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Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film directed by John Landis and written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod.Starring Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, and Jamie Lee Curtis, the film tells the story of an upper-class commodities broker (Aykroyd) and a poor street hustler (Murphy) whose lives cross when they are unwittingly made the subjects of ...
Hans Winthrop Mortimer (1734–1807) was a British property speculator and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1775 and 1790. Mortimer was the only son of Cromwell Mortimer secretary of the Royal Society, of Topping Hall, Essex and was born on 3 May 1734. He succeeded to the estates of his father on 7 January 1752.
At that election one candidate, Hans Winthrop Mortimer, stood independently of the established interests in the town and, having been easily defeated, petitioned to have the result overturned and produced copious evidence of corruption.
Hans Winthrop Mortimer 1781–84 : Succeeded by. Hans Winthrop Mortimer Adam Drummond. Preceded by. Sir John Aubrey Chaloner Arcedeckne. Member of Parliament for ...
Drummond was born on 18 October 1754. [1] He was the eldest son of the former Katherine Oliphant and Colin Drummond, a Scottish merchant who relocated his family to Quebec. [2]
Winthrop McKim, nephew of Buchanan Winthrop and descendent of Massachusetts Bay Colony leaders Joseph Dudley and Wait Winthrop [140] [141] John Jay Mortimer, financier and grandson of Henry Morgan Tilford and Richard Mortimer; Richard Mortimer, member of McAllister's "Four Hundred", real estate investor and St. Mary's vestryman [138] [11]
A 15-year-old girl opened fire inside the Christian school she attended in Madison, Wisconsin, on Monday, killing a teacher and a student and wounding six others. The suspect, Natalie Rupnow, is ...
Arbella or Arabella [2] was the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet on which Governor John Winthrop, other members of the Company (including William Gager), and Puritan emigrants transported themselves and the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company from England to Salem between April 8 and June 12, 1630, thereby giving legal birth to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.