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Read a bio on Neil Patrick Harris, the host of the 87th Academy Awards, and past Oscar hosts. Do you remember who hosted in 1989? No one. That was the year the Oscars had no host, in…
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WriterBorn: 1951Birthplace: New York City Oscar Hijuelos is the first Hispanic to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. A second-generation Cuban American, Hijuelos grew up in New York and earned a…
Born: Nov. 24, 1938Basketball G 3-time College Player of Year (1958-60) at Cincinnati; led 1960 U.S. Olympic team to gold medal; NBA Rookie of Year (1961); 9-time All-NBA 1st team; MVP in 1964 with…
retailerBorn: 1857Birthplace: Vincennes, Ind. Began working in his father's retailing enterprise at age 13. With his seven brothers, formed the Gimbel Brothers chain of stores in Milwaukee (1889),…
(Encyclopedia) Asimov, IsaacAsimov, Isaacăzˈəmŏf [key], 1920–92, American author and scientist, b. Petrovichi, USSR, grad. Columbia (B.S., 1939; M.A., 1941; Ph.D., 1948). An astonishingly prolific…
(Encyclopedia) Jogues, Isaac (Saint Isaac Jogues)Jogues, Isaacēzäkˈ zhôg [key], 1607–46, French Jesuit missionary and martyr in the New World; one of the Jesuit Martyrs of North America. He arrived…
