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In 1775, pioneer and hunter Daniel Boone established the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap to facilitate the colonization of Kentucky. His Boonesborough community was one of the first English-speaking settlements west of the Appalachian Moun...
Born: November 2,1734. Died: September 26, 1820. Nationality: American. Conquest: Exploration of Kentucky.
President Kennedy enjoys a relaxing game of golf at the Hyannis Port Golf Club in Massachusetts.
Octavio ("Cookie") Rojas (Rivas) was born in La Habana, Cuba. He is considered a valuable handyman, having had experience in all nine positions.
Annie was a present-day Xena fan who believed that she was Xena's incarnation. To prove it, she and her boyfriend Harry went to see Mattie, a reincarnation specialist, who determined that one of them was Xena - but it was Harry! Annie was in fact Jox...
Edgar Allan Poe was a writer and poet who was one of the first to master the short-story genre, specializing in tales of psychological horror such as The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) and The Pit and the Pendulum
(1842). Poe's The Murders in the...
Born: January 19, 1809. Died: October 7, 1849. Home: Boston, Massachusetts. Genres: Horror Fiction, Crime Fiction, Detec...
Roberts enlisted in the U.S. Army just three days after his high school graduation in 1967, at the height of the Vietnam War. He received the Medal of Honor, the military's highest award for valor, less than a month after his 19th birthday. Following...
He attended U. of Dayton with NBA coach Johnny Davis.
Paul is snapped in a reflective mood on the set of A HARD DAY'S NIGHT. Is he thinking of a favorite date, lyrics to a new song, or of his family back home? It's rare when fun-loving Paul isn't clowning it up with the boys.
Tigh knows what the Cylons have planned. Thinking back 20 years, to a long night of drinking with Adama, he realizes that Centurians aren't going to blow the ship up - they're planning to kill the crew by venting the ship's air and then turn its guns...
In the midst of his career as one of the greatest American actors, Stewart enrolled in the service, sustaining a family military tradition that dated back to the Civil War. He flew 20 combat missions over Europe, winning several awards and swift prom...
Fellow actor Walter Matthau was in his military unit.
Four trips to Greenland while in the Navy prepared Robert Edwin Peary for his most ambitious and rewarding journey: to the top of the world. On April 6, 1909, Peary along with American assistant Matthew Henson and four Eskimo aides became the first k...
American Explorer. Born: May 6, 1856 Died: Feb. 20, 1920. Nationality: American. Conquest: North Pole
Prior to becoming the first American president, Washington made fame as an inspirational military commander in key expeditions during the French and Indian War, and later as head of the Continental Army. His forced surrender of the British at Yorktow...
He was only 23 when made commander of the Virginia forces.
Sloane sends Dixon and Sydney to Sao Paulo to save the United Commerce Organization from unwitting sabotage by Peace Prize winner Patel. Attending an elegant party in Sao Paulo, Sydney spots the terrorist Luc Jacqnoud just as the statesman Dhiren Pat...
In 1805, Army lieutenant and explorer Zebulon Pike conducted his Northwest Expedition to locate the headwaters of the Mississippi River. Although unsuccessful in that endeavor, he did purchase 100,000 acres of land from the Sioux Indians. Pike's repo...
American Explorer. Born: January 5, 1779. Died: April 27, 1813. Nationality: American. Conquests: Northwest Expedition, ...
Dear Diary, We finally got into a recording studio today. We were signed to do the background music for a new rock singer. I think it's a shame that we couldn't put out a record of our own, but I believe someday we will. Anyway, it was a good feeling...
"Quiet on the Set," is the cry from the director. The cameras start rolling and everyone's attention is focused on John, Paul, Ringo and George. The only props in this scene are a phone, a baby carriage and a typewriter.
As Dr. Cottle works to save Adama's life, Tigh is beginning to realize that there's more to being a leader than giving orders. The press is clamoring for answers, everyone wants a decision now, and he feels himself being drawn to his old friend and e...
No American woman has claimed as many Olympic Winter Games medals in Alpine Skiing as Julia, whose four include Giant Slalom gold in Turin in 2006. She won a pair of silvers in Vancouver (Downhill, Combined) before earning bronze in Combined in Sochi...
Prior to his death in an aerial accident, Wagner was an early hero in the aerial war with the Japanese during World War II. The dapper, pipe-smoking officer, who became the first U.S. Army Air Force "ace" of the war, made many escapes in the face of ...
In one attack, Wagner destroyed or damaged 16 planes.
President Thomas Jefferson, after purchasing more than 800,000 square miles of land from the French, needed someone to determine what bounty the property offered. He commissioned Meriwether Lewis, an Army captain, to lead the mission. Along with Will...
American Explorer. Born: Aug. 18, 1774. Died: Oct. 11, 1809. Nationality: American. Conquest: Louisiana Territory.
The woman most often portrayed as "Molly Pitcher" may or may not have existed. More than likely, the name was a representation of all women who offered aid to soldiers in the Revolutionary War. She (or they) has been commemorated ever since, includin...
She shot at the British with her injured husband's rifle.
Ringo gets some last minute instruction from a movie technician. All four of the boys never turned down any advice during the filming of their first motion picture. The Beatles wanted to do a top-notch job in their film.
THEN AND NOW
CLASSIC ERA
As the crime bosses gathered for another meeting, the lights suddenly went out, and the room was filled with chilling laughter. Then a large face was projected upon the wall, annou...
MODERN ERA
Seattle's team MVP honoree three years running, Alonso enters 2013 off a season in which he was named to the MLS Best XI for the first time. The defensive workhorse timed his lone ...
Lee leads a search and rescue mission to find the crew lost on Kobol, unaware that the Cylons have set up a missile battery in anticipation of a rescue mission. It falls to the ragtag crew on the ground to knock out the battery, but Tyrol has doubts ...