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Lauren Holly

actressBorn: 10/28/1963Birthplace: Geneva, New York Film and television actress best known for her role on TV's Picket Fences. She got her start on the daytime drama All My Children, and soon…

Who invented the scissors?

The Question: My daughter is working on a school project and we want to know invented the scissors? The Answer: The type of scissors that you…

Gudrid Thorbjarnardottir

Viking travelerBorn: c. 985Birthplace: Iceland According to the Icelandic sagas, Gudrid (“the traveler”) and her husband Thorfinn Karlsefni traveled to North America where they founded the Vinland…

Sophia Loren

actressBorn: 9/20/1934Birthplace: Rome, Italy Academy Award-winning film actress known for her stunning beauty and for her roles opposite Marcello Mastroianni. Her films include Two Women (1961),…

Gates McFadden

(Jesse Stuart Gates, Cheryl McFadden, Cheryl Gates McFadden)actress, dancer, choreographerBorn: 3/2/1949Birthplace: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Gates McFadden is most readily identified through her…

Cameron Diaz

actress, modelBorn: 8/30/1972Birthplace: San Diego, California Striking blonde actress who has parlayed a successful modeling career into big-screen success. After making the blockbuster film The…

Huckabee, Mike

(Encyclopedia) Huckabee, Mike (Michael Dale Huckabee), 1955–, American politican and Baptist minister, b. Hope, Ark. He attended Ouachita Baptist Univ. (B.A., 1975) and Southwestern Baptist…

Carthage, city, United States

(Encyclopedia) Carthage. <1> City (2020 pop. 15,522), seat of Jasper co., SW Mo., on the Spring River; inc. 1873. Its gray marble quarries are…

A Who's Who of Warriors

Amazons, Vandals, Vikings—what do they have in common? Do you know they were all warriors? Add guerrillas, kamikazes, and conquistadors and you have quite a group. Who were they? When and where did…

Howard Finster

folk artist, Baptist preacherBorn: 12/02/1916Birthplace: Valley Head, Alabama Baptist preacher and prolific folk artist known as much for his outsized personality as for his sculpture made out of…