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Foster Brooks 2001 Deaths

Foster Brooks Age: 89 comedian who frequently performed on television and variety shows in the 1970s and '80s as a drunk trying to act sober. Died: Encino, Calif., Dec. 20, 2001Joan BoveA -…

Gwendolyn Brooks 2000 Deaths

Gwendolyn BrooksAge: 83 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose socio-political works chronicled the 20th century African American experience. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1950 for…

Robert Brooks 2006 Deaths

Robert BrooksAge: 69 businessman who was chairman of Hooters, the restaurant chain that features scantily clad, buxom waitresses. There are now 430 restaurants in 46 states and 20 countries…

Brooke Astor, 2006 News

philanthropist and socialite, was allegedly the victim of elder abuse by her son, Anthony Marshall. Marshall's son, Philip, filed a court petition over the summer, accusing his father of…

Herb Brooks 2003 Deaths

Herb BrooksAge: 66 coach who led the U.S. hockey “Miracle on Ice” team to a gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics. Under Brooks, a former Olympian himself, the University Minnesota hockey…

Chauncey Judd: Longmeadow Brook

Gunn's Barn Pursuit from Bethany Longmeadow Brook The breakfast in the barn was dispatched speedily and in silence; and then Graham, drawing his pipe from his pocket, and lighting it…

James L. Brooks Biography

James L. Brooks director, producer, writerBorn: 5/9/1940Birthplace: North Bergen, New Jersey Director, producer, and writer of the Oscar-winning films Terms of Endearment (1983) and As Good As…

erythema

(Encyclopedia) erythemaerythemaĕrˌəthēˈmə [key], more or less diffuse redness of the skin due to concentration of an abnormally large amount of blood within the small vessels of the skin (hyperemia…

Tillett, Benjamin

(Encyclopedia) Tillett, BenjaminTillett, Benjamintĭlˈĭt [key], 1860–1943, English labor organizer, b. Bristol, England. With Tom Mann and John Burns, he led the dock strike of 1889, the first big…