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Rickey Henderson
Rickey HendersonBorn: Dec. 25, 1958Baseball OF AL playoff MVP (1989) and AL regular season MVP (1990); set single-season base stealing record of 130 in 1982; has led AL in steals a record 12…Larry King Biography
Larry King(Larry Zeiger)talk-show hostBorn: 11/19/1933Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York Prime-time talk-show host whose show, Larry King Live (1985–present), often attracts the biggest names in…Jim Bolus Biography
Jim BolusAge: 54 Kentucky Derby historian; was the former secretary of the National Turf Writers Association; worked for 23 years for the Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times before…Brewer's: Christmas Box
A small gratuity given to servants, etc., on Boxing Day (the day after Christmas Day). In the early days of Christianity boxes were placed in churches for promiscuous charities, and opened…Houston Landmarks
by Dana J. Quigley photos by Carol M. Highsmith Home to over 2.2 million people, Houston is the nation's fourth-largest city. This bustling commercial and cultural hub…Hartley Shawcross 2003 Deaths
Hartley Shawcross(Lord Shawcross)Age: 101 British attorney general who was chief prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremburg in 1945. He also prosecuted the spies Klaus…Bill Shoemaker 2003 Deaths
Bill ShoemakerAge: 72 Hall of Fame jockey who ranks second in all-time in career wins, with 8,833. Laffit Pincay, Jr., broke his record in 1999. Shoemaker rode the winning horse in the…Bill Mauldin 2003 Deaths
Bill MauldinAge: 81 army sergeant and cartoonist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his works featuring Willie and Joe, two bedraggled World War II infantrymen who battled not only the Germans, but…Poems by Emily Dickinson: XLVI ("Heart not so heavy")
by EmilyDickinsonXLVXLVIIXLVI Heart not so heavy as mine, Wending late home, As it passed my window Whistled itself a tune, — A careless snatch, a ballad, A ditty of the street; Yet to…Kirstie Alley
Kirstie AlleyactressBorn: 1/12/1951Birthplace: Wichita, Kansas Actress who starred in the movies Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Look Who's Talking (1989), Sibling Rivalry (1990), and It…