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Charles GOLDSBOROUGH, Congress, MD (1765-1834)

GOLDSBOROUGH, Charles, (great-grandfather of Thomas Alan Goldsborough and Winder Laird Henry), a Representative from Maryland; born at “Hunting Creek,” near Cambridge, Dorchester County,…

William COOPER, Congress, NY (1754-1809)

COOPER, William, a Representative from New York; born in Philadelphia, Pa., December 2, 1754; lived in Burlington, N.J., until moving in 1789 to Otsego County, N.Y., where he established the…

David Jenkins WARD, Congress, MD (1871-1961)

WARD, David Jenkins, a Representative from Maryland; born in Salisbury, Wicomico County, Md., September 17, 1871; attended the public schools; farmer; lumberjack; merchant; real estate…

Toledo Manrique, Alejandro

(Encyclopedia) Toledo Manrique, Alejandro, 1946–, Peruvian political leader, president of Peru (2001–6). Toledo, who has indigenous Andean roots, was born into poverty in rural Peru and grew up in…

Barry Manilow

(Barry Alan Pincus)singer, songwriterBorn: 6/17/1946Birthplace: New York City Often maligned by critics, Barry Manilow was one of the best-selling balladeers of the 1970s. Although he began his…

Robert GOLDSBOROUGH, Congress, MD (1733-1788)

GOLDSBOROUGH, Robert, (great-great-great-grandfather of Thomas Alan Goldsborough), a Delegate from Maryland; born at “Horns Point,” Dorchester County, Md., December 3, 1733; pursued an…

Watergate: 40 Years After the Break-in

Take a look back at the Watergate scandal, the laws passed in response to it, and key players by Beth Rowen The Watergate Complex The scandal that ended the Nixon presidency began more than…

Triple Crown Races—2006

Kentucky Derby (Churchill Downs, Louisville, Ky., May 6, 2006.) Purse: $2,000,000. Distance: 11/4 mi. Order of finish: 1. Barbaro (Prado), mutuel…

The Star-Spangled Banner

—Francis Scott Key, 1814O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,O'er…

Carol Moseley-Braun

lawyer and former U.S. senatorBorn: 8/16/1947Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois Moseley-Braun made history in 1992 when she was elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first Black woman to do so. She…