bluegrass musicianBorn: 9/13/1911Birthplace: Rosine, Kentucky The father of bluegrass, Monroe created the genre with his mandolin playing, high, lonesome tenor and nostalgic songs. Bluegrass was…
(Rosita Dolores Alverio)actress, dancer, singerBorn: 12/11/1931Birthplace: Humacao, Puerto Rico Moreno first appeared in film at the age of fourteen, in A Medal for Benny (1945). She played in…
(John Michael Osbourne)singerBorn: 12/3/1948Birthplace: Birmingham, England Throughout the 1970s, Osbourne helped establish a brand of slow, gloomy heavy metal with dark lyrics. He played with…
folk/rock musicianBorn: 10/20/1950Birthplace: Gainesville, Florida Having begun playing guitar at 13 with an instrument his mother ordered through the Sears catalog, Petty went on to form (and…
(70 meters)MEN Individual: 1. Simon Fairweather, AUS def. 2. Victor Wunderle, USA (113-106); 3. Wietse van Alten, NED def. Magnus Petersson, SWE (114-109). Team: 1. South Korea (Jang Yong-Ho, Kim…
(Encyclopedia) Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus), fl. 2d cent. a.d., celebrated Greco-Egyptian mathematician, astronomer, and geographer. He made his observations in Alexandria and was the last great…
Henry ManciniArchive PhotosRecord of the Year“Moon River,” Henry ManciniAlbum of the YearJudy at Carnegie Hall, Judy Garland (Capitol)Song of the Year“Moon River,” Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer,…
Our solar system consists of one star (the Sun), eight planets and all their moons, three dwarf planets, and several thousand small solar system objects—…
Earth is not perfectly round; it bulges at the equator and is flatter at the poles. From space the planet looks blue with white swirls, created by water and clouds.Size: Four planets in our solar…
actress, model, singer, songwriterBorn: 12/17/1975Birthplace: Kiev, Ukraine The daughter of a Yugoslavian father and a Russian mother, Milla Jovovich moved to the United States in 1981 from the…
