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Peter Rice (1935–1992) was an Irish structural engineer.Born in 52 Castle Road Dundalk in County Louth he spent his childhood between the town of Dundalk and the villages of Gyles’ […]

Shannon Matilda Wells Lucid (born January 14 1943) is an American biochemist and a retired NASA astronaut. At one time she held the record for the longest duration stay in […]

Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova (Russian: Елена Владимировна Кондакóва; born March 30 1957) was the third Soviet/Russian female cosmonaut to travel to space and the first woman to make a long-duration spaceflight. […]

Vlad II (d. December 1447) known as Vlad Dracul (English: Vlad the Dragon) was a voivode (English: duke) of Wallachia. He reigned from 1436 to 1442 and again from 1443 […]

Honorius (died 30 September 653) was a member of the Gregorian mission to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native Anglo-Saxon paganism in 597 AD who later became Archbishop of Canterbury. […]

Samuel Sammy Herman Reshevsky (born Szmul Rzeszewski; November 26 1911 – April 4 1992) was a chess prodigy and later a leading American chess grandmaster. He was a strong contender […]

Antonina Ivanovna Miliukova (Russian: Антонина Ивановна Милюкова; 5 July [O.S. 23 June] 1848 – 1 March [O.S. 16 February] 1917) was the wife and after 1893 the widow of Russian […]

Frederick Hamilton Rick Hauck (pronounced Howk; born April 11 1941) is a retired Captain in the United States Navy a former fighter pilot and NASA astronaut. He piloted Space Shuttle […]

Jeremy Rifkin (born January 26 1945) is an economic and social theorist writer public speaker political advisor and activist. Rifkin is president of the Foundation on Economic Trends and the […]