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Tom Landry 2000 Deaths

Tom LandryAge: 75 Dallas Cowboys coach who led “America's Team” to five Super Bowl appearances and is best remembered for pacing the Texas Stadium sidelines in a suit and fedora hat; coached…

Guelphs

(Encyclopedia) GuelphsGuelphsgwĕlfs [key], European dynasty tracing its descent from the Swabian count Guelph or Welf (9th cent.), whose daughter Judith married the Frankish emperor Louis I. Guelph…

Black Panthers

(Encyclopedia) Black Panthers, U.S. African-American militant party, founded (1966) in Oakland, Calif., by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. Originally aimed at armed self-defense against the local…

Pius II

(Encyclopedia) Pius IIPius IIpīˈəs [key], 1405–64, pope (1458–64), an Italian named Enea Silvio de' Piccolomini (often in Latin, Aeneas Silvius), renamed Pienza after him, b. Corsigniano; successor…

Stanislaus II

(Encyclopedia) Stanislaus II, 1732–98, last king of Poland (1764–95). He was born Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski. His mother was a member of the powerful Czartoryski family, which furthered…

Augustus II

(Encyclopedia) Augustus II, 1670–1733, king of Poland (1697–1733) and, as Frederick Augustus I, elector of Saxony (1694–1733). He commanded the imperial army against the Turks (1695–96), but had no…

Gene Sarazen Biography

Gene SarazenAge: 97 one of the most influential professional golfers of the 20th century who helped establish the Masters as one of the world's greatest golf tournaments; holed a 235-yard…

Augusta Christine Fells Savage Biography

Augusta Christine Fells Savage sculptorBorn: 1892Birthplace: Green Cove Springs, Florida   A major Harlem Renaissance figure, Savage began creating clay figures as a child, but she did not begin…

Lost Highway

Director: David LynchWriters: David Lynch and Barry GiffordDirector of Photography:Peter DemingEditor:Mary SweeneyMusic:Angelo BadalmentiProduction Designer:Patricia NorrisProducers:Deepak…