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Robert Moog 2005 Deaths

Robert MoogAge: 71 electronic music pioneer who in 1965 created the Moog synthesizer. Many experimental and rock bands, such as Tangerine Dream, used the synthesizer in the 1960s and '70s.…

Mark McCormack

Mark McCormackBorn: Nov. 6, 1930 founder and CEO of International Management Group (IMG), the sports management conglomerate that represents Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, Arnold Palmer, and…

Willie McCovey

Willie McCoveyBorn: Jan. 10, 1938Baseball 1B led NL in HRs 3 times and RBI twice; MVP in 1969 with SF; 521 career HRs; indicted for tax evasion in July 1995, pled guilty; “McCovey Cove,” the…

Bill Bradley Biography

Bill BradleyBorn: July 28, 1943Basketball F 2-time All-America at Princeton; Player of the Year and Final 4 MOP in 1965; captain of gold medal-winning 1964 U.S. Olympic team; Sullivan Award…

Brian Pearson Biography

Brian PearsonAge: 27 a walk-on who earned four basketball letters at Iowa State; he set a school record with five three-point field goals in a game, a feat he accomplished four times; in…

Aesop's Fables: The Flea and the Ox

by Aesop The Travellers and the Plane-TreeThe Birds, the Beasts, and the BatThe Flea and the Ox A Flea once said to an Ox, "How comes it that a big strong fellow like you is content to…

Alanis Morissette Biography

Alanis Morissettepop singerBorn: 6/1/1974Birthplace: Ottawa, Canada Grammy Award-winning pop singer who burst onto the American music scene in 1995 with her 11-million-selling Jagged Little Pill…

Dominique Dawes

Dominique DawesBorn: Nov. 20, 1976Birthplace: Silver Spring, Md. American gymnast In 1996 Dawes became the first African American to win an individual Olympic gymnastics medal (bronze on…

Don Sutton Biography

Don SuttonBorn: April 2, 1945Baseball RHP won 324 games and tossed 58 shutouts in his 23-year career; recorded NL record five career 1-hitters; lost 13 straight games to the Cubs–a major…

Anthony, Susan Brownell

(Encyclopedia) Anthony, Susan Brownell, 1820–1906, American reformer and leader of the woman-suffrage movement, b. Adams, Mass.; daughter of Daniel Anthony, Quaker abolitionist. From the age of 17,…