actorBorn: 1912?Birthplace: New Haven, Connecticut Petrie (who sometimes used his middle initial, and sometimes not) began his career as a stage actor in the 1930s and became a familiar presence on…
(Encyclopedia) Harjo, Joy, 1951–, Native American poet and activist, b. Tulsa, Okla., B.A. Univ. of New Mexico, 1976, M.F.A. Univ. of Iowa, 1978. Her poems are collected in The Last Song (1975), She…
(Encyclopedia) Padilla, Juan dePadilla, Juan dehwän dā päᵺēˈlyä [key], c.1490–1521, Spanish revolutionary leader in the war of the comuneros [municipalities] against Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.…
chess playerDied: January 18, 2008 (Reykajvik, Iceland) Best Known as: winner of the 1972 world chess championship against Soviet world champion A chess…
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…
actorBorn: 12/21/1966Birthplace: London, England Sutherland made his film debut in Max Dugan Returns (1983) courtesy of his father, actor Donald Sutherland. He went on to become a member of the…
rock band Made up of two Japanese-born musicians, Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori, the hip band Cibo Matto, which means “food madness” in Italian, fuses funk, rap, bossa nova, swing, and hip-hop. The…
(Ilynea Lydia Mironoff)actressBorn: 7/26/1945Birthplace: London, England An intelligent, versatile actress, Mirren performed on the British stage during the 1960s and 1970s, playing Ophelia,…
(Encyclopedia) Moseley, Henry Gwyn JeffreysMoseley, Henry Gwyn Jeffreysmōzˈlē [key], 1887–1915, English physicist, grad. Trinity College, Oxford, 1910. He began his research under Ernest Rutherford…
