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3 days ago · Boston then defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning in seven games and advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time since 1990 to face the Vancouver Canucks, defeating them in seven games for the team's first Stanley Cup since 1972. The 2010–11 Bruins were the first team in NHL history to win a Game 7 three times in the same playoff run.
May 9, 2024 · Henry Morton Stanley, British American explorer of central Africa, famous for his rescue of the Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone and for his discoveries in and development of the Congo region. Learn more about Stanley’s life and accomplishments in this article.
May 6, 2024 · Stanley Kubrick (born July 26, 1928, Bronx, New York, U.S.—died March 7, 1999, Childwickbury Manor, near St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England) was an American motion-picture director and writer whose films are characterized by his dramatic visual style, meticulous attention to detail, and a detached, often ironic or pessimistic perspective. An ...
13 hours ago · Richard L. Anderson; M. S. Bartlett; William Forest Callander; Jerome Cornfield; Besse Day; Daniel Bertrand DeLury; Paul Summer Dwyer; D. J. Finney; Harold Freeman
6 days ago · early 20th-century "muckraker" journalist; won 1940 Pulitzer Prize for last two volumes of biography of President Woodrow Wilson: Jack Berry: B.S. 1956 Sports journalist with The Detroit News, the Detroit Free Press, United Press International, and the Golf Writers' Association of America Richard Cooper: B.A. 1969
May 21, 2024 · Stanley Rother grew up on an Okarche, Okla. farm. He discerned the priesthood while in high school, and was ordained in 1963. After serving as an associate pastor for five years, the Oklahoma diocese granted him permission to serve at the their mission in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala, where he ministered to the Tz’utujil tribe.
May 10, 2024 · Bob Ross (born October 29, 1942, Daytona Beach, Florida, U.S.—died July 4, 1995, New Smyrna Beach, Florida) was an American painter and television personality whose popular PBS television show The Joy of Painting (1983–94) made him a household name as the painting teacher to the masses. Ross was raised in Orlando, Florida.
