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Anniversaries
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Births: Grinling Gibbons, sculptor and woodcarver, 1648; John
Hoppner, portrait painter, 1758; Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, painter,
1758; Sir Charles William (Karl Wilhelm) Siemens, metallurgist and
inventor, 1823; Margaret Oliphant, novelist and historian, 1828;
Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre, writer and scientist, 1832; Dr Hans
Richter, conductor, 1843; Remy de Gourmont, critic, 1858; Maurice
de Vlaminck, painter, 1876; Robert Emmet Sherwood, playwright,
1896; Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield), rh...
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Let's all sing King's praises.(Sports)
The Washington Times
; Don King is the most misunderstood person in America. Too many people can't see past his electrically enhanced hair. Too many people can't see past the long list of boxing luminaries who claim to have been cheated out of their purses by King. Too many people can't see all the good that King has
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KING OF THE ROAD NEARLY 79, BLUES LEGEND B.B. KING IS DRIVEN TO TOUR AND PERFORM
The Boston Globe
; HYANNIS - B.B. King has a lot to be happy about these days. Last September, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him third on its list of the greatest guitarists of all time, behind Jimi Hendrix and Duane Allman. In May, the king of Sweden presented him with the Polar Music Prize, the Nobel Prize of
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King of diamond in state hall
The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
; BLOOMINGTON -- Steve King was looking to fill a void left by the end of his baseball career when he took up major fastpitch softball in 1984. Softball wound up filling his life with world travel, as much competition as he could want and the unique camaraderie enjoyed by those on a team. During his
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Senior King eager to grasp success for Bears
Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
; ORONO - Matt King was poised last fall to have a breakout season for the University of Maine football team. It literally slipped through his fingertips. King sustained not one but two "jersey finger" injuries in 2005, derailing his bid to establish himself as one of the top defensive ends in the
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King found strength
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; King found strength, vision in emotion of 'black Christianity' By JOHN BLAKE Cox News Service Sunday, January 18, 2004 In 1955, just after the beginning of the Montgomery bus boycott, an activist entering the home ...
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