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Ruby Dee

Name at birth: Ruby Ann WallaceRuby Dee was a star of stage and screen for decades, beginning with her 1946 Broadway debut in Anna Lucasta. Ruby Dee appeared hundreds of times in plays, movies and…

Sandra Dee

Name at birth: Alexandria ZuckSporty, cheerful and squeaky-clean, Sandra Dee was the star of Gidget, the 1959 film that inspired a flurry of sun-and-fun surfing movies in the early 1960s. Dee began…

Flint, town, Wales

(Encyclopedia) Flint, Welsh Fflint, town, Flintshire, NE Wales, on the Dee estuary. Flint has industries that produce rayon, nylon, paper, and clothing…

Kirkcudbright, town, Scotland

(Encyclopedia) KirkcudbrightKirkcudbrightkûrk&oomacr;ˈbrē [key], town (1991 pop. 3,406), Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland, at the head of the Dee estuary. It has granaries and creameries and is…

Telford, Thomas

(Encyclopedia) Telford, Thomas, 1757–1834, Scottish civil engineer. He greatly improved road building in England and Scotland. He introduced the use of a base of large stones surfaced with compacted…

Johnny Dee Biography

Johnny DeeAge: 75 head men's basketball coach at Notre Dame from 1964-71 who led the team to four NCAA Tournaments, one NIT appearance and an overall record of 116-80; was hired by Alabama in…

Brewer's: Dee Mills

If you had the rent of Dee Mills, you would spend it all. Dee Mills, in Cheshire, used to yield a very large annual rent. (Cheshire proverb.) There was a jolly miller Lived on the river…

Ruby Dee Biography

Ruby Dee(Ruby Ann Wallace)actressBorn: 10/27/1924Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio Emmy Award-winning stage, film and television actress whose Broadway and Off-Broadway performances include A Raisin in…

Sandra Dee Biography

Sandra Dee(Alexandria Zuck)actressBorn: 4/23/1942Birthplace: Bayonne, New Jersey Originally a model, the petite Sandra Dee moved onto TV commercials, then broke into teeny-bopper films of the…