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Honey Boo Boo

Name at birth: Alana ThompsonAlana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson is the pint-sized blonde beauty pageant contestant who became the star of the TV reality series Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. Alana Thompson…

Faye Dunaway

Faye Dunaway is the Oscar-winning actress who starred in some of the great landmark movies of the 1960s and 1970s -- and decades later, in one of the great Academy Awards gaffes of all time. Faye…

Ian Richard Kyle Paisley

Ian Richard Kyle Paisley is a Protestant preacher and larger-than-life politician from Northern Ireland. He is most famous for his opposition to the Catholic Church and to the political unification…

Ray Kroc

Ray Kroc is the American entrepreneur who turned McDonald's hamburger stands into an international success and the world's largest chain of restaurants. Ray Kroc's rags-to-riches story started in…

Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke is one of the most famous Native Americans in progressive politics, having twice been a candidate for the office of U.S. vice president as a member of the Green Party. Raised in…

Douglas R. STRINGFELLOW, Congress, UT (1922-1966)

STRINGFELLOW Douglas R. , a Representative from Utah; born in Draper, Utah, September 24, 1922; attended the public schools; moved to Odgen, Utah, in 1935 and graduated from high school in 1941…

Paula Poundstone

After years as a stand-up comedian, Paula Poundstone took her wry observations about life and her liberal political perspective to TV in the 1990 HBO special Cats, Cops and Stuff. The show won a…

Corman, Roger William

(Encyclopedia) Corman, Roger William, 1926-, American film director, screenwriter, and producer, b. Detroit, Mi., Stanford Univ. (B.S., 1947). Corman…

Mamet, David

(Encyclopedia) Mamet, DavidMamet, Davidmămĕtˈ [key], 1947–, American playwright and film director, b. Chicago. He taught drama (and produced some of his early plays) at Goddard College. His work,…

Deep Sea Drilling Project

(Encyclopedia) Deep Sea Drilling Project, U.S. program designed to investigate the evolution of ocean basins by core drilling of ocean sediments and underlying oceanic crust. Funded by the National…