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Paula Deen

Name at birth: Paula Ann HiersPaula Deen is a restaurateur from Savannah, Georgia who hosts the cable TV cooking shows Paula's Home Cooking and Paula's Party. Hers is a rags-to-riches kind of story…

Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Dominique Strauss-Kahn was the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and a presumed Socialist Party candidate for the presidency of France when he was arrested in May of 2011 and…

Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding is considered one of the founders of the English novel, thanks mostly to his best-known work, 1749's Tom Jones (The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling). A comfortably upper-class…

2008 Top 10 Most Played Songs

The following table lists the title and artist of the top ten most played songs in the United States during 2008. Rank Title, Artist 1. “Bleeding Love,”…

Emperor Norton

The Question: My friend says there was an emperor of the United States. What's the story with that? The Answer: That would be Norton I, self-…

Fred D. Gray

Fred D. Gray is an Alabama attorney who has been at the center of the fight for racial justice since the Montgomery Bus Boycott of the 1950s. Among his first clients as a lawyer were Claudette…