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Carolyn Bessette Kennedy Biography
Carolyn Bessette Kennedyfashion publicist, socialiteBorn: 1/7/1966Birthplace: White Plains, N.Y. press-shy fashion publicist who was thrown into the media spotlight when she married John F.…Eden, Emily
(Encyclopedia) Eden, Emily, 1797–1869, English novelist. She went with her brother George, Lord Auckland, to India when he was governor-general (1836–42). Her two novels, The Semi-detached House (…Oswald, Lee Harvey
(Encyclopedia) Oswald, Lee Harvey, 1939–63, presumed assassin of John F. Kennedy, b. New Orleans. Oswald spent most of his boyhood in Fort Worth, Tex. Later, he attended a Dallas high school, and…Adams
(Encyclopedia) Adams, town (2020 pop. 5,335), Berkshire co., NW Mass., in the Berkshires, on the Hoosic River; inc. 1778. Its manufactures include chemicals, textiles, and paper products…Shirley, Sir Anthony
(Encyclopedia) Shirley or Sherley, Sir Anthony, 1565–1636?, English adventurer. He fought in the Netherlands (1586) under the earl of Leicester and in France (1591) under the earl of Essex, who…Flaubert, Gustave
(Encyclopedia) Flaubert, GustaveFlaubert, Gustavegüstävˈ flōbĕrˈ [key], 1821–80, French novelist, regarded as one of the supreme masters of the realistic novel. He was a scrupulous, slow writer,…John Fitzgerald KENNEDY, Congress, MA (1917-1963)
Senate Years of Service: 1953-1960 Party: Democrat KENNEDY John Fitzgerald , a Representative and a Senator from Massachusetts and 35th President of the United States; born in Brookline, Norfolk…Defiance
(Encyclopedia) Defiance, city (2020 pop. 17,066), seat of Defiance co., NW Ohio, at the confluence of the Auglaize and Maumee rivers, in a farm area;…Allen, Hervey
(Encyclopedia) Allen, Hervey, 1889–1949, American novelist and poet, b. Pittsburgh, grad. Univ. of Pittsburgh, 1915. After service in World War I, he taught English in Charleston, S.C., where, in…Brady, Samuel
(Encyclopedia) Brady, Samuel, 1758–95, American frontiersman. He fought in several battles of the American Revolution but earned his name as a scout in the Ohio country under Daniel Brodhead and…Trending
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