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Brewer's: M. B. Waistcoat

A clerical cassock waistcoat was so called (about 1830) when first introduced by the High Church party. M. B. means “mark of the beast.” “He smiled at the folly which stigmatised an M.B. `waistcoat…

M. Night Shyamalan Biography

M. Night Shyamalanfilm director and screenwriterBorn: 8/6/1970Birthplace: Tamil-Nadu, India Shyamalan was a virtual unknown when The Sixth Sense arrived in movie theaters in 1999. The film,…

Sam M. Raimi Biography

Sam M. Raimidirector, screenwriter, actorBorn: 10/23/1959Birthplace: Royal Oak, Michigan This creative director has won a cult following for his campy horror films Evil Dead (1983), Evil Dead…

Charles M. Schulz Biography

Charles M. SchulzcartoonistBorn: 11/26/1922Birthplace: Minneapolis, Minnesota Cartoonist who created “Peanuts,” the most commercially successful syndicated comic strip of all time. Charlie Brown,…

Des Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet

(Encyclopedia) Des Barres or Desbarres, Joseph Frederick WalletDes Barres or Desbarres, Joseph Frederick Walletdābärˈ [key], 1721?–1824, British army officer, surveyor, and artist. He was born of…

Boehme, Jakob

(Encyclopedia) Boehme or Böhme, JakobBoehme or Böhme, Jakobbēˈmə, Ger. yäˈkôp böˈmə [key], 1575–1624, German religious mystic, a cobbler of Görlitz, in England also called Behmen. He was a student of…

Emmet Francis BYRNE, Congress, IL (1896-1974)

BYRNE Emmet Francis , a Representative from Illinois; born in Chicago, Ill., December 6, 1896; educated in the public and parochial schools of Chicago and graduated from St. Ignatius Academy;…

Robert Emmet BURKE, Congress, TX (1847-1901)

BURKE Robert Emmet , a Representative from Texas; born near Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Ala., August 1, 1847; attended the public schools of his native city; volunteered as a private in…

Emmet O'NEAL, Congress, KY (1887-1967)

O'NEAL Emmet , a Representative from Kentucky; born in Louisville, Ky., on April 14, 1887; attended the public schools; was graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1907, from Yale…

O’NEAL, Emmet, Congress, KY (1887-1967)

O’NEAL, Emmet, a Representative from Kentucky; born in Louisville, Ky., on April 14, 1887; attended the public schools; was graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1907, from Yale…