baseball playerBorn: August 14, 1954Died: April 13, 2009 (Massachusetts, USA) Best Known as: baseball player Mark Fidrych, better known to baseball fans as…
Mark Hamill
actor
Born: 9/25/1951
Birthplace: Oakland, California
Answers the question, What do you do after you save the universe from the forces of evil? Apparently, nothing. Hamill was the…
Mark Twain(Samuel Langhorne Clemens)writer, social observerBorn: 11/30/1835Birthplace: Florida, Missouri Writer and social observer considered a master of humor and sarcasm and one of the most…
(Encyclopedia) Thoreau, Henry DavidThoreau, Henry Davidthôrˈō, thərōˈ [key], 1817–62, American author, naturalist, social activist, and philosopher, b. Concord, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1837. Thoreau is…
(Encyclopedia) Dingell, John David, Jr., 1928–2019, American congressman, b. Colorado Springs, Colo.; grad. Georgetown Univ. (B.S., 1949; J.D., 1952). He served in the Army (1944–46) and after a…
Printers' marks on the first page of a sheet are called Signatures. (See Letters At Foot Of Page.) Serifs are the strokes which finish off Roman letters, top and bottom. A, B, C, are “…
Book:Tim RiceDirector:Mike OckrentSets:Tony WaltonCostumes:William IveyLighting:David AgressSound:Jonathan DeansOpened:5/97 at the New AmsterdamCast: Marcus Lovett, Alice Ripley, Stephen…
(Encyclopedia) Garrick, David, 1717–79, English actor, manager, and dramatist. He was indisputably the greatest English actor of the 18th cent., and his friendships with Diderot, Samuel Johnson,…
(Encyclopedia) Halberstam, David, 1934–2007, American journalist and author, b. New York City, grad. Harvard (B.A., 1955). A reporter (1956–60) for newspapers in Mississippi and Tennessee, he…
Mark Burnettcreator of SurvivorBorn: 1960?Birthplace: England Burnett is responsible for the television phenomenon of 2000, Survivor—an experiment in social Darwinism, in which contestants…
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