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Charles Nelson Reilly
Reilly, Charles Nelson 1931-2007PERSONALBorn January 13, 1931, in the Bronx, NY; died of complications from pneumonia, May 25, 2007, in Los Angeles, CA. Actor. Although best known for his ebullient and campy persona on television game shows and talk shows, Reilly was also a Tony Award-winning... Read more |
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John Dillinger
John Dillinger John Dillinger (1903-1934) was the most famous modern American criminal. During the Depression of the 1930s his bank robberies were generally regarded as revenge on society's financial institutions that were unfairly exploiting the economically distressed. John Dillinger was... Read more |
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the New Yorker
NEW YORKER, THE NEW YORKER, THE. Harold Ross (1892–1951) founded The New Yorker as a weekly magazine in New York City in 1925. Ross had quit high school to become a reporter, and during World War I he edited the Stars and Stripes, a military newspaper. The New Yorker was his attempt to... Read more |
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J
J 10th letter of the alphabet , a Western European medieval development of I, with which it was formerly quite interchangeable in writing. It is pronounced as a consonant in English and often as a y in other languages, as in the Hebrew hallelujah.... Read more |
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John Carteret 1st Earl Granville
John Carteret Granville, 1st Earl 1690-1763, English statesman, better known as Lord Carteret. He served as ambassador to Sweden (1719-20) and as a secretary of state (1721-24), but his favor with George I posed a threat to Robert Walpole , who finally forced his resignation and sent (1724) him to... Read more |
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Henry Faulds
Faulds, Henry 6/1/1843–3/1930 SCOTTISH PHYSICIAN Henry Faulds was a Scottish physician who laid the groundwork for the scientific study of fingerprints in criminology . Faulds was born in Beith, Scotland. His parents were initially quite prosperous but lost most of their money in the... Read more |
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D.W. Griffith
GRIFFITH, D. W. 1875-1948 M OVIE DIRECTOR Motion Picture Pioneer One of the first movie directors to explore the creative possibilities of the medium of film, D.W. Griffith made a major impact on the development of the art and techniques of... Read more |
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Harold Wallace Ross
Harold Wallace Ross 1892-1951, American editor, b. Aspen, Colo. He founded The New Yorker magazine in 1925 and was its influential managing editor until his death. Ross quit school at the age of 14 to work at the Salt Lake City Tribune. During World War I he edited Stars and Stripes in... Read more |
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Kabylia
KABYLIA Berber-speaking mountainous area in northern Algeria east of Algiers. Kabylia, derived from the French Kabylie, is based on the Arabic qabila (tribe; pl., qabail ). The region is traditionally divided into two parts: the Djurd-jura Mountains (highest point 7,565 ft.) separating... Read more |
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