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Margaret Mitchell

Name at birth: Margaret Munnerlyn MitchellMargaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for her first and only novel, Gone With the Wind. The best-selling Civil War romance was published in 1936 and…

Why Spanish Accents Can Be So Different

Accents speak to variety of Hispanic world by David Johnson   Related Links Where in the World is Spanish Spoken? Languages in the United States Spanish Literature…

Brewer's: Gargantua

(g hard), according to Rabelais, was son of Grangousier and Gargamelle. Immediately he was born he cried out “Drink, drink!” so lustily that the words were heard in Beauce and Bibarois;…

Rachael Leigh Cook

Rachael Leigh Cook was a hit in the 1999 teen romance She's All That, playing the ugly duckling transformed by Freddie Prinze, Jr.. Her first feature role was in 1995's The Baby-Sitters Club and she…

Dr. Zhivago <span class="date" >(1965)</span>

Director: David LeanCast: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie and Alec Guinness This sweeping historical epic spans decades and wars, political transitions and romances. Visually lush and brilliantly…

Clark Gable

Name at birth: William Clark GableClark Gable was a popular leading man in the movies for nearly thirty years. His big ears and cocky grin helped define his screen persona as a rascal, most famously…

Paula Yates

Paula Yates was a TV-age celebrity in Britain, as famous for her high-profile romances and personal upheavals as for her professional talents. Paula Yates first published a book of photographs, Rock…

Nannie Doss

Name at birth: Nannie HazleNannie Doss was a serial poisoner responsible for eleven murders between the 1920s and 1954, when she finally confessed in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Doss's fifth husband died in…

The Picture of Dorian Gray: Chapter 19

by Oscar Wilde Chapter 18Chapter 20Chapter 19 "There is no use your telling me that you are going to be good," cried Lord Henry, dipping his white fingers into a red copper bowl…