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1969–1970 Emmy Awards

Outstanding Dramatic SeriesMarcus Welby, M.D. (ABC)Outstanding Continued Performance By an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic SeriesRobert Young, Marcus Welby, M.D.Outstanding Continued…

Paul Monash 2003 Deaths

Paul MonashAge: 85 film producer whose credits include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Slaughterhouse-Five. He also wrote, directed, and produced television's Peyton Place. Died: Los…

Diana Mosley 2003 Deaths

Diana MosleyAge: 93 glamorous British intellect and socialite who created a scandal in 1932 when she left her husband, Bryan Guinness, for Oswald Mosley, a leader of the British Union of…

2009 Grammy Awards

The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards were presented at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Jan. 31, 2010; the winners are listed below. Album of the Year: Fearless - Taylor Swift Rap Album: Relapse - Eminem…

potato beetle

(Encyclopedia) potato beetle, name for two beetles of the leaf beetle family and for two of the blister beetle family, all destructive to the potato plant and its relatives. Most notorious is the…

Edward the Black Prince

(Encyclopedia) Edward the Black Prince, 1330–76, eldest son of Edward III of England. He was created duke of Cornwall in 1337, the first duke to be created in England, and prince of Wales in 1343.…

Keokuk, chief of the Sac and Fox

(Encyclopedia) KeokukKeokukkēˈəkək [key], c.1780–1848, Native American, chief of the Sac and Fox, b. near present-day Rock Island, Ill. When Black Hawk supported the British in the War of 1812,…

Krasnodar

(Encyclopedia) KrasnodarKrasnodarkrəsˌnədärˈ [key], city (1989 pop. 621,000), capital of Krasnodar Territory, SE European Russia, on the Kuban River. A river port and railroad junction, it has…

Hitchings, George Herbert

(Encyclopedia) Hitchings, George Herbert, 1905–98, American pharmacologist, b. Hoquiam, Wash., Ph.D. Harvard, 1933. Hitchings spent most of his career at Burroughs Wellcome Laboratories (1942–75),…

Johnson, John Harold

(Encyclopedia) Johnson, John Harold, 1918–2005, African-American magazine publisher, b. Arkansas City, Ark. The son of a mill worker, he began his career editing a Chicago insurance company magazine…