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Alexander Hamilton

Great American statesman In the years after the Revolutionary war, Hamilton practiced law. He often defended pro-British Loyalists. Not only did he feel it was time to put the…

Alexander Calder

Alexander "Sandy" Calder was an abstract painter and sculptor famous for working in wire and originating the dangling, moving artworks known as mobiles. Alexander Calder grew up in a family of…

Alexander Selkirk

A true-life castaway, Scotsman Alexander Selkirk was the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe. While sailing with English privateers in 1704, Selkirk quarrelled with his captain…

Alexander Payne

Alexander Payne is the director of quirky and darkly funny Hollywood films like Election, About Schmidt, and Sideways. He's been called "one of the current cinema's most cutting directors and…

Alexander McQueen

Name at birth: Lee Alexander McQueenTheatrical, radical, and talented, Alexander McQueen was perhaps Britain's most famous young designer when he killed himself in 2010 at age 40. McQueen quit school…

Alexander Cartwright

Alexander CartwrightBorn: Apr. 17, 1820Baseball engineer and draftsman who spread gospel of baseball from New York City to California gold fields; widely regarded as the father of modern game…

Lanfranc

(Encyclopedia) LanfrancLanfranclănˈfrăngk [key], d. 1089, Italian churchman and theologian, archbishop of Canterbury (1070–89), b. Pavia. At first educated in civil law, he turned to theology and…

Homer

Foundations of Western Literature The influence of Homer on Western literature is inestimable; the Iliad and the Odyssey are two of the cornerstones which have informed every writer of the last 2500…

Pope County, MN Census Data

Minnesota Pope County, Minnesota People QuickFactsPope CountyMinnesotaPopulation, 2005 estimate 11,2525,132,799Population, percent change, April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2005 0.1%4.3%Population,…

Pope County, IL Census Data

Illinois Pope County, Illinois People QuickFactsPope CountyIllinoisPopulation, 2005 estimate 4,21112,763,371Population, percent change, April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2005 -4.6%2.8%Population, 2000…