actor, screenwriterBorn: 10/8/1970Birthplace: Cambridge, Massachusetts A Harvard University dropout, Damon struggled for years as a screenwriter and actor before becoming Hollywood's boy wonder as…
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ROBERTS, Edwin Ewing, a Representative from Nevada; born in Pleasant Grove, Sutter County, Calif., December 12, 1870; attended the public schools and was graduated from the State normal school…
VANCE, Robert Brank, (uncle of Robert Brank Vance [1828-1899] and Zebulon Baird Vance), a Representative from North Carolina; born on Reems Creek, near Asheville, Buncombe County, N.C., in 1793…
SMITH, Thomas, a Delegate from Pennsylvania; born near Cruden, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in 1745; pursued preparatory studies; attended the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; immigrated to the…
BINNEY, Horace, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., January 4, 1780; attended a classical school in Bordentown, N.J., three years; was graduated from Harvard…
The Question: We all know that when Ben Johnson was disqualified at the Seoul Olympics, Carl Lewis consequently won the gold medal. Who were third and fourth…
(Encyclopedia) Dickinson College, at Carlisle, Pa.; coeducational; Methodist; founded 1773 as The Grammar School, chartered and opened as Dickinson College 1783. Chartered as a college primarily…
(Encyclopedia) Nelson, Byron (John Byron Nelson, Jr.), 1912–2006, American golfer, b. Fort Worth, Tex. In 1926 he began playing golf as a caddie, and in 1932 he entered upon his professional career.…
