(Noriyuki Morita)actorBorn: 8/28/1932Birthplace: Berkeley, California This Japanese-American actor, who lived in a Japanese internment camp during World War II, programmed computers before becoming…
actor, comedian, writer, producerBorn: 9/4/1960Birthplace: New York City As was the case with others before him, like John Belushi, Dan Akroyd and Bill Murray, Damon Wayans graduated from the…
(Amos Blackmore)musicianBorn: 12/9/1934Birthplace: Memphis, Tennessee A hard driving vocalist and harmonica player that helped define Chicago blues, John Belushi and Dan Akroyd idolized Wells and…
Ancient people used loincloths, cloth wrappings that were ancestors of today's underpants. King Tutankhamen had 150 of these in his tomb.As the 20th century began, most Americans wore union suits…
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—Hope O'KeeffeSource: The National Endowment for the Arts “The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible…
actorBorn: 12/5/1985Birthplace: Woodridge, N.J. The young star of TV's Malcolm in the Middle grew up in Knightdale, North Carolina. The home-schooled son of a restaurant manager and a nurse, he…
WHITE, Richard Alan (Rick), a Representative from Washington; born in Bloomington, Monroe County, Ind., November 6, 1953; B.A., Dartmouth College, 1975; attended University of Paris, Pantheon…
