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Mark Burnett Biography

Mark Burnettcreator of SurvivorBorn: 1960?Birthplace: England Burnett is responsible for the television phenomenon of 2000, Survivor—an experiment in social Darwinism, in which contestants…

A British Soldier

by Ann-Marie Imbornoni Return to the C.S. Lewis Bio World War I broke out in 1914, just as Lewis was leaving school to be tutored privately by William Kirkpatrick, a family friend who had tutored…

Francis LEWIS, Congress, NY (1713-1803)

LEWIS, Francis, a Delegate from New York; born in Llandaff, Wales, March 21, 1713; attended Westminster School, London; entered the countinghouse of a London merchant; immigrated to the United…

Mark Burnett

Name at birth: James Mark BurnettMark Burnett is the producer of Survivor, The Apprentice and other hit TV shows of the 21st century. Mark Burnett was born in London and enlisted in the British Army…

Robert Maxwell Biography

Robert Maxwell(Jan Ludvik Hoch)publisher, media mogulBorn: 6/10/1923Birthplace: Slatinske Dòly, Czech Republic He fled the Nazi invasion of Czecholovakia in 1939 and settled in Britain,…

Pierce BUTLER, Congress, SC (1744-1822)

Senate Years of Service: 1789-1796; 1802-1804 Party: Pro-Administration; Anti-Administration; Democratic Republican; Democratic Republican BUTLER Pierce , a Delegate and a Senator from South…

Henry Hamilton Biography

Henry Hamilton British officer and governorBorn: 1734?Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland Hamilton was the son of Henry Hamilton, member of the British Parliament for Donegal, County Cork, Ireland.…

Anthony Hopkins

An enduring star of stage and screen, Anthony Hopkins remains best known as the creepy and manipulative serial killer Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. Anthony Hopkins attended the Welsh…

The Revolutionary War

Conflicts increase between colonists and Britain on western frontier because of royal edict limiting western expansion (1763) and regulation of colonial trade and increased taxation of…

Eliza Lucas Pinckney Biography

Eliza Lucas PinckneyhorticulturistBorn: 1722Birthplace: Antigua Daughter of a British army officer, Eliza Lucas grew up on the Caribbean island of Antigua but attended finishing school in…