Used for someone who is extremely good looking and badass. (From the movie Fight Club)
The 10th President of the United States (1841-1845), who succeeded to office after the death of President William Henry Harrison. His administration was marked by the annexation of Texas (1845). American jurist and writer considered the founder of American drama. His plays include The Contrast (first produced 1787). English revolutionary who led the Peasants' Revolt against Richard II's poll tax in June 1381. The uprising ended when he was killed. Moore Mary Tyler Wat Tyler's Rebellion Tyler Anne Tyler John
born Oct. 25, 1941, Minneapolis, Minn., U.S. U.S. writer. Tyler worked as a bibliographer and librarian before settling in Baltimore in 1967 and beginning to write full-time. Her novels, comedies of manner marked by compassionate wit and precise details of domestic life, include Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985; film, 1988), Breathing Lessons (1988, Pulitzer Prize), and A Patchwork Planet (1998). Several focus on eccentric middle-class people living in chaotic, disunited families in Baltimore
the tenth president of the US, from 1841 to 1845 (1790-1862). born March 29, 1790, Charles City county, Va., U.S. died Jan. 18, 1862, Richmond, Va. 10th president of the U.S. (1841-45). He practiced law before serving in the Virginia legislature (1811-16, 1823-25, 1839) and as governor of Virginia (1825-27). In the U.S. House of Representatives (1817-21) and Senate (1827-36), he was a supporter of states' rights. Though a slaveholder, he sought to prohibit the slave trade in the District of Columbia, provided Maryland and Virginia concurred. He resigned from the Senate rather than acquiesce to state instructions to change his vote on a censure of Pres. Andrew Jackson. After breaking with the Democratic Party, he was nominated by the Whig Party for vice president under William H. Harrison. They won the 1840 election, carefully avoiding the issues and stressing party loyalty and the slogan "Tippecanoe and Tyler too!" Harrison died a month after taking office, and Tyler became the first to attain the presidency "by accident." He vetoed a national bank bill supported by the Whigs, and all but one member of the cabinet resigned, leaving him without party support. Nonetheless, he reorganized the navy, settled the second of the Seminole Wars in Florida, and oversaw the annexation of Texas. He was nominated for reelection but withdrew in favour of James K. Polk and retired to his Virginia plantation. Committed to states' rights but opposed to secession, he organized the Washington Peace Conference (1861) to resolve sectional differences. When the Senate rejected a proposed compromise, Tyler urged Virginia to secede
born Dec. 29, 1936, Brooklyn, New York, N.Y., U.S. U.S. television and film actress. She studied dance and appeared in commercials and in minor roles on television before costarring in the hit Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-66; two Emmy Awards). She achieved even greater success as the star of The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-77; four Emmy Awards), which became the most popular situation comedy of the 1970s. She also won an Emmy for her role in the television miniseries Stolen Babies (1993). Her films include Ordinary People (1980) and Flirting with Disaster (1996)
an Englishman who was the leader of the Peasants' Revolt in 1381, a protest in which thousands of poor people marched to London to complain about their bad economic situation. He was murdered by the Lord Mayor of London (?-1381)