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1972 Women's Olympic Swimming Medalists

Event   Time   100m Free Sandra Neilson, USA 58.59 OR   Shirley Babashoff, USA 59.02     Shane Gould, AUS 59.06   200m Free Shane Gould, AUS 2:03.…

Alfred Nzo 2000 Deaths

Alfred NzoAge: 74 African politician who began fighting apartheid in South Africa as a student with the African National Congress Youth League. He spent his entire career with the A.N.C. and…

Carl Perkins 1998 Deaths

Carl PerkinsAge: 65 songwriter and singer who influenced rock 'n' roll in its early days by writing such hits as “Blue Suede Shoes” and “Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby.” Perkins was…

Marvin Rothenberg Biography

Marvin Rothenbergtelevision ad director Though neither his face nor his name may be familiar, his work certainly is. Rothenberg directed Lucky Strike's dancing cigarettes and made Palmolive'…

Octavio Paz 1998 Deaths

Octavio PazAge: 84 Nobel prize-winning poet and essayist, considered by many to be one of the greatest Latin American poets ever. Paz produced over 40 volumes of poetry and essays throughout…

Everything's Relative

NBCSpring Midseason DebutTuesday 9:30–10:00 p.m.Cast:Kevin Rahm, Jeffrey Tambor, Jill Clayburgh, Eric Schaeffer, and Maureen Cassidy Professional comedy writer Leo Gorelick (Rahm) could make…

Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Charles Proteus Steinmetz Born: 1865Birthplace: Breslau, Germany System of electrical distribution—Steinmetz developed theories for alternating current making possible the expansion of the…

Roberto Duran

Roberto DuranBorn: June 16, 1951Panamanian boxer one of only 4 fighters to hold 4 different world titles— lightweight (1972-79), welterweight (1980), junior middleweight (1983) and…

Richard NUGENT, Congress, FL (1951)

NUGENT Richard , a Representative from Florida; born in Evergreen Park, Cook County, Illinois, on May 26, 1951; B.A., Saint Leo College, Saint Leo, Fla., 1990; M.P.A., Troy State University, Troy…

Scientific Classification

Classification, or taxonomy, is a system of categorizing living things. There are seven divisions in the system: (1) Kingdom; (2) Phylum or Division; (3) Class; (4) Order; (5) Family; (6)…