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Matthew Fox

Actor Matthew Fox played Dr. Jack Shephard, the handsome and overwrought leader of the island castaways in TV's Lost (2004-10, co-starring Evangeline Lilly). Fox got into acting by way of modelling…

Peter Straub

Peter Straub wrote thrilling bestselling novels beginning in the 1970s, a line of horror and mystery novels that included Ghost Story (1979) and, written with Stephen King, The Talisman (1984).…

Arthur C. Danto Biography

Arthur C. Dantophilosopher and art criticBorn: 1/01/1924Birthplace: Ann Arbor, Michigan Philosophy professor at Columbia University (1966–87) whose major works include Nietzsche as…

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Name at birth: Joyce Diane BauerDr. Joyce Brothers was a psychologist from New York who used mass media to become a celebrity in the 1960s, from TV shows and radio call-in programs to newspaper…

Judd Gregg

Judd Gregg is the Republican from New Hampshire who turned down President Barack Obama's offer to become Secretary of Commerce. Gregg was a United States senator when he accepted Obama's nomination…

Nikki Giovanni

Name at birth: Yolande Cornelia Giovanni, Jr.Nikki Giovanni is an African-American poet and essayist who came to prominence during the civil rights movement of the late 1960s. Born in Tennessee and…

Caroline Kennedy

Caroline Kennedy is the daughter of president John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline. Caroline was three years old when her father became president, and the White House antics of Caroline and her…

Louise Glück

American poet Louise Glück won several literary prizes for her work after the 1960s, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2020. From 2003 to 2004, she was Poet Laureate of the United…

Herbert ZELENKO, Congress, NY (1906-1979)

ZELENKO Herbert , A Representative from New York; born in New York City, March 16, 1906; attended public schools; graduated from Columbia University in 1926 and from Columbia Law School in 1928; was…

Jeremiah WADSWORTH, Congress, CT (1743-1804)

WADSWORTH Jeremiah , a Delegate and a Representative from Connecticut; born in Hartford, Conn., July 12, 1743; attended the common schools; went to sea in 1761; became first mate of a vessel and…