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Dodsley, Robert
(Encyclopedia) Dodsley, Robert, 1703–64, English publisher and author. He wrote occasional verses, and also several plays, including The King and the Miller of Mansfield (1737); a ballad opera, The…Billy Butlin Biography
Billy Butlin(Sir William Edmund Butlin)holiday camp promoterBorn: 1899Birthplace: South Africa A veteran of World War I, he worked for a fun fair briefly before beginning his own business of…Williams, Billy Dee
actorBirthplace: New York CityBorn: 4/6/37De Wolfe, Billy
actorBirthplace: Wollaston, Mass.Born: 1907Died: 1974Billy Bowlegs Biography
Billy Bowlegs Holata MiccoSeminole leaderBorn: c. 1810Birthplace: Florida Holata Micco, commonly called Billy Bowlegs, and known as the “Alligator chief,” was a Seminole leader who fought in…Billy Mills Biography
Billy MillsOlympianBorn: June 30, 1938Birthplace: Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Pine Ridge, South Dakota In 1964 Billy Mills stunned spectators in one of the greatest upsets in Olympic…Billy Bragg & Wilco
Mermaid Avenue Vol. IIElektra When Billy Bragg and Wilco first released their sometimes traditional, sometimes radical renditions of previously unheard Woody Guthrie lyrics on 1998's Mermaid…Billy Bragg and Wilco
Mermaid AvenueElektra Thirty-one years after Woody Guthrie's death, rabble-rousing English folk poet Billy Bragg and American roots rockers Wilco collaborated to make some of his previously…Brewer's: Billy Barlow
A street droll, a merry Andrew; so called from a half-idiot of the name, who fancied himself “some great personage.” He was well known in the East of London, and died in Whitechapel…Brewer's: Blue Billy
(A). A blue neckcloth with white spots, worn by William Mace. More likely the allusion is to the bill or nose. (See Billy .) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Trending
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