Don Draper is the mysterious, brusque, womanizing advertising genius at the heart of the TV show Mad Men. A super-stylish look at the culture of mass-market advertising in the early 1960s, Mad Men…
Name at birth: Donald Kent SlaytonDonald K. "Deke" Slayton was one of the original seven astronauts chosen for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Project Mercury, the first…
Name at birth: David Dwight EisenhowerDwight D. Eisenhower was the most famous U.S. Army general of World War II and the 34th president of the United States. A career Army man, "Ike" rose to the…
Also known as: St. Nicholas; Father Christmas; Kris Kringle or Kriss Kringle. Santa Claus is the mythical good-hearted figure who delivers toys to children around the world each year on Christmas…
(Encyclopedia) artificial respiration, any measure that causes air to flow in and out of a person's lungs when natural breathing is inadequate or ceases, as in respiratory paralysis, drowning,…
(Encyclopedia) Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938–, American author, b. Lockport, N.Y., B.A. Syracuse Univ., 1960, M.A. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1961. She taught English at the Univ. of Detroit and the Univ. of…
Charlotte Brontë's romantic heroine finds true love by David Johnson Charlotte Brontë's 1847 masterpiece, Jane Eyre, is perhaps the ultimate romantic novel. Jane Eyre was a plain, but…
NORTHUP, Anne Meagher, a Representative from Kentucky; born in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., January 22, 1948; graduated from Sacred Heart Academy, Louisville, Ky., 1966; B.A., Saint…
There are many reasons not to smoke. Smoking stinks—literally! It makes breath, hair and clothes smell like smoke. It's expensive. It dulls your sense of taste and smell. It raises blood pressure…
John Wilkes Booth shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. Born in Maryland, Booth was part of a clan of actors: his father, Junius Brutus Booth, toured America and was known for…
