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Fred Korematsu 2005 Deaths

Fred KorematsuAge: 86 welder who was arrested in 1942 when he refused to go to an internment camp for Japanese Americans. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld his conviction in 1944. In 1983 a…

Simon Wiesenthal 2005 Deaths

Simon WiesenthalAge: 96 Holocaust survivor who dedicated his life to tracking down fugitive Nazi war criminals. Calling himself the “bad conscience of the Nazis,” Wiesenthal claimed he…

Garrett Morgan Biography

Garrett MorganBorn: 1877 Safety Hood, Traffic Light. Morgan's first well-known invention was the safety hood, a forerunner of the gas mask. When 32 workers in Cleveland, Ohio, were trapped during a…

June 2009 Current Events: World News

U.S. News | Business/Science News Here are the key events in world news for the month of June 2009. Air France Plane Vanishes (June 1): In the worst aviation disaster since 2001, Air France Flight…

2001 Grammy Awards

The 44th Annual Grammy Awards were presented at Los Angeles' Staples Center on February 27, 2002. Record: “Walk On,” U2 Album: O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack, Various Artists (Lost…

Top 10 DVD/Blu-Ray Titles, 2014

Find the top 10 DVD sales of 2014, including the movie title and distributor. Frozen was the best-selling DVD in 2014. Frozen (Disney/Buena Vista Home Video) Hunger Games: Catching Fire (…

Gordon Kiyoshi Hirabayashi Biography

Gordon Kiyoshi HirabayashiactivistBorn: 1918Birthplace: Seattle, Wash. An American of Japanese ancestry, Hirabayashi was a sociology student at the University of Washington in Seattle when…

1969 National Book Awards

Arts and LettersThe Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History, Norman MailerChildren's LiteratureJourney From Peppermint Street, Meindert DeJongFictionSteps, Jerzy…

Joe Jackson

Night and Day IISony Classical There's danger in trying to duplicate one's best work, and Joe Jackson has taken a big risk by crafting a sequel to his jazz-tinged 1982 classic Night and Day.…

Dorothy Rabinowitz Biography

Dorothy Rabinowitzeditor, commentator After earning a BA from Queen College in New York City, Rabinowitz studied at New York University while teaching English at NYU and at Pratt Institute.…