Richard Denningactor Best known for his role as the Governor of Hawaii in Hawaii Five-O. Denning's film credits include Some Like it Hot, The Creature From the Black Lagoon and An Affair to…
God ye good den! —i.e. God (give) ye good evening. This is the final d of good joined to the “en,” a contraction of evening. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…
Search for the Fugitives Captain John Wooster's Dayton's Den About a mile and a half west of David Wooster's is a naked bluff of rock, the extremity of which breaks into a jagged…
(Encyclopedia) Herriman, George, 1880–1944, American cartoonist, b. New Orleans into a prominent mixed-race Creole family. He created the fanciful, abstractly drawn comic strip Krazy Kat (1913–44),…
DENNING William , a Representative from New York; born probably in St. John's, Newfoundland, in
April 1740; moved to New York City in early youth and engaged in mercantile pursuits; member of…
(Encyclopedia) Caccini, GiulioCaccini, Giulioj&oomacr;ˈlyō kät-chēˈnē [key], c.1546–1618, Italian composer and singer. Both he and Peri composed settings of Ottavio Rinuccini's Euridice (1600),…
A cromlech in a valley, near Marlborough. It now consists of two large uprights and an impost. The third upright has fallen. Some of the farm labourers, a few years ago, fastened a team of…
(Encyclopedia) Carpenter, John Alden, 1876–1951, American composer, b. Park Ridge, Ill.; pupil of J. K. Paine at Harvard and of Elgar. His music, refined and skillfully written, influenced by French…
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