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Of that which he had heard against himself,
He who makes fathers chary still to…
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(Encyclopedia) Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797–1851, English author; daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. In 1814 she fell in love with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, accompanied…
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(Encyclopedia) Streep, Meryl, 1949–, American actress, b. Summit, N.J., as Mary Louise Streep. She attended Yale Drama School and appeared in many Broadway and off-Broadway productions during the…
Bob KaneAge: 83 revered illustrator who created the legendary comic book figure-cum-movie hero “Batman” in 1939. The first Batman strip, The Case of the Chemical Syndicate debuted in 1939 in…
