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Joe Mantegna Biography

Joe Mantegna actorBorn: 11/13/1947Birthplace: Chicago A long-time collaborator with playwright/director David Mamet, Mantegna won accalim for his role in the Broadway production of Mamet's…

David Schwimmer Biography

David SchwimmeractorBorn: 11/12/1966Birthplace: New York City Best known for playing geeky paleontologist Ross on Friends (1994– ), Schwimmer toyed with becoming a lawyer before committing…

Lights! Camera! Learning! - British Literature

The best of British literature Paltrow's winsome matchmaker Emma Recent film offerings suggest the enduring appeal of Jane Austen's storytelling. In the past few years, we've been wowed by…

Brewer's: Kansas

U.S. America. So named from the Konsos, an Indian tribe of the locality. Kansas Bleeding Kansas. So called because it was the place where that sanguinary strife commenced which was the…

Brewer's: Dandin

(French). A ninny, a snob. From Molière's comedy of George Dandin. Dandin (George). A French cit, who marries a sprig of nobility, and lives with his wife's parents. Madame appeals on all…

New World War II Memorial Dedicated

by Shmuel Ross The National World War II Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, May 29th, 2004. This was the first national memorial made to remember World War II, the…

Boiler Room

Director/Writer:Ben YoungerNew Line Cinema; R; 110 minutesRelease:2/00Cast:Giovanni Ribisi, Nia Long, Ben Affleck Certain films suggest directions. They point outside themselves, indicating…

Granville BARRERE, Congress, IL (1829-1889)

BARRERE Granville , a Representative from Illinois; born in New Market, near Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio, July 11, 1829; attended the common schools, Augusta College, Augusta, Ky., and was…