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Shannon Elizabeth

Shannon Elizabeth played a voluptuous Czechoslovakian exchange student in the teen comedy American Pie (1999, with Tara Reid). The movie put Elizabeth on the map, and she raised her profile even…

Elizabeth Ashley

Elizabeth Ashley(Elizabeth Cole)actressBorn: 8/30/1939Birthplace: Ocala, Florida A leading Broadway actress of the 1960s, she won a Tony Award for her performance in Take Her, She's Mine (…

Elizabeth Olsen

Elizabeth Olsen made her big-screen splash in 2011, starring in the psychological thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene and the art house horror film Silent House. The younger sister of The Olsen Twins (…

Elizabeth Dole

Elizabeth Dole is a former Republican senator from North Carolina, former Secretary of Transportation, and former candidate for president in 2000. She is also the wife of former U.S. Senator Bob Dole…

Elizabeth, city, United States

(Encyclopedia) Elizabeth, city (2020 pop. 137,298), seat of Union co., NE N.J., on Newark Bay; inc. 1855. It is a shipping and transportation hub, with…

Chase, Philander

(Encyclopedia) Chase, Philander, 1775–1852, American Episcopal bishop, b. Cornish, N.H. After experience as a missionary in the West, he was elected (1818) first bishop of Ohio, where he founded…

Woodville, Elizabeth

(Encyclopedia) Woodville, Elizabeth, 1437–92, queen consort of Edward IV of England. She was the daughter of Richard Woodville (later the 1st Earl Rivers). Her first husband, Sir John Grey, was…

Jolley, Elizabeth

(Encyclopedia) Jolley, Elizabeth (Monica Elizabeth Jolley), 1923–2007, Australian novelist, b. Birmingham, England. A nurse during World War II, she immigrated to Western Australia in 1959. Although…

Whipple, Henry Benjamin

(Encyclopedia) Whipple, Henry Benjamin, 1822–1901, American Episcopal bishop, b. Adams, N.Y. He was ordained a priest in 1850, and in 1859 he was consecrated the first bishop of Minnesota. With James…