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Best Supporting Actor Nominees, 2011

The 83rd Academy Award Best Supporting Actor Nominees Read biographies of the Best Supporting Actor nominees. Find out about all the nominees, from front-runner Christian Bale to first-time nominee…

2005–2006 Primetime Emmy Awards

Drama Series: 24 (Fox) Actor: Kiefer Sutherland, 24 Actress: Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Supporting Actor: Alan Alda, The West Wing Supporting Actress: Blythe…

Brewer's: Jeremiah

derived from “Cucumber.” The joke is this: King Jeremiah = Jere'-king, contracted in Jer'-kin', or gher-kin, and gherkin is a young cucumber. The British Jeremiah. Gibbon so calls Gildas…

Brewer's: Jericho

Gone to Jericho. No one knows where. The manor of Blackmore, near Chelmsford, was called Jericho, and was one of the houses of pleasure of Henry VIII. When this lascivious prince had a…

2 Maccabees: 2

2 Maccabees Chapter 2 1 It is also found in the records, that Jeremy the prophet commanded them that were carried away to take of the fire, as it hath been signified: 2 And how…

101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived

Some fictional characters have had more impact on the world than real people. Allan Lazar, Dan Karlan, and Jeremy Salter set about ranking the “characters of myth, legends, television, and movies […

1 Esdras: 1

1 Esdras Chapter 1 1 And Josias held the feast of the passover in Jerusalem unto his Lord, and offered the passover the fourteenth day of the first month; 2 Having set the…

Priestley, Joseph

(Encyclopedia) Priestley, Joseph, 1733–1804, English theologian and scientist. He prepared for the Presbyterian ministry and served several churches in England as pastor but gradually rejected…

Mill, John Stuart

(Encyclopedia) Mill, John Stuart, 1806–73, British philosopher and economist. A precocious child, he was educated privately by his father, James Mill. In 1823, abandoning the study of law, he became…