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Jon Lovitz Biography

actor, comedianBorn: July 21, 1957Birthplace: Tarzana, CaliforniaBest Known as: Cast member of Saturday Night Live and the voice of Jay Sherman in The Critic As a…

Jon Lovitz Biography

(Jonathan Lovitz) actor, comedianBorn: July 21, 1957Birthplace: Tarzana, CaliforniaBest Known as: Cast member of Saturday Night Live and the voice of Jay Sherman in The Critic…

Jon Lovitz (Jonathan Lovitz) Biography

actor, comedianBorn: July 21, 1957Birthplace: Tarzana, CaliforniaBest Known as: Cast member of Saturday Night Live and the voice of Jay Sherman in The Critic As a…

Pete Postlethwaite Biography

ActorBorn: 2/7/1946Birthplace: Warrington, England Born in Warrington, England to working-class parents, Pete Postlethwaite spent two years in a seminary as a young boy,…

Jane Seymour

(Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg)actressBorn: 2/15/1951Birthplace: Hillingdon, England Seymour was unable to leverage a promising start as a Bond girl in Live and Let Die (1973) into a…

Who Invented the Mailbox

The Question: Who invented the mailbox and when? The Answer: First, some background. In the early 1800's, most letters in the U.S. were taken to the post office…

DK Science: Dinosaur Habitats

Triassic habitats (250–200 million years ago)Jurassic habitats (200–145 mya)Cretaceous habitats (145–65 mya)Not all the dinosaurs lived at the same time. Nor did they all live in the same part of…

Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st earl of Beaconsfield

(Encyclopedia) Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st earl of BeaconsfieldDisraeli, Benjamin, 1st earl of Beaconsfielddĭzrāˈlē [key], 1804–81, British statesman and author. He is regarded as the founder of the…

Menacing Monster Guide

Fact Monster'sMenacing Monster Guide by David Johnson Frankenstein Although he is one of literature's most enduring monsters, Frankenstein was not his original name. In Mary…

DK Science: Fossil Sites

DistributionUnited StatesSouth AmericaIsle of WightSahara DesertGobi DesertAustraliaAntarcticaDinosaurs lived all over the world, but their fossilized remains are not easy to find, or even,…