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Carol Heiss

Carol HeissBorn: Jan. 20, 1940Figure skater 5-time world champion (1956-60); won Olympic silver medal in 1956 and gold in '60; married 1956 men's gold medalist Hayes Jenkins; starred in the…

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Jacobus Van CortlandtStephen Van CortlandtCornelius VanderbiltWilliam Henry VanderbiltSir William Cornelius Van HorneKiliaen Van RensselaerMartha Van RensselaerMatthew VassarThorstein…

Notable Asian Americans, A-Z

Grace ParkBiographies ofNotable Asian Pacific AmericansA-Z ListGovernment Officials and PoliticiansBusiness and Media LeadersAthletes & Sports PersonalitiesScientistsEntertainers:…

Pete Griffin 1998 Deaths

Pete GriffinAge: 81 former Florida A&M track coach who helped develop Olympic sprinter Bob Hayes; played center on A&M's undefeated and unscored-upon 1938 football team; of a lengthy…

The Devil's Dictionary: Halo

by Ambrose Bierce HALFHANDHALO -n. Properly, a luminous ring encircling an astronomical body, but not infrequently confounded with "aureola," or "nimbus," a somewhat similar phenomenon worn…

Pedro Mir 2000 Deaths

Pedro MirAge: 87 poet laureate of the Dominican Republic whose political poems spoke for the working class of Latin America. His poetry books include Hay un País en el Mundo (There Is a…