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Pee-Wee Herman
Pee-Wee Herman(Paul Reubens, Paul Reubenfeld)actor, comedian, writerBorn: 8/27/1952Birthplace: Peekskill, New York Reubens launched his career while performing with an improvisational comedy…Pee-Wee Herman Biography
Pee-Wee Herman(Paul Reubens, Paul Reubenfeld)actor, comedian, writerBorn: 8/27/1952Birthplace: Peekskill, New York Reubens launched his career while performing with an improvisational comedy…Ron Howard Biography
Ron Howardactor, producer, directorBorn: 3/1/1954Birthplace: Duncan, Oklahoma Actor, producer, and director who was television's “all-American boy” and is one of film's most respected…Kathleen Battle Biography
Kathleen Battleoperatic sopranoBorn: 8/13/1948Birthplace: Portsmouth, Ohio Best known for her obnoxious treatment of colleagues backstage, she began her career teaching music in an inner-city…Gerald Marks Biography
Gerald MarksTin Pan Alley composerBorn: 10/13/1900Birthplace: Saginaw, Michigan A self-taught pianist, Marks began composing songs in the 1920s and launched a career writing for Broadway…Irving Berlin Biography
Irving Berlin(Israel Baline)songwriterBorn: 5/11/1888Birthplace: Temum, Russia Considered by many to be the greatest American songwriter ever, he wrote such popular favorites as “Alexander's Ragtime…Christina Rossetti: 'Before the Paling of the Stars'
'Before the Paling of the Stars'1864Before the paling of the stars, Before the winter morn, Before the earliest cockcrow Jesus Christ was born: Born in a stable, Cradled in a manger, In…Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: Two of the Damned
The Compassionate Physician The Austere Governor Two of the Damned TWO Blighted Beings, haggard, lachrymose, and detested, met on a blasted heath in the light of a struggling moon…Vince Guaraldi Biography
Vince Guaraldijazz pianist and composerBorn: July 17, 1928Birthplace: San Francisco, California Jazz pianist Vincent Anthony Guaraldi is best known for creating the "Charlie Brown sound" for such…El Niño
The climatic phenomenon called El Niño involves the periodic warming of the waters of the eastern and central Pacific Ocean along with a weakening of the equatorial trade winds. It's a naturally…