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The Old Neighborhood

By:David MametDirector:Scot ZiglerSets:Kevin RigdonCostumes:Harriet VoytLighting:John AmbrosoneOpened:11/97 at the Booth TheaterCast:Peter Riegert, Patti LuPone, Vincent Guastaferro, Jack…

Gabriel MOORE, Congress, AL (1785-1845)

Senate Years of Service: 1831-1833; 1833-1837 Party: Jacksonian; Anti-Jackson MOORE Gabriel , a Representative and a Senator from Alabama; born in Stokes County, N.C., around 1785; pursued an…

2005 People in the News

Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen),Jack Abramoff,Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,Askar Akayev,Samuel Alito,Kofi Annan,Lance Armstrong,Bashar al-Assad,Gloria Arroyo,Buster Baxter,Benedict XVI,Tony Blair,Robert Blake,John…

Pulitzer Prizes: Correspondence

1929Paul Scott Mowrer (Chicago Daily News)1930Leland Stowe (New York Herald Tribune)1931H. R. Knickerbocker (Philadelphia Public Ledger and New York Evening Post)1932Walter Duranty (New York…

James Buchanan Biography

James BuchananBorn: 4/23/1791Birthplace: Mercersburg, Pa. James Buchanan was born near Mercersburg, Pa., on April 23, 1791. A Dickinson graduate and a lawyer, he entered Pennsylvania…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Stanzas - April, 1814

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Stanza, Written at BracknellTo HarrietStanzas - April, 1814 Away! the moor is dark beneath the moon, Rapid clouds have drank the last pale beam of even: Away!…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Early Poems [1814, 1815]

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems Written in 1816Early Poems [1814, 1815]Stanza, Written at BracknellStanzas - April, 1814To HarrietTo Mary Wollstonecraft GodwinTo -MutabilityOn DeathA Summer Evening…

Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson was a star of stage and screen from the 1950s until her death in 2021 at the age of 96. Tyson was nominated for an Oscar in 1973 for her lead performance in Sounder, and won Emmys for…

Douglass, Frederick

(Encyclopedia) Douglass, FrederickDouglass, Frederickdŭgˈləs [key], c.1818–1895, American abolitionist, b. near Easton, Md. as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. The son of a black slave, Harriet…

Thackeray, William Makepeace

(Encyclopedia) Thackeray, William MakepeaceThackeray, William Makepeacethăkˈərē [key], 1811–63, English novelist, b. Calcutta (now Kolkata), India. He is important not only as a great novelist but…