Although Every's career as a pirate lasted only two years, his exploits captured the public's imagination, inspired others to take up piracy, and spawned works of literature. Every began his pirate career while he was first mate aboard the warship Charles II. As the ship lay anchored in ...
Now an experienced actress, she made the leap to movie headliner for a new adaptation of Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" released in '11, earning critical acclaim for her performance as Catherine Earnshaw, one of the great Gothic heroines of English literature. Birthplace: Holl...
She was a conscientious student who loved languages and literature but found math to be drudgery. She literally had to memorize her textbooks on that subject. Hoag designed the first Sigma Kappa emblem. Hoag had tuberculosis and during the winter of her sophomore year, she grew sicker. The ...