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Dr. Joyce Brothers Biography

Dr. Joyce Brothers(Joyce Bauer)psychologist, television personalityBorn: 9/20/1928Birthplace: New York City Brothers first gained national attention as a quiz show celebrity in the 1950s,…

Witte, Count Sergei Yulyevich

(Encyclopedia) Witte, Count Sergei YulyevichWitte, Count Sergei Yulyevichsyĭrgāˈ y&oomacr;ˈlyĭvĭch vĭtˈə [key], 1849–1915, Russian premier. A railway administrator, he became minister of…

Nicholas Berg, 2004 News

U.S. businessman from Pennsylvania, was decapitated in Iraq in May. The brutal murder was broadcast on an Islamist website, which said the killing was in retaliation for the torture of Iraqi…

Nicholas Vachel Lindsay: The Dreamer

The DreamerNicholas Vachel Lindsay"Why do you seek the sun, In your Bubble-Crown ascending? Your chariot will melt to mist, Your crown will have an ending." "Nay, sun is but a Bubble, Earth…

Fay, Frank

(Encyclopedia) Fay, Frank, 1870–1931, and W. G. Fay, 1872–1947, brothers, both Irish actors. The Fay brothers formed the Irish National Theatre, an amateur group founded on the conviction that only…

Strauss, Levi

(Encyclopedia) Strauss, Levi, 1829–1902, American merchant, b. Buttenheim, Germany, as Löb Strauss. He moved with his mother and sisters to New York City in 1847 to join his brothers' wholesale dry-…

Taizé Community

(Encyclopedia) Taizé CommunityTaizé Communitytāzāˈ [key], ecumenical Christian community based in Taizē, Burgundy, France. The community was founded by Roger Schutz, 1915–2005, a Swiss Protestant…

Berdyaev, Nicholas

(Encyclopedia) Berdyaev, NicholasBerdyaev, Nicholasbĕrdyīˈəf [key], 1874–1948, Russian theologian and religious philosopher, b. Kiev. After an early period as a Marxist, Berdyaev became prominent in…

Maria Feodorovna

(Encyclopedia) Maria FeodorovnaMaria Feodorovnamärēˈä fyôˈdərəvnə [key], 1847–1928, czarina of Russia, consort of Alexander III and mother of Nicholas II. Originally named Dagmar, she was the…

Alexandra Feodorovna

(Encyclopedia) Alexandra FeodorovnaAlexandra Feodorovnafēôˌdərŏvˈnə, Rus. fyôˈdərəvnə [key], 1872–1918, last Russian czarina, consort of Nicholas II; she was a Hessian princess and a granddaughter of…