Two decades after his death, Carl Sagan’s influence on scientific inquiry, discovery, and understanding is still strong.
Died 1996
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In 1996, two actors died just one day apart but these two men were bound by more than just their dates of death…
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On Minnie Pearl’s 100th birthday, we remember her down-home humor…
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Gene Kelly’s stunning talent and grace made him one of the greatest dancers of all time…
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To anyone born after 1960 or so, George Burns might have seemed like a perpetually old man.
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When I was a kid, my mom loved Erma Bombeck, the humorist who made homemaking hilarious. By extension, that meant I did too.
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Patty Donahue provided delightfully whiny vocals for quintessential 1980s new wave band The Waitresses…
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Tiny Tim died 15 years ago today. By then, he was almost a footnote of pop culture history.
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Why was Oscar-winning actress Greer Garson trending on Google more than a decade after her death?…
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No rapper is as complex, as multifaceted, as challenging.