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Joey Dunlop 2000 Deaths

Joey DunlopAge: 48 five-time motorcycle champion who was awarded an OBE, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for his charity work and an MBE, or Member of the Order of the British…

Joey Ramone 2001 Deaths

Joey Ramone(Jeffrey Hyman)Age: 49 Unconventional musician who founded the Ramones, a pioneering punk band whose influence extends from the Sex Pistols and the Clash to U2 and Nirvana. The…

Joey Maxim 2001 Deaths

Joey MaximAge: 79 Hall of Fame boxer and former light heavyweight champion who outlasted Sugar Ray Robinson in a sweltering title fight at Yankee Stadium in 1952; real name was Giuseppe…

Joey Embry 1998 Deaths

Joey EmbryAge: 21 University of Mississippi junior offensive tackle who played all 11 games as a freshman but missed the 1997 season because of a back injury; listed as the No. 2 right…

Regis Philbin Biography

Regis Philbin TV personality, talk show hostBorn: 8/25/1931Birthplace: New York City Emmy-award winning co-host of the popular day-time television show Live! With Regis & Kathie Lee (1989– ).…

Bishop, Elizabeth

(Encyclopedia) Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911–79, American poet, b. Worcester, Mass., grad. Vassar, 1934. During the 1950s and 60s she lived in Brazil, eventually returning to her native New England, where…

Bishop, Isabel

(Encyclopedia) Bishop, Isabel, 1902–88, American painter, b. Cincinnati, Ohio. Influenced by the New York City painters of the 1930s, Bishop produced numerous paintings of working women. Her pensive…

Bishop Auckland

(Encyclopedia) Bishop Auckland Bishop Auckland ôkˈlənd [key], town, Durham, NE England, on the Wear River. It is a…

Bishop's University

(Encyclopedia) Bishop's University, provincially supported, English-language university at Lennoxville, Que., Canada; founded 1843 by the Anglican bishop of Quebec as a liberal arts college. In 1853…

Kelly, Gene

(Encyclopedia) Kelly, Gene, 1912–96, American dancer, choreographer, movie actor, and director, b. Pittsburgh as Eugene Curran Kelly. Kelly started dancing on Broadway in 1938 and first gained fame…