This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
English is his third language and some of us were thinking about getting up a fund and sending him back to Berlitz for the remainder of the English language course.
O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
Evelyn Glennie, fully Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie
My first real foreign holiday was my honeymoon 20 years ago, and we went to Bali. It was particularly special for that reason, I enjoyed it very much - I had packed music scores and a practice drum pad, suspecting that I would be completely bored, but actually they remained in my case.