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Edward Weston
Edward Weston 1886-1958, American photographer, b. Highland Park, Ill. Weston began to make photographs in Chicago parks in 1902, and his works were first exhibited in 1903 at the Art Institute of Chicago. Three years later he moved to California and opened a portrait studio in a Los Angeles... Read more |
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Weston
Weston town (1990 pop. 10,200), Middlesex co., E Mass., W of Boston; settled c.1642, set off from Watertown and inc. 1713. The town is mainly residential. Regis College, the Weston Observatory of Boston College, and many 18th-century buildings are there.... Read more |
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Richard Weston
Portland, Richard Weston, 1st earl of (1577–1635). Of an Essex family, Weston trained at the Middle Temple and sat in the House of Commons for various constituencies until raised to the peerage. After administrative and diplomatic posts, he was appointed chancellor of the Exchequer in 1621... Read more |
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George Weston Limited
George Weston Ltd. 22 St. Clair Avenue EastToronto, Ontario M4T 2S7CanadaTelephone: (416) 922-2500Fax: (416) 922-4395Web site: http://www.weston.ca Public Company Incorporated: 1928Employees: 155,000Sales: CAD 32.1 billion ($27.5 billion) (2006)Stock Exchanges: TorontoTicker Symbol: WNNAIC:... Read more |
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Maria Weston Chapman
Maria Weston Chapman 1806-85, American abolitionist, b. Weymouth, Mass. In 1834 she became a close associate of William Lloyd Garrison, helped organize the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, and for several years was treasurer of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. She edited (1877) the... Read more |
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Weston-super-Mare
Weston-super-Mare , city (1991 pop. 60,821), North Somerset, SW England, on the Bristol Channel. It is a seaside resort with attractions that include Worlebury Hill, with its Iron Age hill fort and beautiful view of the opposite coast of Wales; a long esplanade; and Brean Down, a bird sanctuary. The... Read more |
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Melville Weston Fuller
Melville Weston Fuller 1833-1910, American jurist, 8th Chief Justice of the United States (1888-1910), b. Augusta, Maine. He studied at Harvard law school, and after 1856 he became a prominent lawyer in Chicago and acquired a national reputation in Democratic politics. Fuller was appointed Chief... Read more |
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Adele Geras
Geras, Adèle 1944- (Adèle Daphne Weston Geras)PersonalSurname pronounced with a hard "G" and rhymes with "terrace"; born March 15, 1944, in Jerusalem, Palestine (now Israel); immigrated to England, 1955; daughter of Laurence David (a lawyer) and Leah Weston; married Norman Geras (a retired professor... Read more |
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Marie de France
Marie de France , fl. 1155-90, poet. Born in France, she spent her adult life in England in aristocratic circles and wrote in Anglo-Norman. She is best known for some dozen lais; several are of Celtic origin, and some are Arthurian. Bibliography: See Lais, ed. by A. Ewert (1944). See translations... Read more |
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John Cleese
CLEESE, John 1939–(Kim Bread, John Otto Cleese, Nigel Farquhar– Bennett) PERSONAL Original name, John Marwood Cleese; born October 27, 1939, in Weston–super–Mare, Somerset, England; son of Reginald (in insurance sales) and Muriel (an acrobat; maiden name, Cross) Cleese;... Read more |
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