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Read about the many tragedies that have struck the Kennedy family, including John Kennedy's assassination and the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy in a…
(Encyclopedia) Mary II, 1662–94, queen of England, wife of William III. The daughter of James II by his first wife, Anne Hyde, she was brought up a Protestant despite her father's adoption of Roman…
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Mary Astor(Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke)actressBorn: 5/3/1906Birthplace: Quincy, Illinois Starting off in silent films, she played opposite John Barrymore in Beau Brummel (1924) and Don Juan (1926…
Heroine of Donizetti's opera La Figlia del Reggimento. She first appears as a vivandière or French sutler-girl, for Sulpizio (the sergeant of the 11th regiment of Napoleon's Grand Army)…
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