Edward Carelton Swift, at one time the owner of the largest meat packing operation in the U.S. built a mansion, Swiftmoor on Paine Avenue in Prides Crossing. Eleonora Eleo Sears a flamboyant female socialite and world class tennis player owned a residence that still exists where Paine Avenue and West Beach meet.
In 2003, burnt-out ex-CIA(SAD/SOG) Paramilitary operations officer and former U.S. Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance officer John Creasy (Denzel Washington) visits his old comrade Paul Rayburn (Christopher Walken), who runs a security firm in Mexico.
John Wycliffe (1320-1384) was a theologian and early proponent of reform in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century. He initiated the first translation of the Bible into the English language and is considered the main precursor of the Protestant Reformation. Wycliffe was born at Ipreswell (modern Hipswell), Yorkshire, England, between 1320 and 1330; and he died at Lutterworth (near Leicester) December 31, 1384.