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Buck Henry
HENRY, Buck Writer and Actor. Nationality:American. Born:Buck Henry Zuckerman in New York City, 9 December 1930; son of the actress Ruth Taylor. Education:Attended Harvard Military Academy; Choate School; Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire,... Read more |
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Robert Mearns Yerkes
Robert Mearns Yerkes , 1876-1956, American psychologist, b. Bucks co., Pa., grad. Harvard (B.A. 1898; Ph.D.1902). He taught (1902-17) at Harvard, served (1919-24) on the National Research Council, and held a post as professor of psychobiology at Yale (1924-44). He also founded (1929) and directed... Read more |
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American National Theatre and Academy
American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA). Chartered by Congress in 1935, it was to provide a “people's” self‐supporting national theatre. The word “self‐supporting” allowed Congress to refuse financial assistance. The commercial theatre, bucking the... Read more |
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Buck ONeil
Buck O'Neil1911–2006 Baseball player John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil loved baseball, and immersed himself in the game from age 12 to 94. A standout Negro League player and two-time batting champion, O'Neil went on to become the first black manager of a major league team, a scout responsible for... Read more |
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Buck v. Bell
BUCK V. BELL In Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200, 47 S.Ct. 584, 71 L.Ed. 1000 (1927), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Virginia state law that authorized the forced sterilization of "feeble-minded" persons at certain state institutions. The case has been all but expressly abrogated by later Supreme Court... Read more |
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Edward Hicks
Edward Hicks 1780-1849, American painter and preacher, b. Bucks co., Pa. A member of the Society of Friends, he became a noted back-country preacher in the conservative group of Quakers associated with his cousin Elias Hicks . He supported himself by painting carriages, signs, furniture, and the... Read more |
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Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck , 1892-1973, American author, b. Hillsboro, W.Va., grad. Randolph-Macon Women's College, 1914. Pearl Buck was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature. Until 1924 she lived principally in China, where she, her parents, and her first husband, John Lossing Buck, were... Read more |
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Cosmic Consciousness
C OSMICC ONSCIOUSNESS I n his classic work, Cosmic Consciousness(1901), Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke (1837–1902) did not presume to place himself in the company of the illumined individuals whose lives he examined in his book, but he did... Read more |
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Luis Miguel
Luis Miguel Singer For the Record… Selected discography Sources An adolescent singing sensation and teenage Grammy Award-winner, Luis Miguel went on to record a series of successful albums that made him the preeminent Spanish-language singer of the millennium. His traditional bolero albums... Read more |
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