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Family Guy

FoxMidseason DebutSunday 8:30–9:00 p.m.Voices of: You thought the Simpson are dysfunctional? They're as innocent as the Cleavers compared to the Griffins, a middle-class Rhode Island family.…

Richard Hatch

Richard Hatch gained his place in pop culture history by winning the first edition of the CBS "reality show" Survivor in the year 2000. A corporate trainer from Rhode Island, Hatch outwitted and…

Accurate Mechanical Clocks

Source: National Institute of Standards and Technology Physics Laboratory Pendulum ClocksQuartz Clocks In Europe during most of the Middle Ages (roughly 500 to 1500 A.D.), technological…

Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman became one of America's best-known film actors in 1971, when he starred as impudent New York cop Popeye Doyle in William Friedkin's The French Connection. Since then he has mixed…

George II

King George II was a Hanoverian prince who rose to the throne of Britain in 1727. His 33-year reign included wars with Spain and France and the expansion of the British empire into Canada and India…

James M. Cain

Name at birth: James Mallahan CainJames M. Cain is one of the most famous of the hard-boiled fiction writers who came to prominence in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. His place in…

Jimi Hendrix

Name at birth: Johnny Allen Hendrix Jimi Hendrix grabbed the electric guitar by the neck and wrestled it into a new era. His feedback-heavy solos and hallucinogenic tunes helped define the…

John Daly

John Daly is the professional golfer known for his outsize talent and outsize lifestyle on, off, and near the golf course. John Daly took professional golf by storm when he came out of nowhere to…

Pete Townshend

Pete Townshend is the guitarist and driving force behind The Who, one of the most successful of the 1960s' British rock groups. Pete Townshend grew up in a London suburb and began playing music as a…

Wayne Gretzky

Wayne Gretzky was named the greatest player in National Hockey League history by The Hockey News in 1998. Among his accomplishments: he was the NHL's all-time leading scorer, he was named league MVP…