(Encyclopedia) Martin I, Saint, d. 655?, pope (649–55?), an Italian, b. Todi; successor of Theodore I. On his accession he summoned a great council at the Lateran, as St. Maximus had urged, to deal…
(Encyclopedia) jade, common name for either of two minerals used as gems. The rarer variety of jade is jadeite, a sodium aluminum silicate, NaAl(SiO3)2, usually white or green in color; the green…
writer and singerDied: April 8, 2008Best Known as: mother of reggae musician Bob Marley Deathplace: Miami, Florida Cedella Booker was best known as the mother of…
singer, songwriter, musicianBorn: 12/9/1969 The youngest child of legendary singer/songwriter Bob Dylan, he attended art school before putting together his band, The Wallflowers, in the early 1990s…
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actress, video director, clothing designerBorn: 9/18/1971Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland Jada Pinkett Smith dropped out of the North Carolina School of Arts after just one year and headed to…
(Charles Hardin Holley)rock and roll singer, guitaristBorn: 9/7/1936Birthplace: Lubbock, Texas Singer and guitarist who was one of the first rock and roll musicians. With his band, The Crickets,…
Senate Years of Service: 1907-1912Party: DemocratTAYLOR, Robert Love, (son of Nathaniel Green Taylor and brother of Alfred Alexander Taylor), a Representative and a Senator from Tennessee;…