Jasmine Plummer of Harvey, Illinois, took to playing football as a child, finally joining the Harvey Colts within the Pop Warner youth athletic organization. Her narrative was depicted in The Longshots, a movie starring Keke Palmer. Produced in the earlier half of the 1990s, Jasmine Plummer was raised in Harvey, Illinois, ...

Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped outside of her house in South Lake Tahoe, California, on June 10, 1991, at age 11. Renamed “Allissa,” Jaycee spent 18 years in captivity, residing in a backyard shack in the house of Garrido and his wife, Nancy Garrido. Jaycee escaped captivity in August 2009, when ...

A life threatening harm turned him from playing college football to training. During his career, Shanahan has worked together with the Los Angeles Raiders, the San Francisco 49ers, the Denver Broncos as well as the Washington Redskins. His 170 career wins as a head coach are one of the most ...

American celebrity Jennifer Jones was born on March 2, 1919 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her first acting part in The Song of Bernadette (1943) garnered her an Academy Award. She continued to play in television and movies during the 1940s-1970s and was Oscar nominated five times. Later in life she worked ...

His “Socratic method,” set the basis for Western systems of logic and philosophy. He accepted this judgment instead of fleeing into exile. Because these writings had other functions than reporting his life, it’s probably none present a fully accurate image. Yet, put together, they offer a unique and graphic description ...

Produced on July 22, 1890, in Boston, Rose Kennedy was the grande dame of modern American politics, seeing three of her kids locate great success. Achievement came with even more disaster for Kennedy, as she lost two kids in the 1940s and sons John and Bobby were assassinated in the ...

Martin Van Buren was born on December 5, 1782, in Kinderhook, Ny. He expired on July 24, 1862, in Kinderhook. His parents, Abraham and Maria, were of Dutch ancestry and small means. His dad was a farmer but also ran a pub, which often functioned as a political assembly place and ...

Produced on April 7, 1872, in Chillicothe, Ohio, William Monroe Trotter went to become the primary Phi Betta Kappa graduate from Harvard, as well as a staunch adversary of the more conciliatory race-established notions of Booker T. Washington. Trotter founded the newspaper The Guardian and helped W.E.B. Du Bois form ...

William Howard Taft was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on September 15, 1857. Taft eventually realized his dream of being elected chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1921, becoming the only man to have served both as a chief justice and president. Taft died in Washington, D.C., on March ...

American offender Sundance Kid, initially named Harry Longabaugh, was created in 1867 in Mont Clare, Pennsylvania. At age 15, he headed west and received his nickname when was detained for stealing a horse in Sundance, Wyoming. Following several years in jail, Sundance Kid restarted a career in crime, robbing trains ...