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Gary Hall, Jr.

Born: September 26, 1974American Swimmer Won the 50m free event in the 2004 Athens Olympics. At the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Hall won the 50m free and the 4x100m medley relay, earned silver in the…

Black Religious Leaders

  Notable African-American Religious Leaders       Browse more African-American biographies by category: A-Z List Government Officials Civil Rights Leaders Religious…

Apostrophe

Indicates the possessive case of singular and plural nouns, indefinite pronouns, and surnames combined with designations such as Jr., Sr., and II: my sister's husband, my three sisters' husbands,…

Planes

The world's notable passenger, fighter, bomber, experimental, and spy planes by David Noland Passenger Planes Boeing 707 The world's first successful commercial jetlinerBoeing 747 They'…

Movies and Film: Independent Films Today

Independent Films TodayMovies and FilmFilm Financing, Production, and DistributionProduction, Distribution, ExhibitionDistributionExhibition(ists)Stars' BucksIndependent Films TodayForeign FilmsSome…

William Lacy CLAY, Jr., Congress, MO (1956)

CLAY, William Lacy, Jr., (son of William Lacy Clay, Sr.), a Representative from Missouri; born in St. Louis, St. Louis County, Mo., July 27, 1956; graduated from Springbrook High School, Silver…

Sower, Christopher

(Encyclopedia) Sower or Sauer, ChristopherSower or Sauer, Christopherboth: sōˈər, souˈ– [key], 1693–1758, American printer, b. Germany. In 1724, Sower came to America where he worked first as a…

Roach, Hal

(Encyclopedia) Roach, Hal (Harold Eugene Roach, Sr.), 1892–1992, American move producer and director, b. Elmira, N.Y. He entered (1912) the motion-picture industry as an extra, and by 1914 had…

Alyssa Milano

actressBorn: 12/19/1972Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York With roles in such films as Fear (1996), Public Enemy No. 1 (HBO, 1996), and Hugo Pool (1997; directed by Robert Downey, Sr.), and in the…