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2009 People in the News

See also 2008 People in the News 2007 People in the News 2006 People in the News 2005 People in the News 2004 People in the…

Willard "Mitt" Romney (2012)

  The 2012 Republican presidential nominee falls to Obama in the general election by Liz Olson and Jennie Wood Mitt Romney Related Links Mitt Romney’s campaign website…

The Supreme Court: Saving Wetlands

Saving WetlandsThe Supreme CourtDeciding Property RightsProtecting Land and HomeSaving WetlandsProtecting Patents, Copyrights and TrademarksTrademark for Sex Shop Anthony Palazzolo owned…

Bill Cosby

actor, comedianBorn: 7/12/1937Birthplace: Philadelphia Emmy and Grammy Award-winning television and film actor and comedian who was the first African-American to star in a television series, I Spy…

Famous and Infamous Moms

Famous and Infamous Moms Mother Teresa, Rose Kennedy, and other notable mothers by Beth Rowen Dorothea Lange's photo, "Migrant Mother" Mother's Day is the one day when we take…

Assassinations and Attempts in U.S. Since 1865

Lincoln, Abraham (president of U.S.): Shot April 14, 1865, in Washington, DC, by John Wilkes Booth; died April 15.Seward, William H. (secretary of state): Escaped assassination (though injured)…

Frederick Loewe

composerBorn: 6/10/1904Birthplace: Vienna, Austria After studying music in Berlin, Loewe immigrated to the United States in 1924. He played the piano in New York restaurants and soon began…

McNamara, Robert Strange

(Encyclopedia) McNamara, Robert StrangeMcNamara, Robert Strangemăkˈnəmârˌə [key], 1916–2009, U.S. secretary of defense (1961–68), b. San Francisco, grad Univ. of California, Berkeley (B.A., 1937),…

The Coretta Scott King Award

For African-American authors and illustrators whose books promote the contributions to the American dream; given by the American Library Association. A separate award…

A. Leon Higginbotham

judge, historianBorn: 2/25/1928Birthplace: Trenton, New Jersey Higginbotham graduated from Antioch College in 1949 and Yale Law School in 1952. After working as an assistant district attorney in…