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Notable Fashion Designers and Models

Isabella Rossellini Biographies ofNotable Women Actresses Adventurers Artists Athletes Businesswomen Comediennes Congresswomen Educators and Scholars Fashion Designers and…

Molly Hatcher 2000 Deaths

Molly HatcherAge: 21 senior captain of the Kenyon College (Gambier, Ohio) women's swimming team which won its NCAA Div. III-record 17th straight national title in March 2000. She died of…

Mollie Panter-Downes Biography

Mollie Panter-DownesAge: 90 writer for The New Yorker magazine who described British life for two generations of readers. Died: Jan. 22, 1997.Robert Palmer1997 DeathsTom Parker

Howard “Sandman” Sims 2003 Deaths

Howard “Sandman” SimsAge: 86 famed Apollo Theater tap dancer who taught his fancy footwork to Gregory Hines, Ben Vereen, Muhammad Ali, and Sugar Ray Robinson. Died: Bronx, New York, May 20,…

Pousette-Dart, Richard

(Encyclopedia) Pousette-Dart, Richard, 1916–92, American painter, b. St. Paul, Minn. The son of an artist and a poet and largely self-taught, he was a member of the first generation of abstract…

monologue

(Encyclopedia) monologue, an extended speech by one person only. Strindberg's one-act play The Stronger, spoken entirely by one person, is an extreme example of monologue. Soliloquy is synonymous,…

Sims, William Sowden

(Encyclopedia) Sims, William Sowden, 1858–1936, American naval officer, b. Port Hope, Upper Canada (now Ontario), of American parents. After serving with the Atlantic and Pacific fleets, he was (1897…

Monmouth, battle of

(Encyclopedia) Monmouth, battle of, in the American Revolution, fought June 28, 1778, near the village of Monmouth Courthouse (now Freehold, N.J.). Gen. George Washington chose this location to…

Little Richard

(Encyclopedia) Little Richard, 1935–2020, American musician and singer, b. Macon, Ga., as Richard Wayne Penniman. One of the first rock musicians in the 1950s, he recorded such tunes as “Tutti Frutti…