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Leslie Odom, Jr.

Leslie Odom, Jr. won a Tony award and became a star after portraying Aaron Burr, the villain of the musical Hamilton. That restarted his screen career, and in 2021 he was nominated for an Oscar for…

Rita Mae Brown Biography

Rita Mae Brownauthor, social activistBorn: 11/28/1944Birthplace: Hanover, Pennsylvania An early member of National Organization for Women, Brown resigned when the oganization tried to…

Robert Pirsig

Robert Pirsig wrote the 1974 philosophical memoir Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance -- a surprise best-seller that has sold millions of copies in the decades since its publication. The book…

Scott Oki Biography

Scott Oki computer executiveBorn: 1948Birthplace: Seattle, Wash. Born to a Japanese-American family, Oki attended the University of Washington, leaving after 18 months to join the Air Force.…

Clothing Buyer---Retail

Anonymous What do you do? I work in the retail industry as a buyer for a specialty-clothing store. What skills are needed…

Computer Hardware Engineer

What is this job like? Computer hardware engineers research, design, develop, test, and oversee the installation of computer hardware. Computer hardware includes computer chips, circuit…

Tareq Salahi

Tareq Salahi and his wife, Michaele Salahi, breached White House security on 24 November 2009 in a successful stab at fame-at-any-cost celebrity. Tareq grew up in Farquier County, Virginia, where his…

Mahmoud Abbas

Mahmoud Abbas succeeded Yasser Arafat as the head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and in 2005 was elected president of the Palestinian Authority. Abbas was a former prime minister and the…

Jerry Springer

Jerry Springer was the unflappable host of the lighthearted, tawdry, and long-running daytime talk show, The Jerry Springer Show. An early avatar of "reality" television, his show seemed as much pro…

The Highest Temperature Extremes

Greenland Ranch, Calif., with 134°F on July 10, 1913, holds the record for the highest temperature ever officially observed in the United States. This station was located in barren Death…