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16 hours ago · Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress whose career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned six decades. She was known for her headstrong independence, spirited personality, and outspokenness, cultivating a screen persona that matched this public image, and regularly playing strong-willed, sophisticated women.
16 hours ago · John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing.
- Joan London, Bessie London
16 hours ago · Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist.She is a classically trained musician with a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Having already begun composing instrumental pieces on piano, Amos won a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University at the age of five, the youngest person ever to have been admitted.
16 hours ago · Children. 1. Maureen O'Hara ( née FitzSimons; 17 August 1920 – 24 October 2015) was an Irish-born naturalized American actress and singer, who became successful in Hollywood from the 1940s through to the 1960s. [1] She was a natural redhead who was known for playing passionate but sensible heroines, often in Westerns and adventure films.
- 1938–1971, 1991–2000
- 24 October 2015 (aged 95), Boise, Idaho, US
- Maureen FitzSimons, 17 August 1920, Dublin, Ireland
- Arlington National Cemetery
16 hours ago · Nonviolence is the personal practice of not causing harm to others under any condition. It may come from the belief that hurting people, animals and/or the environment is unnecessary to achieve an outcome and it may refer to a general philosophy of abstention from violence. It may be based on moral, religious or spiritual principles, or the ...
16 hours ago · Nadir of Americanrace relations. The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, "Jim Crow" being a pejorative term for an African American. [1] Such laws remained in force until 1965. [2]
16 hours ago · The Al Pacino Accused Murderer Biopic Series — Fresh off playing Phil Spector in a biopic for the network, and three years after he played Dr. Jack Kevorkian in another film, HBO calls again on Al Pacino to play several other famous figures accused of murder, including Ted Kaczynski, Amanda Knox, the Menéndez brothers, the captain of the ...
