Doris Speed, MBE was an English actress, best known for her role as landlady of the Rovers Return Inn Annie Walker on Coronation Street, a role she played from the programme's first episode in 1960 until 1983.
Captain Mark Rudkin was, in 1826, the last person known to have fought a duel in Newfoundland. The duel caused the death of Ensign John Philpot of the Royal Veteran Companies.
Katharina "Kathie" Fröhlich was engaged to Franz Grillparzer for 50 years. She founded the Schwestern-Fröhlich-Stiftung in Vienna, and became a patron of artists and writers.
Violante Beatrice Siries (1709–1783) was an Italian painter. She was born in Florence and studied under Hyacinthe Rigaud and François Boucher in Paris from 1726. Returning later to Florence she married Giuseppe Cerroti and continued her artistic studies under Conti.
Antony Andrewes, was an English classical scholar and historian. He was Wykeham Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford from 1953 to 1977.
Ryszard Bakst was a Polish pianist and distinguished piano teacher.
Major Jackson is an American poet and professor at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of six collections of poetry: Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems 2002-2022, The Absurd Man, Roll Deep, Holding Company, Hoops, finalist for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry, and Leaving Saturn, winner of the 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Award Circle. His edited volumes include: Best American Poetry 2019, Renga for Obama, and Library of America's Countee Cullen: Collected Poems. His prose is published in A Beat Beyond: Selected Prose of Major Jackson. He is host of the podcast The Slowdown.
Casa Grande is a Peru-based company principally engaged in the agricultural sector. Its activities include the cultivation, growing, processing, industrialization and sale of sugar cane and its derivatives.
Gwendoline Maud Kirby LVO (1911–2007) was a British nurse, and matron of Great Ormond Street Hospital from 1951-1969.
Alia Malek is an American journalist and lawyer.
Nora Kelly was a New Zealand-born Australian journalist, poet and playwright, who wrote as Nora McAuliffe. She also wrote as John Egan and Flossy Fluffytop. She wrote the "Women's Letter" in The Bulletin for fifteen years.
Quinte Health Care is a hospital organization that operates four hospitals in Ontario, Canada.
The Bancroft Rockhound Gemboree is a four-day event in Bancroft, Ontario where mineral collectors and vendors meet to trade rocks and minerals. It has been occurring annually since 1963.
Jonathan Goldsbie is a Canadian journalist, and currently the news editor for Canadaland. He has previously worked as a performance artist and as columnist at The National Post, NOW Newspaper and Torontoist.
Kenk: A Graphic Portrait is a book written by Richard Poplak about notorious Toronto bike thief Igor Kenk.
Stolen Continents is a 1992 non-fiction book by Ronald Wright that covers the colonial theft of land between 1492 and 1990. It specific focuses on activities directed towards the Maya, Inca, Aztec, Cherokee, and Iroquois peoples.
Nicole Ferentz is an American cartoonist, illustrator, graphic designer, and teacher. Her works cover feminist themes, lesbian themes, and themes of illness. Her comics have been featured in prominent queer comics like Gay Comics.
Dykes, Disability & Stuff was a lesbian and disability magazine founded in 1988 in Boston, Massachusetts and published in Madison, Wisconsin. Its publication ended in Fall 2001.
The Cadbury chocolate factory is a five-story building located in Gladstone Avenue, Toronto. It was constructed by William Neilson in 1906 and produces all of Cadbury's products sold in Canada.
