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Don Hume 2001 Deaths

Don HumeAge: 86 Olympic rower who won a gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics; charter member of the Univ. of Washington's Husky Hall of Fame; past president of the West Coast Mining…

Don Martin 2000 Deaths

Don MartinAge: 68 Mad magazine cartoonist whose twisted humor and technology-phobic characters led the magazine to dub him “Mad's maddest artist.” Died: Miami, Jan. 6, 2000Alice Sheets…

Don Budge 2000 Deaths

Don BudgeAge: 84 tennis champion who used his attacking backhand stroke to sweep all four major tournaments in 1938, becoming the world's first Grand Slam champion; born John Donald Budge;…

Don Porter 1997 Deaths

Don Portertelevision and film actor played the widowed father of television's GidgetBorn: 1912Died: 1997Keith Piper1997 DeathsEleanor Prescott

Don Dunphy 1998 Deaths

Don DunphyAge: 90 the undisputed "Voice of Boxing," who broadcast more than 2,000 fights, including 200 championship bouts for the Gillette Co. (1941-60) and ABC Television (1960-64); his…

Joe Don Baker Biography

Joe Don BakeractorBorn: 2/12/1936Birthplace: Groesback, Texas A movie character actor, he is known especially for his portrayals of burly tough guys, as Steve McQueen's unscrupulous brother…

Khoper

(Encyclopedia) KhoperKhoperkhəpyôrˈ [key], river, c.625 mi (1,010 km) long, S European Russia. It rises SW of Penza and flows SW, then S into the Don. It is partly navigable.

Azov, Sea of

(Encyclopedia) Azov, Sea of, Gr. Maiotis, Lat. Palus Maeotis, ancient Rus. Surozhskoye, northern arm of the Black Sea, c.14,000 sq mi (36,300 sq km), shared by S European Russia and E Ukraine. The…

Buell, Don Carlos

(Encyclopedia) Buell, Don Carlos, 1818–98, Union general in the Civil War, b. near Marietta, Ohio, grad. West Point, 1841. Buell was appointed brigadier general of volunteers in the Civil War (May,…