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Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager was the first human to fly faster than the speed of sound. Born and raised in small-town West Virginia, Chuck Yeager joined the Army as an airplane mechanic in 1941. As World War II…

Mena Suvari Biography

Mena SuvariactressBorn: 2/9/1979Birthplace: Newport, Rhode Island This blue-eyed beauty ignited Kevin Spacey's imagination in the 1999 Oscar-wining American Beauty. The daughter of an Estonian…

Species II

DirectorPeter MedakWriterChris BrancatoDirector of Photography:Matthew F. LeonettiEditor:Richard NordMusic:Ed ShearmurProduction Designer:Miljen Kreka KljakovicProducer:Frank Mancuso Jr.MGM;…

Sigourney Weaver

Name at birth: Susan WeaverActor Sigourney Weaver is best known for her recurring role as Ellen Ripley, the scrambling, feisty, critter-battling astronaut of the Alien sci-fi movie series (1979-97…

Mission to Mars

Director:Brian De PalmaWriters:Jim Thomas, John Thomas, Graham YostTouchstone Pictures; PG; 113 minutesRelease:3/00Cast:Gary Sinise, Don Cheadle, Tim Robbins There is intelligent life in…

Chris Isaak Biography

Chris Isaak musician, actorBorn: 6/26/1956Birthplace: Stockton, California Although he bristles at being labeled a “retro” act, Chris Isaak's mournful, melancholy ballads, full of ache and…

Larry Hagman Biography

Larry Hagman(Larry Hageman)actorBorn: 9/21/1931Birthplace: Weatherford, Texas The man who will forever be known as J. R. Ewing actually had a prolific stage and television long before the shifty oil…

European Space Agency

(Encyclopedia) European Space Agency (ESA), multinational agency dedicated to the promotion, for exclusively peaceful purposes, of cooperation among European states in space research and technology.…

John Herschel GLENN, Jr., Congress, OH (1921)

Senate Years of Service: 1974-1999 Party: Democrat GLENN John Herschel, Jr. , a Senator from Ohio; born in Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio, July 18, 1921; educated in the public schools of New…