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Harry Usher 2000 Deaths

Harry UsherAge: 61 attorney and former executive vice president and general manager of the 1984 Olympic Summer Games; teamed with Peter Ueberroth to successfully raise money and organize the…

Joseph Moakley 2001 Deaths

Joseph MoakleyAge: 74 popular politician from Massachusetts who served for 15 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. A quintessential Boston Irish Democrat, Moakley dedicated his career…

Alfred Nobel

The Question: Was the Nobel who invented the Nobel prize some sort of explosives expert? What made him decide to start giving awards, especially the Peace Prize…

The Hutterian Brethren

The Question: I am in a class entitled "American Communal Utopias" and we are studying the Hutterites. I was wondering if there is any information about life…

Joseph Pulitzer Biography

Joseph PulitzerjournalistBorn: 4/10/1847Birthplace: Mako, Hungary Newspaperman who emigrated to the United States in 1864 and began a successful career as editor and publisher of the St. Louis Post-…

Henry George STEBBINS, Congress, NY (1811-1881)

STEBBINS Henry George , a Representative from New York; born in Ridgefield, Conn., September 15, 1811; attended private schools; moved to New York; engaged in banking; colonel of the Twelfth…

November Current Events 2022: World News

Top of Page US News | Disaster News | Science & Technology News The world is a very busy place, and it's hard to stay on top of everything. Infoplease has got you covered. Here are the World…

John Kenneth Galbraith 2006 Deaths

John Kenneth GalbraithAge: 97 Harvard economist and best-selling author who advised several presidents and championed using government funds to reduce unemployment and for public services. An…

Einar Gustafson 2001 Deaths

Einar GustafsonAge: 65 young baseball fan, whose battle with a rare form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1948 inspired the Jimmy Fund, a cancer research organization and the official charity of…