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Singapore Department of State Background

U.S. Department of State Background Note Singapore Index: People History Government Political Conditions Economy Defense Foreign Relations U.S.-Singapore Relations PEOPLE Singapore is one of…

Wyoming

Wyoming State Information Capital: Cheyenne Official Name: State of Wyoming Organized as a territory/republic: July 25, 1868 Entered Union (rank): July 10, 1890 (44th state) Present…

George Jackson 2000 Deaths

George JacksonAge: 42 media executive who began his career in film, moved to the music industry, and finally onto the Internet, where he created the Urban Box Office Network, a group of sites…

Gordon B. Hinckley Biography

president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsDied: January 27, 2008Best Known as: president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints…

‘Weird Al’ Yankovic

Name at birth: Alfred Matthew Yankovic"Weird Al" Yankovic has made a career out of poking fun at pop musicians. Thanks to radio host Dr. Demento, Yankovic broke into the novelty song business in 1979…

Sarah Silverman

Comedian Sarah Silverman found success in the early 2000s as a good-looking, foul-mouthed Jewish girl who makes jokes about taboo subjects. Silverman grew up in New Hampshire and started her comedy…

Jenn Sterger

Florida State University student Jenn Sterger parlayed two seconds of national TV time into years of Internet fame and an on-camera job with the New York Jets. After Jenn Sterger and two friends…

Edison Chen

Edison Chen is a Canadian actor who rocketed to fame in the Hong Kong entertainment industry in the early 2000s, then abruptly withdrew from his career in 2008 as the result of a sex scandal. Also…

Joseph Kony

Joseph Kony is the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, an armed rebel group that has terrorized parts of Uganda for more than two decades and which gained extra fame on the Internet in 2012. Joseph…