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July 2012
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Photo of the Week: From Cabinets to the Millennium Falcon
July 9, 2012 by Julien McNabThe producers at BIO.com review hundreds of photos of famous figures each week, from award-winning actors and popular singers, to headliners and scandal makers. While we're digging through these archives, we often come across amazing photos that we're...
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American Southern Writers
July 5, 2012 by Scott CoopersteinThe American South is a hotbed for literature, and many of America’s most famous novels have been written by Southerners. From Mark Twain and the invention of the...
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- Famous Pisceans
- Famous Playwrights
- Famous Fiction Authors
Carson McCullers
Author, Playwright / 1917 - 1967
The work of Carson McCullers, author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and The Member of the Wedding, is must-read southern gothic fiction.
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- Imbibers
- Famous Libras
- Famous People Named William
William Faulkner
Author / 1897 - 1962
William Faulkner was a Nobel Prize-winning novelist of the American South, who wrote challenging prose and created the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. He is known for novels like Sartoris.
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- Famous Recluses
- Famous Taureans
- Famous People Named Lee
Harper Lee
Author / 1926 -
Harper Lee is best known for writing the Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)—her one and only published novel.
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- Studio 54 Patrons
- Famous Arians
- Famous People Named Williams
Tennessee Williams
Playwright / 1911 - 1983
Tennessee Williams was an American writer, whose signature works include A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Glass Menagerie.
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- Famous Cancerians
- Famous Playwrights
- Famous Fiction Authors
Cormac McCarthy
Author, Playwright / 1933 -
Cormac McCarthy is a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist best known for his Border Trilogy, including All the Pretty Horses.
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Ernest Borgnine Dead at 95
July 9, 2012 by Eudie PakActor Ernest Borgnine, known for his Academy Award-winning performance in Marty, as well as his TV role in the 1960s sitcom McHale's Navy, died Sunday from kidney...
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- Gap-Toothed Grinners
- Celebrity Enlistees
- Best Actor Oscar Winners
Ernest Borgnine
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor / 1917 - 2012
Actor Ernest Borgnine’s role in the film Marty transformed him from a stereotyped character actor to a leading man, earning him an Academy Award as Best Actor.
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Anderson Cooper Announces He's Gay, Rupert Murdoch Bashes Scientology
July 6, 2012 by Eudie PakBiography.com's "Week in Review" highlights interesting people who've made the news this past week—thanks to their endeavors, big ideas, triumphs, importance in...
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- Silver Foxes
- Famous Geminis
- Famous Talk Show Hosts
Anderson Cooper
Talk Show Host, News Anchor / 1967 -
Anderson Cooper was a news correspondent on ABC and CNN before hosting his own show, Anderson Cooper 360.
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- Hottest Olympic Athletes
- Olympic Gymnasts
- Famous Scorpios
Nastia Liukin
Gymnast / 1989 -
Anastasia Valeryevna Liukin, better known as Nastia Liukin, is a world-renowned gymnast and Olympian who was named the Olympic individual all-around Champion in 2008.
Simon Le Bon
Singer / 1958 -
Simon Le Bon was lead singer of the 1980s pop group Duran Duran, known for recording the hit song “Hungry Like the Wolf.” He left the group before they later reunited in 2001.
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- Daring Female Adventurers
- Aviation Accident Victims
- Mysterious Deaths
Amelia Earhart
Pilot / 1897 - 1939
Amelia Earhart, the first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, mysteriously disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937.
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Lookalike of the Week: Year of the Rooster
July 3, 2012 by Kayla AriasJohn Edward is a renowned psychic medium, author and television personality. His doppelganger, Paul Lambert, is a Scottish soccer manager and former player. We bet...
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- Famous Libras
- Famous People Named John
John Edward
Television Personality, Author / 1969 -
John Edward is a renowned psychic medium, whose first book on the subject, One Last Time, led to his own television show called Crossing Over with John Edward.
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The 14th Dalai Lama Celebrates His 77th Birthday
July 6, 2012 by David BlattyThough exiled during the Tibetan Uprising of 1959, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, has been Tibet's most devout leader for more than 60 years, and continues to be one of the world's most ardent humanitarians and counsellors of peace. In celebration...
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- Famous Cancerians
- Famous Activists
Dalai Lama
Activist, Political Leader, Religious Leader / 1935 -
Dalai Lama, Tibet's political leader, has strived to make Tibet an independent and democratic state from China. He and his followers are exiled to India.
