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Charles Henry Turner Biography

Charles Henry TurnerzoologistBorn: 1867Birthplace: Cincinnati, Ohio Although he held a doctorate from the University of Chicago, zoologist Charles Henry Turner chose to teach at high schools…

Alan Pakula 1998 Deaths

Alan PakulaAge: 70 The critically acclaimed producer and director of psychologically charged dramas such as Sophie's Choice, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Pelican Brief. Pakula was killed in…

Heinz Ansbacher 2006 Deaths

Heinz AnsbacherAge: 101 professor of psychology, whose books—cowritten with his wife, Rowena—explained and commented on the works of Alfred Adler, who developed the theory of the inferiority…

The Devil's Dictionary: X

by Ambrose Bierce WYX X in our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the…

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

NBCSunday 9:00–10:00 p.m.Cast:Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Courtney B. Vance, Jamey Sheridan The third installment in Dick Wolf's Law & Order franchise maintains the fully developed…

E. H. Gombrich 2001 Deaths

E. H. GombrichAge: 92 Vienna-born polymath who wrote about subjects ranging from classical music to psychology to white ants. But he's best known for his children's book, The Story of Art,…

Ruth Dyk 2000 Deaths

Ruth DykAge: 99 activist who for decades championed women's rights. In her long career, Dyk worked as a psychiatric social worker with delinquent girls, wrote books on psychology, and studied…

Paradise (Book)

Author:Toni MorrisonPublisher:Knopf After Toni Morrison's first public reading of Paradise, a woman rose from the pews of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church and said: “I want to thank you. I…

Lanford Wilson Biography

Lanford WilsonplaywrightBorn: 4/13/1937Birthplace: Lebanon, Missouri Prolific playwright whose works center on dynamic characters, often plagued by psychological problems. In 1969, he co-…

Mary Kay Ash Biography

Mary Kay Ashbusiness executiveBorn: 1915Birthplace: Hot Wells, Texas Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, one of the largest beauty products firms in the United States, Ash sold a child psychology…