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Henry Picard Biography

Henry PicardAge: 90 former PGA Championship and Masters' winner who won 26 tournaments on the tour which puts him 19th on the all-time list; played on four U.S. Ryder teams; of a lengthy…

American the Beautiful

The Question: Where was "America the Beautiful" written? My understanding is that it was written in Andover, Mass. A Phillips Academy dormitory is named "…

William Pierce 2002 Deaths

William PierceAge: 69 white supremacist who cofounded the National Alliance, the country's largest neo-Nazi group. Timothy McVeigh said Pierce's book, The Turner Diaries, about a violent…

Gregory Peck 2003 Deaths

Gregory PeckAge: 87 distinguished Oscar-winning actor who often played dignified yet vulnerable characters, such as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, a crusading journalist in Gentleman…

Samuel SMITH, Congress, NH (1765-1842)

SMITH Samuel , a Representative from New Hampshire; born in Peterboro, N.H., November 11, 1765; attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H., and Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.; engaged in…

Timeline: Pirates

Notable events in pirate history, from 700 B.C. to the present by Mark Hughes c. 700 – 67 B.C. • 700–1820 • 1991–2007 • April 2008–present c. 700 B.C.…

Osborne Again

The first season of the bowl alliance delivered a second national championship to Tom Osborne's Nebraska Cornhuskers.—Mark Blaudschun—Mark Blaudschun has been the national college football…

Dan Brown

Dan Brown wrote the The Da Vinci Code, a runaway bestseller and one of the most-talked-about novels of 2003. The book follows the dashing Harvard "symbologist" Robert Langdon as he investigates a…

Barkhad Abdi

Barkhad Abdi is the former limo driver who was Oscar-nominated for his very first acting role, in the 2013 film Captain Phillips (directed by Paul Greengrass). Barkhad Abdi was born in Mogadishu,…