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Patty Duke Biography

Patty Duke(Anna Marie Duke)actressBorn: 12/14/1946Birthplace: New York, New York Actress who won an Oscar at the age of 16 for her performance as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (1962). Duke…

Duke Snider Biography

Duke SniderBorn: Sept. 19, 1926Died: Feb. 27, 2011Baseball OF hit 40 or more home runs five straight seasons (1953-57); led the league in runs scored 1953-55; played in six World Series with…

Juliette Daisy Gordon Low Biography

Juliette “Daisy” Gordon Lowfounder of the Girl Scouts of AmericaBorn: Oct. 31, 1860Birthplace: Savannah, Ga. Low came from a prominent Savannah, Georgia, family. After being educated at…

Robert Graves: Double Red Daisies

Double Red DaisiesDouble red daisies, they're my flowers, Which nobody else may grow. In a big quarrelsome house like ours They try it sometimes—but no, I root them up because they're my…

Beresford, Bruce

(Encyclopedia) Beresford, Bruce, 1940–, Australian film director, b. Sydney, grad. Sydney Univ. (1962). Beresford moved to England, worked for the British Film Institute (1966–71), and made several…

David Dukes 2000 Deaths

David DukesAge: 55 versatile film, television, and stage actor who won wide praise for his performance in Broadway's Bent, in which he played a gay man persecuted by the Nazis. He died while…

Walter Dukes 2001 Deaths

Walter DukesAge: 70 Seton Hall center who set the current NCAA single-season record for total rebounds (734) during the 1952-53 season; won NIT with Seton Hall in 1953 and was named the…

Brewer's: Duke of Exeter's Daughter

(The). A rack in the Tower of London, so called from a minister of Henry VI., who sought to introduce it into England. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Duke…

Brewer's: Good Duke Humphrey

Humphrey Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester, youngest son of Henry IV., said to have been murdered by Suffolk and Cardinal Beaufort. (Shakespeare: 2 Henry VI., iii. 2.) Called “Good,” not for…

Brewer's: May-duke Cherries

Medoc, a district of France, whence the cherries first came to us. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894May MeetingsMay-day A B C D E F G H I J K L M…