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Joseph Zimmerman 2004 Deaths

Joseph ZimmermanAge: 92 engineer who invented the first telephone answering machine, the Electronic Secretary. He sold the contraption to General Telephone and Electronics Inc. in 1957. Died…

Joseph Cullman 2004 Deaths

Joseph CullmanAge: 92 former CEO of Philip Morris (1957 to 1978) who transformed the company into one of the biggest in the U.S. He led the fight against the government's ban on cigarette…

Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent

Director/Writer: Christopher HamptonDirector of Photography: Denis LenoirEditor:George AkersProduction Designer:Caroline AmiesMusic:Philip GlassProducer:Norma HeymanFox Searchlight; R; 94…

Joseph RUSSELL, Congress, NY

RUSSELL, Joseph, a Representative from New York; born in New York and resided in Warrensburg, N.Y., birth date unknown; received a limited schooling; sheriff of Warren County, November 1834-…

Joseph L. Mankiewicz Biography

Joseph L. Mankiewiczdirector, screenwriter, producerBorn: 2/11/1909Birthplace: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Academy Award-winning film director, screenwriter and producer who directed Dragonwyck (1946…

Dent, Edward Joseph

(Encyclopedia) Dent, Edward Joseph, 1876–1957, English musicologist. He studied and taught at Cambridge. Dent wrote biographies of Alessandro Scarlatti (1905), Busoni (1933), and Handel (1934), and…

Badger, Joseph

(Encyclopedia) Badger, Joseph, 1708–65, American painter, b. Charlestown, Mass. By trade a glazier and house and sign painter, he turned his hand to portraiture. Generally uninspired, his work…

Romanus II

(Encyclopedia) Romanus II, 939–63, Byzantine emperor (959–63), son and successor of Constantine VII. A profligate, he came under the domination of his second wife, Theophano. She, along with the…

Saint Joseph, river, United States

(Encyclopedia) Saint Joseph, river, 210 mi (338 km) long, rising in S Mich. and flowing generally westward in wide curves to Lake Michigan at Benton Harbor, Mich. South Bend, Ind., is on the river,…

Peter III, king of Portugal

(Encyclopedia) Peter III, 1717–86, king of Portugal (1777–86), younger brother of Joseph. He married his niece Maria I and was joint ruler with her, though she generally was the dominant figure.