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The Devil's Dictionary: Philanthropist
by Ambrose Bierce PESSIMISMPHILISTINEPHILANTHROPIST -n. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.Vikas Khanna
Vikas Khanna was executive chef at the Manhattan restaurant Salaam Bombay from 2002-05. After training as a chef in his native India, he moved to New York City in 2000 and two years later had become…Jiang Zemin
Jiang earned a university degree in electrical engineering and began his career in the Communist Party while still a student. He spent years as a factory manager (even training at the Soviet Union's…Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev (also Dmitrii Mendeleyev) created the first valid periodic table of the elements in 1869. With the exception of post-graduate training in England and Germany (where…Poems by Emily Dickinson: The Show
by EmilyDickinsonThe Railway TrainXIXThe Show The Show The show is not the show, But they that go. Menagerie to me My neighbor be. Fair play — Both went to see.Montezuma II
Montezuma II (also known as Moctezuma II) was trained as a priest and rose to become leader of the Aztecs in 1502. At the time, the Aztecs controlled most of what is now Mexico and Central America,…Helen Hokinson
Helen Hokinson's cartoons were a staple in The New Yorker magazine for nearly 25 years. She specialized in plump and befuddled society matrons: club women, theatergoers and other polite and amusing…John Walker Lindh, 2002 News
20, American Taliban soldier, reached a deal with U.S. prosecutors in July in which he avoided a life sentence by pleading guilty to serving in the Taliban's army. In exchange, the…Kenneth Williams, 2002 News
FBI agent, testified at a May Congressional hearing about a memo he wrote in July 2001, in which he had speculated that a large number of al-Qaeda members enrolled in U.S. flight schools…John Charnley Biography
inventorBorn: 29 August 1911Best Known as: inventor of low-frictional torque arthroplasty or hip replacement surgery John Charnley was born in Lancashire…Trending
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