(Ruth Lee Jones)singerBorn: 8/29/1924Birthplace: Tuscaloosa, Alabama Known for her gritty vocal style, the beloved but controversial singer was at home with R&B, blues, jazz, and middle-of-the-…
Senate Years of Service: 1833-1837; 1837-1839 Party: Jacksonian; Democrat MORRIS, Thomas, (father of Isaac Newton Morris and Jonathan David Morris), a Senator from Ohio; born in Berks…
Senate Years of Service: 1831-1833Party: JacksonianDALLAS, George Mifflin, (great-great-granduncle of Claiborne Pell), a Senator from Pennsylvania and a vice president of the United States;…
Senate Years of Service: 1805-1806Party: Democratic Republican/JacksonianADAIR, John, a Senator and a Representative from Kentucky; born in Chester District, Chester County, S.C., January 9,…
LAWS OF MOTIONINERTIAMOMENTUMFIND OUT MOREDynamics is the study of how objects move when forces act on them. Normally objects stay still or move along at a steady pace. They resist changes in…
pop group This phenomenally successful girl group was formed in England in the mid-1990s when a group of housemates answered a newspaper ad. Victoria Adams, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie…
pop-punk singer, actressBorn: 7/9/1964Birthplace: San Francisco Pop-punk singer, actress and songwriter known for her strong, emotional vocals, volatile behavior on- and offstage and for being the…
singerDied: 17 October 2008Best Known as: lead singer in the 1960s Motown group the Four Tops Deathplace: Detroit, Michigan Levi Stubbs was the lead singer of…
singerDied: April 25, 2007 (Los Angeles, California) Best Known as: singer of the hit "Monster Mash" Singer of the hit âMonster Mash,â one of the longest…
(Encyclopedia) Alexius I (Alexius Comnenus)Alexius Iəlĕkˈsēəs, kəmnēˈnəs [key], 1048–1118, Byzantine emperor (1081–1118). Under the successors of his uncle, Isaac I, the empire had fallen prey to…
