Read about Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, the response to the tragedy, and more Memorial Poetry Death arrives among all that sound like a shoe with no foot in it…
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CLARK, Daniel, a Delegate from the Territory of Orleans; born in Sligo, Ireland, about 1766; educated at Eton and other colleges in England; immigrated to the United States in 1786 and settled…
arms manufacturerBorn: 11/30/1810Birthplace: Boston, Mass. The man whose name is most closely associated with producing armaments actually got his start manufacturing clothing to cover men's arms.…
film director and screenwriterBorn: 8/6/1970Birthplace: Tamil-Nadu, India Shyamalan was a virtual unknown when The Sixth Sense arrived in movie theaters in 1999. The film, starring Bruce Willis and…
actor, comedianBorn: 7/22/1964Birthplace: Bogotá, Colombia Leguizamo moved with his family to New York when he was four. Accepted into Lee Strasberg's actors' studio he studied with the master for…
(Mya Harrison)singer, songwriterBorn: 10/10/1979Birthplace: Washington, D.C. Mya secured her first recording contract at age 16, after abandoning her childhood ambition to become a professional…
actressBorn: 5/14/1969Birthplace: Melbourne, Australia Born to a Texan father and an Australian mother, the Blanchett was 10 years old when her father died. A student of economics and fine arts at…
founder of the Mali EmpireBorn: c. 1210Birthplace: Kangaba State (in present-day Mali) West Africa An ethnic Malinké (also known as Mandinka), Mari Diata was the son of Nare Maghan, ruler of the…
actressBorn: 4/30/1982Birthplace: Point Pleasant, N.J. Dunst has been in show business almost her entire life. She began modeling and appearing in commercials at age 3 and made her feature film…
