The Question: What's a Black Maria? The Answer: A "black maria" is a slang term for a police wagon. How did it get this name? We don't know. But here are two…
former child actorDied: January 15, 2008 (Los Angeles, California) Best Known as: former child actor who played a witness to a mob lawyer's suicide in "The Client…
black activist Born: 10/22/1936Birthplace: Dallas, Tex. Seale, with Huey Newton, founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. After serving in the Air Force, Seale attended Oakland's Merritt…
Aimee Semple McPherson was the popular traveling evangelist who founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. At age 17 she married traveling Pentecostal minister Robert Semple; after…
Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko has been the president of Belarus since 1994. Lukashenko is a controversial figure whose supporters say has kept the country from chaos, but whose critics say uses…
director, producer, writerBorn: 2/5/1943 Birthplace: Chicago After writing for the 1970s TV series Starsky and Hutch and Police Story, Mann won an Emmy Award as cowriter for the TV movie The…
Name at birth: Charles ClaverieCharles Rocket is remembered for his brief stint on Saturday Night Live, from which he was fired for uttering an obscenity during a live broadcast. Charles Rocket…
Desmond Tutu received the 1984 Nobel peace prize for his nonviolent work against apartheid, the South African government's policy of racial separateness. Raised in several communities in the…
Ed Gein, known as The Butcher of Plainfield, gained notoriety in the 1950s for murdering at least two women and for committing grisly, fetishistic acts on corpses stolen from graves. In November…
Actor Michael Chiklis is best known for his portrayal of corrupt police detective Vic Mackey on cable TV's The Shield. Chiklis began performing professionally at the age of 13. A graduate of the…
