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Cabinet Members Under W. H. Harrison

Secretary of State Daniel Webster, 1841Secretary of the Treasury Thomas Ewing, 1841Secretary of War John Bell, 1841Attorney General John J. Crittenden, 1841Postmaster General Francis Granger…

Plunkett and Macleane

Director:Jake Scott Writers:Robert Wade, Neal Purvis, and Charles McKeownUSA Films/Gramercy Pictures; 102 minutes; RRelease:10/99Cast:Jonny Miller, Robert Carlyle, Liv Tyler Loud, flamboyant…

Martin DIES, Congress, TX (1870-1922)

DIES Martin , a Representative from Texas; born in Jackson Parish, La., March 13, 1870; moved with his parents to Freestone County, Tex., in 1876; attended the common schools; admitted to the bar…

John Canfield SPENCER, Congress, NY (1788-1855)

SPENCER John Canfield , a Representative from New York; born in Hudson, N.Y., January 8, 1788; was graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1806; studied law; was admitted to the bar in…

Shania Twain Biography

Shania Twain (Eileen Regina Twain)country singerBorn: 8/28/1965Birthplace: Windsor, Ontario, Canada Part of the Canadian influx that is flooding Nashville, Twain has sold more albums than any…

Saint-Dizier

(Encyclopedia) Saint-DizierSaint-DiziersăN-dēzyāˈ [key], town (1990 pop. 35,558), Haute-Marne dept., NE France, on the Marne River. It is a trading and transportation center; its manufactures include…

Levita, Elijah

(Encyclopedia) Levita, ElijahLevita, Elijahēlīˈjə lēvīˈtə [key] (Elya Bokher), c.1468–1549, German philologist, grammarian, and lexicographer who wrote in Hebrew. He spent most of his life in Italy,…

Dorcas

(Encyclopedia) DorcasDorcasdôrˈkəs [key] or TabithaDorcastăbˈĭthə [key] [Gr. Dorcas and Aramaic Tabitha=gazelle], in the Acts of the Apostles, Christian woman of Joppa whom St. Peter raised from the…

Höchst

(Encyclopedia) HöchstHöchsthökhst [key], industrial district of Frankfurt, in Hesse, central Germany. It is a leading center of the German chemical industry and was formerly the site of the I. G.…

Joseph and Asenath

(Encyclopedia) Joseph and Asenath, an early Jewish work, highly regarded in Eastern and Western Christian traditions, most likely emanating from Alexandrian Egypt between 200 b.c. and a.d. 200,…