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Glasgow, city, Scotland

(Encyclopedia) Glasgow Glasgow glăsˈgō, –kō, glăzˈgō [key], city and council area, S…

Continental System

(Encyclopedia) Continental System, scheme of action adopted by Napoleon I in his economic warfare with England from 1806 to 1812. Economic warfare had been carried on before 1806, but the system…

Pharisees

(Encyclopedia) PhariseesPhariseesfârˈĭsēz [key], one of the two great Jewish religious and political parties of the second commonwealth. Their opponents were the Sadducees, and it appears that the…

David Hyde Pierce

David Hyde PierceactorBorn: 4/3/1959Birthplace: Saratoga Springs, New York Emmy–winning actor best known as Frasier Crane's neurotic younger brother Niles on Frasier (1993–), Pierce is also active on…

David Hyde Pierce Biography

David Hyde PierceactorBorn: 4/3/1959Birthplace: Saratoga Springs, New York Emmy–winning actor best known as Frasier Crane's neurotic younger brother Niles on Frasier (1993–), Pierce is also active on…

1 Kings: 20

1 Kings Chapter 20 1 And Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria,…

Benét, Stephen Vincent (Benét)

Benét, Stephen Vincent (Benét)[1898-1943](1)Born at Bethlehem, Pa., 1898. Was educated at the Summerville Academy at Augusta, Ga., and at Yale University, taking the degree of A.B. in 1919…

Cabinet Members Under B. Harrison

Secretary of State James G. Blaine, 1889John W. Foster, 1892Secretary of the Treasury William Windom, 1889Charles Foster, 1891Secretary of War Redfield Proctor, 1889Stephen B. Elkins,…

1939 Academy Awards

The 1939 Academy Awards were presented Feb. 29, 1940 at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles.Outstanding ProductionDark Victory (Warner Bros.-First National)Gone With the Wind (Selznick…