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Melvin Morella BOOTHMAN, Congress, OH (1846-1904)

BOOTHMAN Melvin Morella , a Representative from Ohio; born near Bryan, Williams County, Ohio, October 16, 1846; attended the public schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits; enlisted in Company…

Betty Friedan 2006 Deaths

Betty FriedanAge: 85 feminist icon and writer whose 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique, challenged postwar assumptions that women found fulfillment with domesticity. Indeed, she said women were…

Louis Jourdan

Louis JourdanLouis Gendre (or Gendice)actorBorn: 6/19/1919Birthplace: Marseilles, France This prolific French actor played urbane, charming screen heroes in his native France until his refusal to…

Louis Jourdan Biography

Louis JourdanLouis Gendre (or Gendice)actorBorn: 6/19/1919Birthplace: Marseilles, France This prolific French actor played urbane, charming screen heroes in his native France until his refusal to…

Christo

Name at birth: Christo Vladimirov JavacheffThe avant-garde artist Christo created some of the most spectacular large-scale public artworks of the 20th century. Working with his wife and creative…

Sonnets by William Shakespeare: XXXV

Sonnet XXXIV Sonnet XXXVI XXXV No more be griev'd at that which thou hast done: Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud: Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome…

John McNULTA, Congress, IL (1837-1900)

McNULTA John , a Representative from Illinois; born in New York City November 9, 1837; pursued an academic course; visited the West Indies and Europe; moved to Attica, Fountain County, Ind., in…