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Biographies: Notable Filmmakers and Directors

Notable Filmmakers and Directors Spike Lee See also Actors African-American Actors Asian American Film & Television Personalities Hispanic-American Film, Television, and Theater…

Ving Rhames Biography

Ving Rhames(Irving Rhames)film, television, and stage actorBorn: 5/12/1959Birthplace: New York City Rhames is best known for playing seedy, often villainous, characters, such as Marsellus Wallace in…

Flyweight (112 lbs)

Year Final Match1904George Finnegan, USAStopped, 1st1920Frank Di Gennara, USADecision1924Fidel LaBarba, USADecision1928Antal Kocsis, HUNDecision1932István Énekes, HUNDecision1936Willi Kaiser…

bullfighting

(Encyclopedia) bullfighting, national sport and spectacle of Spain. Called the corrida de toros in Spanish, the bullfight takes place in a large outdoor arena known as the plaza de toros. The object…

Everest Timeline

A chronology of the world's highest peak by Borgna Brunner   1852–1920 1921–1953 1955–1978 1996–Present 1852 The Great Trigonometrical Survey of India…

George, Saint

(Encyclopedia) George, Saint, 4th cent.?, perhaps a soldier in the imperial army who died for the faith in Asia Minor. His life is cloaked in legends; Gibbon's identification of him with George of…

Ralph Burton Rogers 1997 Deaths

Ralph Burton Rogersphilanthropist A successful businessman, Rogers was one of the founders of PBS and served as its chairman for several years. He is credited with having fended off the Nixon…