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Don Imus
Name at birth: John Donald Imus, Jr.Don Imus was the grumpy and controversial host of the nationally-syndicated Imus in the Morning radio show. The show, which ran in various incarnations for more…Movies and Film: Danish Directions
Danish DirectionsMovies and FilmScandinavian Film HistoryDanish DirectionsThe Networks of NorwaySwedish SweetnessIngmar Bergman and the Triumph of Scandinavian Cinema On September 17, 1904, the…Collins, Patricia Hill
(Encyclopedia) Collins, Patricia Hill, 1948–, American sociologist and social theorist, b. Philadelphia, Ph.D. Brandeis University, 1984. A noted…Walter Cronkite
Cronkite, Walter (Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr.)krŏngˈkĪt, krŏnˈ–, 1916–2009, American news broadcaster, b. St. Joseph, Mo. He left (1935) the Univ. of Texas to write for the Houston Press and later…Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain was a rough-and-tumble chef famous for his television shows about cooking and travel, and for his bestselling 2000 book, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly…Zhupanovsky
(Encyclopedia) Zhupanovsky, compound volcano, 9,705 ft (2,958 m), on the Kamchatka peninsula, Kamchatka Territory, Russia, c.40 mi (65 km) N of Petropavlovsk. Zhupanovsky consists of four…Mackenzie, Sir William
(Encyclopedia) Mackenzie, Sir William, 1849–1923, Canadian railroad builder and financier, b. Ontario. In the early 1870s he became a railroad contractor. He constructed portions of the Canadian…Alappuzha
(Encyclopedia) Alappuzha Alappuzha ălˌəpp&oobreve;rˈə [key], formerly Alleppey Alleppey ălˈəpē [key], city, Kerala state, SW India. It is a district…Gbowee, Leymah Roberta
(Encyclopedia) Gbowee, Leymah RobertaGbowee, Leymah Robertalāˈmä, bōwēˈ [key], 1972–, Liberian peace activist. A social worker and trauma counselor, she worked with ex-child soldiers from Charles…grid computing
(Encyclopedia) grid computing, the concurrent application of the processing and data storage resources of many computers in a network to a single problem. It also can be used for load balancing as…Trending
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