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Valeisha Butterfield

Valeisha Butterfield is the activist and public relations personality who was engaged to rapper The Game for a short time in 2006. The couple initially set March of 2007 as the date for their…

Pat Buchanan

A famously outspoken conservative, Pat Buchanan was a speechwriter and political advisor to President Richard Nixon and later served as communications director for president Ronald Reagan. In 1982…

Granville T. Woods Biography

Granville T. WoodsinventorBorn: 1856Birthplace: Columbus, Ohio. Woods was born in Columbus, Ohio, and later settled in Cincinnati. Largely self-educated, he was awarded more than 60 patents.…

Barbara McClintock

Name at birth: Eleanor McClintockScientist Barbara McClintock was given the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1983, in recognition of her decades-long work on the genetics of maize. Educated…

Caressa Cameron

Caressa Cameron of Virginia was crowned Miss America 2010 at the annual Miss America Pageant in Las Vegas on 30 January 2010. Caressa Cameron attended Massaponax High School in Virginia, then spent…

Hassan Rouhani

Name at birth: Hassan FeridonHassan Rouhani took office as Iran's 7th president on 4 August 2013, succeeding President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Rouhani has a clerical background, but has been politically…

Kunta Kinte

Kunta Kinte is the central figure in Alex Haley's 1976 book Roots. According to Haley's research, Kunta Kinte was a real historical figure who was 17 when he was captured and taken to America as a…

Federal Farmer VII

Federal Farmer VII31 December 1787.by See also Federalist No. 55Dear sir,In viewing the various governments instituted by mankind, we see their whole force reducible to two principles—the…

2001 Mars Odyssey (U.S.)

Destination: Mars. Launched: April 7, 2001. Arrival: Oct. 24, 2001. Mission: To conduct mineralogical mapping of the planet and study the radiation risk to humans over the course of three…