Birthday Twins: Toni Morrison and Johnny Hart
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison and Reuben Award-winning cartoonist Johnny Hart were born on this very same day in 1931.
Biographies
Watson vs. Humans: How’d We Do?
How did we do with our predictions last week about the big Watson vs. Humans showdown on Jeopardy? Let’s look.
Paris Hilton Turns 30 Today
Happy birthday to one-time internet favorite Paris Hilton!
Paris Hilton is 30 years old today. Our little girl has grown up!
You know you’ll want to read USA Today’s “Paris Hilton Turns 30 With Animals and a Snazzy Car” — that headline really sucks in the reader.
Where’s Buzz? At the Berlin Film Festival!
Hero astronaut Buzz Aldrin and his wife, Lois Aldrin, pose with Alain Visser, a vice president for Opel, on Monday night. They were at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) – Cinema for Peace Gala, held at the Konzerthaus in Berlin, Germany.
J.D. Salinger, War Hero
Something I didn’t know about J.D. Salinger: It’s hard to think of an American writer who had more combat
experience. He landed on Utah Beach on D-Day. Slawenski reports that of
the 3,080 members of Salinger’s regiment who landed with him on June 6,
1944, only 1,130 survived three weeks later.
Mordecai Brown Had More Than Three Fingers
Baseball pitching legend Mordecai Brown died on this day in 1948. He was 71.
Wayne Rooney’s Unbelievable Goal
[ Update: original clean video now replaced with muddier video from YouTube. Registration is required to see video on the Man U. site, otherwise we’d send you there. ] Wayne …..
Richard Dreyfuss Does the Right Thing
Here’s something you don’t see every day: someone in the political arena admitting that what they said was wrong:
Hosni Mubarak Has Resigned
Protestors in Egypt have erupted in celebration: President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down.Here’s a live feed from Tahrir Square in Cairo:
Who Does Elena Kagan Look Like?
Earlier we proposed Burt Reynolds to star as Antonin Scalia in a TV movie about the tea party.That got us thinking about who would play the other justices. Now we see that the people at AboveTheLaw have already held a lookalike contest for Justice Elena Kagan.