Joseph MoakleyAge: 74 popular politician from Massachusetts who served for 15 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. A quintessential Boston Irish Democrat, Moakley dedicated his career…
Joseph Wilson, former ambassador, was partially discredited in July with the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee report. Wilson visited Niger in February 2002 to investigate a claim…
RUSSELL, Joseph, a Representative from New York; born in New York and resided in Warrensburg, N.Y., birth date unknown; received a limited schooling; sheriff of Warren County, November 1834-…
Joseph L. Mankiewiczdirector, screenwriter, producerBorn: 2/11/1909Birthplace: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Academy Award-winning film director, screenwriter and producer who directed Dragonwyck (1946…
Joseph SobekAge: 79 inventor of racquetball; developed the sport while working in a rubber manufacturing plant in Bridgeport, Conn. in 1950; single-handedly promoted the sport and founded…
Joseph RotblatAge: 96 Polish-born physicist who began working on the Manhattan Project in 1944. He left the program after nine months as his misgivings about the atomic bomb intensified. He…
Joseph BarberaAge: 95 with William Hanna, the founder of legendary cartoon studio Hanna-Barbera. In 1940, the two teamed up to create the award-winning series of Tom and Jerry shorts at MGM.…
(Encyclopedia) Morny, Charles Auguste Louis Joseph, duc deMorny, Charles Auguste Louis Joseph, duc deshärl ōgüstˈ lwē zhôzĕfˈ dük də môrnēˈ [key], 1811–65, French statesman; illegitimate son of…
Joseph Farwell Gliddeninventor of barbed wireBorn: 1/18/1813Birthplace: Charlestown, N.H. Glidden grew up on his father's farms in New Hampshire and (later) New York State. In 1837 he married…
