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Diane Keaton

(Diane Hall)actress, directorBorn: 1/5/1946Birthplace: Santa Ana, California Academy Award-winning actress and director known for her comic roles in Woody Allen films in which she often played…

Hispanic American Scientists

  Ellen Ochoa   Luis Walter Alvarez, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Franklin Chang-Dìaz, astronaut Mario Molina, Nobel Prize-winning chemist Carlos Noriega,…

Jacques le Moyne de Morgues

artist, cartographer Born: c. 1533Birthplace: Dieppe, France A French cartographer (mapmaker) and painter, Le Moyne de Morgues produced the first map of Florida. His paintings and sketches are…

Notable Concert Instrumentalists

Walter Gieseking See also Notable Women Musicians and Dancers Notable African-American Musicians Notable African-American Visual and Performing Artists Asian American Artists and…

columnist

(Encyclopedia) columnist, the writer of an essay appearing regularly in a newspaper or periodical, usually under a constant heading. Although originally humorous, the column in many cases has…

classic revival

(Encyclopedia) classic revival, widely diffused phase of taste (known as neoclassic) which influenced architecture and the arts in Europe and the United States during the last years of the 18th and…

Monmouth, James Scott, duke of

(Encyclopedia) Monmouth, James Scott, duke ofMonmouth, James Scott, duke ofmŏnˈməth [key], 1649–85, pretender to the English throne; illegitimate son of Charles II of England by Lucy Walter. After…

Jay McCarroll Biography

designerBorn: 1974Birthplace: Iehman, PennsylvaniaBest Known as: Winner of Project Runway Season 1 Jay McCarroll grew up in a small mountain town in Pennsylvania…

Mark DAYTON, Congress, MN (1947)

Senate Years of Service: 2001-2007Party: DemocratDAYTON, Mark, a Senator from Minnesota; born in Minneapolis, Minn., January 26, 1947; graduated cum laude Yale University 1969; unsuccessful…

Burwell Clark RITTER, Congress, KY (1810-1880)

RITTER, Burwell Clark, (uncle of Walter Evans), a Representative from Kentucky; born near Russellville, Barren County, Ky., January 6, 1810; received a limited schooling; member of the State…