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Horton
Horton, a common name, usually ‘dirty or muddy farmstead’, OE horu + tūn; examples include: Horton Bucks., near Ivinghoe. Hortone 1086 (DB). Horton Dorset. Hortun 1033, Hortune 1086 (DB). Horton Northants. Hortone 1086 (DB). Horton Oxon. Hortun 1005–12, Hortone 1086 (DB).... Read more |
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Perry Ellis
ELLIS, Perry American designer Born: Perry Edwin Ellis in Portsmouth, Virginia, 30 March 1940. Education: Bachelor of Arts, business, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1961; Master of Arts, retailing, New York University, New York City, 1963. Family: Had child with Barbara... Read more |
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Chiron Corp
Chiron Corporation 4560 Horton StreetEmeryville, California 94608-2916U.S.A.Telephone: (510) 655-8730Fax: (510) 655-9910Web site: http://www.chiron.com Public CompanyIncorporated: 1981Employees: 3,110Sales: $762.6 million (1999)Stock Exchanges: NASDAQTicker Symbol: CHIRNAIC: 325412... Read more |
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Mike Singletary
Walter Payton 1954-1999 American football player Walter Payton, nicknamed "Sweetness" in college for his sweet and graceful moves on the football field, never lost that sweetness, even after he left the game. Never were Payton's qualities of grace and dignity more evident than in his final... Read more |
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Katharine Graham
K ATHARINEG RAHAM Born: June 16, 1917 New York, New York Died: July 17, 2001 Boise, Idaho American publisher The renowned publisher Katharine Graham took over the management of the Washington Postafter the death of her husband.... Read more |
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P L Travers
P. L. Travers (Pamela Lyndon Travers), 1899-1996, British author best known for her Mary Poppins children's books, b. Australia as Helen Lyndon Goff. She worked as an actress and journalist and moved to London in 1924. With Mary Poppins (1934), Travers introduced the world's children to that... Read more |
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Mary Ainsworth
Ainsworth, Mary 1913-1999 BIBLIOGRAPHY It is difficult to overestimate the influence Mary D. Salter Ainsworth has had on the field of developmental psychology. Her work has been cited by over 7,000 social science sources, with over 2,500 of these citing her seminal work on patterns of infant... Read more |
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Randall Jarrell
Randall Jarrell , 1914-65, American poet and critic, b. Nashville, Tenn., grad. Vanderbilt Univ. (B.A., 1935; M.A., 1938). His poetry, reflecting an unusually sensitive and tragic view of life, includes Blood for a Stranger (1942), The Seven-League Crutches (1951), and The Woman at the... Read more |
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Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford 1893-1979, American movie actress, b. Toronto, Ont. In 1909 she began working with D. W. Griffith . Specializing in playing young girls, she was dubbed "America's Sweetheart." Her films include A Poor Little Rich Girl (1917), Pollyanna (1919), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921),... Read more |
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Karen Katz
Katz, Karen 1947-PersonalBorn September 16, 1947, in Newark, NJ; daughter of Alex (a furniture manufacturer) and Muriel (a homemaker) Katz; married Gary Richards (a writer), 1999; children: Lena. Education: Tyler School of Art, degree. 1969; Yale School of Art and Architecture, M.F.A.,... Read more |
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