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CURRENT WORLD CHAMPIONS

(As of Sept. 5, 2006)Weight classWBCWBAHeavyweightOleg Maskaev (Kazakhstan)Nicolay Valuev (Russia)CruiserweightO'Neil Bell (U.S.)O'Neil Bell (U.S.)Light heavyweightTomasz Adamek (Poland)…

Brewer's: Public-house Signs

Much of a nation's history, and more of its manners and feelings, may be gleaned from its public-house signs. A very large number of them are selected out of compliment to the lord of the…

Samuel Milton Jones Biography

Samuel Milton Jonesinventor, manufacturer, reformerBorn: 8/3/1846Birthplace: Carnarvonshire, Wales Jones began working in the oil fields of Ohio and Pennsylvania when he was only 10 years old…

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

Name at birth: Camilla ShandCamilla Parker-Bowles -- now titled Queen Consort -- is the second wife of Britain's King Charles III. The two met in the early 1970s, becoming friends and then romantic…

Samuel GRIFFITH, Congress, PA (1816-1893)

GRIFFITH Samuel , a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, Great Britain, February 14, 1816; instructed in elementary subjects by a private teacher; was graduated…

Bryan Brown Biography

Bryan BrownactorBorn: 6/23/1947Birthplace: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia An Australian actor who first gained fame in the critically acclaimed film Breaker Morant (1980), he also garnered…

Cheshire, former county, England

(Encyclopedia) CheshireCheshirechĕshˈər [key], county, W central England, on the N border with Wales. The county seat was Chester. Other principal population centers included Northwich, Crewe, and…

Chester, city, England

(Encyclopedia) Chester, city, Cheshire West and Chester, W central England, on a sandstone height above the Dee River. It is a railroad junction.…

Tlingit

(Encyclopedia) TlingitTlingittlĭngˈgĭt [key], group of related Native North American tribes, speaking a language that forms a branch of the Nadene linguistic stock (see Native American languages).…