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Estée Lauder Biographies ofNotable Women Actresses Adventurers Artists Athletes Businesswomen Comediennes Congresswomen Educators and Scholars Fashion Designers and…The Dead Sea Scrolls
The first of the Dead Sea Scroll discoveries occurred in 1947 in Qumran, a village situated about twenty miles east of Jerusalem on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea. A young Bedouin shepherd,…Sime Silverman Biography
Sime Silvermannewspaper publisherBorn: 1873Birthplace: Cortland, N.Y With nearly a decade under his belt in the newspaper business (New York Morning Telegraph, 1896–1905), he established a…DBC Pierre Biography
writerBorn: 1961Best Known as: author who wrote Vernon God Little Birthplace: Australia DBC Pierre was the winner of the Man Booker Prize for fiction in…John Murtha, 2005 News
Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania, stunned member of Congress and sparked the ire of the Bush administration in November, when he called for an immediate withdrawal of troops from…Scoring a Baseball Game
The Question: Why is "K" used to score strikes in baseball? The Answer: According to Total Baseball, The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Baseball,…Paulina Peavy
Name at birth: Pauline Ellen WhitePaulina Peavy was a 20th century American artist cast into the realm of "outsider art" because her mind-bending paintings were, according to her, messages from a…Ryan Sheckler
Ryan Sheckler took the skateboarding world by storm when he won a gold medal at the age of 13 at the 2003 X Games. Sheckler grew up in California and began competing in amateur events in 1996, and…Ashley Harkleroad
Tennis pro Ashley Harkleroad made a splash at age 16 when she appeared at the 2001 U.S. Open. She lost in the first round, but her fashionable outfit and long blonde ponytail earned her comparisons…Frank Stanton 2006 Deaths
Frank StantonAge: 98 broadcasting executive who was president of CBS from 1946 to 1973. He was a prominent advocate of the media's right to cover the government critically in the Vietnam era.…Trending
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