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| Big Ethel |
Big Ethel Muggs is a fictional character by Archie Comics. She is a student of Riverdale High School, known to her schoolmates by the nickname Big Ethel. (references) |
| Ethel and Albert |
Ethel and Albert (aka The Private Lives of Ethel and Albert) was a comedy radio/TV series about a married couple, Ethel and Albert Arbuckle, living in the small town of Sandy Harbor. Created by Peg Lynch, who scripted and portrayed Ethel, the series first aired on local Minnesota radio in the early 1940s, followed by a run on ABC from May 29 1944 to August 28 1950. (references) |
| Ethel Anderson |
Ethel Anderson (1883-1958) was an Australian poet. She was born in Leamington, in Warwickshire, England. She spent most of her childhood in Australia, at Rangamatty, near Picton in New South Wales. She married Brigadier-General Austin Anderson. (references) |
| Ethel Barrymore |
United States actress; daughter of Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Barrymore (1879-1959). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Ethel Blondin-Andrew |
The Honourable Ethel Dorothy Blondin-Andrew, PC, born March 25, 1951, in Tulita, Northwest Territories, is a Canadian politician. (references) |
| Ethel Catherwood |
Ethel Catherwood (April 28, 1908 - September 26, 1987) was a Canadian track and field athlete. (references) |
| Ethel Cochrane |
The Honourable Ethel M. Cochrane, BA (Ed), BA, MEd (born September 23 1937) is a Canadian Senator. (references) |
| Ethel L. Payne |
Ethel L. Payne (August 14 1911 - May 28 1991), American award-winning journalist, known as the "first lady of the black press", she was a columnist, lecturer, free lance writer. She combined advocacy with journalism as she reported on the civil rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s. In 1972 she became the first female African-American commentator employed by a national network, CBS. (references) |
| Ethel Lilian Voynich |
Ethel Lilian Voynich, née Boole (May 11, 1864, County Cork, Ireland - July 27, 1960, New York City) was a novelist and a musician, and a supporter of several revolutionary causes. Her father was a famous mathematician, George Boole. She was married to Wilfrid Michael Voynich who is the eponym of the Voynich manuscript. (references) |
| Ethel Lina White |
Ethel Lina White (1876 - 1944) was a British crime writer. (references) |
| Ethel M Botanical Cactus Gardens |
The Ethel M Botanical Cactus Gardens (3 acres) are botanical gardens located at the Ethel M Chocolate Factory, 2 Cactus Garden Drive, Henderson, Nevada. The gardens, and the factory itself, are open to the public for free. (references) |
| Ethel M. Dell |
Ethel May Dell (August 2, 1881-September, 1939) was a British writer of popular romance novels. (references) |
| Ethel Mannin |
Ethel Edith Mannin (1900 - 1984) was a popular British novelist and travel writer. She was born in London into a family with an Irish background. (references) |
| Ethel Merman |
United States singer who appeared in several musical comedies (1909-1984). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Ethel Mumford |
Ethel Mumford (nee Watts) (1878? - 1940) was a U.S. author and writer. (references) |
| Ethel Percy Andrus |
Ethel Percy Andrus was the founder of the National Retired Teachers Association (NRTA) in 1947 and the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) in 1958. As its first president, Andrus pioneered nursing home reform legislation, often testified before Congress on issues of concern to senior citizens, and challenged mandatory retirement laws. She showed Americans of all ages that older people can and do live productive, useful, and purposeful lives. (references) |
| Ethel Remey |
Ethel Remey (January 22, 1895 - February 1979) was an American actress. (references) |
| Ethel Skakel Kennedy |
Ethel Skakel Kennedy (born April 11, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois) is a member of the Kennedy political family by her marriage to Robert F. Kennedy. Her parents were Anne Brannack Skakel, who was Catholic, and George Skakel, who was Protestant. She was raised as a Catholic. Her father was the founder of the very successful Great Lakes Carbon Corporation. (references) |
| Ethel Skinner |
Ethel Skinner was a fictional character in the British soap opera EastEnders. She was played by Gretchen Franklin. (references) |
| Ethel Smyth |
Ethel Mary Smyth (April 23, 1858 - May 8, 1944) was an English composer and a leader of the women's suffrage movement. (references) |
| Ethel Snowden |
Ethel Snowden, born Ethel Annakin (1880 - February 22, 1951), was a British socialist and feminist politician. (references) |
| Ethel Stark |
Ethel Stark (born 25 August 1916) is a Canadian violinist and conductor. (references) |
| Ethel T. Wead Mick |
Ethel T. Wead Mick was born Ethel Theresa Wead March 9 1881 in Atlantic City, Iowa to William Henry Wead and Elizabeth Delight Hutchinson Wead, the youngest of four siblings. She is the founder of the Masonic youth organization Job's Daughters and was the first Supreme Guardian of the Order. (references) |
| Ethel Turner |
Ethel Turner (1872 - 1958) was an Australian novelist and children's writer. (references) |
| Ethel Waters |
United States actress and singer (1896-1977). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Ethel Waters |
Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 - September 1, 1977) was an African American blues vocalist who frequently performed jazz, big band, gospel, and popular music, on Broadway and off. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.
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