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Robert Maxwell
Robert Maxwell (Ian Robert Maxwell), 1923-91, British business executive, b. Czechoslovakia as Jan Ludwik Hoch. He grew up in a tight-knit Jewish community. After fleeing the Nazis in 1939, Maxwell fought with the British during World War II. In 1951, he purchased Pergamon Press, a publisher of tex... Read more
George Francis Fitzgerald
George Francis Fitzgerald 1851-1901, Irish physicist. Fitzgerald was born in Dublin and studied and taught at Trinity College there. He is best known for suggesting how the ether , by causing the contraction of bodies moving through it, could account for the null results of the Michelson-Morley ex... Read more
Taiping
Taiping , city (1991 pop. 186,791), Perak, Malaysia, central Malay Peninsula. Once the leading tin-mining center of Malaya, it has been supplanted by the Kinta Valley. The city is picturesquely situated at the foot of Bukit Maxwell (formerly Maxwell's Hill; alt. c.3,400 ft/1,040 m), a noted hill sta... Read more
William Keepers Maxwell, Jr.
William Keepers Maxwell, Jr. 1908-2000, American novelist, short-story writer, and editor, b. Lincoln, Ill. Educated at the Univ. of Illinois and Harvard, he began his career as a teacher, but soon turned to writing. In his fiction the discreet and courtly Maxwell often handled such traditional the... Read more
Maxwell Bodenheim
Maxwell Bodenheim , 1893-1954, American novelist and poet, b. Hermanville, Miss. His poetry, which incorporates many techniques of the imagists , is cynical and often dwells on the grotesque. Important volumes of his verse are Minna and Myself (1918), Against This Age (1925), and Selected Poem... Read more
Walter Percy Chrysler
Walter Percy Chrysler , 1875-1940, American industrialist, founder of the Chrysler Corp., b. Wamego, Kans. He began as a machinist's apprentice and rose within the industry to become vice president in charge of operations at General Motors in 1919. In 1920 he undertook the reorganization of the Will... Read more
electrodynamics
electrodynamics study of phenomena associated with charged bodies in motion and varying electric and magnetic fields (see charge ; electricity ); since a moving charge produces a magnetic field , electrodynamics is concerned with effects such as magnetism , electromagnetic radiation , and elec... Read more
ether
ether or aether, in physics and astronomy, a hypothetical medium for transmitting light and heat (radiation), filling all unoccupied space; it is also called luminiferous ether. In Newtonian physics all waves are propagated through a medium, e.g., water waves through water, sound waves through ... Read more
Maxwell Davenport Taylor
Maxwell Davenport Taylor 1901-87, U.S. general, b. Keytesville, Mo., grad. West Point, 1922. In World War II he served in Europe with the 82d Airborne Division and as commander of the 101st Airborne Division. After serving as superintendent of West Point (1945-49) and U.S. commander in Berlin (1949... Read more
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz , 1857-94, German physicist. He confirmed J. C. Maxwell's electromagnetic theory and in the course of experiments (1886-89) produced and studied electromagnetic waves (known also as hertzian waves, or radio waves). He demonstrated that these are long, transverse waves that trav... Read more

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Al-Anon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior ...Alateen groups of children of alcoholics (Maxwell, 1980). BRIEF HISTORY Early in the 1940s...a founder of AA, persuaded his wife Lois to get involved with the fledgling Al...Stones, the suburban home of Bill W. and Lois. In 1952 they moved to New York City...

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Lolita
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Coop; editor: Anthony Harvey; assistant editor: Lois Gray; sound editor: Winston Ryder; sound recordists...Stone (Vivian Darkbloom ); Cec Linder (Physician ); Lois Maxwell (Nurse Mary Lore ); William Greene (George Swine...

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Lois Maxwell, Bond's 'Moneypenny,' Dies
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 10/1/2007; ; 526 words ; ...Things Considered 10-01-2007 Lois Maxwell, Bond's 'Moneypenny,' Dies...Moneypenny, where's 007? Ms. LOIS MAXWELL (Actress): (As Moneypenny...The Canadian-born actress, Lois Maxwell, who played Moneypenny, died...
Lois Maxwell
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/1/2007; 700+ words ; ...performers have been so identified with one role as Lois Maxwell, who played James Bond's gently bantering, romantically...in 1973 and they had two children. Tom Vallance Lois Hooker (Lois Maxwell), actress: born Kitchener, Ontario 14 February...
Obituary: Lois Maxwell
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 4/4/2005; 366 words ; Lois Maxwell 1928 ~ 2005 Lois was born August 8, 1928 into a wonderfully...parents, Emma Ash and Clarence H. Maxwell were loving examples. She passed from this life April 2, 2005 Lois graduated from Granite High School and...
Lois Maxwell, 80; Tactfully Flirty Miss Moneypenny
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/2/2007; ; 700+ words ; Lois Maxwell, 80, the versatile film...to a Kill" in 1985, Miss Maxwell won admiration and sympathy...and Shirley Temple. Miss Maxwell's performance as a teacher...Fremantle. Her original name was Lois Hooker. Considered a hindrance...
Lois Maxwell, Moneypenny to millions, dies at the age of 80
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/1/2007; 603 words ; ...and Media Correspondent Lois Maxwell, the actress best-known...aged 80. To 007 fans, Maxwell was the definitive Moneypenny...succumbed to his charms. Born Lois Hooker in Kitchener, Ontario in February 1927, Maxwell won a Golden Globe for...
Woman of the Week: Lois Maxwell
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 10/2/2007; ; 628 words ; ...school British Establishment. Yet Lois Maxwell, who played Moneypenny 14 times...famous role. As the 14-year-old Lois Hooker from Kitchener, Ontario...Roger Moore. Within three years Maxwell's film career had taken off, as...
LOIS MAXWELL BOND'S FIRST MONEYPENNY.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY); 10/1/2007; 572 words ; Lois Maxwell, who starred as Miss Moneypenny in 14...head of Britain's secret service. Born Lois Hooker in Ontario, Canada, in 1927...and The Persuaders! CAPTION(S): Lois Maxwell, left, posed in 2000 with her successor...
Miss Moneypenny, the Bond girl who kept 007 in line, dies at 80; Just a tease: Sean Connery with Lois Maxwell in the second Bond movie, From Russia With Love.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 10/1/2007; 700+ words ; ...Ian Markham-Smith LOIS Maxwell, the unglamorous but...favourite Bond movie,Miss Maxwell chose On Her Majesty...as 007. She was born Lois Hooker in Ontario, Canada...comingactress. Miss Maxwell also appeared in Bedtime...
Bond's Moneypenny, Lois Maxwell, Dies
News Wire article from: AP Online; 9/30/2007; 404 words ; LONDON - Lois Maxwell, who starred as Miss Moneypenny in 14 James Bond movies, has died...She was always fun and she was wonderful to be with," he said. Born Lois Hooker in Ontario, Canada, in 1927, she began her acting on radio...
The real Miss Moneypenny was more than just a secretary; The stars: Sean Connery and Lois Maxwell in Thunderball The real secretary: Jean Frampton suggested changes to the Bond stories The Creator of 007: Ian Fleming.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 3/26/2008; 700+ words ; ...around the world and these documents relate to a time whenhe was just being created.' From the 1960s to the 1980s Lois Maxwell played therole of Miss Moneypenny, M's secretary. Her quips to Bond included: 'Flattery will get you nowhere...