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Christina Hendricks
Christina Hendricks began playing Joan, the red-haired siren of the secretarial pool, on the TV show Mad Men in 2007. Her Kennedy-era curves and hot red lipstick made Hendricks an instant favorite…William Shakespeare: Tired with all these, for restful death I cry
Tired with all these, for restful death I cryTired with all these, for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity, And purest faith unhappily…Andrew Grove Biography
Andrew Grove(Andras Grof)engineer, technology executiveBorn: 9/2/1936Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary The son of a Jewish dairyman in Hungary, Andrew Grove successfully hid from the Nazis but…Poems by Emily Dickinson: LIII
by EmilyDickinsonThirstCharlotte Brontí«'s GraveLIII A clock stopped — not the mantel's; Geneva's farthest skill Can't put the puppet bowing That just now dangled still. An awe came…Benjamin Reifel Biography
Benjamin ReifelSioux activist and U.S. representative from South Dakota Born: September 19, 1906Birthplace: Rosebud Reservation, Parmelee, South Dakota The first Sioux to serve in Congress,…Jane Hodgson 2006 Deaths
Jane HodgsonAge: 91 abortion-rights activist and subject of a 1970 test case in which she became the only doctor in the United States to be convicted of illegally performing an abortion in a…Harold Shipman 2004 Deaths
Harold ShipmanAge: 57 British doctor, known as “Dr. Death,” who was convicted in 2000 of murdering 15 patients. An investigation later determined that he killed as many as 260 people in 23…Treaty of Ghent: His Britannic Majesty and the...
Article the First His Britannic Majesty and the... His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America desirous of terminating the war which has unhappily subsisted between the two…Aesop's Fables: The Spendthrift and the Swallow
by Aesop The Cat and the BirdsThe Old Woman and the DoctorThe Spendthrift and the Swallow A Spendthrift, who had wasted his fortune, and had nothing left but the clothes in which he stood…Aesop's Fables: The Two Frogs
by Aesop The Farmer and the ViperThe Cobbler Turned DoctorThe Two Frogs Two Frogs were neighbours. One lived in a marsh, where there was plenty of water, which frogs love: the other in a…Trending
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