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Warren Robinson AUSTIN, Congress, VT (1877-1962)

Senate Years of Service: 1931-1946 Party: Republican AUSTIN Warren Robinson , a Senator from Vermont; born in Highgate Center, Franklin County, Vt., November 12, 1877; attended the public schools;…

Triple Crown Races—2003

Kentucky Derby (Churchill Downs, Louisville, Ky., May 3, 2003.) Purse: $1,000,000. Distance: 11/4 mi. Order of finish: 1. Funny Cide (Santos), mutuel returns: $27.60, $12.40, $8.20. 2. Empire…

Amal Clooney

Name at birth: Amal AlamuddinAmal Clooney is the accomplished British barrister and human rights activist who married actor George Clooney in 2014. Amal Clooney was born Amal Alamuddin in Beirut in…

Rutherford Birchard Hayes

Rutherford Birchard HayesBorn: 10/4/1822Birthplace: Delaware, Ohio Rutherford Birchard Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, on Oct. 4, 1822. A graduate of Kenyon College and the Harvard Law…

Stephen Grover Cleveland

Stephen Grover ClevelandBorn: 3/18/1837Birthplace: Caldwell, N.J. (Stephen) Grover Cleveland was born at Caldwell, N.J., on March 18, 1837. He was admitted to the bar in Buffalo, N.Y., in…

October 2001 Disasters

Oct. 4, Black Sea, off the coast of Russia: Siberian Airlines jet en route from Tel Aviv, Israel, to Novosibirsk in Siberia exploded and plunged into the Black Sea. All 76 aboard, including…

The Devil's Dictionary: Soul

by Ambrose Bierce SORCERYSPOOKERSOUL -n. A spiritual entity concerning which there hath been brave disputation. Plato held that those souls which in a previous state of existence (…

The Devil's Dictionary: Infalapsarian

by Ambrose Bierce INFLUENCEINGRATEINFALAPSARIAN -n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that…

Michael Cohen

Michael Cohen is the New York lawyer who has been called a "pit bull" (by ABC News) and a "personal arm-twister" (by The New York Times) for President Donald Trump. In 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to…