actor, country songwriterBorn: 6/20/1924Birthplace: Kingston, Texas Film actor and country songwriter whose best-selling autobiography, To Hell and Back, helped launch his film career. He was the…
philanthropistBorn: 1/29/1874Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio Following in his father's philanthropic footsteps, Rockefeller spent his life giving away the vast fortune amassed by his father. His legacy…
educator, publisherBorn: 1914Birthplace: New York City A gifted linguist, he graduated from Yale in 1936 and began running his grandfather's intensive language-teaching business. As the need for…
(Sir William Edmund Butlin)holiday camp promoterBorn: 1899Birthplace: South Africa A veteran of World War I, he worked for a fun fair briefly before beginning his own business of vacation camps.…
(William George Zane, Jr.)actorBorn: 2/24/1966Birthplace: Chicago Zane made his film debut in Back to the Future (1985) and also appeared in Part II (1989) as well as in films such as Critters (…
(Lou Upchurch)actorBorn: 2/17/1962Birthplace: The Philippines This handsome actor first distinguished himself in roles as rock star Richie Valens in La Bamba (1987) and a gang member in Stand and…
(Alfred Gerald Caplin)cartoonistBorn: 9/28/1909Birthplace: New Haven, Connecticut Capp's most famous creation was the comic strip, Li'l Abner (1934–77), which detailed the adventures of Abner…
In this part of the electrolysis of aqueous solutions lab, you see the electrolysis of three aqueous solutions. One of the solutions contains dissolved sodium chloride (NaCl). The second…
inventorBorn: 24 August 1918Best Known as: inventor of extruded polystyrene foam Clarence âKellyâ Johnson invented textruded polystyrene foam which has become a…
