SMITH, Green Clay, (son of John Speed Smith), a Representative from Kentucky; born in Richmond, Madison County, Ky., July 4, 1826; pursued academic studies; served in the Mexican War;…
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(Encyclopedia) Forman, Miloš, 1932–2018, Czech-American filmmaker, b. Čáslav, Czechoslovakia (now in the Czech Republic), asJan Tomáš Forman. He attended film school in Prague and worked as a…
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Senate Years of Service: 1913-1925Party: RepublicanSTERLING, Thomas, (brother of John Allen Sterling), a Senator from South Dakota; born near Amanda, Fairfield County, Ohio, February 21, 1851…
Senate Years of Service: 1901-1913Party: RepublicanGAMBLE, Robert Jackson, (brother of John Rankin Gamble and father of Ralph Abernethy Gamble), a Representative and a Senator from South…
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rock group The tumultuous off-stage life of lead singer and guitarist Courtney Love > her 1992 marriage to Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and the couple's well publicized drug problems—has sometimes…