Search

Search results

Displaying 111 - 120

Sarah Childress Polk

Sarah Childress Polk was married to United States president James K. Polk and served as First Lady from 1845 to 1849. From a prosperous Tennessee family, she was educated in Nashville, Tennessee and…

Steve Case

Steve Case was the driving force behind America Online and a leading business pioneer of the Internet boom of the 1990s. Case worked briefly for both Proctor & Gamble and PepsiCo before joining…

Fedor Dostoevsky

Name at birth: Fedor Mikhailovich DostoevskyFedor Dostoevksy (also spelled Fydor, Fyodor or Feodor Dostoyevsky) is the 19th century Russian author who wrote the classic novels Crime and Punishment (…

Michael Eisner

Michael Eisner was the longtime chief executive and chairman of the board of the Walt Disney Company and the man generally considered responsible for Disney's monumental success in the 1990s. During…

John Daly

John Daly is the professional golfer known for his outsize talent and outsize lifestyle on, off, and near the golf course. John Daly took professional golf by storm when he came out of nowhere to…

Wayne Gretzky

Wayne Gretzky was named the greatest player in National Hockey League history by The Hockey News in 1998. Among his accomplishments: he was the NHL's all-time leading scorer, he was named league MVP…

Phoenix (Film)

Director:Danny CannonWriter:Eddie RicheyTrimark Pictures; RRelease:10/98Cast:Ray Liotta, Anthony LaPaglia, Daniel Baldwin, Jeremy Piven, Fred Shuster, Anjelica Huston, Royce D. Applegate and…

The Norm Show

ABCMidseason DebutWednesday 9:30–10:00 p.m.Cast:Norm Macdonald, Laurie Metcalfe, Ian Gomez, and Bruce Jarchow Former Saturday Night Live comedian Macdonald returns to the small screen after a…

George Hearst

Near the end of the 19th century, George Hearst was one of the richest men in the United States and a U.S. Senator from California who had made his fortune in mining. He grew up in Franklin County,…

Margaret C. Meg, Whitman Biography

Margaret C. “Meg,” Whitmanbusiness executiveBorn: 1957Birthplace: New York She grew up in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, N.Y. When Whitman entered Princeton University, she planned a…