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Iron Eyes Cody Biography

Iron Eyes CodyAge: (80s or early 90s) TV and film actor most familiar to Americans as the Indian who shed a tear in a 1970s anti-littering commercial.Died: Los Angeles, January 5, 1999Steve…

Evelyn Irons 2000 Deaths

Evelyn IronsAge: 99 Scottish-born war correspondent who is believed to be the first female journalist to have reached Hitler's retreat at Berchtesgaden. She served as the New York bureau…

Brewer's: Iron Crown of Lombardy

is so called from a narrow band of iron within it, said to be beaten out of one of the nails used at the Crucifixion. This band is about three-eighths of an inch broad, and one-tenth of an…

Brewer's: Iron Maiden of Nuremberg

(The). An instrument of torture for “heretics,” traitors, parricides, etc. It was a box big enough to admit a man, with folding-doors, the whole studded with sharp iron spikes. When the…

Brewer's: Luke's Iron Crown

George and Luke Dosa headed an unsuccessful revolt against the Hungarian nobles in the early part of the sixteenth century. Luke (according to Goldsmith) underwent the torture of the red-…

Brewer's: Man of Blood and Iron

(The). Otto von Bismarck (Prince Bismarck), called “man of blood” from his great war policy, and “iron” from his indomitable will. Many years Chancellor of Prussia and Germany. (Born…

Brewer's: Man in the Iron Mask

(The). (See Iron Mask.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Man in the MoonMan in Black A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y…

The Koran/Sura LVII — Iron

Sura LVII — Iron MEDINA.[1060] —29 Verses In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful ALL that is in the Heavens and in the Earth praiseth God, and He is the Mighty, the Wise! His…