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Dennis James Biography
Dennis James television announcer, game-show host He may not be a household name, but James's face should be recognizable to any television viewer. Since he first entered broadcasting in…Pegler, (James) Westbrook
columnistBirthplace: MinneapolisBorn: 1894Died: 1969James Eads Biography
James Eadsengineer, inventorBorn: 5/23/1820Birthplace: Lawrenceburg, Ind. With little formal education, he began his career as a purser on a Mississippi River steamboat in 1838. He began a…James Fisk Biography
James Fiskfinancial speculatorBorn: 4/1/1834Birthplace: Bennington, Vt. Known as the “Barnum of Wall Street” in part for his childhood job in a circus, but more for his flamboyant approach…James Whitcomb Riley
Riley, James Whitcomb[1853-1916](2)Born in Greenfield, Indiana, in June, 1853, and died at Indianapolis, July, 1916. He occupied a field unique in American literature and probably no poet…James Bryant Conant
Conant, James Bryant (kōˈnənt) [key], 1893–1978, American educator, b. Dorchester, Mass., grad. Harvard (B.A., 1913; Ph.D., 1916). Except for a brief period in the army (1917–19), Conant taught…Brewer's: Sanguinary James
(A). A sheep's head not singed. A jemmy is a sheep's head; so called from James I., who introduced into England the national Scotch dish of “singed sheep's head and trotters.” No real…Brewer's: James Absalom
Ab′salom Duke of Monmouth, the handsome but rebellious son of Charles II in Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel (1649–1685). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…James Galway Biography
James GalwayflutistBorn: 12/8/1939Birthplace: Belfast, Northern Ireland James Galway has achieved unparalleled success as a classical flutist, largely because of his frequent forays into…James Taylor Biography
James TaylormusicianBorn: 3/12/1948Birthplace: Boston, Mass. The Bing Crosby of the 1970s, Taylor's brand of mellow introspective music delineated the shift away from the socially and…Trending
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