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Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris is an American novelist whose best known work is The Silence of the Lambs, 1988 horror thriller that is one of four books about a cannibalistic psychiatrist, Hannibal Lecter. Harris…

Hieronymus Bosch

Hieronymus Bosch was a Flemish artist of the late Medieval and early Renaissance period, a unique artist whose work was dominated by comically nightmarish images depicting the consequences of human…

Gustave Flaubert

French writer Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary is considered one of the earliest and best examples of what the literary world calls modernist realism. Flaubert was studying law in Paris when he…

Tony Hayward

Name at birth: Anthony Bryan HaywardTony Hayward was the chief executive officer of BP who was forced out as CEO after an oil platform disaster gave the company a black eye in 2010. Hayward was a…

Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese-born English novelist who shot to international fame with his Booker Prize-winning novel, The Remains of the Day (1989). Originally from Nagasaki, Ishiguro's father was…

Kenny Baker

Kenny Baker was already an accomplished circus and cabaret performer when he took the role of R2-D2 in the 1977 sci-fi film Star Wars. His height won him the part: at 3'8" tall, Baker was small…

Kim Philby

Name at birth: Harold Adrian Russell PhilbyThe privileged son of a British diplomat, Harold "Kim" Philby became one of the most famous spies of the 20th century when he defected to the Soviet Union…

Tony Bennett Biography

Tony Bennett(Anthony Dominick Benedetto)Born: 8/3/1926jazz singerBirthplace: Queens, New York Grammy Award-winning singer of classic jazz-inflected music who was popular in the late 1950s and 1960s…

CBA Annual Awards

Most Valuable Player: Dexter Boney, FloridaNewcomer of the Year: Anthony Tucker, FloridaRookies of the Year: Jason Sasser, Sioux Falls & Bernard Hopkins, YakimaDefensive Player of the…

Other PBA Tournaments, 2006

Earl Anthony Medford Classic—Brian Himmler 214, Mika Koivuniemi 204Dick Weber Open—Jason Couch 241, Park Bohn III 214Motel 6 Phoenix Classic—Ritchie Allen 232, Del Ballard Jr. 207Jackson…