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22 hours ago · Tropic Thunder. Tropic Thunder is a 2008 satirical action comedy film directed by Ben Stiller, who wrote the screenplay with Justin Theroux and Etan Cohen. The film stars Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Jay Baruchel, and Brandon T. Jackson as a group of prima donna actors making a Vietnam War film. When their frustrated director (Steve ...
22 hours ago · Ted Kaczynski. Theodore John Kaczynski (/ kəˈzɪnski / ⓘ kə-ZIN-skee; May 22, 1942 – June 10, 2023), also known as the Unabomber (/ ˈjuːnəbɒmər / ⓘ YOO-nə-bom-ər), was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. [1][2] He was a mathematics prodigy, but abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primitive ...
22 hours ago · —Sinatra's daughter Nancy on the importance of his mother Dolly in his life and character. Francis Albert Sinatra [a] was born on December 12, 1915, in a tenement at 415 Monroe Street in Hoboken, New Jersey, [b] the only child of Italian immigrants Natalina "Dolly" Garaventa and Antonino Martino "Marty" Sinatra, who boxed under the name Marty O'Brien. [c] Sinatra weighed 13.5 pounds (6.1 kg) at birth and had to be delivered with the aid of forceps, which caused severe scarring to his left ...
22 hours ago · Lincoln is a constituency [n 1] in Lincolnshire, England represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Hamish Falconer of the Labour Party. [ n 2 ] Since the split of the City of York seat with effect from the 2010 general election, Lincoln has been the oldest constituency in continuous existence in the UK – established in 1265.
22 hours ago · Carl Linnaeus[ a ] (23 May 1707 [ note 1 ] – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, [ 3 ][ b ] was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy ". [ 4 ] Many of his writings were in Latin; his ...
22 hours ago · Cheney was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, the son of Marjorie Lorraine (née Dickey) and Richard Herbert Cheney. He is of predominantly English, as well as Welsh , Irish, and French Huguenot ancestry. His father was a soil conservation agent for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and his mother was a softball star in the 1930s; [ 17 ] Cheney was one of three children.
22 hours ago · James Longstreet. James Longstreet (January 8, 1821 – January 2, 1904) was an American military officer who served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War and was the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his "Old War Horse". He served under Lee as a corps commander for most of the battles fought by the ...
