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Two Bits is a 1995 American drama film directed by James Foley and starring Al Pacino, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Jerry Barone. It is written by Joseph Stefano, who considered the film a personal project, with a semi-biographical story. The title refers to the American slang term for a quarter dollar: "two bits".
Clark-Lewis earned a BA and MA from Howard University, then a PhD in American Studies from University of Maryland, College Park. [1] [2] Her college thesis on her own family history—her mother and great-aunts had been domestic servants in Washington, and the previous generations had been enslaved—grew into a dissertation on Black women during the Great Migration.
Mary Elizabeth Marquis MBE (born 11 March 1934), born as Mary Elizabeth Caughie, is a former leading interviewer and presenter on BBC Scotland from the mid-1960s, and became the face of the network's evening news programme Reporting Scotland until 1988, including the whole of the 1970s Nationwide era when input from BBC broadcasters based at the corporation's other studios around the UK ...
This is a list of MBEs awarded in the 1946 New Year Honours. The 1946 New Year Honours were appointments by many of the Commonwealth Realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries, and to celebrate the passing of 1945 and the beginning of 1946.
Marguerite Higgins Hall (September 3, 1920 – January 3, 1966) was an American reporter and war correspondent.Higgins covered World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, and in the process advanced the cause of equal access for female war correspondents. [1]
Elizabeth sent a miniature portrait by Nicholas Hilliard to Prince Henry at Stirling Castle Anne of Denmark requested portraits of the Earl of Essex and Lady Rich. Scottish diplomats including the resident James Hudson, a former court musician, the financier Thomas Foulis, and ambassadors including (Foulis' nephew) David Foulis, William Keith of Delny, and Edward Bruce, Commendator of Kinloss ...
The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) of the Works Progress Administration was the largest of the New Deal art projects. [1] As many as 10,000 artists [2] were employed to create murals, easel paintings, sculpture, graphic art, posters, photography, Index of American Design documentation, theatre scenic design, and arts and crafts. [3]
The anecdotal story encompasses such details as Clarence's attempts to find a new maid, a romance between his oldest son Clarence Jr. and pretty out-of-towner Mary Skinner, a plan by Clarence Jr. and his younger brother John to make easy money selling patent medicines, Clarence's general contempt for the era's political corruption and the ...