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Mark D. Weiser Biography

Mark D. WeiserAge: 46 computer pioneer and chief technology officer for Xerox Corp.'s famous Palo Alto Research Center.Died: Palo Alto, Calif., April 27, 1999Herman WedemeyerS - ZSenor Wences…

Robert D. Currie Biography

Robert D. Curriestage manager production manager for New York's City CenterBorn: 1935Died: 1997Arthur Cunningham1997 DeathsLeon Danielian

Photographer (N. D. King)

N. David King Tell us about your work---what do you do? I think of myself as an image-maker. I try to use whatever medium is appropriate to the subject to…

W. D. Edmonds Biography

W. D. Edmonds(Walter Dumaux Edmonds)writerBorn: 7/15/1903Birthplace: Boonville, New York He won a Newbury Medal for his book The Matchlock Gun (1969) and a National Book Award for Bert Breen'…

Onassis, Jacqueline Bouvier

(Encyclopedia) Onassis, Jacqueline BouvierOnassis, Jacqueline Bouvierb&oomacr;ˈvē-āˌ, b&oomacr;vyāˈ [key], 1929–94, b. Southampton, N.Y. Of a socially prominent family, she worked (1951–53)…

Palsgrave, John

(Encyclopedia) Palsgrave, JohnPalsgrave, Johnpălzˈgrāv, pôlzˈ– [key], d. 1554, English scholar, educated at Oxford and at the Univ. of Paris. Palsgrave was tutor to Henry VIII's daughter Mary (later…

John VIII, pope

(Encyclopedia) John VIII, d. 882, pope (872–82), a Roman; successor of Adrian II. John strenuously opposed the activities of St. Ignatius of Constantinople in Bulgaria. When Ignatius died, John…

Trainers

Annual money-leading trainers since 1908, according to The American Racing Manual. Multiple Leaders: D. Wayne Lukas (14); Sam Hildreth (9); Charlie Whittingham (7); Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons…

Ashbery, John

(Encyclopedia) Ashbery, John, 1927–2017, American poet, b. Rochester, N.Y., grad. Harvard (B.A., 1949), Columbia (M.A., 1951). Among the most acclaimed and influential American poets of his era, he…