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Richard Whiting BLUE, Congress, KS (1841-1907)

BLUE, Richard Whiting, a Representative from Kansas; born near Parkersburg, Wood County, Va. (now West Virginia), September 8, 1841; worked on a farm in the summertime and studied in the…

Coral Seas (Blue Planet: Seas of Life)

Distributor:Discovery Channel Vivid cinematography takes viewers to the ocean’s coral reefs teeming with life in this two-part Emmy Award-winning video. Richard Attenborough’s narrative combined…

lapis lazuli

(Encyclopedia) lapis lazulilapis lazulilăpˈĭs lăzˈ&oobreve;lē [key], gem, deep blue, violet, or greenish blue in color and usually flecked with yellow iron pyrites. It is composed of lazurite, a…

Gordon Clapp

actorBorn: 1948Birthplace: New Hampshire American TV and film actor who became a regular on the Emmy Award-winning TV drama NYPD Blue(1993–present) as Detective Gregory Medavoy after his guest…

Sonny Boy Williamson

(John Lee Williamson)blues singer, harmonica playerBorn: 3/30/1914Birthplace: Jackson, Tennessee One of the founding members of the post-War Chicago blues scene, Sonny Boy Williamson did more to…

Color and Fashion

A colorful world is a world of meaning because people have always used color as symbols. Here are some of the ways fashion and color have connected.Red The Aztecs of Mexico taught the Spanish how…

Tina Turner

(Annie Mae Bullock)rhythm and blues singerBorn: 11/26/1939Birthplace: Nutbush Borough, Tennessee Grammy Award-winning rhythm and blues singer known for her powerful vocals and her athletic dancing…

DK Science: Neptune

BLUE PLANETNEPTUNE’S RINGSTRITON’S GEYSERSFIND OUT MOREAlmost the same size and colour as Uranus, Neptune orbits about 1.6 billion km (1.0 billion miles) further from the Sun than Uranus.…

Garry Kasparov

Born: Apr. 13, 1963Chess Azerbaijani who became youngest player (22 years, 210 days) ever to win world championship as Soviet in 1985; defeated countryman Anatoly Karpov for title; split with…