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Stanley Tucci

Stanley Tucci's rather fascinating film career began in 1985 with a tiny part as a mob soldier in Prizzi's Honor, and for awhile he was cast as swarthy heavies and jittery oddballs: Lucky Luciano in…

Princess Stephanie of Monaco

Princess Stephanie of Monaco is the daughter of Prince Rainier of Monaco and his late wife Princess Grace (the former movie star Grace Kelly). Princess Stephanie was the couple's third and last…

Lenny Kravitz

Name at birth: Leonard Albert KravitzPop singer and fashionista Lenny Kravitz had hit songs in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but today's audience might know him more for his supporting role as…

Goya

Name at birth: Francisco Jose de Goya y LucientesGoya is considered the 18th Century's foremost painter and etcher of Spanish culture, known for his realistic scenes of battles, bullfights and human…

Joe Namath

Quarterback Joe Namath played American football from 1965 to 1977, but it was his performance in 1969's Super Bowl III that catapulted him to stardom and cemented his place in sports history. Joe…

Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was the leader of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1985 until its collapse in December of 1991. Mikhail Gorbachev trained as a lawyer at Moscow State University. He joined…

Barbara Billingsley Biography

actressBorn: 12/22/1922 Birthplace: Los Angeles, CADied: 10/16/2010 (Santa Monica, CA) Barbara Billingsley was born Barbara Lillian Combes on Dec. 22, 1915…

Christina Rossetti: Summer

SummerWinter is cold-hearted Spring is yea and nay, Autumn is a weather-cock Blown every way: Summer days for me When every leaf is on its tree;When Robin's not a beggar, And Jenny Wren…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: By the Sea

by EmilyDickinsonTwo VoyagersOld-FashionedBy the Sea By the Sea I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me, And frigates in…

Sonnets by William Shakespeare: XX

Sonnet XIX Sonnet XXI XX A woman's face with nature's own hand painted, Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion; A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted With shifting change, as…