rock group The group's album, Licensed to Ill (1986) spawned the hit “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)” and went quintuple platinum, fueled by cross-over interest from both the band's…
An avalanche is any swift movement of snow, ice, mud, or rock down a mountainside or slope. Avalanches, which are natural forms of erosion and often seasonal, can reach speeds of more than 200…
Zach Braff played J.D. on the television hospital comedy Scrubs and wrote, directed and starred in the 2004 feature film Garden State (co-starring Natalie Portman). Braff is a native of New Jersey…
Name at birth: Carly Elisabeth SimonSinger and songwriter Carly Simon's career rests on the hit songs she had in the early 1970s, including "Anticipation" and "You're So Vain." The daughter of…
Colombian Pablo Escobar became one of the world's richest men by distributing cocaine throughout the Americas from the late 1970s until his death in 1993. Pablo Escobar grew up outside the city of…
Fiddle player and singer Alison Krauss began releasing bluegrass records in 1987, and by 2005 she had won 20 Grammy awards -- more than any other female recording artist in history. Krauss was 16…
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Lincoln Chafee is the former Republican senator from Rhode Island who in 2015 began a long-shot run for U.S. president as a Democrat. Lincoln Davenport Chafee comes from an old Rhode Island political…
There are several types of maps. Each show different information. Most maps include a compass rose, which indicates which way is north, south, east and west. They also include a scale so you can…
