Anne BaxteractressBorn: 5/7/1923Birthplace: Michigan City, Indiana A versatile stage and screen performer, she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in The Razor's Edge (1946…
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Anne Heche
actress
Born: 5/25/1969
Birthplace: Aurora, Ohio
Rising actress who, for better or worse, is best known as comedian Ellen DeGeneres's former lover. Heche has had a number of eye-…
Stormy petrels. Mother Carey is Mater Cara. The French call these birds oiseaux de Notre Dame or aves Sanct&aeigh; Mariae. Chickens are the young of any fowl, or any small bird. “They…
or Leeward Tide, is a tide running in the same direction as the wind blows. A tide in the opposite direction is called a tide under the lee. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…
Mother TeresaAge: 87 Roman Catholic nun who won 1979 Nobel Peace Prize for work among the poorest of the world's poor. Had lived in India for five decades. Founded Missionaries of Charity.…
Thorton LeeAge: 90 left-handed pitcher who lasted 16 years in the major leagues, 11 with Chicago White Sox teams that never finished higher than third; after a stint with Cleveland, Lee…
Elizabeth Lee Hazen Born: 1885Birthplace: rural Mississippi Nystatin—Hazen and Brown: Nystatin was the world's first non-toxic anti-fungal antibiotic. It cured fungal infections of the skin,…
Ann SothernAge: 92 actress and singer who, despite her range and talent, never achieved superstar status. Instead, she flirted with fame as the star of several banal movies. She starred in…
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