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Robert E. Peary
Robert Edwin Peary, his assistant Matthew Henson and four Inuit men were the first to reach the North Pole on 6 April 1909. An officer in the United States Navy, it was Commander Peary's eighth…Garry Moore
Name at birth: Thomas Garrison Morfit Though he is sometimes forgotten now, Garry Moore was one of the leading TV personalities of the 1950s. He was the easygoing host of the Garry Moore Show, an…George Mallory
Also known as: George Herbert Leigh-MalloryAn expert mountaineer, George Mallory led three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the 1920s. On the third, in 1924, Mallory and climbing partner…Barry Williams
Barry Williams played eldest son Greg Brady on the TV series The Brady Bunch. The show ran in prime time from 1969-1974 and then continued for decades in reruns; by the 1990s the show and its cast…Dr. Zhivago <span class="date" >(1965)</span>
Director: David LeanCast: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie and Alec Guinness This sweeping historical epic spans decades and wars, political transitions and romances. Visually lush and brilliantly…Karl Marx
Karl Marx studied law and philosophy, and was initially influenced by the works of G. W. F. Hegel. Marx rejected the idealism of Hegel and developed a more materialistic theory of history as science…Billy Strayhorn
Name at birth: William Thomas StrayhornFor three decades, Billy Strayhorn was the composing and arranging partner of jazz great Duke Ellington. Billy Strayhorn met Duke Ellington in 1939, when…Judge Crater
Name at birth: Joseph Force CraterOn 6 August 1930, New York Supreme Court justice Joseph Crater made plans to attend the Broadway play Dancing Partner -- or so he told friends. In fact he went to…Timothy Dalton
A lean, hard-edged leading man of stage and screen, Timothy Dalton is best known for playing movie superspy James Bond. Classically trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Timothy Dalton first…November 2000 News and Events
WorldYugoslavia Joins United Nations (Nov. 1): General Assembly welcomes new democratic government. Yugoslavia had been ostracized from UN during Slobodan Milosevic's eight-year rule.…Trending
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