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Dean Stockwell

(Robert Dean Stockwell)actorBorn: 3/5/1936Birthplace: North Hollywood, California During the 1940s Stockwell was a popular child actor, appearing with Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (1945) and in…

Métis, in Canadian history and society

(Encyclopedia) Métis [Fr.,=mixed], person of mixed racial heritage, particularly a descendant of French and English fur traders and indigenous women, principally in the Canadian prairie provinces of…

Ripken, Cal, Jr.

(Encyclopedia) Ripken, Cal, Jr. (Calvin Edward Ripken, Jr.), 1960–, American baseball player, b. Havre de Grace, Md. The son of a long-time coach and manager in the Baltimore Orioles organization, he…

Major League Individual All-Time Hitting Records

(Through 2006)Highest Batting Average, Season—.440, Hugh Duffy, Boston N.L., 1894;.435, Tip O'Neill, St. Louis, A.A., 1887. (Since 1900—.426, Nap Lajoie, Phil. A.L., 1901); 424, Rogers Hornsby, St…

Iggy Pop

(James Newell Osterberg)rock musicianBorn: 4/21/1947Birthplace: Ypsilanti, Michigan James Newell Osterberg aka Iggy Pop started out as a member of the proto-punk Stooges before embracing a solo…

Rich Little

impressionist, comedianBorn: 11/26/1938Birthplace: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Perhaps the most impressive work Rich Little has done in movies is that about which most people are unaware. After David…

Scully, Vincent Joseph, Jr.

(Encyclopedia) Scully, Vincent Joseph, Jr., 1920–2018, American architectural historian, b. New Haven, Conn., grad. Yale (B.A., 1940; Ph.D., 1949). As a professor of art history at Yale (1947–91,…

Henderson, Rickey Henley

(Encyclopedia) Henderson, Rickey Henley, 1958–, American baseball player, b. Chicago. An outfielder with the Oakland Athletics (1979–84, 1989–93, 1994–95, 1998), New York Yankees (1985–89), Toronto…

Louis FREY, Jr., Congress, FL (1934)

FREY, Louis, Jr., a Representative from Florida; born in Rutherford, Bergen County, N.J., January 11, 1934; graduated from Rutherford High School, Rutherford, N.Y., 1951; B.A., Colgate…

amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

(Encyclopedia) amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)amyotrophic lateral sclerosisāˌmīətrōfˈik, sklĭrōˈsĭs [key] or motor neuron disease, sometimes called Lou Gehrig's disease, degenerative disease that…