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Aldrich
U.S. film director and producer. Born in Cranston, R.I., he held various jobs at RKO from 1941, working under such directors as J. Renoir and C. Chaplin. After directing his first feature film, The Big Leaguer (1953), he formed his own production company and earned a reputation for tough, often violent films, incl. Apache (1954), The Big Knife (1955), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Hush . . . Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), and The Dirty Dozen (1967).

U.S. poet, short-story writer, and editor. Born in Portsmouth, N.H., he left school at 13 and soon began to contribute to newspapers and magazines. He was editor of TheAtlantic Monthly 1881-90. He drew on his childhood for his classic children's novel The Story of a Bad Boy (1870). His use of the surprise ending influenced the development of the short story in the U.S. His poems reflect New England culture and his experiences visiting Europe.


Aldrin
U.S. astronaut. Born in Montclair, N.J., he graduated from West Point and flew 66 combat missions in the Korean War. In 1963 he received a PhD from MIT and was chosen as an astronaut. In 1966 he joined James A. Lovell, Jr. (b.1928), on the four-day Gemini 12 flight. Aldrin's 51 / 2-hour walk in space proved that humans can function effectively in the vacuum of space. In July 1969, on the Apollo 11 mission, he became the second human on the moon.


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First Latin emperor of Constantinople (1204-5). Count of Flanders and Hainaut, he was a leader of the Fourth Crusade against the Byzantine Christians. He helped capture Constantinople and install a pro-Latin emperor (1203). When crusaders and their Venetian allies seized power, he was made emperor (1204) and recognized by the pope. He created a feudal government on the Western European model, granting Greek lands to his knights, but was defeated and executed by invading Bulgars.

King of Jerusalem (1100-18). The son of a French count, he joined the First Crusade and gained control of Edessa (now in Turkey) in 1098. In 1100 his brother Godfrey died in Jerusalem, and Baldwin was summoned by nobles to succeed him as king of the crusader state and defender of the Holy Sepulchre. He expanded the kingdom by conquering coastal cities such as Arsuf and Caesarea and built an administration that served for 200 years as the basis for Frankish rule in Syria and Palestine.

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