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Maurice F. Rabb, Jr.Joseph Rainey Virginia RandolphNancy Davis ReaganBenjamin ReifelHiram RevelsJoseph Jones ReynoldsCondoleezza RiceBill RichardsonElliot RichardsonNorbert RillieuxJ.…

2001 Boston Marathon

The 105th edition of the Boston Marathon was held Monday, April 16, 2001 and run, as always, from Hopkinton through Ashland, Framingham, Natick, Wellesley, Newton and Brookline to Boston,…

Philemon DICKINSON, Congress, NJ (1739-1809)

Senate Years of Service: 1790-1793 Party: Pro-Administration DICKINSON Philemon , a Delegate from Delaware and a Senator from New Jersey; born at 'Crosia-dore,' near Trappe, Talbot County, Md.,…

Clifford Irving

Writer Clifford Irving was sent to prison in 1972 and ordered to pay back $765,000 to his publishers when it was determined that his "authorized" biography of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes was…

I’ll Have Another

I'll Have Another is the chestnut horse who won both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes in 2012, setting him up for a run at the Triple Crown. I'll Have Another was bred in Kentucky and born…

Ngaio Marsh

Edith Ngaio MarshDame Ngaio Marsh wrote more than 30 popular books between 1934 and 1982 and is considered one of the great mystery novelists of the 20th century. Like her contemporaries Agatha…

Yves Montand

Name at birth: Ivo LiviYves Montand was a popular french nightclub singer and movie actor, most famous for his dramatic role in the 1953 thriller The Wages of Fear. Born in Italy, his family fled to…

Notable Female Scientists

Annie Jump Cannon Biographies ofNotable Women Actresses Adventurers Artists Athletes Businesswomen Comediennes Congresswomen Educators and Scholars Fashion Designers and…

The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto

Author:Mario Vargas LlosaPublisher:Farrar Straus & Giroux Peruvian expatriate Vargas Llosa has left the dry political allegory of his most recent novel, Death in the Andes, and returned…

Norma Shearer

Norma Shearer(Edith Norma Shearer)actressBorn: 8/10/1900Birthplace: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Academy Award-winning actress considered the First Lady of the Screen during the early days of Hollywood,…