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United States journalist (born in England in 1908)
Alastair (1908–2004), British journalist and broadcaster; in the US from 1937. His BBC broadcasts of “Letter from America” began in 1946 and continued until shortly before his death. He hosted Omnibus on CBS 1952–60 and Masterpiece Theatre on PBS 1971–92
United States financier who marketed Union bonds to finance the American Civil War; the failure of his bank resulted in a financial panic in 1873 (1821-1905)
Cooke is the surname of several notable people: *Alan Cooke, British actor *Alexander Cooke (d. 1614), English actor *Alfred Tyrone Cooke, of the Indo-Pakistani wars *Alistair Cooke KBE (1908-2004), journalist and broadcaster *Amos Starr Cooke (1810–1871), found of Royal School and Castle &

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a Stuart king of Scotland who married a daughter of Henry VII; when England and France went to war in 1513 he invaded England and died in defeat at Flodden (1473-1513)
The name of two kings of England
James I (1566–1625), king of England and Ireland 1603–25; as James VI king of Scotland (1567–1625). He was the son of Mary Stuart and the father of Charles I. A major accomplishment during his reign was the translation of the King James Bible (1611)
James II (1633–1701), king of England, Ireland, and Scotland (1685–88). The son of Charles I, he escaped to the Continent in 1648 and returned to England at the Restoration in 1660. He became king on the death of his brother Charles II in 1685, but his conversion to Catholicism made him extremely unpopular. William of Orange and his wife, Mary, James's daughter, were invited to England by Whig and Tory leaders in 1688, and James was allowed to escape to France
the last Stuart to be king of England and Ireland and Scotland; overthrown in 1688 (1633-1701)
United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882)