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Harriet Quimby Biography
Harriet Quimbyaviator Born: 1875Birthplace: Michigan Harriet’s earliest years were shadowy until the family surfaced in the San Francisco area. Harriet started out as an actress but a talent…Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler
Love and longing for Miss Scarlett during the Civil War by David Johnson A 1937 Pulitzer Prize winner, Margaret Mitchell's historical novel, Gone With the Wind, is an American classic…Mary Antin Biography
Mary Antinwriter, activistBorn: 6/13/1881Birthplace: Polotsk, Russia Antin's works often chronicled the immigrant experience in the United States. She is best known for her memoir, The…Stephen Ambrose 2002 Deaths
Stephen AmbroseAge: 66 military historian and writer who prolifically produced best-selling, authoritative war chronicles and biographies. His books, which focused mostly on World War II,…Jacobo Timerman Biography
Jacobo TimermanAge: 76 progressive Argentine journalist who endured two-and-a-half years of imprisonment and torture in the late 1970s for his outspoken condemnation of the military…Get Bruce!
Director:Andrew KuehnMiramax Films; R; 93 minutesRelease:9/99With:Bruce Vilanch, Whoopi Goldberg, Bette Midler, Billy Crystal Bruce Vilanch is ghostwriter to the stars, and Get Bruce! is his…Henri Cartier-Bresson
Frenchman Henri Cartier-Bresson is often called "the father of photojournalism" for his photos of famous events and people from the 1930s to the 1970s. He studied painting and literature in the…2003 National Book Critics Circle Awards
Fiction: The Known World, Edward P. Jones (Amistad/HarperCollins)General Nonfiction: Sons of Mississippi, Paul Hendrickson (Knopf)Biography or Autobiography: Krushchev: The Man and His Era,…Sonnets by William Shakespeare: CVI
Sonnet CV Sonnet CVII CVI When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rime, In praise of ladies dead and lovely…Benjamin Sprague COWEN, Congress, OH (1793-1869)
COWEN Benjamin Sprague , a Representative from Ohio; born in Washington County, N.Y., September 27, 1793; attended the common schools; studied medicine; served in the War of 1812 as a private; in…Trending
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