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Great Characters You Should Know

Do you know Charlotte, Hans, and Alice? They are friends of your grandparents and parents. When you read about them, they'll become your friends, too.Alice Alice, an impressionable Victorian girl…

Diane Keaton

(Diane Hall)actress, directorBorn: 1/5/1946Birthplace: Santa Ana, California Academy Award-winning actress and director known for her comic roles in Woody Allen films in which she often played…

Ike Turner Biography

musicianDied: Dec. 12, 2007 (San Marcos, California) Best Known as: musician, songwriter, producer, and ex-husband of Tina Turner Turner was an R&B…

Las Cruces

(Encyclopedia) Las CrucesLas Crucesläs kr&oomacr;ˈsĭs [key], city (1990 pop. 62,126), seat of Dona Ana co., SW N.Mex., on the Rio Grande, in a farm area irrigated by the Elephant Butte system;…

White, Leslie Alvin

(Encyclopedia) White, Leslie Alvin, 1900–1975, American anthropologist, b. Salida, Colo., grad. Columbia, 1923, Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1927. He taught at the Univ. of Buffalo and was curator of…

The Fugees

hip-hop group Hip-hop group that cleverly combines rap, R&B and reggae sounds. Their second album, The Score (1996) hit number one on the pop charts and sold over five million copies, fueled…

Janeane Garofalo

actress, comedianBorn: 9/28/1964Birthplace: Newton, New Jersey Offbeat, sometimes brash, comedian best known as the talent booker Paula in The Larry Sanders Show (1992–97). Despite a reputation for…

1996 Olympics: Judo

Men Extra Lightweight (132 lbs): 1. Tadahiro Nomura, JPN 2. Girolamo Giovinazzo, ITA; 3. Dorjpalam Narmandakh, MON and Richard Trautmann, GER. Half-Lightweight (143 lbs): 1. Udo Quellmalz, GER; 2.…

Lyndon Baines Johnson

Born: 8/27/1908Birthplace: Stonewall, Tex. Lyndon Baines Johnson was born in Stonewall, Tex., on Aug. 27, 1908. On both sides of his family he had a political heritage mingled with a Baptist…

Pat Garrett

(Patrick Floyd Garrett)lawmanBorn: 6/5/1850Birthplace: Chambers County, Alabama Western law man famous for killing Billy “The Kid”, Pat Garrett left his family's plantation in Louisiana in 1869 to…