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Ricky Martin

Name at birth: Enrique Martin MoralesRicky Martin's exuberant 1999 single "Livin' La Vida Loca" made him an avatar of dancable, hip-swiveling Latin pop. Martin got his start with the all-boy pop…

Yorgos Lanthimos

Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos was nominated for an Oscar -- along with his co-writer Efthymis Filippou -- for the original screenplay to 2016's The Lobster. His best known film is 2018's The…

Banned Books

From Harriet the Spy to The Catcher in the Rye by Borgna Brunner Banned Book Week (Sept. 25–Oct. 1, 2016) Harry Potter Banned? Caldecott Medal Winners Newbery Medal Winners…

Ricky Martin

Ricky Martin C2/Columbia With his hip-shaking, house-quaking version of “The Cup of Life (La Copa de la Vida)” on the Grammy Awards earlier in the year, Ricky Martin may have given 1999 its one…

Audrey Tautou

Audrey Tautou is a French actress who became an international star as the mysteriously smiling lead in the romantic comedy Amélie (Le Fabluleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, 2001). She was already well-…

Léa Seydoux

Léa Seydoux is a French actress best known for her sexy role as an art student in the Cannes Film Festival hit, Blue is the Warmest Color (2013), as well as her roles in big American productions such…

John Milton

John Milton wrote essays, sonnets and, most importantly, Paradise Lost, considered by many scholars the greatest epic poem of the English language. Milton was a Londoner and received his education…

David Frost

Sir David Paladine Frost was a British TV host and producer who is best known in America for his 1977 interviews with disgraced U.S. president Richard Nixon. David Frost got his start in the early…

Ezra Pound

Born in Idaho and raised in Pennsylvania, Ezra Pound spent most of his life in Europe and became one of the 20th century's most influential -- and controversial -- English-language poets. After…

Jolene UNSOELD, Congress, WA (1931)

UNSOELD Jolene , a Representative from Washington; born Jolene Bishoprick in Corvallis, Benton County, Oreg., December 3, 1931; attended primary schools in Shanghai, China, 1938-1940, and public…