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23, Baltimore Orioles pitcher, died in February of multi-organ failure caused by complications from heatstroke. He collapsed during a spring-training workout. An autopsy later revealed that…Jesse James
Jesse James was one of the most famous outlaws of the American West. Young Jesse learned a lot about guerrilla activities during the U.S. Civil War, fighting and sabotaging the Union army in the…Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot is one of the towering figures of the 18th century Enlightenment period, thanks largely to his editorship of the Encylopédie, one of the great attempts to catalog human knowledge. A…Chester A. Arthur
Vice President Chester Alan Arthur became President on September 20, 1881, after the assassination of President James Garfield. Trained as a lawyer, Chester A. Arthur had long been a leader in…M.C. Escher
Name at birth: Maurits Cornelis EscherEscher's mind-bending prints and drawings playfully explore perspective, mirror images and physical space. Two of his best-known prints, "Relativity" (1953) and…Poems by Emily Dickinson: XVI ("Surgeons")
by EmilyDickinsonXVThe Railway TrainXVI Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the culprit, — Life!Billy Strayhorn
Name at birth: William Thomas StrayhornFor three decades, Billy Strayhorn was the composing and arranging partner of jazz great Duke Ellington. Billy Strayhorn met Duke Ellington in 1939, when…David Duval
David Duval won the 2001 British Open, silencing those who had called him the best player never to win a major tournament. Duval joined the PGA tour in 1995; by 1999 he was ranked #1 in the world (a…Timothy Dalton
A lean, hard-edged leading man of stage and screen, Timothy Dalton is best known for playing movie superspy James Bond. Classically trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Timothy Dalton first…modulation, in communications
(Encyclopedia) CE5 Modulation modulation, in communications, process in which some characteristic of a wave (the carrier wave) is made to vary in accordance with an information-bearing signal…Trending
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