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Harlan MATHEWS, Congress, TN (1927)

Senate Years of Service: 1993-1994 Party: Democrat MATHEWS Harlan , a Senator from Tennessee; born in Sumiton, Walker County, Ala., January 17, 1927; attended the Alabama public schools; graduated…

Bamberg

(Encyclopedia) Bamberg Bamberg bämˈbĕrk [key], city, Bavaria, S Germany, a port on the Regnitz River. It is an…

Lightfoot, Joseph Barber

(Encyclopedia) Lightfoot, Joseph Barber, 1828–89, English prelate and scholar. A fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, he became Hulsean professor of divinity (1861) and Lady Margaret professor (1875…

Urban IV

(Encyclopedia) Urban IV, d. 1264, pope (1261–64), a Frenchman (b. Troyes) named Jacques Pantaléon; successor of Alexander IV. In the pontifical service he was sent on missions into N Germany; then he…

Vallandigham, Clement Laird

(Encyclopedia) Vallandigham, Clement LairdVallandigham, Clement Lairdvəlănˈdĭghămˌ, –gămˌ [key], 1820–71, American political leader, leader of the Copperheads in the Civil War, b. New Lisbon (now…

Vanessa Brown Biography

Vanessa BrownAge: 71 actress and writer whose career began with a role in the Broadway show Watch on the Rhine at the young age of 13. She went on to act in several films and television shows…

Dennis Brown Biography

Dennis BrownAge: 42 Jamaican reggae singer who established his popularity in the 1970s at the age of 12. The “Crown Prince of Reggae” earned a Grammy nomination in 1995 for his album Light My…

Robert and Elizabeth Browning

A secret courtship between two legendary poets by David Johnson Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her husband, Robert Browning, led lives suited for leading Romantic poets. Their story…

Paul Brown Stadium

Cincinnati, Ohio Built in 2000 by NBBJ by Carol M. Highsmith The American Institute of Architects and Harris Interactive selected Paul Brown Stadium as one of America's Favorite Structures, based…

Kirk Browning Biography

television directorDied: February 10, 2008 (Manhattan, New York) Best Known as: television director of "Live From Lincoln Center" Kirk Browning started out…