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Benjamin Harvey HILL, Congress, GA (1823-1882)
Senate Years of Service: 1877-1882 Party: Democrat HILL Benjamin Harvey , a Representative and a Senator from Georgia; born in Hillsborough, Jasper County, Ga., September 14, 1823; pursued…Arthur Edson Blair MOODY, Congress, MI (1902-1954)
Senate Years of Service: 1951-1952 Party: Democrat MOODY Arthur Edson Blair , a Senator from Michigan; born in New Haven, Conn., February 13, 1902; attended the public schools in Providence, R.I…Wilde, Oscar
(Encyclopedia) Wilde, Oscar (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde), 1854–1900, Irish author and wit, b. Dublin. He is most famous for his sophisticated, brilliantly witty plays, which were the first…William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Director:Baz LuhrmannWriters:Craig Pearce and Baz LuhrmannEditor: Jill BilcockMusic:Nellee HooperProduction Designer:Catherine MartinProducers:Gabriella Martinelli and Baz LuhrmannTwentieth…John Little McCLELLAN, Congress, AR (1896-1977)
Senate Years of Service: 1943-1977 Party: Democrat McCLELLAN John Little , a Representative and a Senator from Arkansas; born in Sheridan, Grant County, Ark., February 25, 1896; studied law and was…Martin, Steve
(Encyclopedia) Martin, Steve, 1945–, American comedian, actor, and writer, b. Waco, Tex. An Emmy-winning television comedy writer in the late 1960s for…Akko
(Encyclopedia) Akko Akko ăkˈō [key] or Acre Acre āˈkər, äˈ– [key], Fr. Saint-Jean d'Acre, Arab. Acca, city, NW Israel, a port on the Bay of Haifa (an…Lusignan
(Encyclopedia) LusignanLusignanlüzēnyäNˈ [key], French noble family. The name is derived from a castle in Poitou, built, according to legend, by Mélusine. The family was powerful in the Middle Ages…Waterloo campaign
(Encyclopedia) Waterloo campaign, last action of the Napoleonic Wars, ending with the battle of Waterloo. Napoleon I, who escaped from Elba in Feb., 1815, and entered Paris on Mar. 20, soon faced a…Brewer's: Kempfer-Hausen
The nom de plume of Robert Pearce Gillies, one of the speakers in the Noctes Ambrosia'næ. (Blackwood's Magazine.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894KempisKema…Trending
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