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Lindsay Lohan
Lohan, Lindsay July 2, 1986 • New York, New York Actress Lindsay Lohan was introduced to filmgoers in 1998 when she faced the difficult task of filling the shoes of beloved child actress Hayley Mills in a remake of The Parent Trap.Lohan offered herself up for... Read more |
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George J. Stigler
Stigler, George Joseph 1911–1991 BIBLIOGRAPHY The years following World War II (1939–1945) saw a generation of remarkable economists who managed among themselves to remake the economics discipline and profession. Of this group, perhaps none possessed a better economic intuition... Read more |
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June Allyson
ALLYSON, June Nationality:American. Born:Born Ella Geisman, New York City, 7 October 1917. Education:Public Schools in New York City and Pelham, New York, including Theodore Roosevelt High School. Family:Married 1) actor/director Dick Powell, 1945 (died... Read more |
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Ludacris
Ludacris Rap musician For the Record… Selected discography Sources Ludacris emerged from the Atlanta rap scene as the first artist signed to the new Def Jam South label in 2000. By the end of the year, the label had rereleased Ludacris’s self-produced debut album as Back for the First... Read more |
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Wynonna Judd
Wynonna Singer The lead vocalist but very much the silent partner in country music's most successful duo of the 1980s, the Judds, Wynonna Judd found herself on her own, musically and emotionally, when her mother, Naomi, was diagnosed with chronic hepatitis in the fall of 1990. In the process of her... Read more |
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William Ernest Hocking
William Ernest Hocking 1873-1966, American idealist philosopher, b. Cleveland, grad. Harvard (B.A., 1901; Ph.D., 1904). He was professor of philosophy at Harvard from 1914 until his retirement in 1943. His writings, which emphasize in particular the religious aspects of philosophy, include The... Read more |
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Cecil B De Mille
Cecil B. De Mille (Cecil Blount De Mille), 1881-1959, American movie director and producer, b. Ashfield, Mass. In 1914, together with Samuel Goldwyn , he made the first feature-length film in Hollywood, The Squaw Man. The following year he came into prominence with his first "spectacle" ... Read more |
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Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman
Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman , 1878-1961, American evangelist, b. Pennsburg, Pa. The international movement he founded has been variously called First Century Christian Fellowship, the Oxford Group, Moral Re-Armament (often known as MRA), and Buchmanism. Buchman was ordained in the Lutheran ministry... Read more |
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Ptolemy I
Ptolemy I (Ptolemy Soter) , d. 284 BC, king of ancient Egypt, the first ruler of the Macedonian dynasty (or Lagid dynasty), son of a Macedonian named Lagus. He was one of the leading generals of Alexander the Great, and after Alexander's death (323 BC) he joined the other Diadochi in dividing... Read more |
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Congress of Vienna
Congress of Vienna Sept., 1814-June, 1815, one of the most important international conferences in European history, called to remake Europe after the downfall of Napoleon I. Congress Participants The Austrian emperor Francis I (formerly Holy Roman Emperor Francis II ) was the host. Among the many... Read more |
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Only the worst for my country
...and other family members...the line goes dead. I do have...sisters, who live in the capital...case one day we had to...from a hotel room in Houston...friends and family. Is this...the story goes, if a child...they have to remake their home... |
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TV played its role too well in election
...18 on the day Martin Luther...long. Our family was going...those of my family or friends...everyone to remake the nightly...wickedest and most dead-on "Saturday Night Live" portraiture...Saturday Night Live" and everyone...the press goes into reverse...cast dressing ... |
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Teen Critic
...to get her day going. After...Lohan), room to find that she is still dead to the earth...the Coleman family, a freaky place to live. Freaky Friday...is also a remake of the 1977...house every day after school...is just two days away, her...Blues on the day of ... |
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A GREAT DAY TO BE A PARENT
...One Fine Day" (PG...one hectic day that their...Daniel Day-Lewis...The script goes for lowest...There is one dead body with...charming live-action remake of classic...clergyman and family helped by...locker-room nudity... |
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