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Charlie Chaplin’s 122nd birthday gets a special Google doodle – a black-and-white video feature on Google homepage. Kudos to the Google team for the 2-minute silent-film. The funny actor and director died on Christmas day in 1977. Watch:
The world’s oldest man, Walter Breuning, died today, Thursday at age 114. Stacia Kirby, spokeswoman for the Rainbow Senior Living retirement home where Breuning lived, Breuning died of natural causes in a Great Falls hospital. He was declared oldest man…
Today is the 268th birthday of President Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States. Thomas Jefferson Biography: (via whitehouse.gov) In the thick of party conflict in 1800, Thomas Jefferson wrote in a private letter, “I have sworn upon…
The award-winning director of such acclaimed films as “Network,” “Serpico,” “Dog Day Afternoon” and “12 Angry Men,” has died. Sidney Lumet was 86. Lumet’s death was confirmed Saturday by Marc Kusnetz, who is the husband of Lumet’s stepdaughter, Leslie Gimbel….
The monument is the result of a three-year creative journey that began when internationally lauded artist Michael Kalish was approached by Lonnie and Muhammad Ali to create a private original sculpture for them from Kalish’s signature license plate art collection….
It could happen real soon that a Filipino will be named by Guinness Book of World Records as the shortest man in the world, AOL reports. The current title holder is 18-year-old Nepalese man Khagendra Thapa Magar, who stands 2-foot-2.41-inch….
Donald Trump released his birth certificate to the public showing he was born in New York on June 14, 1946. Trump has announced his intention to run for president in the 2012 US elections. He is also a birther, questioning…
The inventor of Super Glue has died. Harry Wesley Coover Jr. died this weekend at the age of 94. Coover was working for Tennessee Eastman Company, a division of Eastman Kodak, when an accident helped lead to the popular adhesive…
A local ABC news reported that BET star and HOT97 DJ Megatron was fatally shot in Staten Island early Sunday morning, around 2 a.m. in the Clifton section. DJ Megatron, whose given name was Corey McGriff, was shot once in…
It is likely that Katie Couric may leave CBS Evening News come June. Los Angeles Times’ Joe Flint reported that “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley may take the chair that would be left by Couric. There are also reports that…