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Michael Redgrave
Michael Redgrave English actor Michael Redgrave (1908-1985), a tall man with an aristocratic bearing, became a major force in British stage and screen during the mid-twentieth century. Part of the generation of classically trained actors that included Laurence Olivier, Peggy Ashcroft, Ralph... Read more |
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Redgrave
Redgrave family of English actors. Sir Michael Redgrave, 1908-85, b. Bristol, Eng., was an actor, director, and writer. After his first professional performance in Counsellor-at-Law (1934), he appeared in an enormous number of stage plays, films, and television plays. He was especially adept at... Read more |
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Vanessa Redgrave
REDGRAVE, Vanessa 1937– (Vanessa Redgreiv) PERSONAL |
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Ouija Board
Ouija Board Apparatus for psychic communication. The name was derived from the French word oui and the German word ja meaning 'yes.' A medium spells out messages by pointing out letters on a board with the apex of a wooden tripod on rollers. It is an ancient invention; a similar device was used... Read more |
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Lincoln Ellsworth
Lincoln Ellsworth 1880-1951, American explorer, b. Chicago, Ill. He was a surveyor and engineer in railroad building and later a prospector and mining engineer in NW Canada. He became the financial supporter and associate of Roald Amundsen in his arctic aviation ventures. In 1926 they flew in the... Read more |
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Richard Attenborough
ATTENBOROUGH, Richard Nationality:British. Born:Richard Samuel Attenborough, Cambridge, England, 29 August 1923; full title, Lord Attenborough, Baron of Richmond upon Thames (from 1993). Education:Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys, Leicester, England; ... Read more |
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Richard Redgrave
Redgrave, Richard (b London, 30 Apr. 1804; d London, 14 Dec. 1888). English painter, writer, and art administrator. He began as a painter of anecdotal literary subjects, often in 18th-century costume, but in the 1840s he became a pioneer of scenes of contemporary social concern (The Poor Teacher,... Read more |
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Corin
Corin ♂ French: from Latin Quirinus, the name of an ancient Roman divinity partly associated with the legendary figure of Romulus. It is of uncertain origin, probably connected with the Sabine word quiris or curis ‘spear’. In the early Christian period the name was borne by... Read more |
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John Kendrick Bangs
John Kendrick Bangs 1862-1922, American humorist, b. Yonkers, N.Y., grad. Columbia, 1883. He was the editor of Puck (1904-5) and other magazines and wrote over 30 books of humorous stories, verse, and plays, including Three Weeks in Politics (1894), The Idiot (1895), and A Houseboat on the... Read more |
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