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John Woo Biography
John Woo (Ng Yu-Sum [Cantonese]; Wu Yu-Sen [Mandarin])directorBorn: 5/01/1946Birthplace: Guangzhou, Canton, China Woo got his start in show business at Hong Kong's Cathay Studios, where he…Patty Duke Biography
Patty Duke(Anna Marie Duke)actressBorn: 12/14/1946Birthplace: New York, New York Actress who won an Oscar at the age of 16 for her performance as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (1962). Duke…Famous Firsts by LGBT Americans
Some early accomplishments by LGBT Americans LGBT Firsts: Government1 Local elected lesbian official: Kathy Kozachenko, 1974, Ann Arbor City Council, Mich. Local elected gay official: Harvey…LPBT
Top 10 Money Winners TBCR1stEarnings1Wendy Macpherson2273$107,2302Kim Adler227299,1303Aleta Sill216283,6004Lisa Wagner196183,1405Liz Johnson195278,5326Anne Marie Duggan217076,7407Marianne…Brewer's: Morestone
Would you remove Morestone? (See Mortstone.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Morgan le FayMoreno A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T…Brewer's: Favourites
False curls on the temples; a curl of hair on the temples plastered with some cosmetic; whiskers made to meet the mouth. Yet tell me, sire, don't you as nice appear With your false calves…Brewer's: Moribund
Declining; in a dying state; on its last legs. Turkey is called a moribund state. Institutions on the decline are called moribund. Applied to institutions, commercial companies, states,…U-Z
Robert Anacletus UnderwoodLila Meade ValentineValmikiNydia VelázquezAnn M. VenemanJesse VenturaHenry WadeAn WangNancy Ward Maxine Waters(Alyce) Faye WattletonJ. C. WattsJohn and Eliza…Brewer's: Faërie
or Feerie. The land of the fays or faeries. The chief fay realms are Avalon, an island somewhere in the ocean; Oberon's dominions, situate “in wilderness among the holtis hairy;” and a…Brewer's: Fazio
A native of Florence, who first tried to make his fortune by alchemy; but being present when Bartoldo, and old miser, died, he buried the body secretly, and stole his money-bags. Being now…