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Arturo Sandoval Arturo Sandoval
Arturo Sandoval Trumpeter, flugelhornist Played with Dizzy in Cuba and Beyond “No Signs” A New Life Selected discography Sources The 1994 release Arturo Sandoval Plays Trumpet Concertos may have marked contemporary jazz label GRP’s first foray into classical music, as Paul... Read more
Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh
Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh , 1903-66, English writer, considered the greatest satirist of his generation. Educated at Oxford, he was briefly an art student and a teacher but spent much of his time traveling. He served with distinction in World War II. Waugh burst upon the literary scene with a... Read more
Bob Dylan Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan , 1941-, American singer and composer, b. Duluth, Minn., as Robert Zimmerman. Dylan learned guitar at the age of 10 and autoharp and harmonica at 15. After a rebellious youth, he moved to New York City in 1960 and in the early years of the decade began playing in a folk style in Greenwich... Read more
Tabari Tabari
Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (839-923) was a Moslem historian and religious scholar whose annals are the most important source for the early history of Islam. He is also a renowned author of a monumental commentary on the Koran. Al-Tabari was born in Amol in the... Read more
Samuel Butler (author) Samuel Butler (author)
Samuel Butler 1835-1902, English author. He was the son and grandson of eminent clergymen. In 1859, refusing to be ordained, he went to New Zealand, where he established a sheep farm and in a few years made a modest fortune. He returned to England in 1864 and devoted himself to a variety of... Read more
Norman Mailer Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer (Norman Kingsley Mailer), 1923-2007, American writer, b. Long Branch, N.J., grad. Harvard, 1943. He grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., served in the army during World War II, and at the age of 25 published The Naked and the Dead (1948). A partially autobiographical bestseller, it was one of... Read more
Sir Douglas Mawson Sir Douglas Mawson
Sir Douglas Mawson 1882-1958, Australian antarctic explorer and geologist, b. England. His first geographical expedition was to the New Hebrides Islands as a geologist in 1903. As a member of the scientific staff of Sir Ernest Shackleton's south polar expedition (1907-9), Mawson took part in the... Read more
Sir John Gielgud Sir John Gielgud
Sir John Gielgud (Arthur John Gielgud) , 1904-2000, English actor, director, and producer. A grandnephew of Ellen Terry , Gielgud made his debut at the Old Vic in 1921. His intelligence, sensitivity, fine voice, and ability to interpret both classic and modern playwrights established him as one... Read more
Maceo Parker Maceo Parker
Maceo Parker Saxophonist He's the funky player that singer James Brown chose to hail before each set with the fabled command, "Maceo, blow your horn." Saxophonist Maceo Parker worked with Brown for more than 20 years and contributed to such classics as "Cold Sweat," "Lickin' Stick," "Poppa's Got a... Read more
The Great Society The Great Society
Great Society, The LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS FUNDING PROBLEMS THE GREAT SOCIETY REVISITED BIBLIOGRAPHY The term Great Society, which refers to the set of domestic programs initiated by Lyndon B. Johnson, who became the U.S. president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, was coined... Read more

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