, town, West Dunbartonshire, W central Scotland, on the north bank of the Clyde River. The chief industry until the 1970s was…

Hugh Grant

actorBorn: 9/9/1960Birthplace: London, England Handsome British leading man whose career took off like a rocket to only come crashing back down in a tawdry little scandal. Grant was one of…

Algoa Bay

(Encyclopedia) Algoa BayAlgoa Bayălgōˈə [key], arm of the Indian Ocean, indenting Eastern Cape, South Africa. The Portuguese arrived in the late 15th cent., and it was used as an anchorage. Port…