Born and educated in Russia, Zworykin immigrated to the United States in 1919 and became a citizen in 1924. While working for...
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Florenz Ziegfeld – 1869-1932
Ziegfeld started in show business in 1893 as the manager of Sandow, a strong man, and went on to produce extravagant Broadway revues that...

John Peter Zenger – 1697-1746
Zenger, publisher of a colonial newspaper called the New York Weekly Journal, was arrested in October 1734 on charge of “seditious...

Frank Zappa – 1940-1993
Zappa was a prolific contemporary composer-performer more or less in the rock idiom, creating some 60 albums in his 30- year career. His...

Younger Brothers
With Frank and Jesse James, the Younger Brothers (Cole, Jim, John, and Bob) were the most celebrated and notorious bandits of the...

Brigham Young – 1801-1877
Young was a carpenter in Mendon, New York, near the church Joseph Smith had established. Young read the newly published Book of Mormon...

George Wythe – 1726-1806
Wythe was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1746 and became active in the independence movement. A delegate to the Continental Congress, he...

Richard Wright – 1980-1960
Born and raised in Mississippi poverty, the grandson of slaves, Wright moved north during the Depression and began writing under the...

Orville and Wilbur Wright – 1871–1948 and 1867–1912
On December 17, 1903, at Kill Devil Hill, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville Wright flew a 750-pound aircraft he and his brother,...