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Roseanne

(Roseanne Barr)actressBorn: 11/3/1953Birthplace: Salt Lake City, Utah Emmy Award-winning outspoken actress best known for her role as white-trash queen Roseanne Conner on Roseanne and for her…

Rebecca De Mornay

(Rebecca George)actressBorn: 8/29/1961Birthplace: Los Angeles Making her film debut in Francis Ford Coppola's One from the Heart (1982), she achieved popular success after starring as the call…

Elizabeth Perkins

actressBorn: 11/18/1960Birthplace: Queens, New York After a successful film debut in David Mamet's About Last Night… (1986), Perkins won accolades for her role opposite Tom Hanks in Big (1988).…

William Hanna

cartoonistBorn: 7/14/1910Birthplace: Melrose, New Mexico pioneering animator who, with his partner, Joseph Barbera, masterminded the cartoon characters Yogi Bear, Scooby-Doo, and Tom and Jerry.…

Dekker, Eduard Douwes

(Encyclopedia) Dekker, Eduard DouwesDekker, Eduard Douwesāˈdüärt douˈəs dĕkˈər [key], pseud. MultatuliDekker, Eduard Douwesməltätüˈlē [key], 1820–87, Dutch novelist. His experiences in the Dutch…

David, Gerard

(Encyclopedia) David or Davit, GerardDavid or Davit, Gerardboth: gāˈrärt däˈvēt [key], c.1460–1523, Flemish painter, b. Oudewater, Holland. By 1484 he had established himself in Bruges, where he…

Cocceius, Johannes

(Encyclopedia) Cocceius, JohannesCocceius, Johanneskŏksēˈəs [key], 1603–69, German theologian, whose surname was originally Koch or Koken. Born in Bremen, he went to Holland, where he was professor…

Hoorn

(Encyclopedia) Hoorn, city, North Holland prov., N central Netherlands, on an inlet of the Markermeer. It is a commercial and processing center for a…

Gouda

(Encyclopedia) Gouda Gouda gouˈdə, g&oomacr;ˈ–, Du. gouˈdä [key], city, South…

Labadie, Jean de

(Encyclopedia) Labadie, Jean de, or Jean de la BadieJean de la Badieboth: zhäN də lä bädēˈ [key], 1610–74, French mystic, founder of the Labadists, a quietist sect. He had been a Roman Catholic…