(Louis Bert Lindley, Jr.)actor, cowboyBorn: 6/29/1919Birthplace: Kingsburg, California Pickens worked as a rodeo star before landing his first movie role in the western Rocky Mountain (1950). His…
doctorDied: January 6, 2008 (Jaipur, India) Best Known as: inventor of a prosthesis called the Jaipur foot Dr. Sethi invented the first affordable prosthetic foot…
2013 Notable Books for Children Books Inside and Out Types of Literature A Guide to Library Books: The Dewey Decimal System Kids' Top 100 Favorite Books Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children The…
actressBorn: 8/23/1949Birthplace: Fort Wayne, Indiana Originally a TV producer and host, Long broke into film acting in the early 1980s, notably in Night Shift (1982) with Henry Winkler and Michael…
actressBorn: 4/19/1979Birthplace: Los Angeles The vivacious actress, the daughter of Goldie Hawn and comedian-singer Bill Hudson, has inherited her mother's infectious charm, beauty, and the…
Born: 1957Birthplace: Jefferson City, Tenn. Microcomputer with bus control means for peripheral devices—The work of these IBM scientists is what allows IBM and IBM-compatible computer components…
(Michael Shalhoub; Omar El-Sharif)actorBorn: 4/10/1932Birthplace: Alexandria, Egypt Already a star of Egyptian films, Sharif came to international prominence for his role in Lawrence of Arabia (…
Sources: NASA and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A new tool to help scientists, the media, and the public assess the potential danger of asteroids…
