country-music group The all-girl band from Dallas started out with a traditional country sound, but personnel changes and a more contemporary country sound earned them their biggest success. The…
Senate Years of Service: 1913-1916Party: RepublicanBURLEIGH, Edwin Chick, a Representative and a Senator from Maine; born in Linneus, Aroostook County, Maine, November 27, 1843; attended the…
John R. "Jack" Horner Paleontologist Melissa Sogard Starting at an Early Age RELATED LINKS Dinosaur NewsFor Kids: DinosaursDinosaur Hall of FameDinosaurs: Fact and…
actor, musicianBorn: 4/7/1969Birthplace: Los Angeles Black spent most of the mid- and late-1990s in relative obscurity, frequently playing offbeat sidekick characters. That all changed in 2000,…
Born: Aug. 21, 1924Radio-TV broadcast baseball games for St. Louis Cardinals from 1954-2001; CBS Radio voice for Monday Night Football (1978-96) and announcer for 1st televised AFL game in 1960;…
(Marvin John Nance)actorBorn: 12/21/1943Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts Nance acted in several films directed by David Lynch, most memorably in the lead role of Eraserhead (1976); he also…
(Walter Jack Palahnuik, Vladimir Palanuik)actor Born: 2/18/1919Birthplace: Lattimer, Pennsylvania This stage actor first appeared on film in Elia Kazan's Panic in the Streets (1950). His menacing…
(Benjamin Kubelsky)comedianBorn: 2/14/1894Birthplace: Chicago Emmy Award-winning radio and television comedian remembered for his self-ridicule, his awful violin playing and his stinginess. He…
(Jean Louis Kerouac)novelistBorn: 3/12/1922Birthplace: Lowell, Massachusetts Novelist and leader of the Beat generation. His books include On the Road (1957), considered the lasting testament of…