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Lee, Michele

actress, singerBirthplace: Los AngelesBorn: 6/24/42

Michel Mirowski

Michel MirowskiBorn: 1924Birthplace: Warsaw, Poland Implantable defibrillator—Heilman, Langer, Mower, and Mirowski: This team of doctors developed the implantable defibrillator, an internal…

Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand was the French musician, singer and composer best known for his movie scores, including the Oscar-winning song "The Windmills of Your Mind" from the 1968 Steve McQueen movie The Thomas…

Michel Hazanavicius

Name at birth: Michel HazanaviciusMichel Hazanavicius is the French director who won an Oscar in 2012 for The Artist, his charming silent movie set in the early days of Hollywood. Michel…

Michel Foucault

Name at birth: Paul-Michel FoucaultFrench philosopher Michel Foucault came to prominence in the 1960s as a provocative voice whose academic studies of power and institutions included Madness and…

Michele Bachmann

Michele Bachmann was a Republican congresswoman from Minnesota who came to national attention during the presidential election of 2008, and was a candidate for U.S. president in 2012. Bachmann rose…

Brewer's: Mont de Piete

A pawn depôt. These depôts, called “monti di pietá” (charity loans), were first instituted under Leo X., at Rome, by charitable persons who wished to rescue the poor and needy from…

Brewer's: Mont St. Michel

in Normandy, formerly called Belen. Here nine Druidesses sold to sailors the arrows to charm away storms. The arrows had to be discharged by a young man twenty-one years old. Source:…

di Suvero, Mark

(Encyclopedia) di Suvero, Markdi Suvero, Markdē s&oomacr;ˈvərō [key], 1933–, American sculptor, b. Shanghai. Di Suvero's major works are constructions of massize pieces of steel, huge weathered…