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Uvaldo Acosta 1998 Deaths

Uvaldo AcostaAge: 32 men's volleyball coach at George Mason University and former member of U.S. national team (1989-92); was named an alternate to the 1992 Olympic team that competed in…

Charlie Bradshaw Biography

Charlie BradshawAge: 75 former Kentucky and Troy State head football coach who, as an assistant, won a national title with Bear Bryant's 1961 Alabama team; was 25-41-4 at Kentucky (1962-68)…

Douglas T. Jacobson 2000 Deaths

Douglas T. JacobsonAge: 74 World War II hero who, as a U.S. Marines private, single-handedly stormed Iwo Jima, decimating 16 enemy posts and killing 75 Japanese soldiers. He was awarded the…

Al Cowens 2002 Deaths

Al CowensAge: 50 journeyman outfielder, whose best season was with Kansas City in 1977; won a Gold Glove and finished second in MVP voting in 1977, hitting .312 with 23 HR, 112 RBI and 14…

1997 National Book Critics Circle Awards

Fiction: The Blue Flower, Penelope Fitzgerald (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin)General Nonfiction: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)Biography or…

Once and Again

ABCMonday 10:00–11:00 p.m.Cast:Sela Ward, Bill Campbell, Julia Whelan, Meredith Deane, Shane West, Evan Rachel Wood, Todd Field, Marin Hinkle, Jeffrey Nordling, and Susanna Thompson…

Victor F. SNYDER, Congress, AR (1947)

SNYDER Victor F. , a Representative from Arkansas; born in Medford, Jackson County, Oreg., September 27, 1947; B.A., Willamette University, Salem, Oreg., 1975; M.D., University of Oregon, Portland…

Kei Nishikori

Kei Nishikori is the Japanese tennis player who came from relative obscurity to make the finals of the U.S. Open in 2014. Nishikori is a rarity as a Japanese man on the pro tennis tour, and also a…

Joseph Conrad

Name at birth: Teodor Jozef Konrad Nalecz KorzeniowskiJoseph Conrad was a novelist and story writer whose most famous works are Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness. Of Polish descent, he was born in…

Hirohito

Hirohito ruled Japan for more than six decades of the 20th century, during a period in which the nation aggressively pursued political dominance in Asia, withstood the devastation of World War II and…