Known in the decade before World War I as "the man who owned Broadway", he is considered the father of American musical comedy. His life and music were depicted in the Oscar-winning film Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) and the 1968 musical George M!. A statue of Cohan in Times Square New...
On June 20, 1947, gangster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel was slain in Beverly Hills, his body riddled with bullets. One family claims to know who did it.
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"When I got home I began to ask people what was going on in Israel. One of my legal advisors, who was interested in international affairs, described the growing tension between Israel and Egypt, as well as the emergent ommunist threat from hina, a country with a population growing so fas...
Born in Haifa, Israel, Simmons immigrated to the United States with his mother at the tender age of eight. His passion for music was ignited during his teenage years, and his fascination with comic book superheroes and theatrics would later become a significant influence in his career. ...
Michael fought the prince of Persiaso that Gabriel could finally speak to Daniel. It isMichael who will arise when Israel is facing defeat in the End-Times. It isMichael who will wage war against Satanand his kingdom of darkness, casting them out of heaven and down to earth. ...
Relatives: Daughter of Charles Peaslee Turner and Julia Francis (Mather) Turner; married, November 12, 1889, to Edward Williams Hooker; second cousin thrice removed of Smith Thompson; third cousin twice removed of Jacob Livingston Sutherland, Gilbert Livingston Thompson and Israel Dodd Condit. Politi...
When 1974 began, the United States was still very much in the midst of the oil crisis that had begun the previous year as retaliation against nations that OPEC believed supported Israel. This was accompanied by a stock market crash that lasted throughout 1973 and 1974, and gas pr...
Florence King held many firsts: In 1897, she became the first female patent attorney; in 1918, she became the first female vice president of the Women's Bar Association of Chicago; in 1922, she became the first woman to argue a patent case before the U.S. Supreme Court. A year later...
Oh, and lest you think this was a bad career move, one of the "women" was Ehud Barak, who later became Prime Minister of Israel and is currently Defense Minister. Robert D. Ward We repeat: People died because they mistook this man for a woman. The Israelis hardly invented this techniqu...