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John Williams Biography
John Williams(John Towner Williams)composer, conductorBorn: 2/8/1932Birthplace: Queens, New York Famed movie score and TV theme composer, Williams has worked with Hollywood's most famous directors…William Hickey Biography
William Hickeyfilm, television and stage actorBorn: 19/19/1928Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York Though Hickey had been acting since the 1940s, it wasn't until 1985 that he gained fame for his role as…Michelle Williams Biography
Michelle WilliamsactressBorn: 9/9/1979Birthplace: Kalispell, Montana Until her Golden Globe and Oscar nominated performance in Brokeback Mountain (2005), this pouty-lipped, wide-eyed, slow-…Tony Williams Biography
Tony Williams(Anthony Williams)musicianBorn: 12/12/1945Birthplace: Chicago A noted jazz drummer in the vanguard of the fusion movement, a combination of rock music and jazz. His band, Lifetime, is…Percy Bysshe Shelley: To William Shelley ("My lost William")
by Percy Bysshe Shelley To Sophia [Miss Stacey] To William Shelley To William Shelley Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824. The fragment included in the Harvard manuscript book…William William VAN WYCK, Congress, NY (1777-1840)
VAN WYCK William William , a Representative from New York; born near Fishkill, Dutchess County, N.Y., August 9, 1777; attended the public schools and Fishkill Academy; engaged in agricultural…Handel, George Frideric
(Encyclopedia) Handel, George FridericHandel, George Friderichănˈdəl [key], 1685–1759, English composer, b. Halle, Germany. Handel was one of the greatest masters of baroque music, most widely…Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (table)
(Encyclopedia) Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel Year Recipient(s) 1969 Ragnar FrischJan Tinbergen 1970 Paul A. Samuelson 1971 Simon Kuznets 1972 Sir John R…Adams, Henry
(Encyclopedia) Adams, Henry, 1838–1918, American writer and historian, b. Boston; son of Charles Francis Adams (1807–86). He was secretary (1861–68) to his father, then U.S. minister to Great Britain…