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Amber Heard

Amber Heard is an American actress whose fame after 2016 had more to do with her divorce from movie star Johnny Depp than her onscreen career. She left school early in Texas and set out to be a…

Adrienne Rich

Name at birth: Adrienne Cecile RichPoet Adrienne Rich was known for her activism as much as for her writing, and in the 1970s she became a leading voice for lesbians, feminists and anti-war…

Richard III

Richard III was King of England for just over two years in the 15th century, but the debate about him continues: Shall he be remembered as a visionary reformer and brilliant administrator, or as an…

Carey Mulligan

Dimpled, British, and looking younger than her age, Carey Mulligan made her professional debut in 2005 -- as Kitty Bennet in the film adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice -- and parlayed…

Chuck Hagel

Name at birth: Charles Timothy HagelA former two-term Republican Senator from Nebraska, Chuck Hagel became the U.S. Secreatry of Defense in 2013 but resigned abruptly in November of 2014. Chuck Hagel…

One Night At McCool's

Director:Harald ZwartWriter:Stan SeidelUSA Films; R; 93 minutesRelease:4/01Cast:Liv Tyler, Matt Dillon, John Goodman “This is a movie,” one can imagine the production team explaining, “about…

Mayim Bialik

Mayim Bialik was a child actress and star of 1990s TV’s sitcom Blossom, but she’s best known for her role on The Big Bang Theory and as the current co-host of the game show Jeopardy! Bialik’s first…

Clones Aren't Exact Copies

A commonly repeated (or replicated) mistake There is some misunderstanding about what constitutes a clone. A human clone would be the genetic identical twin, a generation or more younger, of the…

Confucianism

Confucius (K'ung Fu-tzu), born in the state of Lu (northern China), lived from 551 to 479 B.C. He was a brilliant teacher, viewing education not merely as the accumulation of knowledge but as a…

Popular Theology

by Ann-Marie Imbornoni Return to the C.S. Lewis Bio In 1933 Lewis published his first major work, The Pilgrim's Regress, an allegorical telling of his own journey to belief in Christ. Along the way…