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Ian Fleming Biography

Ian FlemingBritish author, journalistBorn: 5/28/1908Birthplace: London, England Author best known for his popular series of James Bond spy novels. Fleming worked as a journalist in Moscow (…

art history

(Encyclopedia) art history, the study of works of art and architecture. In the mid-19th cent., art history was raised to the status of an academic discipline by the Swiss Jacob Burckhardt, who…

Fleming, Ian Lancaster

(Encyclopedia) Fleming, Ian Lancaster, 1908–64, English spy novelist, b. London. Son of a Conservative member of Parliament, Fleming was educated at Eton, Sandhurst, and Munich and Geneva…

Fleming, Rhonda

(Marilyn Louis) actressBirthplace: Los AngelesBorn: 8/10/23

Peggy Fleming

Peggy FlemingBorn: July 27, 1948Figure skating 3-time world champion (1966-68); won Olympic gold medal in 1968.Larry FleisherD - FCurt Flood

Fleming, Sir Alexander

(Encyclopedia) Fleming, Sir Alexander, 1881–1955, Scottish bacteriologist, discoverer of penicillin (1928) and lysozyme (1922), an antibacterial substance found in saliva and other body secretions.…

Fleming, Sir John Ambrose

(Encyclopedia) Fleming, Sir John Ambrose, 1849–1945, English electrical engineer. He was a leader in the development of electric lighting, the telephone, and wireless telegraphy in England and the…

Fleming, Walter Lynwood

(Encyclopedia) Fleming, Walter Lynwood, 1874–1932, American historian, b. near Brundidge, Ala. He taught at West Virginia Univ. (1904–7) and at Louisiana State Univ. (1907–17) before becoming…

Gourlay, Robert Fleming

(Encyclopedia) Gourlay, Robert FlemingGourlay, Robert Flemingg&oobreve;rˈlē [key], 1778–1863, Scottish writer and agitator, b. Fifeshire. He emigrated to Upper Canada (Ontario) in 1817 and at…