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Blake Shelton

Country singer Blake Shelton is known for hit singles such as "Honey Bee" and "She Wouldn't Be Gone," and for his role as a coach in the reality TV series The Voice. Shelton grew up in Oklahoma and…

Claudine Longet

Originally from France, Claudine Longet was a Las Vegas showgirl when superstar crooner Andy Williams discovered her. They were married in 1961, when Claudine Longet was still 19 and Williams was 33…

O. Henry

Name at birth: William Sydney PorterO. Henry was the pseudonym of William Sydney Porter, who wrote colorful short stories with surprising and ironic twists. His best-known titles included "The Last…

Kevin Durant

Kevin Durant plays small forward for the Oklahoma City Thunder and was the NBA scoring champion in 2010, 2011 and 2012. He grew up outside Washington, D.C. playing basketball and was a standout in…

Salam Fayyad

Salam Fayyad is an economist who was appointed prime minister of the Palestinian Authority in June of 2007 by President Mahmoud Abbas. Raised in the West Bank, Fayyad studied chemistry in the late…

Johnny Horton

Johnny Horton was a country singer who also topped the pop charts with hits like "North to Alaska" and "The Battle of New Orleans." Horton first found an audience in the early 1950s as a regular…

Boozoo Chavis 2001 Deaths

Boozoo Chavis(Wilson Anthony Chavis)Age: 70 accordionist, singer, and bandleader who brought zydeco to the masses with his 1954 hit, “Paper in My Shoe.” Died: Austin, Tex., May 5, 2001Roy…

J. J. Pickle 2005 Deaths

J. J. PickleAge: 91 Democratic politician from Texas who, during his 15 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, championed Social Security. A former aide to Lyndon Johnson, Pickle was…

Megan Fox

Megan Fox is best known as the toothsome grease monkey in Transformers (2007, starring Shia LaBeouf) and its sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009). Fox played Lindsay Lohan's rude nemesis…