Sir Dick Goldsmith White, KCMG, KBE (20 December 1906 – 21 February 1993) was a British intelligence officer. He was Director General (DG) of MI5 from...
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captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage....
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account, "Mocha Dick: Or The White Whale of the Pacific: A Leaf from a Manuscript Journal" in 1839 in The Knickerbocker. Mocha Dick was an albino and...
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Moby Dick is a fictional white sperm whale and the primary antagonist in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick. Melville based the whale on an albino...
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Dick White (18 August 1931 – 15 June 2002) was an English professional footballer. He played for Liverpool, Scunthorpe Sports Club (amateur), Brumby amateurs...
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blacklisted. Season 2 of The Dick Van Dyke Show consisted of 32 black-and-white half-hour episodes. Beginning with this season, The Dick Van Dyke Show introduced...
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Dick is a 1999 comedy film directed by Andrew Fleming from a script he co-wrote with Sheryl Longin. It is a comic reimagining of the Watergate scandal...
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April 1941 Sir David Petrie, 1941–1946 Sir Percy Sillitoe, 1946–1953 Sir Dick White, 1953–1956 Sir Roger Hollis, 1956–1965 Sir Martin Furnival Jones, 1965–1972...
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Dick Rowland or Roland (Born Jimmie Jones and Diamond Dick Rowland in news reports, born c. 1902 — c. 1960s - 1979?) was an African American teenage shoeshiner...
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From 1953 to 1956, Hollis was MI5 Deputy Director General under Dick White, succeeding White in 1956 and remaining in that post until his retirement in 1965...
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Dick-a-Dick (traditional name Lavanya, Jumgumjenanuke or Jungunjinuke, c. 1834 – 3 September 1870) was an Australian Aboriginal tracker and cricketer...
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Dick; Reiner, Jonathan; et al. (with Liz Cheney) (2013). Heart: An American Medical Odyssey. New York: Scribner. ISBN 978-1-4767-2539-0. Cheney, Dick;...
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Dick Tracy is an American comic strip featuring Dick Tracy, a tough and intelligent police detective created by Chester Gould. It made its debut on Sunday...
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voters, invited Johnny Cash to the White House seeking the country music star's approval. ReMastered: Tricky Dick & the Man in Black is about the relationship...
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Illinois bombings Rick White (disambiguation) Dick White (1906–1993), head of the British Secret Intelligence Service Dick White (footballer) (1931–2002)...
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Moby-Dick in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. "Moby Dick" may also refer to: Moby Dick (whale), the white whale...
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On February 11, 2006, then-United States vice president Dick Cheney shot Harry Whittington, a then-78-year-old Texas attorney, with a 28-gauge Perazzi...
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Black and White (1961) East & West (1961) Dick Gregory Talks Turkey (1962) The Two Sides of Dick Gregory (1963) My Brother's Keeper (1963) Dick Gregory...
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Duncan "Dick" Ebersol (/ˈɛbərsɒl/; born July 28, 1947) is an American television executive and a senior adviser for NBC Universal Sports & Olympics. He...
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Committee, inheriting the role from Brooks Richards, and serving under Sir Dick White. In 1972, he was made head of station in Hong Kong, and political adviser...
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Ahab, who is obsessed with hunting and killing a legendary, white-skinned whale named Moby Dick, who was responsible for severing Ahab's left leg. Just before...
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Tim Allen (redirect from Tim Allen Dick)
Timothy Alan Dick (born June 13, 1953), known professionally as Tim Allen, is an American actor and comedian. He is known for playing Tim "The Toolman"...
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(1957) Richard the Lion-Hearted – Dick Haymes that is! (1960) Dick Haymes (1950s) Little White Lies (1958) Dick Haymes – Maury Laws Orchestra / Featuring...
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Ishmael is a character in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851), which opens with the line "Call me Ishmael." He is the first-person narrator of much of the...
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Richard McCourt (redirect from Richard "Dick" McCourt)
Richard "Dick" McCourt (born 12 August 1976) is an English entertainer and presenter. He is best known as one half of the comic duo Dick and Dom, with...
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Dick and Jane are the two main characters created by Zerna Sharp for a series of basal readers written by William S. Gray to teach children to read. The...
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hosted five incarnations of the Pyramid game show from 1973 to 1988 and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, which broadcast New Year's Eve celebrations...
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related to Dick Cavett. Wikiquote has quotations related to Dick Cavett. Dick Cavett at IMDb Dick Cavett at the Internet Broadway Database Dick Cavett at...
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White Sox. In five total plate appearances, he had two hits, with his final hit being a single in the eighth inning. Allen's major league stats: Dick...
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leg while hunting Moby Dick, leading to a monomaniacal desire in Ahab to kill the "White Whale". It is his obsession with Moby Dick that dooms Pequod and...
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