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Penelope Ann Miller Biography

Penelope Ann MilleractressBorn: 1/13/1964Birthplace: Los Angeles Miller's performance in Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues (1988; she had previously appeared in the Broadway play) won critical…

Lesley-Anne Down Biography

Lesley-Anne DownactressBorn: 3/17/1954Birthplace: London, England Actress best known for her role in the British TV series, Upstairs, Downstairs. She went on to star in several feature films…

Anne Morrow Lindbergh Biography

Anne Morrow Lindbergh(Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh)authorBorn: 6/22/1906Birthplace: Englewood, New Jersey Known in her own right as a writer, she was also co-pilot and navigator for her husband,…

Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins

(Encyclopedia) Gallaudet, Thomas HopkinsGallaudet, Thomas Hopkinsgălˌədĕtˈ, gôˈlə– [key], 1787–1851, American educator of the deaf, b. Philadelphia, grad. Andover Theological Seminary. In England and…

Lewis, Matthew Gregory

(Encyclopedia) Lewis, Matthew Gregory, 1775–1818, English author, b. London. In addition to his writing he pursued a diplomatic career and served for a time in Parliament. He was often called “Monk”…

Ting, Samuel Chao Chung

(Encyclopedia) Ting, Samuel Chao Chung, 1936–, American physicist, b. Ann Arbor, Mich., Ph.D. Univ. of Michigan 1962. Ting was a professor at Columbia from 1965 to 1969, when he joined the faculty at…

O'Hara, Frank

(Encyclopedia) O'Hara, Frank 1926–66, American poet, b. Baltimore, grad. Harvard (B.A., 1950), Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor (M.A., 1951). His poetry is spontaneous, vernacular, witty, personal, and…

Massachusetts Bay Company

(Encyclopedia) Massachusetts Bay Company, English chartered company that established the Massachusetts Bay colony in New England. Organized (1628) as the New England Company, it took over the…