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Star Jones
Star Jones 1962(?)— Attorney, television host, mediator Sassy Youth Involved in High-Profile Cases Television Career Took Off Sources In 1994 former New York City prosecuting attorney Star Jones made the leap from public service to public persona when her syndicated television show, Jones... Read more |
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The Pretenders
The Pretenders Rock band For the Record Read more |
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Rosetta Olive Burton LeNoire
Rosetta LeNoire 1911–2002 Actress Mentored With Harlem Renaissance Greats From Black Macbeth to TV Grandmother Built Color-Blind Theater out of Love Sources Actress, singer, dancer, and producer, Rosetta LeNoire enjoyed a prolific career that spanned seventy years. However, it was... Read more |
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Regina Taylor
Regina Taylor 1959(?)– Playwright, actor Encouraged by Her Mother Starred in “I’ll Fly Away’ Developed as Actress, Playwright Selected works Sources As the star of the television series I’ll Fly Away, Regina Taylor has successfully established herself as a... Read more |
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Sir Henry Vane
Sir Henry Vane 1589-1655, English courtier; father of the Puritan leader Sir Henry Vane, the younger. He gained the favor of James I, was knighted in 1611, and acquired wealth by the purchase of profitable offices. He served in every Parliament from 1614 to 1640 and was successively made... Read more |
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Murad II
Murad II 1403-51, Ottoman sultan (1421-51), son and successor of Muhammad I to the throne of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey). He was opposed at his accession by a pretender, Mustafa, who rapidly gained control over most of the Ottoman possessions in Europe. After defeating his rival, Murad... Read more |
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chevalier
chevalier historical term for a knight; a member of certain orders of knighthood or of modern French orders such as the Legion of Honour. Recorded from late Middle English (denoting a horseman or mounted knight) the word comes via Old French and medieval Latin, from Latin caballus... Read more |
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Peterhead
Peterhead , town (1991 pop. 16,804), Aberdeenshire, NE Scotland, on a peninsula on the North Sea. It is the easternmost town, with a good harbor, of Scotland. Chiefly a center of herring fisheries, Peterhead has fish canneries, distilleries, and woolen mills. The town was founded in 1593 by George... Read more |
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Joan Ganz Cooney
Joan Ganz Cooney Born: November 30, 1929 Phoenix, Arizona Former president, Children's Television Workshop Armed with a degree in education and a knowledge of the power of television, Joan Ganz Cooney changed how young children learn. Before she helped start Sesame Street, the few... Read more |
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Ibsen, Henrik Johan
...twice more—in Kongsemnerne (The Pretenders, 1864) and Kejser og Galilæer (Emperor...settled in Rome, where he wrote his great poetic drama Brand. This established his...Hero's Mound) and Brand in 1912, The Pretenders in 1913, St John's Night in 1921... |
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Beaufort, Lady Margaret
...accession of Richard III intervened. Tudor now became the pretender to the throne and Margaret threw herself into the conspiracy...and St John's. Her portrait hangs in both colleges, whose great gates are adorned with her heraldic imagery. At Oxford, she... |
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Marischal, George Keith, 10th Earl
...1715 he joined in the earl of Mar's rising on behalf of the pretender, fought at Sheriffmuir, and was attainted. With his brother...spent largely abroad, mainly in the service of Frederick the Great. The younger brother became a Prussian field marshal and was... |
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Derbyshire
...little altered by boundary changes, but since 1974 borders Greater Manchester.The Romans, chiefly interested in the county...chief importance to the Stuarts came in 1745, when the young pretender and his army occupied Derby before retreating to Scotland. By...Devonshire, was prime ... |
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James IV
...the king's three predecessors, embracing the crown's greatest subjects, including Hepburn, Hume, Angus, Argyll...especially on Holyrood palace and the King's House and great hall at Stirling castle, was large, his lavishing of money...Northumberland (1496–7), ostensibly in support of the ... |
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Linlithgow palace
...rebuilt in stone by James I of Scotland after the 1424 fire; the great hall and royal apartments were augmented by his successors...titles and hereditary keepership by supporting the ‘Old Pretender’. Roofless since a bad fire in 1746, it is currently cared... |
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Parliaments
...continued to be handled in ‘great councils’, which...agenda for parliaments and great councils, which became...commons of [Ireland]...in great council or parliament there...support in Ireland for Yorkist pretenders (see Wars of the Roses) to... |
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‘perpetual peace’, treaty of
...gave considerable assistance to Perkin Warbeck, the Yorkist pretender against Henry VII in the 1490s. But in a change of policy...remarkable. A series of unforeseeable contingencies brought the great-grandson of the marriage to the throne of England in 1603... |
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Edgar the Atheling
...was the son of Edward the Exile, and a great-grandson of Æthelred the Unready...Edgar intermittently played the role of pretender and was deeply involved in the English...anything other than a minor participant in great events. David Richard Bates |
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Irving, Laurence Sidney Brodribb
...with his father, for whom he wrote Peter the Great (1898), an epic poem rather than a play...Unwritten Law (1910). In 1913 he made a great success as Earle Skule in Ibsen's The Pretenders at the Haymarket Theatre, and a year later... |
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pretender
pretender A person who puts themself...been put forward by such pretenders as Lambert SIMNEL and Perkin...reign of CATHERINE II the Great of Russia.In England the Stuart Pretenders were excluded from the throne...their religion. The Old ... |
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Jacobitism
...Francis Edward Stuart (the Old Pretender or ‘ James III’) and his...Charles Edward Stuart (the Young Pretender or ‘ Charles III’) and Henry...supporters were protestants, and a great many were non‐jurors...by the forces of the Young Pretender and the defeat ... |
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Northumberland
...and one of the earliest centres of British Christianity. A great border region, it is full of peel houses and castles. The...in the '15, though they did little save proclaim the old pretender at Warkworth and occupy Holy Island for one day.In so large... |
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old
...Man River an informal name for the Mississippi.old master a great artist of former times, especially of the 13th–17th...Old North State an informal name for North Carolina.the Old Pretender James Francis Edward Stuart (1688–1766), son of James... |
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Marischal, George Keith, 10th Earl
...1715 he joined in the earl of Mar's rising on behalf of the pretender, fought at Sheriffmuir, and was attainted. With his brother...spent largely abroad, mainly in the service of Frederick the Great. In 1763 he returned to his native Scotland and recovered... |
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black
...smoke and dust of the coal and iron trades.Black Death the great epidemic of bubonic plague that killed a large proportion of the...disastrous, such as 6 December 1745, when the landing of the Young Pretender was announced in London, and 11 May 1866, which saw a commercial... |
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James IV
...especially on Holyrood palace and the King's House and great hall at Stirling castle, was large, his lavishing of money on a royal...Northumberland (1496–7), ostensibly in support of the Yorkist pretender Perkin Warbeck but in fact to utilize the military talents... |
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Players vs. pretenders: what kind of followers do you lead? People who look...
...classified these people as pretenders. Pretenders can slow an organization...exposed. In order for a pretender to become a player, major...between the players and the pretenders." Pretenders look the part...the other churches; now my ... |
 "The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)")
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'THE PRETENDER 2001' ; IN NEW TNT MOVIE, BUFFALO FILMMAKER FREDERICK KING...
In France, "The Pretender" goes by the more sultry...including not only "The Pretender" but "New York Undercover...Just like the hero of "The Pretender," he makes it all look easy...doesn't shoot, he's not a great marksman, he doesn't drive...Parker. "She's got ... |
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TV REVIEW: 'Pretender' fans get a second chance
...After four years on NBC, "The Pretender" was cancelled by the ignorant...and a very wise TNT, "The Pretender" gets a second chance at life...caught an episode of "The Pretender" here's what you've missed...reminding them just how great the show was. Besides, ... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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Hynde, polite Pretenders at mid-life
THE PRETENDERS At: The Orpheum Theater...at the Orpheum during the Pretenders 95-minute set, but it...when they portended a great future, when -- before...charitable view: Maybe the Pretenders are in the midst of a mid... |
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'Pretender' back with more twists
...ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- "The Pretender" is back once more to entertain...EST, TNT premieres "The Pretender: The Island of the Haunted...Scottish island rumored to house a great evil. The duo, with the help...possessed scrolls said to hold great power. Hoping to ... |
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Pretenders, B-52's, a time capsule worth digging up
THE B-52's and PRETENDERS With the Royal Crown Revue At: Great Woods Center for the Performing...s three singers, from the Great Woods stage Saturday night...of 13,100 filed through the Great Woods gates to have those old... |
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A Pretender's Aching, 'Concrete' Return
...an entirely new group of Pretenders. Hynde is now in her mid...particular Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders ahead of many other current...isn't afraid to echo his greatest '70s album, "The Pretender," because he knows that...gathered up a new batch of ... |
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`THE PRETENDER' GETS PROMOTED AND WILL BAT LEADOFF IN NBC'S FALL...
...is just happy that ``The Pretender'' is one of the two that...gets close to another ``pretender'' who, unlike Jarod...his unusual gift for evil. Pretenders are people whose intelligence...following. Not that ``The Pretender'' is setting the Nielsen...Roger'' ... |
 "The Gazette (Colorado Springs, CO)")
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Pretenders save fever for last
...legend Chrissie Hynde and her Pretenders permeated Denver's Paramount...move much, nor do they pay a great deal of attention to the crowd...staying true to the steady Pretenders rhythm, which is rich and...on her own tambourine. The Pretenders took the stage ... |
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HYNDE IS A GENUINE PRETENDER
...Hynde, now lead singer of the Pretenders. "I didn't set out to...still an iconoclast. The Pretenders' new album, "Packed...York. Hynde, who formed the Pretenders after also serving as a London...blown my stride. It's been great on this shmoozing trip ... |
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