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Gene Tunney

Gene TunneyBorn: May 25, 1897Boxer world heavyweight champion from 1926-28; beat 31-year-old champ Jack Dempsey in unanimous 10 round decision in 1926; beat him again in famous “long count”…

Gene Upshaw

Gene Upshaw Born: Aug. 15, 1945 Died: Aug. 17, 2008 Football G 2-time All-AFL and 3-time All-NFL…

Asheville

(Encyclopedia) Asheville Asheville ăshˈvəl, –vĭl [key], city (2020 pop. 94,589), seat of Buncombe co., W N.C., on the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers and on a plateau in…

genetics

(Encyclopedia) genetics, scientific study of the mechanism of heredity. While Gregor Mendel first presented his findings on the statistical laws governing the transmission of certain traits from…

Hall, Jeffrey Connor

(Encyclopedia) Hall, Jeffrey Connor, 1945–, American geneticist, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., Ph.D. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, 1971. Hall was a professor at Brandeis Univ. from 1974 to 2008; he also taught…

Brewer's: Wolf

(in music). In almost all stringed instruments (as the violin, organ, piano, harp, etc.) there is one note that is not true, generally in the bass…

Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe was the New York journalist who wrote The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968) and The Right Stuff (1979), then turned to writing novels, including The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987). A…

Michelle Wolf

Michelle Wolf's comedy career got a big boost after she appeared at the 2018 White House Correspondents Dinner and focused her insult power on the Donald Trump administration. A 2007 graduate of the…

Peter Wolf

Sleepless Artemis There aren't many singers who could land both Mick Jagger and Keith Richards as musical guests on their album, but then again, Peter Wolf isn't your fun-of-the-mill rocker.…

Wolf Lake

CBSWednesday 10:00–11:00 p.m.; cancelledCast:Lou Diamond Phillips, Mia Kirshner, Tim Matheson, Graham Greene, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Bruce McGill, Scott Bairstow It's not a good sign when…