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Soleil Moon Frye
Soleil Moon Frye played a spunky orphan in the popular TV series Punky Brewster from 1984-88. The show had an extended life in reruns, making Frye something of a pop culture icon for the '80s…Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and other popular novels of 19th-century England. Charles Dickens grew up in poverty, and it shows in his writing: he is…John Flanagan
Name at birth: John Anthony FlanaganA former advertising and television writer, John Flanagan is now known for writing the Ranger's Apprentice fantasy books for young readers. Flanagan grew up in…Mother Teresa Biography
Mother TeresaAge: 87 Roman Catholic nun who won 1979 Nobel Peace Prize for work among the poorest of the world's poor. Had lived in India for five decades. Founded Missionaries of Charity.…M. M. Kaye 2004 Deaths
M. M. KayeAge: 95 British novelist whose best-selling historical novel The Far Pavilions, about a British orphan in pre-independence India who falls in love with a princess, has sold millions…William RAMSEY, Congress, PA (1779-1831)
RAMSEY William , a Representative from Pennsylvania; born at Sterretts Gap, Cumberland County, Pa., September 7, 1779; attended the public schools; appointed surveyor for Cumberland County in…Barbara Stanwyck
Name at birth: Ruby StevensBarbara Stanwyck left the vaudeville stage for the movies in the late 1920s, but her career didn't take off until the '30s, thanks in part to director Frank Capra. Known as…Don Draper
Don Draper is the mysterious, brusque, womanizing advertising genius at the heart of the TV show Mad Men. A super-stylish look at the culture of mass-market advertising in the early 1960s, Mad Men…Anya Taylor-Joy
The spotlight fell on young actress Anya Taylor-Joy in 2020, when she carried the television series The Queen’s Gambit as Beth Harmon, a chess playing orphan. First scouted as a model in New York,…Reid Shelton Biography
Reid Shelton stage and television actor Shelton was the first Daddy Warbucks in the original production of Annie. He played the part of the billionaire, who adopts orphan Annie, more than 2,…Trending
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