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Annie Edson Taylor: Queen of the Mist
October 22, 2012 by Andrew CannizzaroThe 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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Annie Edson Taylor
1838 - 1921
Annie Edson Taylor was a teacher and daredevil who was the first person to ride down Niagara Falls in a barrel.
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Abraham Lincoln: The Presidential Beard
October 15, 2012 by Andrew CannizzaroThe 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...
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George McGovern, Liberal Icon, Dead at 90
October 22, 2012 by Eudie PakGeorge S. McGovern, liberal Democratic leader and three-term South Dakota senator, died Sunday night in hospice care in Sioux Falls, S.D., at the age of 90, reports...
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George McGovern
U.S. Representative / 1922 - 2012
Though he helped reform the Democratic Party, U.S. Senator George S. McGovern lost his 1972 presidential campaign to Richard Nixon.
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'Cursed' Series Host Dr. David Marsh Examines Cursed Cars
October 19, 2012 by Dr. David MarshIf you haven’t seen our new series 'Cursed,' which airs on Fridays at 10/9c, you’re missing out on a spine-tingling good time. Just to give you a sampling of the...
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Franz Ferdinand
Duke / 1863 - 1914
Franz Ferdinand's assassination on June 28, 1914, at the hand of a Serbian terrorist group the "Black Hand," led to the beginning of World War I.
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James Dean
Film Actor / 1931 - 1955
Actor and cultural icon James Dean starred in East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant. He was killed in a tragic car accident at age 24.
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Breaking News: Arlen Specter, Former U.S. Senator, Dies at 82
October 14, 2012 by Jackie NashArlen Specter, a longtime U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, died on October 14, 2012, at his home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from complications of non-Hodgkins...
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Arlen Specter
Lawyer, U.S. Representative / 1930 - 2012
Arlen Specter was Philadelphia District Attorney and was elected to the senate five times. He helped initiate the reauthorization of the Patriot Act.
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John F. Kennedy
Civil Rights Activist, U.S. President, U.S. Representative / 1917 - 1963
John F. Kennedy, the 35th U.S. president, negotiated the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and initiated the Alliance for Progress. He was assassinated in 1963.
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Barack Obama
Lawyer, U.S. President, U.S. Representative / 1961 -
Barack Obama is the 44th and current president of the United States, and the first African American to serve as U.S. president. First elected to the presidency in 2008, he won a second term in 2012.
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Michelle Obama
Lawyer, U.S. First Lady / 1964 -
Michelle Obama is a lawyer, Chicago city administrator and community outreach worker, as well as the wife of U.S. President Barack Obama and the 44th first lady.
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Remembering Bela Lugosi, The Classic Dracula
October 18, 2012 by Kim Gilmore"I am Dracula...I bid you welcome."
Bela Lugosi, the Hungarian-born actor, became Dracula in the eyes of moviegoers through infamous lines like these. Lugosi's starring role in the Universal Pictures adaptation of Dracula, released in 1931, became his...
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Bela Lugosi
Actor / 1882 - 1956
Count Dracula was Actor Bela Lugosi's most famous role. Lugosi played him in stage productions and in the 1931 Universal Pictures film Dracula.
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