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Brian De Palma Biography

Brian De Palmadirector, screenwriterBorn: 9/11/1940Birthplace: Newark, New Jersey Contemporary film director who has been, at times, as controversial as he has been successful. With movies…

Simone de Beauvoir Biography

Simone de Beauvoir(Simone-Lucie-Ernestine-Marie-Bertrand de Beauvoir)writer, feministBorn: 1/9/1908 Birthplace: Paris, France Best known for the classic feminist treatise, Le Deuxième Sexe (…

Rebecca De Mornay Biography

Rebecca De Mornay (Rebecca George)actressBorn: 8/29/1958Birthplace: Los Angeles   Making her film debut in Francis Ford Coppola's One from the Heart (1982), she achieved popular success after…

Dino De Laurentiis Biography

Dino De Laurentiisfilm producerBorn: 8/8/1918Birthplace: Torre Annunziata, Italy Having produced several widely acclaimed Italian films in the 1950s, including Fellini's La Strada (1954) and…

Olivia De Havilland Biography

Olivia De HavillandactressBorn: 7/1/1916Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan The sister of actress Joan Fontaine, she is probably best remembered as the long-suffering Melanie in Gone With the Wind (1939). She…

Gushers: The Texas Oil Boom and Industry

Top of Page Source: iStockThe United States is the world’s largest oil producer. For 150 years, Texas history and the oil and natural gas industry have been inextricably linked. In 2019, around 41%…

Colorado, rivers, United States and Mexico

(Encyclopedia) ColoradoColorado[1] kŏlərădˈə, –rădˈō, –räˈdō [2] kŏlərāˈdə, –räˈdə [key]. 1 Great river of the SW United States, 1,450 mi (2,334 km) long, rising in the Rocky Mts. of N Colo., and…

Hispanic American Writers

// Cite Sandra Cisneros Isabel Allende, writer Julia Alvarez, writer Rudolfo Anaya, writer Sandra Cisneros, writer Oscar Hijuelos, writer Maria Hinojosa, journalist Geraldo…

Virginia (Ginny) BROWN-WAITE, Congress, FL (1943)

BROWN-WAITE Virginia (Ginny) , a Representative from Florida; born in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., October 5, 1943; B.S., State University of New York, Albany, N.Y., 1976; M.S., Russell Sage College…