(Encyclopedia) Hale, Sir Matthew, 1609–76, English jurist. He was successively a judge in the Court of Common Pleas (1654), chief baron of the Exchequer (1660), and chief justice of the Court of King…
The 1991 Academy Awards were presented March 30, 1992 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles.Best PictureBeauty and the Beast, Don Hahn, producer (Buena Vista)Bugsy, Barry Levinson…
(Encyclopedia) Huntingdon, town, Cambridgeshire, E
central England, on the Ouse River. Seat of the Huntingdonshire dist., the
town has light industries…
(Encyclopedia) Whitewater, popular name for a failed 1970s Arkansas real estate venture by the Whitewater Development Corp., in which Gov. (later President) Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary Rodham…
(Encyclopedia) Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885–1957, American author, b. Kennebunk, Maine, grad. Cornell, 1908. Well known as staff correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post and as an author of travel…
(Encyclopedia) Motley, John Lothrop, 1814–77, American historian and diplomat, b. Dorchester, Mass. Author of two novels concerning Thomas Morton (1839 and 1849), as well as a number of articles for…
(Encyclopedia) Weaver, Sigourney ,
1949- , American actress, b. New York, N.Y., as Susan Alexandra Weaver,
Stanford Univ. (B.A., 1972), Yale Univ. (M.…
(Encyclopedia) O'Neill, Owen Roe, 1590?–1649, Irish chieftain. Nephew of Hugh O'Neill, 2d earl of Tyrone, he left Ireland after the “flight of the earls” in 1607 and spent 30 years in the Spanish…
(Encyclopedia) Dennie, Joseph, 1768–1812, American Federalist journalist, b. Boston. As editor, he made the Farmer's Weekly Museum at Walpole, N.H., an influential paper, particularly because of the…
