About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 64. Chapters: Converts to Christian Science, Converts to Soka Gakkai, Converts to new religious movements from Eastern Orthodoxy, Converts to the Rastafari movement, Discordians, Joan Crawford, Doris Day, Roberto Baggio, Robert Anton Wilson, Peter Tosh, Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, Burning Spear, Bob Marley, Dwight York, Kerry Wendell Thornley, Hank Johnson, Kay Kyser, Nikolai Ilyin, Gleb Botkin, Chezidek, Max Romeo, Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor, Mina Loy, Bunny Wailer, Maxi Priest, Horace Andy, Rita Marley, Esme Wynne-Tyson, Anthony B, Wadada Leo Smith, Ariffin Mohammed, Malaclypse the Younger, Hans Sollner, Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian, Jacob Miller, Macka B, Don Drummond, Judy Mowatt, Steve Jackson, Marlon Asher, Queen Ifrica, Martin Melcher, Maxim Rudometkin, Noel Dyer, Mutabaruka, Blanche Calloway, Marion Bloom, David Hinds. Excerpt: Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, CH, (19 May 1879 - 2 May 1964) was the first woman to sit as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the British House of Commons. Nancy Astor represented the Conservative Party and was the wife of Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor. Astor was born Nancy Witcher Langhorne in Danville, Virginia, in the United States. Her father was Chiswell Dabney Langhorne and her mother was Nancy Witcher Keene. Her father's earlier business venture had depended at least in part upon slave labour, and the outcome of the American Civil War caused the family to live in near-poverty for several years before Nancy was born. After her birth her father began working to regain the family wealth, first with a job as an auctioneer and later with a job that he obtained with the railroad by using old contacts from his work as a contractor. By the time she was thirteen years old, the Langhornes were again a rich family with a sizeable home. Chiswell Langhorne later moved the fa...
