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Tony Gwynn

Tony GwynnBorn: May 9, 1960Baseball OF 8-time NL batting champion (1984,87-89,94-97) with San Diego, 15-time All-Star; got 3,000th career hit Aug. 6, 1999 at Montreal; played basketball at…

Toni Sailer

Toni SailerBorn: Nov. 17, 1935Austrian skier 1st to win 3 alpine gold medals in Winter Olympics— taking downhill, slalom and giant slalom events in 1956.Samuel RyderR - TLenn Sakata

Tony Zale

Tony ZaleBorn: May 29, 1913Boxer 2-time world middleweight champion (1941-47,48); fought Rocky Graziano for title 3 times in 21 months in 1947-48, winning twice; pro record 67-18-2 with 44…

Tony Richardson

Tony RichardsondirectorBorn: 6/5/1928Birthplace: Shipley, England Academy Award-winning film and stage director influential in shaping modern British film and theater. His films include The…

Tony Dorsett

Tony DorsettBorn: Apr. 7, 1954Football RB won Heisman Trophy leading Pitt to national title in 1976; 3rd all-time in NCAA Div. I-A rushing with 6,082 yards; led Dallas to Super Bowl title as…

honey buzzard

(Encyclopedia) honey buzzard, common name for several medium-sized, buzzardlike hawks (genus Pernis) of Eurasia and Africa. The European honey buzzard, Pernis apivorus, is predominantly reddish brown…

John Hawkes 1998 Deaths

John HawkesAge: 72 acclaimed postmodern writer who published 16 novels, including The Blood Oranges and Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade.Died: May 15, 1998.Hurd HatfieldG - LPeter Lind…

Aesop's Fables: The Nightingale and the Hawk

by Aesop The Dogs and the FoxThe Rose and the AmaranthThe Nightingale and the Hawk A Nightingale was sitting on a bough of an oak and singing, as her custom was. A hungry Hawk presently…

Brewer's: Hawk nor Buzzard

(Neither). Of doubtful social position—too good for the kitchen, and not good enough for the family. Private governesses and pauperised gentlefolk often hold this unhappy position. They…

Hamlisch, Marvin

(Encyclopedia) Hamlisch, Marvin, 1944–2012, American composer, conductor, and pianist, b. New York City, grad. Queens College (B.S., 1967). A versatile and prolific composer of melodies ranging from…