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Dick Whittington
Whittington, Dick Both a legendary and historical figure, Dick Whittington was an English merchant and Lord Mayor of London. The real Dick Whittington was the son of a knight, and he became rich and famous selling fabrics to kings and nobles. The wealthiest merchant of his... Read more |
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The Girl of the Golden West
Girl of the Golden West, The (1905), a play by David Belasco. [Belasco Theatre, 224 perf.] Minnie Falconer ( Blanche Bates) may be the owner of the Polka Saloon in a California mining camp called Cloudy Mountain, but she is also the town's respected schoolmarm, and she is courted by the gentlemanly... Read more |
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Dick Button
Dick Button 1929- American figure skater Ranked as one of the greatest figure skaters of all time—perhaps second only to Sonja Henie in terms of his impact on the sport—Dick Button remains an influential force on the contemporary scene more than fifty years after he won his s... Read more |
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Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) gained acclaim across genres with novels and short stories that anticipated major aspects of life in the late 20th century and beyond. Prolific in the extreme, Dick wrote about the nature of consciousness and reality in a... Read more |
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Dick Clark Productions Inc
Dick Clark Productions, Inc. 3003 W. Olive AvenueBurbank, California 91505U.S.A.(818) 841-3003Fax: (818) 954-8609 Public CompanyIncorporated: 1977Employees: 525 (est.)Sales: $46.64 million (1995)Stock Exchanges: NASDAQSICs: 7812 Motion Picture & Video Production; 7389 Business Services, Not... Read more |
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Andrew Davis
Davis, Andrew 1946(?)- (Andy Davis)PERSONALBorn November 21, 1946 (some sources cite 1947), in Chicago, IL; son of Nathan "Nate" Davis (an actor); brother of Richard "Dick" Davis (an actor and musician). Education: University of Illinois, B.S.; attended Harand Camp of the Theatre... Read more |
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Robert Henry Dicke
DICKE, ROBERT HENRY(b. St. Louis, Missouri, 6 May 1916;d. Princeton, New Jersey, 4 March 1997), cosmology, gravity physics, quantum optics.Dicke contributed to central developments in modern physics, including quantum optics, the precision tests of gravity physics, and the observational... Read more |
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Moby-Dick
MOBY-DICK MOBY-DICK, Herman Melville's sixth book, was published in 1851. It was a work in which, as the novelist Walker Percy has written, Melville first fully felt "the happiness of the artist discovering, breaking through into the freedom of his art." Moby-Dick began as yet another... Read more |
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Dick Turpin
Dick Turpin 1706-39, English robber. After a short and brutal career of horse stealing and general crime he was hanged at York. The fame—or notoriety—that he later achieved derives mainly from W. H. Ainsworth's romance, Rookwood (1834), which is based upon his life. Turpin's famous... Read more |
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Liverpool grind out three points WEST HAM: 1, LIVERPOOL: 2
...the Premiership was a reward for matching West Ham's approach when it mattered...there may come a day when West Ham will try to match...Liverpool's winner. West Ham created pressure and...saved well from ... |
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JU BEAUTY; Dicks after new whamtastic deal.(Sport)
Julian Dicks will open talks with West Ham next week about a pounds 2million...reformation from his bad-boy image. Dicks, sent off nine times in a turbulent...Hammers boss Harry Redknapp is ready to reward Dicks by offering him ... |
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Football: Hunt lands sucker punch; CHARLTON 4 WEST HAM 2.(Sport)
...rubbed salt into West Ham's wounds by adding...sick as his heroes. West Ham looked as though...who, having given West Ham fullback Julian Dicks a torrid time all...some good work. West ... |
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IT'S 'ARRY HOUDINI!; Hammers can Paul clear; WEST HAM 3 CHELSEA 2.(Sport)
...formula that could save West Ham from relegation...season. But Julian Dicks continued his personal...Defender Dicks is West Ham's top scorer...his call-up was a reward for his patience or...post by Miklosko. ... |
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Football: Dani buoys West Ham on debut
...Tottenham Hotspur 0 West Ham United 1 Anyone who...Irishman. One by one, West Ham's delighted...Williamson took it, Julian Dicks lost his marker...Miklosko's chest. West Ham showed signs of...only sour note ... |
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YOU'D NEV-ER BELIEVE IT!(Sport)
...teenager - just ask West Ham! The 38-year-old...Iain Dowie and Julian Dicks and deny the Hammers some sort of reward. It took a Dicks penalty...Redknapp's men. West Ham bossed proceedings...the second-half, ... |
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Wimbledon denied
West Ham United 1 Dicks 7Wimbledon 1 Jones 11 Attendance: 20...who stood between them and the full reward was the West Ham goalkeeper, Ludek Miklosko, who...was having an unsettling effect on the West ... |
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Football: Sunderland in need of help
...sand just yet. West Ham were fortunate to...have been two for West Ham and one to reward Sunderland for not...Harry Redknapp, the West Ham manager, saw...Raducioiu (90). West ... |
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Football: Hammers Face Up To Naked Truth; Redknapp's failings exposed by...
...Jason Smith's reward for FA Cup heroics...guys who have upended West Ham when they knocked...shot, from Julian Dicks three minutes from...of a deflection. West Ham just couldn...blaming himself for the West ... |
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Dani's goal eases fears of relegation TOTTENHAM 0, WEST HAM 1
A GOAL from West Ham's new Portuguese...deflected a Julian Dicks' volley into "the...from close range as West Ham's other debut...goalkeeper. Then West Ham, with seven non...last 20 minutes, ... |
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