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Oran K. Henderson 1998 Deaths

Oran K. HendersonAge: 77 highest-ranking officer to be tried as a consequence of the killings of Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre. Died: June 2, 1998.Viljo Akseli HeinoG -…

Howard K. Smith 2002 Deaths

Howard K. SmithAge: 87 opinionated broadcast journalist who covered WWII, the Nuremberg trials, the cold war, and the civil rights protests of the 1960s. In 1960 he moderated the first…

J. K. Rowling, 2000 News

34, writer, thrilled fans around the world with the July release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth volume in her best-selling series about a boy wizard. Even before its…

K. R. Narayanan 2005 Deaths

K. R. NarayananAge: 85 Indian politician who served as a cabinet minister, a diplomat, and vice president before being elected president in 1997. He was the first Dalit, or “untouchable,” to…

James, Henry, American novelist and critic

(Encyclopedia) James, Henry, 1843–1916, American novelist and critic, b. New York City. A master of the psychological novel, James was an innovator in technique and one of the most distinctive prose…

James Kimbrough JONES, Congress, AR (1839-1908)

Senate Years of Service: 1885-1903 Party: Democrat JONES James Kimbrough , a Representative and a Senator from Arkansas; born in Marshall County, Miss., September 29, 1839; moved with his father…

Joyce, James

(Encyclopedia) Joyce, James, 1882–1941, Irish novelist. Perhaps the most influential and significant novelist of the 20th cent., Joyce was a master of the English language, exploiting all of its…

Chesterton, G. K.

(Encyclopedia) Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton), 1874–1936, English author. Conservative, even reactionary, in his thinking, Chesterton was a convert (1922) to Roman Catholicism and its…

Dick, Philip K.

(Encyclopedia) Dick, Philip K. (Philip Kindred Dick), 1928–82, American science-fiction writer, b. Chicago. Dick often wrote of the psychological states of individuals caught in altered realities…

Kellogg, W. K.

(Encyclopedia) Kellogg, W. K. (Will Keith Kellogg): see Kellogg, John Harvey.