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Anthony of Padua, Saint

(Encyclopedia) Anthony of Padua, Saint, 1195–1231, Portuguese Franciscan, Doctor of the Church, b. Lisbon. He was renowned for his eloquence. According to tradition, in a vision he received the child…

Harper, Ida Husted

(Encyclopedia) Harper, Ida Husted, 1851–1931, American woman suffragist. Allied with the woman-suffrage movement from 1898, she became the official reporter and historian of the National American…

Principi, Anthony

ex-secretary of Veterans AffairsBirthplace: New York CityBorn: 4/16/44

Brewer's: Anthony

Anthony (St.). Patron saint of swineherds, because he always lived in woods and forests. St. Anthony's Cross. The taucross, T, called a lace. St. Anthony's Fire. Erysipelas is so called…

Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain was a rough-and-tumble chef famous for his television shows about cooking and travel, and for his bestselling 2000 book, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly…

Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn's heyday was the 1950s, when he won two Oscars as a supporting actor: one as the brother of Emiliano Zapata in Viva Zapata! (1952), and another as the painter Gauguin, the friend of…