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Stars Over Beacon Street
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Stars and books have always been my best friends. My books go with me wherever we move. And the stars, they are always there when we get there. The first stars…
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scientistDied: April 9, 2007 (New Haven, Connecticut) Best Known as: astromoner and author of "The Bright Star Catalogue" Astromer who compiled "The Bright Star…
women's rights advocateDied: Sept. 25, 2007 (Fullerton, California) Best Known as: women's rights advocate and inventor Controversial womenâs advocate and…
Jack Carlton MooreactorBorn: 9/14/1914Birthplace: Chicago actor who played the eponymous character in 169 episodes of television's The Lone Ranger (1949–1957), as well as in two films. When his…
short-story writer, novelistBorn: 5/15/1890Birthplace: Indian Creek, Texas Pulitzer Prize-winning short-story writer and novelist whose elegant prose earned her wide renown. Porter's work includes…
director, producer, writerBorn: 5/9/1940Birthplace: North Bergen, New Jersey Director, producer, and writer of the Oscar-winning films Terms of Endearment (1983) and As Good As It Gets (1997), as…
writerBorn: 11/27/1909Birthplace: Knoxville, Tennessee Brilliant and versatile, he wrote the text for Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), which, with photographs by Walker Evans, details the lives…