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2001 PGA Majors British Open

Edition: 130th Dates: July 19–22 Site: Royal Lytham & St. Annes GC, Lytham, England Par: 35-36–71 (6905 yards) Purse: $4,620,000     1 2 3 4 Tot…

Philadelphia, Pa.

Mayor: Michael Nutter (to Jan. 2016) 2010 census population (rank): 1,526,006 (5); Male: 719,813 (47.2%); Female: 806,…

Biography Features

Recent Features Biography | Business | Entertainment | Health & Science | History & Gov't | Society & Culture | Sports | United States | World Jump to: A…

Sportsmanship Award

Each of the NBA's 29 teams nominated one player from their roster “who best represents the ideals of sportsmanship on the court,” then a panel made up of former NBA players Tommy Heinsohn,…

Space Accidents

1967Jan. 27, Apollo 1: a fire aboard the space capsule on the ground at Cape Kennedy, Fla., killed astronauts Virgil I. Grissom, Edward H. White, and Roger Chaffee. April 23–24, Soyuz 1:…

Maclaine, Shirley

(Encyclopedia) Maclaine, Shirley, 1934- , American actress and author, b. Richmond, Va., as Shirley MacLean Beaty. Maclaine’s father held various…

Acheson, Dean Gooderham

(Encyclopedia) Acheson, Dean GooderhamAcheson, Dean Gooderhamăchˈĭsən [key], 1893–1971, U.S. secretary of state (1949–53), b. Middletown, Conn., grad. Yale, Harvard Law School. He was (1919–21)…

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…

Wolfe, Thomas Clayton

(Encyclopedia) Wolfe, Thomas Clayton, 1900–1938, American novelist, b. Asheville, N.C., grad. Univ. of North Carolina, 1920, M.A. Harvard, 1922. An important 20th-century American novelist, Wolfe…