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Irving Berlin(Israel Baline)songwriterBorn: 5/11/1888Birthplace: Temum, Russia Considered by many to be the greatest American songwriter ever, he wrote such popular favorites as “Alexander's Ragtime…Amy Irving Biography
Amy IrvingactressBorn: 9/10/1953Birthplace: Palo Alto, California Amy Irving first appeared on screen in Stephen King's Carrie (1976) and as the only survivor of the gym conflagration was able to…Darley, Felix Octavius Carr
(Encyclopedia) Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822–88, American illustrator, lithographer, and painter, b. Philadelphia. He is best known for his pen-and-ink drawings, which, for their inventiveness,…Langmuir, Irving
(Encyclopedia) Langmuir, IrvingLangmuir, Irvinglăngˈmy&oomacr;r [key], 1881–1957, American chemist, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. Associated (1909–50) with the research laboratory of the General Electric…Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de
(Encyclopedia) Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie deBonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie debŏnˈvĭl [key], 1796–1878, American army officer and trader who blazed portions of the Oregon Trail, b. France…Berlin, Irving
(Encyclopedia) Berlin, IrvingBerlin, Irvingbərlĭnˈ [key], 1888–1989, American songwriter, b. Russia as Israel Baline; his Jewish family fled a pogrom in 1893 and settled in New York's Lower East Side…Coquelin, Benoît Constant
(Encyclopedia) Coquelin, Benoît ConstantCoquelin, Benoît Constantbənwäˈ kôNstäNˈ kôklăNˈ [key], 1841–1909, French actor, known as Coquelin aîné [the elder]. He made his debut at the Comédie française…Layton, Irving
(Encyclopedia) Layton, Irving, 1912–2006, Canadian poet, b. Romania as Israel Lazarovitch. His family emigrated to Montreal when he was an infant. He attended Macdonald College (B.Sc., 1939) and…Fisher, Irving
(Encyclopedia) Fisher, Irving, 1867–1947, American economist, b. Saugerties, N.Y., Ph.D. Yale, 1891. He began teaching at Yale in 1890 and was active there until 1935. His earliest work was in…Knickerbocker
(Encyclopedia) KnickerbockerKnickerbockernĭkˈərbŏkˌər [key], term used almost synonymously with the adjective “Dutch” in respect to Dutch families and customs and the Dutch region of early New York…Trending
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