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Waller, Edmund

(Encyclopedia) Waller, Edmund, 1606–87, English poet. He studied at Eton and Cambridge and became a prominent speaker in Parliament at a young age. He married twice (1631 and 1644), but his early…

Mount Allison University

(Encyclopedia) Mount Allison University, at Sackville, N.B., Canada; nonsectarian; founded 1839; opened 1843 as Mount Allison Wesleyan Academy; Mount Allison College organized 1862. It achieved…

Allison, Bobby

(Encyclopedia) Allison, Bobby (Robert Arthur Allison), 1937–, American auto racing driver, b. Miami, Fla. The hard-charging Allison drove the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing circuit…

Allison, William Boyd

(Encyclopedia) Allison, William Boyd, 1829–1908, U.S. Senator from Iowa (1873–1908), b. Ashland co., Ohio. He served (1863–71) in the House of Representatives and entered the Senate in 1873. One of…

Allison, James Patrick

(Encyclopedia) Allison, James Patrick, 1948–, American immunologist, b. Alice, Tex., Ph.D. Univ. of Texas, Austin, 1973. Allison was a researcher at the Univ. of Texas System Cancer Center in Houston…

Allison, Fran

actressBirthplace: LaPorte City, IowaBorn: 1908?Died: 1989

Bobby Allison

Bobby AllisonBorn: Dec. 3, 1937Auto racer 3-time winner of Daytona 500 (1978,82,88); NASCAR national champ in 1983; father of Davey.Forrest (Phog) AllenA - CDavey Allison

Davey Allison

Davey AllisonBorn: Feb. 25, 1961Auto racer stock car Rookie of Year (1987); winner of 19 NASCAR races, including 1992 Daytona 500; killed at age 32 in helicopter accident at Talladega…

Allison Janney

Allison Janney won an Oscar in 2018 for her supporting role in I, Tonya (2017), playing the bitter and determined mother of Tonya Harding (played by Margot Robbie). A veteran of stage and screen,…