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Polanski, Roman
(Encyclopedia) Polanski, Roman, 1933–, Polish-French film director, b. Paris. His family returned to Kraków, Poland, when he was three. His parents were imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps and his…Veronese, Paolo
(Encyclopedia) Veronese, PaoloVeronese, Paolopäˈōlō vārōnāˈzā [key], 1528–88, Italian painter of the Venetian school. Named Paolo Caliari, he was called Il Veronese from his birthplace, Verona.…Brutus, in ancient Rome
(Encyclopedia) BrutusBrutusbr&oomacr;ˈtəs [key], in ancient Rome, a surname of the Junian gens. Lucius Junius Brutus, fl. 510 b.c., was the founder of the Roman republic. He feigned idiocy to…Tarquin
(Encyclopedia) TarquinTarquintärˈkwĭn [key] [Etruscan,=lord], in Roman tradition, an Etruscan family that ruled Rome. According to the historian Livy, when the rule of the Bacchiadae in Corinth was…Bastard out of Carolina
Out of Carolina Productions; rental pricingFeature; RDirector: Angelica HoustonCast: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jena Malone and Laura Dern This powerful adaptation of Dorothy Allison's bestseller…Eminem
The Slim Shady LP Aftermath/Interscope The living incarnation of Offspring's “Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)”, Motor City rapper Eminem, has delivered a debut album that is so patently offensive it…Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope was called "The Wicked Wasp of Twickenham" for his stinging literary satires of his fellow writers. But Pope also was a poet whose mastery of the heroic couplet has kept him in the…John Wayne Gacy
Name at birth: John Wayne Gacy, Jr.John Wayne Gacy was one of the most famous serial killers to come out of the 1970s, a part-time clown who murdered 33 young men and boys and hid their corpses in…Joseph Kony
Joseph Kony is the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, an armed rebel group that has terrorized parts of Uganda for more than two decades and which gained extra fame on the Internet in 2012. Joseph…Kobe Bryant Biography
Kobe BryantBorn: Aug. 23, 1978Basketball guard/forward for the LA Lakers; graduated from Lower Merion (Penn.) HS and made the jump directly to the NBA; youngest player (18 yrs., 2 mos., 11…Trending
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