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Rostovtzeff, Michael Ivanovich

(Encyclopedia) Rostovtzeff, Michael IvanovichRostovtzeff, Michael Ivanovichrŏstŏvˈtsĕf [key], 1870–1952, American historian, b. Kiev, Ukraine. He studied at the Univ. of St. Petersburg where he was…

Ferdinand, king of Romania

(Encyclopedia) Ferdinand, 1865–1927, king of Romania (1914–27), nephew of Carol I. The second son of the Prussian prince, Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, he was designated successor to the…

Michael Jordan, 1999 News

36, professional basketball player, announced his retirement from the NBA—again—in January. (He also retired in 1993, only to return to the game in 1995, after a brief stint with the…

Michael Houser 2002 Deaths

Michael HouserAge: 40 singer and guitarist of Widespread Panic, a Georgia-based jam band. He died of pancreatic cancer. Died: Athens, Ga., Aug. 10, 2002Billy Ray HobleyG - LHarlan Howard…

Michael Kopper, 2002 News

former Enron executive, admitted in August to paying kickbacks to the company's CFO, Andrew Fastow, from money he earned in running off-the-book partnerships that hid debt and led to the…

Michael Kelly 2003 Deaths

Michael KellyAge: 46 journalist and editor who was killed while covering the war in Iraq as an embedded reporter. He served as editor in chief of Atlantic Monthly magazine from 1999 to 2002…

Michael Jeter 2003 Deaths

Michael JeterAge: 50 actor who won a Tony Award for his performance as a dying clerk in Grand Hotel and an Emmy for his role as a scrawny football coach in Evening Shade. Died: Los Angeles,…

Michael Ritchie 2001 Deaths

Michael RitchieAge: 62 filmmaker who directed the films Downhill Racer, The Candidate, and The Bad News Bears. He also helmed the television movie The Positively True Adventures of the…

Michael Saylor, 2000 News

35, software and Internet company executive, lost $6 billion (on paper) in one day when the stock of his company, MicroStrategy, lost 62% of its value on March 20. MicroStrategy “cooked the…

Sir Michael Edwardes Biography

Sir Michael Edwardesbusiness executiveBorn: 1930Birthplace: South Africa After studying at Rhodes University, he began his career with the Chloride Group in Africa in 1951, becoming a…