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Rose Markward Knox Biography

Rose Markward Knoxfood products manufacturerBorn: 1857Birthplace: Mansfield, Ohio She and her husband formed the Knox Gelatin Company, but it was she who ran it after his death in 1908 and…

Northrup Knox 1998 Deaths

Northrup KnoxAge: 69 with the help of his brother Seymour, brought the Sabres to Buffalo when the NHL expanded in 1969; served as Sabres chairman after his brother's death from cancer in…

A Boy's Will: Stars

by Robert Frost A Late WalkStorm FearStars There is no oversight of human affairs. HOW countlessly they congregate O'er our tumultuous snow, Which flows in shapes as tall as trees…

Fausto Vitello 2006 Deaths

Fausto VitelloAge: 59 maverick skateboarder and publisher who, in the late 1970s, helped to popularize street skateboarding—using curbs, steps, and railings to launch jumps and tricks—with…

Glen Keeley 2000 Deaths

Glen KeeleyAge: 30 world-class bull rider who was killed after being stepped on by a bull; listed ninth in the Professional Bull Rider's rankings with $33,752 in 2000 earnings at the time of…

Dan Rather, 2004 News

journalist, found himself at the center of a media storm in September, when he and his network, CBS, admitted that they could not definitively prove the authenticity of documents they used…

Rafik Hariri 2005 Deaths

Rafik HaririAge: 60 independent-minded Lebanese politician and billionaire businessman who was responsible for Lebanon's economic rebirth in the last decade. He was assassinated by a car bomb…

Kashmiri Shell Game

1999 News of the World The disputed region of Kashmir has been at the root of chronic antagonism between Pakistan and India, and their enmity has grown potentially more dangerous now that both…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Lament

by Percy Bysshe Shelley The AziolaRemembranceA Lament Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824. 1. O world! O life! O time! On whose last steps I climb, Trembling at that…