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1973 College Basketball Recap

Final AP Top 20Major Conference ChampionsNCAA Tournament (25 teams)NIT Tournament (16 teams)Player of the YearCoaches of the YearConsensus All-America Freshmen became eligible to play varsity…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Notable Women in Media

Oprah Winfrey Biographies ofNotable Women Actresses Adventurers Artists Athletes Businesswomen Comediennes Congresswomen Educators and Scholars Fashion Designers and Models…

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Russell SageYves Saint-LaurentHaym SalomonSir Titus SaltPaul A. SamuelsonWilliam SaveryJean Baptiste SayMarjorie ScardinoHjalmar Horace Greeley SchachtAlbert SchäffleElsa SchiaparelliJacob…

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…