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Weather: Mass Appeal

Mass AppealWeatherOn Another FrontMass AppealPutting Up a FrontFrontal AttackStorms on the FrontTelling What's Next Although the weather is very changeable and always seems to show great variations…

Philosopical Words From Rousseau

The Question: To which French philosopher can I attribute the following quote, "Man is born free and is everywhere in chains." The Answer: This quote can be…

Athletes with Winter and Summer Medals

Only four athletes have won medals in both the Winter and Summer Olympics: Eddie Eagan, USA–Light Heavyweight Boxing gold (1920) and Four-man Bobsled gold (1932). Jacob Tullin Thams, Norway–Ski…

G. David Low Biography

astronautDied: March 15, 2008 (northern Virginia) Best Known as: astronaut who was aboard NASA's space shuttle Columbia G. David Low was an astronaut who began…

Pramod Karan Sethi Biography

doctorDied: January 6, 2008 (Jaipur, India) Best Known as: inventor of a prosthesis called the Jaipur foot Dr. Sethi invented the first affordable prosthetic foot…

John Tu

software entrepreneurBorn: 1941Birthplace: Shanghai, China As a young man, Tu left China to live with relatives in Germany, where he earned a degree in electrical engineering in 1970. Tu came to…

Forrest Edward Mars

candy manufacturerBorn: 1904 The son of the man who invented the Milky Way candy bar, Forrest Mars left the country after a disagreement with his father. The younger Mars settled in Britain and…

Willem Dafoe

(William Dafoe, Jr.)actorBorn: 7/22/1955Birthplace: Appleton, Wisconsin Serious-minded actor known for taking offbeat and challenging parts, most notably the lead role in Martin Scorsese's The Last…

Howard E. Rollins, Jr.

actorBorn: 11/17/1950Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland Rollins gained critical acclaim for his role as a young black man in search of justice in the film Ragtime (1981), a performance that earned an…

Troy Donahue

Merle JohnsonactorBorn: 1/27/1936Birthplace: New York City Popular blond-haired, blue-eyed teen heartthrob from the TV series Hawaiian Eye (1960–62) and Surfside Six (1962–63). Donahue made the…