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1998-99 Final WNBA Standings

Conference champions (*) and playoff qualifiers (†) are noted. GB refers to Games Behind leader. Number of seasons listed after each head coach refers to current tenure with club. Eastern…

Chicago, Ill.

Mayor: Rahm Emanuel (to April 2019)2010 census population (rank): 2,695,598 (3); Male: 1,308,072 (48.5%); Female: 1,387,526 (51.5%); White: 1,212,835 (45.0%); Black: 887,608 (32.9%); American Indian…

Larry Desmedt 2004 Deaths

Larry Desmedt(“Indian Larry”)Age: 55 biker and builder of custom motorcycles. He was often photographed by Robert Mapplethorpe. He died while performing a stunt. Died: Charlotte, N.C., Aug.…

Henry Farrell 2006 Deaths

Henry FarrellAge: 85 pulp novelist and screenwriter whose melodramatic works include the book Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, which was adapted for film, and the screenplay for Hush Hush,…

Douglas T. Jacobson 2000 Deaths

Douglas T. JacobsonAge: 74 World War II hero who, as a U.S. Marines private, single-handedly stormed Iwo Jima, decimating 16 enemy posts and killing 75 Japanese soldiers. He was awarded the…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: LIII

by EmilyDickinsonThirstCharlotte Brontí«'s GraveLIII A clock stopped — not the mantel's; Geneva's farthest skill Can't put the puppet bowing That just now dangled still. An awe came…

Melvin L. WATT, Congress, NC (1945)

WATT Melvin L. , a Representative from North Carolina; born in Steele Creek, Mecklenburg County, N.C., August 26, 1945; York Road High School, Charlotte, N.C., 1963; B.S., University of North…

Men: Other Sports, Sports

The combined 1996 first team All-America selections of the National Soccer Coaches Assn. of America (NSCAA) and the 11 Soccer America MVPs. Holdovers from the combined 1995 All-America team are in…

Ruth Bell Graham Biography

wife of Billy GrahamDied: June 14, 2007 (Montreat, North Carolina) Best Known as: wife and confidant of Reverend Billy Graham Wife and confidant of Reverend…

Fred Lane 2000 Deaths

Fred LaneAge: 24 Carolina Panthers all-time leading rusher; won starting running back position in 1997 and led the team in rushing that season and in 1998; traded to Indianapolis in April…