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Glendale

(Encyclopedia) Glendale. 1 City (2020 pop. 248,325), Maricopa co., S central Ariz., adjacent to Phoenix; inc. 1910. It is located in a rich…

Russell, Lillian

(Encyclopedia) Russell, Lillian, 1861–1922, American singer and actress, b. Clinton, Iowa. Her original name was Helen Louise Leonard. She first appeared in light opera in 1879. In the early 1880s…

Banks, Russell

(Encyclopedia) Banks, Russell, 1940–, American writer, b. Newton, Mass., grad. Univ. of North Carolina (1967). Banks is known for fiction that explores the bleaker aspects of American working-class…

Baker, Russell

(Encyclopedia) Baker, Russell, 1925–2018, American journalist, author, humorist, and television personality, b. Loudon Co., Va., grad. John Hopkins (1947). He began as a night police reporter for The…

Means, Russell

(Encyclopedia) Means, Russell, 1939–2012, Native American activist, b. Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, S.Dak. An Oglala Sioux, he grew up near San Francisco, and attended four colleges but never…

Hubbard Glacier

(Encyclopedia) Hubbard Glacier, SE Alaska, largest tidewater glacier in North America, on Disenchantment Bay at head of Yakutat Bay, at the northern end of the Alaskan panhandle. Extending 76 mi (122…

Russell Henderson, 1999 0 News

21, drew two consecutive life sentences after pleading guilty in April in a Wyoming court to the 1998 kidnapping and murder of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay college student. The trial…

Bob Russell 1998 Deaths

Bob Russellentertainer former host of the Miss America pageantBorn: 1908?Died: 1998Browning RossR - ZChico Ryan

Russell Long 2003 Deaths

Russell LongAge: 84 politician who served as a Democratic senator from Louisiana from 1948 to 1986. He was the son of legendary Louisiana governor Huey Long. Died: Washington, D.C., May 9,…

Harold Russell 2002 Deaths

Harold RussellAge: 88 veteran and actor who won two Oscars—one for acting and a special award—for his performance as a disabled World War II soldier in the film The Best Years of Our Lives.…