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Jeri Ryan Biography

Jeri Ryan (Jeri Lynn Zimmerman)actressBorn: 2/22/1968Birthplace: Munich, Germany A blond bombshell who was also a National Merit Scholar, Ryan placed fourth in the Miss America Pageant of 1990.…

Ryan, Nolan

(Encyclopedia) Ryan, Nolan (Lynn Nolan Ryan, Jr.), 1947–, American baseball player, b. Refugio, Tex. A right-handed pitcher with a blazing fastball, he played with the New York Mets, the California…

Brewer's: Meg

Mons Meg. An old-fashioned piece of artillery in the castle of Edinburgh, made at Mons, in Flanders. It was considered a palladium by the Scotch. (See Long Meg.) “Sent awa' our crown, and…

Ryan, Loch

(Encyclopedia) Ryan, LochRyan, Lochlŏkh rīˈən [key], inlet, 9 mi (14.5 km) long and 31&fslsh;2 mi (5.6 km) wide, at the mouth of the Firth of Clyde, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland. The port…

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

(Encyclopedia) Cushman, Charlotte SaundersCushman, Charlotte Saundersk&oobreve;shˈmən [key], 1816–76, one of the first outstanding American actresses, b. Boston. Cushman turned from opera to…

Meg Greenfield Biography

Meg GreenfieldAge: 68 20–year editor of the Washington Post editorial page. She was noted in the nation's capital and beyond for her sharp analysis of a generation of policy makers, which won…

Brewer's: Meg Dods

An old landlady in Scott's novel called St. Roman's Well. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Meg MerriliesMeg A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q…

Brewer's: Meg Merrilies

(in Sir W. Scott's Guy Mannering). This character was based on that of Jean Gordon, an inhabitant of the village of Kirk Yetholm, in the Cheviot Hills, in the middle of the eighteenth…

Meg Tilly Biography

Meg Tilly (Margaret Tilly)actressBorn: 2/14/1960Birthplace: Texada Island, British Columbia Tilly first trained as a dancer and made a brief appearance as such in the film Fame (1980). She rose…

Connolly, James

(Encyclopedia) Connolly, James, 1870–1916, Irish nationalist and socialist. An advocate of revolutionary syndicalism, he went (1903) to the United States, where he helped to organize the Industrial…