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Jacobus Van CortlandtStephen Van CortlandtCornelius VanderbiltWilliam Henry VanderbiltSir William Cornelius Van HorneKiliaen Van RensselaerMartha Van RensselaerMatthew VassarThorstein…

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Felix GalimirWilliam (Bill) GardinerW. Arthur Garrity, Jr.William (Pop) GatesGermain GliddenColby GoodwinRaisa GorbachevMeg GreenfieldCalvin GriffithErnest GrossJerzy GrotowskiHowie HaakHuntz…

April 2009 Current Events: World News

U.S. News | Business/Science News Here are the key events in world news for the month of April 2009. Sweden Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage (Apr. 1): Sweden becomes the fifth European country to…

Isaiah: 27

Isaiah Chapter 27 1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay…

Lamentations: 2

Lamentations Chapter 2 1 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not…

Astor, Brooke

socialite, philanthropistBirthplace: Portsmouth, N.H.Born: 3/30/1902Died: 8/13/2007Astor's third husband was Vincent Astor, heir to the real estate fortune of John Jacob Astor. When Vincent…

Levi Strauss

Name at birth: Loeb StraussLevi Strauss made his fortune in the California Gold Rush as the maker of sturdy pants -- Levi's, the world's most famous denim jeans. Strauss emigrated to New York from…

Virginia Woolf

Name at birth: Adeline Virginia StephenVirginia Woolf is remembered as both a feminist and a modernist whose novels often ignored traditional plots to follow the inner lives and musings of her…