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Native Americans bios, from Alexie to Wovoka A-G | H-M | O-R | S-W Charles Curtis Sherman Alexie, writer Paula Gunn Allen, Pueblo-Sioux poet, novelist, critic Dennis Banks, Anishinabe…The Devil's Dictionary: Hangman
by Ambrose Bierce HANDKERCHIEFHAPPINESSHANGMAN -n. An officer of the law charged with duties of the highest dignity and utmost gravity, and held in hereditary disesteem by a populace having…Frederick II, Holy Roman emperor and German king
(Encyclopedia) Frederick II, 1194–1250, Holy Roman emperor (1220–50) and German king (1212–20), king of Sicily (1197–1250), and king of Jerusalem (1229–50), son of Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI and of…King David
The heroic yet human life of David, ancient Israel's most important king, is told in the biblical books 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings and 1 Chronicles. The eighth and youngest son of Jesse of…Crispus Attucks Biography
Crispus AttucksAmerican revolutionary patriotBorn: c. 1723Birthplace: Boston Of mixed African and American Indian ancestry, Attucks was the slave of William Brown of Framingham, Mass. Attucks…Benjamin J. Cayetano Biography
Benjamin J. Cayetanogovernor of HawaiiBorn: November 14, 1939 Birthplace: Kalihi, Hawaii Cayetano received a B.A. in political science from UCLA in 1968 and law degree from Loyola University…Gary Locke Biography
Gary Locke governorBorn: 1/21/1950Birthplace: Seattle, Wash. Locke received a B.A. in political science from Yale University in 1972, and a law degree from Boston University in 1975. He…Sacheen Littlefeather Biography
Sacheen Littlefeather(Maria Cruz)actressBorn: 1947Birthplace: California Sacheen Littlefeather is best known for having appeared at Marlon Brando's behest at the Academy Awards ceremony in…Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus was an American writer of Portugese-Jewish ancestry whose 1883 poem, "The New Colossus," is inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Lazarus grew up in a prosperous Jewish…Flatland: Of the Doctrine of our Priests
by Edwin A. Abbott Concerning our PriestsOf the Doctrine of our Priests As to the doctrine of the Circles it may briefly be summed up in a single maxim, “Attend to your Configuration.“…Trending
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