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Roddy Doyle Biography

Roddy DoyleIrish novelist, playwright, and screenwriterBorn: 1958Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland Doyle's work is rooted in his experience as a schoolteacher in working-class Dublin. International…

Frederick George PAYNE, Congress, ME (1904-1978)

Senate Years of Service: 1953-1959 Party: Republican PAYNE Frederick George , a Senator from Maine; born in Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine, July 24, 1904; attended the public schools of…

Philip Joseph PHILBIN, Congress, MA (1898-1972)

PHILBIN Philip Joseph , a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Clinton, Worcester County, Mass., May 29, 1898; attended the public and high schools; during the First World War served as a…

rap music

(Encyclopedia) rap music or hip-hop, African-American popular music style that originated in the mid-to-late ‘70s, which incorporates DJing, MCing, dance, and fashion. See studies by M.…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Juvenilia

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Queen MabNotes on the Text and Its PunctuationJuveniliaOf the following pieces the "Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire", the Poems from "St. Irvyne, or The Rosicrucian", "…

John Edward ERICKSON, Congress, MT (1863-1946)

Senate Years of Service: 1933-1934 Party: Democrat ERICKSON John Edward , a Senator from Montana; born in Stoughton, Dane County, Wis., March 14, 1863; moved with his parents to Eureka,…

James Duval PHELAN, Congress, CA (1861-1930)

Senate Years of Service: 1915-1921 Party: Democrat PHELAN James Duval , a Senator from California; born in San Francisco, Calif., April 20, 1861; graduated from St. Ignatius University, San…

Benjamin, Park

(Encyclopedia) Benjamin, Park, 1809–64, American journalist, b. British Guiana (now Guyana). As owner and editor of the New England Magazine, he merged it (1835) with the American Monthly Magazine of…