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Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel is a cartoonist whose 2006 memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic was a smash in the comics world as well as in the establishment literary world. It even became a stage musical. A…Mary Tyler Moore Biography
Mary Tyler MooreactressBorn: 12/29/1936Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York Emmy Award-winning television, film and stage actress best known for her television roles as witty, intelligent women. Her…Mona Van Duyn Biography
Mona Van DuynpoetBorn: 5/9/1921Birthplace: Waterloo, Iowa Pulitzer Prize–winning poet whose poetry looks at the everyday lives of common people with an ironic sense of wit. She uses formal…Chester Earl HOLIFIELD, Congress, CA (1903-1995)
HOLIFIELD Chester Earl , a Representative from California; born in Mayfield, Graves County, Ky., December 3, 1903; moved with his family to Springdale, Ark., in 1912; attended the public schools;…U-V
U2Tracey UllmanLiv UllmannSkeet UlrichAmber VallettaAbigail Van BurenLee Van CleefJean-Claude Van DammeJames Van Der BeekAmy VanderbiltLuther VandrossMona Van DuynDick Van DykeVan HalenMelvin…Van Halen Biography
Van Halenrock group In the early 1970s, in Pasadena, California, guitarist Eddie Van Halen and his brother Alex Van Halen, a drummer, formed the group Mammoth with vocalist David Lee Roth and…2015 Year in Review Slideshow: U.S. News
Top events for the nation and the world in 2015 Jennie Wood Prev Next Campaign 2016 Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Remain Frontrunners After multiple debates, Donald Trump remained the…Brewer's: Off with his Head! So much for Buckingham!
(ColleyCibber: The Tragical History of Richard III., altered from Shakespeare.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Offa's DykeOff the Hooks A B C D E F G…Brewer's: Want
or Went. A road. Thus “the four-want way,” the spot where four roads meet. Chaucer uses the expression “a privie went” (private road), etc.…Brewer's: Wat
A familar name for a hare. By this, poor Wat, far off upon a hill, Stands on his hinder legs, with listening ear. Shakespeare:…