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Sir Alfred Hitchcock Biography

Sir Alfred HitchcockdirectorBorn: 8/13/1899Birthplace: London, England British director famous for his dark, voyeuristic suspense films. He is best known for Strangers on a Train (1951), Rear Window…

Alfred A. Knopf Biography

Alfred A. Knopfbook publisherBorn: 9/12/1892Birthplace: New York City A premier book publisher who paid as much attention to the typestyle and materials of the books he published as to the…

1998 Alfred Dunhill Cup

at St. Andrews, Scotland (Oct. 8-11) South Africa def. Spain, 3-0 Semifinals (Spain def. United States, 2-1): John Daly (USA) def. Miguel Angel Jiménez (SPA), 73-75; Santiago Luna (SPA) def. Tiger…

Barr, Alfred Hamilton, Jr.

(Encyclopedia) Barr, Alfred Hamilton, Jr., 1902–81, American art historian, b. Detroit. Barr taught art history at several colleges and was the first director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York…

Great Glen

(Encyclopedia) Great Glen or Glen More, valley, 60 mi (97 km) long, Highland, N central Scotland, extending from Moray Firth SW to Loch Linnhe. It was formed by a fault in the earth's surface. Loch…

Great Bend

(Encyclopedia) Great Bend, city (2020 pop. 14,733), seat of Barton co., central Kans., on a bend in the Arkansas River; settled and inc. 1872. It is a…

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

(Encyclopedia) Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, collective name given several English monastic chronicles in Anglo-Saxon, all stemming from a compilation made from old annals and other sources c.891. Although…

Schlieffen, Alfred, Graf von

(Encyclopedia) Schlieffen, Alfred, Graf vonSchlieffen, Alfred, Graf vonälˈfrāt gräf fən shlēˈfən [key], 1833–1913, German field marshal and strategist. In the tradition of the Prussian officer corps…