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Best Supporting Actress Nominees, 2013

The 85th Academy Award Best Supporting Actress Nominees Here are the nominees for actress in a supporting role. This is the third Oscar nomination for Sally Field. She won the…

Brewer's: Temora

One of the principal poems of Ossian, in eight books, so called from the royal residence of the kings of Connaught. Cairbar had usurped the throne, having killed Cormac, a distant relative…

James Robert Baker Biography

James Robert Bakernovelist wrote the satirical novels Fuel-Injected Dreams and Boy WonderBorn: 1947?Died: 1997Dr. Oscar Auerbach1997 DeathsLaVern Baker

Tiffany Roberts

Tiffany RobertsBorn: May 5, 1977Soccer M defensive specialist for U.S. women's soccer team; won olympic gold medal in 1996 and World Cup title in 1999; led North Carolina to NCAA…

Anita DeFrantz

Anita DeFrantzBorn: Oct. 4, 1952Olympics attorney who became the International Olympic Committee's first female vice president in 1997; first woman to represent U.S. on IOC (elected in 1986…

Cedric Dempsey

Cedric DempseyBorn: Apr. 14, 1932College sports succeeded Dick Schultz as NCAA executive director (title later changed to president) in 1993 and served until the end of 2002; former athletic…

Rod Steiger 2002 Deaths

Rod SteigerAge: 77 versatile, compelling character actor who won a Best Actor Oscar for his role as a Southern sheriff in 1968's In the Heat of the Night. An actor who totally immersed…

Conrad Hall 2003 Deaths

Conrad HallAge: 76 Academy Award–winning cinematographer known for his naturalistic style. He won Oscars for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and American Beauty. His other credits include…

Hans Bethe 2005 Deaths

Hans BetheAge: 98 physicist who was a leader in the development of the atom bomb for the U.S. government's Manhattan Project. During the 1980s and 1990s, Bethe championed the use of nuclear…