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Marie Antoinette

20 Nov 2008 22:26:21 GMT

Marie Antoinette was the Queen of France during the French Revolution. Resented by the French citizenry for her foreign birth and extravagant lifestyle, Marie ... more

King Louis XVI

20 Nov 2008 22:17:43 GMT

King Louis XVI of France was the unfortunate monarch executed during the 1789 French Revolution. He succeeded his grandfather, Louis XV, in 1774 and inherited a looming financial crisis just as ... more

Randolph Bourne

20 Nov 2008 09:35:32 GMT

An essayist and intellectual who lived in Greenwich Village, Bourne is an early figure of America's "bohemian" counterculture. Bourne was maimed by forceps during his birth, giving him a disfigured ... more

Charles Messier

19 Nov 2008 16:04:43 GMT

Charles Messier was a French astronomical observer whose accomplishments were so great the king, Louis XV, famously called him "my little comet ferret." Employed by astronomer Nicolas Delisle in ... more

William H. Taft

19 Nov 2008 10:06:26 GMT

William Howard Taft was the son of Alphonso Taft, Secretary of War and Attorney General in the cabinet of President Grant. William grew up to be a respectable ... more

Benjamin Franklin

18 Nov 2008 16:45:38 GMT

Benjamin Franklin was a hero of Colonial America and a man of amazing talents. His achievements are too varied to sum up easily; they include signing the Declaration of Independence, publishing ... more

Kim Kardashian

18 Nov 2008 14:57:31 GMT

Kimberly Kardashian is a Los Angeles area boutique owner whose friendship with socialite Paris Hilton has made her a gossip-column favorite. Described by the press as ... more

Bruce Jenner

18 Nov 2008 14:53:49 GMT

Bruce Jenner first came to fame as an American decathlon champion, a gold medalist in the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics. His victory coincided with the American bicentennial celebration, and ... more

Mickey Mouse

18 Nov 2008 12:23:07 GMT

Mickey Mouse debuted in the 1928 animated short Steamboat Willie and went on to become the familiar symbol of Walt Disney studios. A cheerful rodent in white ... more

Michelle Obama

18 Nov 2008 11:25:18 GMT

Michelle Obama, a lawyer, Chicago city administrator and community outreach worker, is the wife of U.S. senator and president-elect ... more

Jill Biden

18 Nov 2008 11:24:45 GMT

Dr. Jill Biden is a college English professor and the wife of senator and vice president-elect Joe Biden of Delaware. She was ... more

Freida Pinto

18 Nov 2008 11:18:52 GMT

Freida Pinto is an Indian actress who starred as Latika in the 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire. She broke into acting by way of modeling, after earning a degree at Mumbai's St. Xavier College. ... more

Manuel Puig

18 Nov 2008 11:07:33 GMT

Juan Manuel Puig is the Argentinian author whose best-known novel is Kiss of the Spider Woman (El beso de la mujer araña, 1976). His stories were infused with sexuality and his ... more

Gus Van Sant

18 Nov 2008 10:26:42 GMT

Gus Van Sant is an independent filmmaker whose forays into mainstream movies have included Good Will Hunting (1997) and Finding Forrester (2000). He made a name for himself on the ... more

Randolph Mantooth

18 Nov 2008 10:19:47 GMT

Randolph Mantooth played John Gage, a handsome paramedic with a goofy streak, on the TV series Emergency! from 1972 through 1977. Emergency followed Gage and his partner Roy Desoto ... more

Beyoncé

18 Nov 2008 09:52:07 GMT

Beyoncé's 2003 solo debut album, Dangerously in Love, won her five Grammy Awards, including best contemporary R&B album and best ... more

Kathy Ireland

18 Nov 2008 08:37:41 GMT

Kathy Ireland appeared in 11 straight Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues from 1984-1994. Her green eyes, angular jaw and athletic curves made her one of magazine's most popular models of that ... more

William Hurt

17 Nov 2008 16:04:37 GMT

A cerebral leading man and offbeat character actor, William Hurt was one of the more distinctive Hollywood stars of the 1980s. Hurt won an Oscar for his leading role as a story-spinning prisoner in ... more

Friz Freleng

14 Nov 2008 15:44:52 GMT

One of the most prolific and successful animators of the 20th century, Isadore "Friz" Freleng was the director of Merry Melodies and Looney Tunes for Warner Brothers cartoons, and the ... more

Frank Miller

14 Nov 2008 14:12:12 GMT

Frank Miller is a comic book artist who first earned popular and critical success in the late 1970s, thanks to his work on Daredevil and its spin-off miniseries, Elektra. His ... more

Don Knotts

14 Nov 2008 14:06:16 GMT

Pop-eyed and pencil-necked, Don Knotts made a career out of playing jittery underdogs with wavering voices and big dreams. Knotts was a regular on the ... more

Joseph Biden

14 Nov 2008 14:04:07 GMT

A U.S. senator from Delaware since 1973, Joseph Biden will become vice president of the United States in 2009. He was born in Pennsylvania and moved with his family to Delaware at age 10. He earned ... more

Herbert Hoover

14 Nov 2008 12:31:51 GMT

Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st American president, serving from 1929-33. Hoover was a successful mining engineer and businessman in Australia and China before turning to civic service and politics. ... more

Seth MacFarlane

14 Nov 2008 11:02:51 GMT

Seth MacFarlane is the creator of the animated series Family Guy. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (1995), he began work as an animator for Hanna-Barbera, working on Cartoon ... more

Edward de Vere

13 Nov 2008 22:02:56 GMT

Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, was a poet and dramatist who, in recent years, has become a key figure in the debate about the authorship of the works of ... more