Mildred Dunnock Mildred Dunnock Mildred Dorothy Dunnock (January 25, 1901 – July 5, 1991) was an American stage and screen actress. She received two Academy Award nominations for her supporting performances in "Death of a Salesman" (1951) and "Baby Doll" (1956). Dunnock was also nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award in her career. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, she graduated from Western Senior High School. Dunnock was a school teacher who did not start acting until she was in her early thirties. She attended Goucher College where she was a member of Alpha Phi sorority. After a couple
Common crane Waterbirds" (AEWA) applies. In Ireland, despite being extinct for over 200 years, the common crane plays a very important part in Irish culture and folklore and so thus recent efforts to encourage it back to Ireland are received with much enthusiasm. The Kranich Museum in Hessenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, is dedicated to art and folklore related to the common crane. The common crane is the sacred bird of the god Hephaestus, and it features heavily in the god's iconography. Common crane The common crane ("Grus grus"), also known as the Eurasian crane, is a bird of the family Gruidae, the cranes.