WebCharles Douville Coburn (June 19, 1877 – August 30, 1961) was an American actor. He was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award three times – in The Devil and Miss Jones (1941), The More the Merrier (1943), and The Green Years (1946) – winning for his performance in The More the Merrier.He was honored with a star on the Hollywood …

WebCharles H. Fuller Jr. (March 5, 1939 – October 3, 2022) was an American playwright, best known for his play A Soldier's Play, for which he received the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2020 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play Early life. Fuller was born in Philadelphia, ...

WebCharles Abraham Halleck (August 22, 1900 – March 3, 1986) was an American politician. He was the Republican leader of the United States House of Representatives from the second district of Indiana Early life and education. Halleck was born near DeMotte, in Jasper County, Indiana, the ...

WebIn 1882, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts changed its name to the current Art Institute of Chicago and elected as its first president the banker and philanthropist Charles L. Hutchinson, who "is arguably the single most important individual to have shaped the direction and fortunes of the Art Institute of Chicago".: 5 Hutchinson was a director of …

WebSamuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". His novels include The Adventures …

WebCharles Bronson, geboren als Charles Dennis Buchinsky (Ehrenfeld, 3 november 1921 – Los Angeles, 30 augustus 2003), was een Amerikaans filmacteur.Hij won in 1972 een Golden Globe in de category "World Film Favorites" en speelde in meer dan negentig films.. Bronson was een specialist in het spelen van ruige, mysterieuze en tragische personages …

WebJames Harrison Coburn jr. (Laurel, 31 augustus 1928 – Beverly Hills, 18 november 2002) was een Amerikaans filmacteur. Ook regisseerde hij ooit de aflevering Irving the Explainer, van de televisieserie The Rockford Files ().In 1978 schreef hij mee aan de film Circle of Iron, met onder meer David Carradine en Christopher Lee in de hoofdrollen. In 2001 …

WebChristopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (born 14 February 1952) is a British public speaker and hereditary peer.He is known for his work as a journalist, Conservative political advisor, UKIP political candidate, and for his invention of the mathematical puzzle Eternity. Early on in his public speaking career topics centred on his …

WebThe history of photography began in remote antiquity with the discovery of two critical principles: camera obscura image projection and the observation that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. There are no artifacts or descriptions that indicate any attempt to capture images with light sensitive materials prior to the 18th century.

WebMaurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins CBE FRS (15 December 1916 – 5 October 2004) was a New Zealand-born British biophysicist and Nobel laureate whose research spanned multiple areas of physics and biophysics, contributing to the scientific understanding of phosphorescence, isotope separation, optical microscopy and X-ray diffraction, and to the …