The Dollar and the U.S. EconomyInternational FinanceIntroductionAbout Foreign ExchangeEffect on Imports, Exports, and GDPTrade Deficits: Bad or Good?The International Monetary SystemThe Dollar and…
Split Infinitives: To Boldly Go Where Everyone Else GoesCommon Usage DilemmasIntroductionDangling Modifiers: CounterintelligenceMisplaced Modifiers: Lost and FoundMixed Metaphors: A Dollar Late and a…
(Alexandra Sheedy)actress, writerBorn: 6/13/1962Birthplace: New York City Sheedy was the picture of the precocious child. Before reaching adolescence, she had danced with the American Ballet…
actressBorn: 9/9/1979Birthplace: Kalispell, Montana Until her Golden Globe and Oscar nominated performance in Brokeback Mountain (2005), this pouty-lipped, wide-eyed, slow-burn, blonde was best…
(Sean “Diddy” Combs) producer, musicianBorn: 11/4/1969Birthplace: New York City Influential music producer who, at a very young age, launched the careers of such rap artists as Notorious B.I.G. and…
(Christopher Wallace) (“Biggie Smalls”)singerBorn: 5/21/1972Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York The rapper's murder in 1997 highlighted the on-going west coast-east coast rap war. Under Bad Boy Records…
Charles II was the British monarch whose reign marked the period known as the Restoration -- the restoration of the monarchy after years of being a republic under Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector of…
Name at birth: Glorita Maria FajardoGloria Estefan's family fled Cuba for Miami in 1959. She began her singing career in 1975 with the group Miami Sound Machine, and in 1978 married the group's…
Welsh actor Luke Evans has come to be known as a period-piece action hero, thanks to his roles in movies such as The Immortals, The Hobbit and Dracula Untold. A graduate of the London Studio Centre,…
(Issur Danielovitch)actorBorn: 12/9/1916Birthplace: Amsterdam, New York One of the top male stars of post-World War II Hollywood, he is best known for the driving intensity he brought to his…
