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Christina Applegate

actressBorn: 11/25/1971Birthplace: Los Angeles, California Best known for her role as Kelly Bundy on the long-running Fox comedy, Married With Children (1987–97), she actually started acting at…

Sam Walton

retailerBorn: 3/29/1918Birthplace: Kingfisher, Okla. After graduating from the University of Missouri, he began his career as a retail merchant when he opened the first of several franchises of the…

Jennifer Connelly

actressBorn: Dec. 12, 1970Birthplace: New York After a long stretch of forgettable roles in mostly forgettable films, Connelly gave her breakthrough performance in 2001's A Beautiful Mind. She…

Sydney Pollack

producer, director, actorBorn: 7/1/1934Birthplace: Lafayette, Indiana A director of TV series including Ben Casey (1961) and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962), Pollack has risen to distinction as a…

Zachary Paul WAMP, Congress, TN (1957)

WAMP, Zachary Paul, a Representative from Tennessee; born in Fort Benning, Chattahoochee County, Ga., October 28, 1957; graduated from the McCallie School, Chattanooga, Tenn., 1976; attended…

The Binturong

The Question: Someone at work told me there is an animal that smells, or has an odor, like popcorn. But they couldn't remember what animal it was. If this is true, would you…

Definition of Menorah

The Question: Your information about the menorah and hannukiah is mistaken. A hannukia has 9 branches and its ninth branch is the shamash. A menorah only has…

Ellesmere, Thomas Egerton, Baron

(Encyclopedia) Ellesmere, Thomas Egerton, Baron, 1540?–1617, jurist and statesman. A distinguished early career at law brought him appointment (1581) as solicitor general, and he became a favorite…

Herrera, Abraham Cohen de

(Encyclopedia) Herrera, Abraham Cohen deHerrera, Abraham Cohen deār-rāˈrä [key], c.1570–1635, Jewish philosopher and kabbalist, also called Alonso Nunez de Herrera and Abraham Irira. Born possibly in…

Gaonim

(Encyclopedia) GaonimGaonimgāōˈnĭm [key] [Heb.,=excellencies], title given to the heads of the Jewish academies at Sura and Pumbedita in Babylonia immediately following the period of the Saboraim…