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Theodore Hall Biography

Theodore HallAge: 74 physicist and alleged atomic spy. After graduating from Harvard at age 18, Hall was hired as a physicist on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, N.M., becoming the…

David Hall Biography

David HallAge: 49 respected baseball coach at many levels; coached at Rice University from 1981–91, posting a 338–267 record; coached at two other high schools before forming a special bond…

Terry Hall Biography

Terry HallAge: 53 women's basketball coach at Wright State University the past seven years; her 20 year coaching career included tours with Eastern Kentucky, University of Kentucky,…

Donald Hall Biography

American poetBorn: September 20, 1928Birthplace: New Haven, Conn. Former Poet Laureate of the U.S., Donald Hall is known for his descriptions of rural landscape --…

Prince Hall Biography

Prince Hall clergyman, abolitionistBorn: 1735Birthplace: Barbados Hall established the African Lodge of the Honorable Society of Free and Accepted Masons of Boston in 1775. It was the first lodge…

The Shark Hall of Fame

The biggest, smallest, scariest, coolest . . . by Holly Hartman Scariest Great White (Carcharodon carcharias)Made famous by the movie Jaws, the great white shark has become a…

Wheelock, John Hall

Wheelock, John Hall[1886-1978](4)Born at Far Rockaway, N.Y., in 1886. He took the degree of A.B. from Harvard University in 1908 and spent the next two years in Germany, studying during 1909…

Brewer's: Hall Mark

The mark on gold or silver articles after they have been assayed. Every article in gold is compared with a given standard of pure gold. This standard is supposed to be divided into twenty-…

Brewer's: Hall of Odin

The rocks, such as Halleberg and Hunneberg, from which the Hyperboreans, when tired of life, used to cast themselves into the sea; so called because they were the vestibule of the…