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MARVEL COMICS: Created in 1962 by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby (and originally tinted gray), the Hulk is nuclear scientist Bruce Banner, whose gamma-ray experiments accidentally unlock the rage-driven monster within...
BILL BIXBY played Banner from 1977 to 1982, in a TV movie and subsequent series. His alter ego was embodied by muscleman Lou Ferrigno. Bixby, mild but coiled, was the first to speak the signature line "You wouldn't like me when I'm angry...
...Khan was called the Fakir of Ipi, after the Wazir town where he was said to exercise divine powers-like turning sticks into guns and feeding multitudes with a few loaves of bread. Flying the banner of "Islam in Danger," his small lashkars, or war bands, ambushed convoys and raided prominent towns, killing Hindu traders and marching off with money and munitions. For colonial officials in London and New Delhi, this was no minor uprising of petty bandits. Intelligence estimates at the time counted 400,000 fighting men among the various Pashtun tribes, at least half of them armed with...
...easy feat, and the Harvard women’s lacrosse team knows it all too well. However, the Crimson offense finally came together last night, scoring ten goals after five games stuck in the single digits. Unfortunately for Harvard, Dartmouth’s offense also had a banner game, and ten points were not enough for a victory on Scully-Fahey Field in Hanover, N.H. The Big Green (8-4, 4-2 Ivy) took the game 20-10 as the Crimson (2-10, 0-4 Ivy) lost its seventh straight. While Dartmouth’s offense is undoubtedly potent?...
...Carrying the banner in 1991 for gun owners' rights was Suzanna Gratia Hupp, a chiropractor, mother and horse rancher who was eating lunch with her parents when the gunman crashed his truck through the cafeteria's windows. The family barricaded themselves behind a table, but as the slaughter went on, Hupp's father said he had to do something and he charged toward the man. Her father was shot in the chest, and as he lay dying, his wife of 47 years crawled towards him to cradle his head. The gunman then shot and killed...