Search
Search results
Displaying 121 - 130
Alanis Morissette Biography
Alanis Morissettepop singerBorn: 6/1/1974Birthplace: Ottawa, Canada Grammy Award-winning pop singer who burst onto the American music scene in 1995 with her 11-million-selling Jagged Little Pill…Dominique Dawes
Dominique DawesBorn: Nov. 20, 1976Birthplace: Silver Spring, Md. American gymnast In 1996 Dawes became the first African American to win an individual Olympic gymnastics medal (bronze on…Don Sutton Biography
Don SuttonBorn: April 2, 1945Baseball RHP won 324 games and tossed 58 shutouts in his 23-year career; recorded NL record five career 1-hitters; lost 13 straight games to the Cubs–a major…Anthony, Susan Brownell
(Encyclopedia) Anthony, Susan Brownell, 1820–1906, American reformer and leader of the woman-suffrage movement, b. Adams, Mass.; daughter of Daniel Anthony, Quaker abolitionist. From the age of 17,…Industrial Workers of the World
(Encyclopedia) Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), revolutionary industrial union organized in Chicago in 1905 by delegates from the Western Federation of Mines, which formed the nucleus of the…Everglades
(Encyclopedia) Everglades, marshy, low-lying subtropical savanna area, c.4,000 sq mi (10,000 sq km), S Fla., extending from Lake Okeechobee S to Florida Bay. Characterized by water, sawgrass,…Stowe, Harriet Beecher
(Encyclopedia) Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811–96, American novelist and humanitarian, b. Litchfield, Conn. With her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, she stirred the conscience of Americans concerning slavery…turbine
(Encyclopedia) CE5 Types of turbines turbine, rotary engine that uses a continuous stream of fluid (gas or liquid) to turn a shaft that can drive machinery. A water, or hydraulic, turbine is used…Pennsylvania Dutch
(Encyclopedia) Pennsylvania Dutch [Ger. Deutsch=German], people of E Pennsylvania of German descent who migrated to the area in the 18th cent., particularly those in Northampton, Berks, Lancaster,…Rabelais, François
(Encyclopedia) Rabelais, FrançoisRabelais, Françoisrăbˈəlā, Fr. fräNswäˈ räblāˈ [key], c.1490–1553, French writer and physician, one of the great comic geniuses in world literature. His father, a…Trending
Here are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.
