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John Tyler

John Tyler was the 10th president of the United States. The child of an old Virginia family, he graduated from the College of William and Mary at age 17 (not an unusual age for that time) and went on…

John Travolta

John Travolta was a huge star in the late 1970s, thanks to the success of TV's Welcome Back, Kotter and the movies Carrie (1976), Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Grease (1978). His career since has…

John Williams

John Williams is the biggest name in the history of movie music and, probably, the most widely-heard composer of the last one hundred years. Williams began composing for television in the late 1950s…

John Waters

John Waters, already well-known in his native Baltimore for his underground movies, hit it big in the 1970s with low-budget, bad-taste classics such as Pink Flamingoes and Polyester. His first "…

John Q.

Director:Nick CassavetesWriter:James KearnsNew Line Cinema; PG-13; 110 minutesRelease:2/02Cast:Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall, James Woods America, the richest country in the history of…

John Edwards

Candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination by Liz Olson John Edwards Related Links John Edwards’s campaign website Profile of North…

John McCain

Candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination by Beth Rowen John McCain Related Links Sarah Palin John McCain’s campaign website Facts…

Brewer's: John

A contraction of Johannes (Joh'n). The French contract it differently, Jean—i.e. Jehan or Jehann; in Italian, Giovanni. Popes. JOHN I. died wretchedly in jail. JOHN II. and III. were…

John Banner

Name at birth: Johann BannerJohn Banner, a Jew, fled his native Austria in 1938 after the Nazi Anschluss. Years later he got his revenge by playing the buffoonish German sergeant Hans Schultz in the…

John Brown

John Brown is a famous figure in the fight over slavery that led up to the American Civil War. His murderous raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 showed the depth of the division between slave owners and…