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Alan Page

Alan PageBorn: Aug. 7, 1945Football DE All-America at Notre Dame in 1966 and member of two national championship teams; 6-time NFL All-Pro and 1971 Player of Year with Minnesota Vikings;…

Bettie Page

Name at birth: Betty Mae PageBettie Page was a pin-up model of the 1950s who became an iconic favorite of retro-loving pop culture fans during the 1980s and '90s. Page began posing for photos in the…

Elliot Page

Elliot Page is the actor and producer who was the Oscar-nominated star of the 2007 comedy Juno (with Michael Cera). Until December of 2020, Page was professionally known as Ellen Page. Raised in…

Larry Page

Name at birth: Lawrence Edward PageLarry Page and his friend Sergey Brin created the search engine Google in 1998. Larry Page's father was a professor of computer science at Michigan State, and…

Jimmy Page

Jimmy Page was a studio session guitarist before joining the U.K. rock band The Yardbirds in 1965. In late 1968 Page joined Robert Plant, John Bonham and John Paul Jones to form Led Zeppelin. Their…

Klein, Yves

(Encyclopedia) Klein, Yves, 1928–62, French painter. With critic Pierre Restany, he was a leader of the avant-garde movement called Nouveau Réalisme (founded 1960). In the 1950s Klein began to work…

country music

(Encyclopedia) country music, American popular music form originating in the Southern and Western United States. Country music is directly descended from the folk songs, ballads, and popular songs of…

Milne, David

(Encyclopedia) Milne, David, 1882–1953, Canadian painter, b. Ontario. He grew up in Canada and came to the United States in 1903, living for 13 years in New York City, where he studied at the Art…

Tristan L'Hermite, François

(Encyclopedia) Tristan L'Hermite, FrançoisTristan L'Hermite, FrançoisfräNswäˈ trēstäNˈ lĕrmētˈ [key], pseud. of François L'Hermite, 1601–55, French playwright and poet. Poor and plagued by ill health…

Woolworth, Frank Winfield

(Encyclopedia) Woolworth, Frank Winfield, 1852–1919, American merchant, b. Rodman, N.Y. He established in 1879 a five-cent store at Utica, N.Y., which failed, and the same year he started a…