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Anne Robinson, 2001 News

feisty game-show host and former London journalist, irritated both viewers and contestants as the host of NBC's The Weakest Link, the network's late-in-coming entry in reality television.…

Ann Sothern 2001 Deaths

Ann SothernAge: 92 actress and singer who, despite her range and talent, never achieved superstar status. Instead, she flirted with fame as the star of several banal movies. She starred in…

Lois-Ann Yamanaka Biography

Lois-Ann Yamanaka novelistBorn: 1961Birthplace: Ho’olehua, Molokai, Hawaii Lois-Ann Yamanaka is a Japanese-American writer who grew up in Hawaii. With a unique voice that often uses pidgin…

Royal Biographies: Princess Anne

Princess Anne by David Johnson Related Links Royal Family TreeQueen Elizabeth IIPeter PhillipsZara Phillips Once Highly unpopular for her autocratic ways, Princess Anne has earned widespread…

Brewer's: Anne's Great Captain

The Duke of Marlborough (1650–1722). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Annie LaurieAnne's Fan A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V…

Brewer's: Queen Anne is Dead

The reply made to the teller of stale news. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Queen Anne's BountyQueen A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S…

Brewer's: Queen Anne's Bounty

A fund created out of the firstfruits and tenths, which were part of the papal exactions before the Reformation. The firstfruits are the whole first year's profits of a clerical living,…

Brewer's: Queen Anne's Style

(of architecture). Noted for many angles, gables, quaint features, and irregularity of windows. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Queen ConsortQueen Anne's…

Katherine Anne Porter Biography

Katherine Anne Portershort-story writer, novelistBorn: 5/15/1890Birthplace: Indian Creek, Texas Pulitzer Prize-winning short-story writer and novelist whose elegant prose earned her wide…

Penelope Ann Miller Biography

Penelope Ann MilleractressBorn: 1/13/1964Birthplace: Los Angeles Miller's performance in Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues (1988; she had previously appeared in the Broadway play) won critical…