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Cooke

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Cooke  (kk), (Alfred) Alistair 1908-2003.
British-born American journalist and broadcaster, whose books include Around the World in 50 Years (1966) and Alistair Cooke's America (1973).
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Noun1.Cooke - United States journalist (born in England in 1908)
Alfred Alistair Cooke, Alistair Cooke
England - a division of the United Kingdom
2.CookeCooke - 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)
Jay Cooke


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Cooke while the Province House was undergoing repairs.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
They may celebrate as they will the heroes of Exploring Expeditions, your Cookes, Your Krusensterns; but I say that scores of anonymous Captains have sailed out of Nantucket, that were as great, and greater than your Cooke and your Krusenstern.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
1820) by New York City writer James Kirke Paulding(1778-1860), emulating an earlier series by Washington Irving and others; Cooke = probably Thomas Potter Cooke (1786-1864), a noted English actor; Bonaparte = Napoleon Bonaparte died on St.
Imagination and Heart by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
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