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Charlie Sheen Biography

Charlie Sheen (Carlos Irwin Esteves)actorBorn: 9/3/1965Birthplace: New York, New York   Though he has worked with big name directors and actors, Sheen has had difficulty building a cohesive career…

The 2004 Class of Inductees

Frederick Banting, 1891–1941, Charles Best, 1899–1978, James Collip, 1892–1965, Purified Insulin. Canadian scientists Banting, Best, and Collip determined that insulin injections would help…

Provence

(Encyclopedia) ProvenceProvenceprôväNsˈ [key], region and former province, SE France. It encompasses what now are Var, Vaucluse, and Bouches-du-Rhône depts. and (in part) Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and…

cod

(Encyclopedia) cod, member of the large family Gadidae, comprising commercially important food fishes. The family, whose members are found in the N Atlantic and Pacific, includes the tomcods, the…

John Williams Biography

John Williams(John Towner Williams)composer, conductorBorn: 2/8/1932Birthplace: Queens, New York Famed movie score and TV theme composer, Williams has worked with Hollywood's most famous directors…

Brewer's: Flowers and Trees

(1) Dedicated to heathen gods: The Cornel cherry-tree to Apollo The Cypress to Pluto. The Dittany to The Moon. The Laurel to Apollo. The Lily to Juno. The Maiden's-hair to Pluto. The…

Notable Irish Writers

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living. —Samuel Beckettfrom "Three Dialogues"…

William Shakespeare: As You Like It, Act III

Act IIIScene IA room in the palaceEnter Duke Frederick, Lords, and OliverDuke FrederickNot see him since? Sir, sir, that cannot be: But were I not the better part made mercy, I should not…

U-Turn

Director: Oliver Stone Writer: John Ridley Director of Photography: Robert Richardson Editors: Hank Corwin and Thomas J. Nordberg Music: Ennio Morricone Production Designer…