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E. Eugene Yaw (born February 26, 1943) is an American politician from Pennsylvania currently serving as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 23rd district since 2009. Early life and education
Francis Scott Key – amateur poet who wrote the words to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner" Rebecca Nurse – figure in the Salem witch trials; Annie Oakley – sharpshooter; John Proctor – English born victim of the Salem Witch Trials; Rick Rescorla – a hero of September 11, 2001; Betsy Ross – maker of the ...
Steffens was born in San Francisco, California, the only son and eldest of four children of Elizabeth Louisa (Symes) Steffens and Joseph Steffens.He was raised largely in Sacramento, the state capital; the Steffens family mansion, a Victorian house on H Street bought from merchant Albert Gallatin in 1887, would become the California Governor's Mansion in 1903.
Ellen Beach Yaw (September 14, 1869 – September 9, 1947) was an American coloratura soprano, best known for her concert career and extraordinary vocal range, and for originating the title role in Arthur Sullivan's comic opera The Rose of Persia (1899).
In 1870, Thayer was a member of the American Bible Revision Committee and recording secretary of the New Testament company (working on the Revised Version). [1] Thayer's Greek–English Lexicon is a revised and translated edition of C.G. Wilke's Clavis Novi Testamenti - first published in 1841. After numerous revisions by both Wilke and his ...
The American Way is the second in a four novel series entitled Building of Empire, Crime and Politics; the Cornerstone of America by author Paddy Kelly. The American Way relates the events leading up to and through the Great Woolen Strike of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts when approximately 40,000 immigrants from nearly every country in Europe, sharing 30 religions and 127 ethnic back grounds ...
Richard Brookhiser (/ ˈ b r ʊ k h aɪ z ər /; born February 23, 1955) is an American journalist, biographer and historian. He is a senior editor at National Review . He is most widely known for a series of biographies of America's founders , including Alexander Hamilton , Gouverneur Morris , and George Washington .
Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), Danish writer who wrote in both Danish and English; Irena Brežná, Slovak-Swiss writer and journalist [2] André Brink, (South African) English-Afrikaans novelist; Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and essayist; Elias Canetti, Bulgarian born Sephardic writer, British citizen, writing in German