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Barberton

(Encyclopedia) Barberton Barberton bärˈbərtən [key], city (2020 pop. 25,191), Summit co., NE Ohio, an industrial…

Held, Anna

(Encyclopedia) Held, Anna, 1873?–1918, American musical comedy actress, b. Paris. She is remembered for her beauty and charm and for her tempestuous off-stage life. After she had small singing and…

Hazare, Anna

(Encyclopedia) Hazare, Anna, 1937–, Indian social activist, b. Kisan Baburao Hazare. He served (1963–75) in the army then, inspired by the teachings of Vivekananda, devoted himself to social causes.…

Halprin, Anna

(Encyclopedia) Halprin, Anna, 1920-2021, b. Wilmette, Il., as Ann Dorothy Schuman. She began studying dance as a child, and then briefly attended the…

Atkins, Anna

(Encyclopedia) Atkins, Anna, 1799–1871, English photographer and botanist who specialized in images of botanical specimens. The daughter of scientist John George Children, she married John Pelly…

Dressler, Marie

(Encyclopedia) Dressler, Marie, 1869–1934, American actress, b. Coburg, Ont., Canada. She appeared on stage and in vaudeville before making her first film, Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914). Although…

Ziegfeld, Florenz

(Encyclopedia) Ziegfeld, FlorenzZiegfeld, Florenzflôrˈənz zēgˈfĕld [key], 1869–1932, American theatrical producer, b. Chicago. The talent manager son of a German immigrant, in 1907 he first produced…

Anna May Hutchison 1998 Deaths

Anna May HutchisonAge: 72 professional baseball player who dazzled crowds during World War II and was immortalized in the 1992 motion picture “A League of Their Own”; “Hutch” broke in as a…

Anna Hempstead Branch: The Monk in the Kitchen

The Monk in the KitchenAnna Hempstead BranchIOrder is a lovely thing; On disarray it lays its wing, Teaching simplicity to sing. It has a meek and lowly grace, Quiet as a nun's face. Lo — I…

The Texas Revolution: Santa Anna and The Alamo

Top of Page Source: iStockThough the United States is proud of its independence and is ready to defend that status until the end, not all states have been free of the yoke of foreign influence until…