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Pasternak, Joseph

film producerBirthplace: Szilagy-Somlyo, HungaryBorn: 1901Died: 1991

Jennifer Joseph

Jennifer Joseph isn't a household name, but as the model for the Columbia Pictures logo -- the draped lady holding a torch -- her likeness is seen by millions of moviegoers every year. New Orleans…

Joseph Priestley

Joseph Priestly was an 18th century preacher and science hobbyist who is credited with discovering that "air" was made up of several gases, including oxygen. Trained as a Christian minister,…

Chief Joseph

Native Name: In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat ('Thunder coming up over the land from the water') Chief Joseph was the leader of the Nez Perce tribe, whose lands were in what is now Oregon and Washington in…

Joseph Biden

Joseph Biden is the 46th president of the United States. He also served as vice president of the United States from 2009-2017, under President Barack Obama, and as a U.S. senator from Delaware from…

Joseph Heller

Joseph Heller wrote Catch-22 (1961), the darkly comic World War II novel whose title became a common term for a no-win situation. The novel's protagonist, Yossarian, wants to stop flying combat…

Joseph Hachem

Joseph Hachem won the World Series of Poker championship at Las Vegas, Nevada on 16 July 2005. The victory, which he won by outlasting 5618 other gamblers in the event, earned him a prize of $7.5…