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Cabinet Members with Dates of Appointment

Cabinet Members Under Washington Cabinet Members Under J. Adams Cabinet Members Under Jefferson Cabinet Members Under Madison Cabinet Members Under Monroe Cabinet Members…

Brewer's: Adamites

Ad′amites(3 syl.). A sect of fanatics who spread themselves over Bohemia and Moravia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. One Picard, of Bohemia, was the founder in 1400, and styled…

Brewer's: Gardener

(g hard). Get on, gardener! Get on, you slow and clumsy coachman. The allusion is to a man who is both gardener and coachman. Gardener. Adam is so called by Tennyson. From you blue sky…

Dr. Kurt Alfred Adler Biography

Dr. Kurt Alfred AdlerAge: 92 psychotherapist who sought to put into practice new approach developed by his father, famed Viennese psychiatrist, Alfred Adler. Died: May 28, 1997.Bobby…

Kathy Acker 1997 Deaths

Kathy Ackernovelist, performance artist an eccentric artist who derived inspiration from writer William Burroughs; her sexually and violently graphic novels include Blood and Guts in High…

Abu Abbas 2004 Deaths

Abu AbbasAge: 55 former leader of the terrorist group Palestine Liberation Front who organized the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro, an Italian cruise ship. During the operation, hijackers…

Edie Payne 2000 Deaths

Edie PayneAge: 94 Australia's oldest living Olympian; ran in the 1928 Amsterdam Games and was the first woman to represent her country at an Olympic track event; officially opened the Olympic…

Babatunde Olatunji 2003 Deaths

Babatunde OlatunjiAge: 76 influential Nigerian drummer whose 1959 album Drums of Passion, the first African drumming album recorded in stereo in the U.S., created a wide interest in African…

Robert Palmer 2003 Deaths

Robert PalmerAge: 54 dapper rock musician who played with several British rock groups before launching a successful solo career in the 1980s with such hits as “Addicted to Love” and “Simply…