Search

Search results

Displaying 171 - 180

Stockard Channing

(Susan Stockard)actressBorn: 2/13/1944Birthplace: New York City An award-winning stage actress, she has appeared mostly in supporting roles on film. Her movies credits include Grease (1978),…

Sigourney Weaver

(Susan Weaver)actressBorn: 10/8/1949Birthplace: New York City Weaver attended Stanford University and the Yale School of Drama before making her film debut in Annie Hall (1977). Her first lead…

Women Educators and Scholars

Ruth Fulton Benedict Biographies ofNotable Women Actresses Adventurers Artists Athletes Businesswomen Comediennes Congresswomen Educators and Scholars Fashion Designers…

(Encyclopedia) Jennings, city (1990 pop. 11,305), seat of Jefferson Davis parish, SW La., on the Mermentau River; inc. 1888. Cotton and rice are grown, there is a bottling plant, and drugs, machinery…

Why make dollar coins?

The Question: Why does the US keep introducing dollar coins even though nobody seems to use them? The Answer: It does seem pointless at first…

Dogsledding

In 1974 Mary Shields and Lolly Medley became the first two women to race in the Iditarod. Shields placed 23rd while Medley came in 26 minutes…

ZaSu Pitts

actressBorn: 1/3/1894Birthplace: Parsons, Kan. The name “ZaSu”" was created because her two aunts, Eliza and Susan, each wanted the baby named after them. Pitts started working as an extra in…

Amol

(Encyclopedia) Amol Amol ämōlˈ [key], city, Mazandaran prov., N Iran, near the Caspian Sea. It is a trade center for oranges, rice, iron, and coal.

Bacabal

(Encyclopedia) Bacabal Bacabal bəkəbälˈ [key], city, Maranhão state, NE Brazil, on the Mearim River…

Motley, John Lothrop

(Encyclopedia) Motley, John Lothrop, 1814–77, American historian and diplomat, b. Dorchester, Mass. Author of two novels concerning Thomas Morton (1839 and 1849), as well as a number of articles for…