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Source The U.S. Census Bureau
The U.S. Constitution requires a census every 10 years to determine how many seats each state will have in the U.S. House of Representatives. Community leaders also…
COMET HALE-BOPPCOMET ORBITSBIOGRAPHY: EDMOND HALLEY English, 1656-1742METEORSFIND OUT MORESometimes icy lumps left over from the birth of the Solar System visit our skies. We see them as comets…
English stage actor Chiwetel Ejiofor is best known internationally for his star performance in the 2002 movie Dirty Pretty Things (co-starring Audrey Tautou) and his Oscar-nominated performance as…
English writer Julian Barnes is best known as the novelist who won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 for The Sense of an Ending. Once a journalist and television critic, Barnes began writing novels in the…
Léa Seydoux is a French actress best known for her sexy role as an art student in the Cannes Film Festival hit, Blue is the Warmest Color (2013), as well as her roles in big American productions such…
Richard Patrick RussnovelistBorn: 1914Birthplace: Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire, England Fans of historical fiction are familiar with Patrick O'Brian's series of novels, centered on two…
historian, educatorBorn: 1875Birthplace: New Canton, Virginia
Taught to read by family members, Woodson worked as a coal miner in West Virginia and put himself through high school. He…
