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Charles Durning

Charles DurningactorBorn: 2/28/1923Birthplace: Highland Falls, New York A heavyset character actor, he gained fame for playing the part of Lieutenant Snyder in 1973's The Sting. His other movies…

Eve Arden Biography

Eve Arden(Eunice Quedens)actressBorn: 4/30/1908Birthplace: Mill Valley, California Best known for her portrayals of wisecracking, world-weary women, she earned an Academy Award nomination for Best…

Charles Durning Biography

Charles DurningactorBorn: 2/28/1923Birthplace: Highland Falls, New York A heavyset character actor, he gained fame for playing the part of Lieutenant Snyder in 1973's The Sting. His other movies…

1999 Deaths: A - F

Alice AdamsJoey AdamsJoe AdcockMartin AgronskyDolores Jimenez AlcantaraAvery C. AlexanderForrest (Forddy) AndersonBob BackusAbdel-Latif BaghdadiHerman BallIan BannenLeon BarzinLionel…

The Declaration of Independence

On April 12, 1776, the legislature of North Carolina authorized its delegates to the Continental Congress to join with others in a declaration of separation from Great Britain; the first…

Joe Adcock Biography

Joe AdcockAge: 71 power-hitting first baseman for Milwaukee Braves who teamed up with Hank Aaron and Eddie Mathews in an extraordinarily powerful lineup of the 1950's; established the major-…

Christina Rossetti: Bird or Beast?

Bird or Beast?Did any bird come flying After Adam and Eve, When the door was shut against them And they sat down to grieve?I think not Eve's peacock Splendid to see, And I think not…

Cabinet Members Under Washington

Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, 1789Edmund Randolph, 1794Timothy Pickering, 1795Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, 1789Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 1795Secretary of War Henry Knox,…

George Jacob BENNER, Congress, PA (1859-1930)

BENNER George Jacob , a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Gettysburg, Adams County, Pa., April 13, 1859; attended the public schools and was graduated from Pennsylvania College at…

William CRAWFORD, Congress, PA (1760-1823)

CRAWFORD William , a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1760; received a liberal schooling; studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and in 1781 received his…