Knowledge in a Nutshell
Susan Lea Page is an American journalist and biographer. She is the current Washington Bureau Chief for USA Today. Page has covered six White House administrations and ten presidential elections. She was the first woman to serve as music chairman of the Gridiron Club show and was the president of the club.
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator. He completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, opening the way for European exploration and colonization of the Americas. His expeditions, sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, were the first European contact with the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. Columbus’s expeditions inaugurated a period of exploration, conquest, and colonization that...
Ashley Jini Park is an American actress, dancer, and singer. She is known for her works on Broadway as Tuptim in the 2015 revival of The King and I and for originating the role of Gretchen Wieners in the 2018 Tony-nominated musical, Mean Girls. Park was born in Glendale, California and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney. He served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He is married to former first lady Michelle Obama and has two daughters, Malia and Sasha. Obama is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Chicago Law School.
William Frederick Burr is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcast host. He created and stars in the Netflix animated sitcom F Is for Family. He played Patrick Kuby in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad. He also portrayed Migs Mayfeld in the sixth and fifteenth episodes of the Star Wars TV Series The Mandalorian.
Charles Malcolm McDowell is an American film director and writer. His debut film, The One I Love, starring Mark Duplass and Elisabeth Moss had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2014. His next film, Gilded Rage, will be based on the infamous murder of investment banker Thomas Gilbert Sr.
Judy Garland was an American actress, singer, vaudevillian and dancer. She appeared in more than two dozen films for MGM and is remembered for portraying Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz. She was the first woman to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for her 1961 live recording titled Judy at Carnegie Hall.
Shyamala Gopalan was an American biomedical scientist born in British India. Her work in isolating and characterizing the progesterone receptor gene stimulated advances in breast biology and oncology. She was the mother of Kamala Harris, a California Senator and Vice President-elect of the United States.
Millie Bobby Brown is an English actress and producer. At the age of twelve, she gained notability for her role as Eleven in the first season of Netflix science fiction series Stranger Things. She received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2016. Brown was featured in the Time 100 list of the world’s...
John Lester Nash Jr. was an American singer-songwriter. He was one of the first non-Jamaican artists to record reggae music in Kingston. He is best known in the U.S. for his 1972 hit ‘I Can See Clearly Now’ Nash was married three times, and had two children.