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Judy Blume Biography

Judy Blume(Judy Sussman)writerBorn: 2/12/1938Birthplace: Elizabeth, New Jersey Blume began writing stories for her own children, but quickly became the definitive author of books on the many…

The Uranian Moons

Oberon and Titania Umbriel and Ariel Miranda Puck Caliban and Sycorax New Uranian Moons Discovered There are 27 known moons of Uranus. Ten of the moons range in size…

Tony Blair

Name at birth: Anthony Charles Lynton BlairTony Blair became the youngest British prime minister of the 20th century when he took office in 1997. He led Britain for a decade until stepping down in…

Maggie Smith

Name at birth: Margaret Natalie SmithDame Maggie Smith is the Oscar, Emmy and Tony winner who is best known to modern audiences as the Dowager Countess of Grantham in the TV series Downton Abbey and…

David Frost

Sir David Paladine Frost was a British TV host and producer who is best known in America for his 1977 interviews with disgraced U.S. president Richard Nixon. David Frost got his start in the early…

Henry Augustus REEVES, Congress, NY (1832-1916)

REEVES Henry Augustus , a Representative from New York; born in Sag Harbor, N.Y., December 7, 1832; attended private schools in Sag Harbor, the Southampton Academy, the University of Michigan at…

Jon Hamm

Jon Hamm played Don Draper, the creative and womanizing anti-hero of the hit TV series Mad Men, from 2007-2015. The show made Hamm, dark-haired and clasically handsome, into one of TV's most popular…

Serena Williams

Serena Williams dominated women's professional tennis for two decades after she and her sister Venus became stars of the sport in the late 1990s. She has won 23 major singles titles, the most in the…

Nancy Marchand

Nancy MarchandactressBorn: 6/19/1928Birthplace: Buffalo, New York versatile character actress who most recently portrayed feisty matriarch Livia Soprano on HBO's Sopranos. Theatrically…