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  1. 1 day ago · George Raymond Richard Martin [1] (born George Raymond Martin; September 20, 1948), [2] also known by his initials G.R.R.M., [3] is an American author, television writer, and television producer. He is best known as the author of the series of epic fantasy novels A Song of Ice and Fire, which were adapted into the Primetime Emmy Award ...

  2. 1 day ago · World War II. George Corley Wallace Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998) [2] was an American politician and judge who served as the 45th governor of Alabama for four terms. He is remembered for his staunch segregationist and populist views. [3] [4] [5] During Wallace's tenure as governor of Alabama, he promoted "industrial development ...

  3. 1 day ago · Harry Belafonte. Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s. Belafonte's career breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist.

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ben_CarsonBen Carson - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · Ben Carson. Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. (born September 18, 1951) is an American retired neurosurgeon, academic, author, and politician who served as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021. A pioneer in the field of neurosurgery, he was a candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 ...

  5. 1 day ago · Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British and American author, journalist, and educator. [2] [3] Author of 18 books on faith, culture, politics and literature, he was born and educated in Britain, graduating in the 1970s from Oxford with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › John_EdwardsJohn Edwards - Wikipedia

    3 hours ago · John Edwards. Johnny Reid Edwards [1] (born June 10, 1953) is an American lawyer and former politician who served as a U.S. senator from North Carolina from 1999 to 2005. He was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2004 alongside John Kerry, losing to incumbents George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. He also was a candidate for the Democratic ...

  7. 1 day ago · The 1856 lynching of Charles Cora and James Casey by the Committee of Vigilance in San Francisco, California Illustration drawn by A. W. Piper depicting the January 18, 1882, lynching of James Sullivan, William Howard, and Benjamin Payne in Seattle, Washington Lifeless body of George Witherell hanging from a telephone pole in Cañon City, Colorado, after being lynched on December 4, 1888 Lynching of the Ruggles brothers in Redding, California on July 24, 1892