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You will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with the 6th House in Gemini Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their horoscope, excerpts of astrological portrait, natal chart, positions of planets and astrological houses, biography, and photo. Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Marg Helgenberger
Mary Margaret Helgenberger (born November 16, 1958) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated American film and television actress. Helgenberger is known for her role as Catherine Willows in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and her role as KC Koloski in China Beach, the latter for which she won an Emmy. Early life Helgenberger (pronounced with a hard 'G', unlike the name Marge) was born in North Bend, Nebraska to Kay, a nurse, and Hugh Helgenberger, a meat inspector. She has German and Irish ancestry and had a Catholic upbringing. One of her first jobs, as a teenager, was spending her summers and her Christmas breaks working as a ‘boner’ at the meat packing plant where her father was employed. Helgenberger played the French horn in her high school (North Bend Central High School) marching... Biography of Monica Vitti
Monica Vitti (born Maria Luisa Ceciarelli, 3 November 1931) is an Italian actress noted for her frosty expressiveness and starring roles in films by Michelangelo Antonioni. Training and early career Vitti was born in Rome. While a teenager she acted in amateur productions, then trained as an actor at Rome's National Academy of Dramatic Arts and at Pitman's, where she played a teen in a charity performance of Niccodemi's La memica. She toured Germany with an Italian acting troupe and her first stage appearance in Rome was for a production of Machiavelli's La Mandragora. Vitti's first film role was in Ettore Scola's Ridere Ridere Ridere (1954). In 1957 she joined Michelangelo Antonioni's Teatro Nuovo di Milano, later playing a leading role in his award winning, existentialist landmark... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann (June 8, 1810 – July 29, 1856) was a German composer and pianist. He was one of the most famous Romantic composers of the nineteenth century, as well as a famous music critic. An intellectual as well as an aesthete, his music reflects the deeply personal nature of Romanticism. Introspective and often whimsical, his early music was an attempt to break with the tradition of classical forms and structure which he thought too restrictive. Little understood in his lifetime, much of his music is now regarded as daringly original in harmony, rhythm and form. He stands in the front rank of German Romantics. Early life Robert Schumann was born on June 8, 1810, in Zwickau in Saxony. His father was a publisher, and his boyhood was spent in the cultivation of literature quite as mu... Biography of Sonia Rykiel
Sonia Rykiel (who was born the 25 may 1930 in Paris, France of Polish Jewish extraction) is a French fashion designer. Sonia Rykiel was born in Paris, France in 1930. At the age of 17, she was employed to dress the window displays in a Parisian textile store. Sonia was married to the owner of a boutique which sold elegant clothing. In 1962 she just couldn't find any soft sweaters to wear when she was pregnant. So she used a supplier to her husband from Venice to design her own. Sonia Rykiel created her first maternity dresses and tiny sweater. The sweater is her symbol and she was crowned "Queen of Knits" by the Americans in 1967. The sweater went back 7 times for alterations before she was satisfied with it. From then, she has experimented with seams inside out, took away the hem an... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Jenna Bush
Jenna Welch Bush (born November 25, 1981, in Midland, Texas) is the daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush. She is the fraternal twin of Barbara. Personal life Jenna is named after her maternal grandmother Jenna Hawkins. Her sister is Barbara Pierce Bush. They are known as the first First Twins both because they are the children of the US President and because they are the first twin children of a sitting President. Jenna attended several primary and secondary schools. When she lived in the Preston Hollow section of Dallas, she and her sister attended Preston Hollow Elementary School; Laura Bush served on Preston Hollow's Parent Teachers Association while the Bush twins attended Preston Hollow. When her father became Governor of Texas in 1994, Jenna atte... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Linda Ronstadt
Linda Marie Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946 in Tucson, Arizona) is a popular vocalist with multiple Grammy Awards, numerous multi-platinum albums, an Emmy Award, a Tony Award nomination who has recorded over 30 studio albums. A singer-songwriter and record producer, she is better known as a definitive interpreter of songs. Starting at the forefront of the folk rock and country rock genres which defined post-sixties rock music, and with the unprecedented success in the 1970s with chart-topping albums such as: Heart Like A Wheel, Simple Dreams, and Living In The USA, accompanied by successful tours, Ronstadt became the leading female vocalist of the rock era, Her image was equally as famous as her music, landing six times on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine and on the coveted cover of Tim... Biography of Raymond Queneau
Raymond Queneau (February 21, 1903 – October 25, 1976) was a French poet and novelist and the co-founder of Ouvroir de littérature potentielle (Oulipo). Born in Le Havre, Normandy, Queneau was the only child of Auguste Queneau and Joséphine Mignot. He received his first baccalauréat in 1919 for Latin and Greek, and a second in 1920 for philosophy, then studied at the Sorbonne (1921–1923) where he was a fair student of both letters and mathematics, graduating with certificates in philosophy and psychology. Queneau performed military service as a zouave in Algeria and Morocco during the years 1925–1926. He married Janine Kahn in 1928, with whom he had a single son Jean-Marie in 1934, and remained with her until her death in 1972. Queneau was drafted in 1939 but demobilized in 1940, and... Biography of André Verchuren
André Verchuren, born December 28, 1920 in Neuilly-sous-Clermont, is a famous French accordeon player. Discography Le Petit chapeau tyrolien Ah! si j'étais resté célibataire Le Tango nous invite Ce soir, on va faire la java Le Chouchou de mon cœur Les Fiancés d'Auvergne (son plus grand tube) Filmography La Vie en rose Gueule d'ange Die Lustigen Weiber Von Tyrol Radio and television Radio host for Radio Luxembourg and Europe 1 (25 years) producer for TV Concert Concert in La Défense, 125 000 people. Book Mon accordéon et moi... Biography of Sophie Scholl
Sophia Magdalena Scholl (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943), along with her brother Hans Scholl, were members of the White Rose non-violent resistance movement in Nazi Germany. They were both convicted of treason and executed by guillotine. Since the 1970s she has been celebrated as one of those Germans who actively opposed the Third Reich during the Second World War. Early life Sophie's father was the mayor of Forchtenberg am Kocher when she was born; she was the fourth of five children: Inge Aicher-Scholl (1917-1998) Hans Scholl (1918-1943) Elisabeth Hartnagel (* 1920) (TV clips), married Sophie's fiancé Fritz Hartnagel Sophie (1921-1943) Werner Scholl (1922, missing in action since June 1944) Sophie entered grade school at the age of seven, learned easily and had a c... Biography of Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street photography" style that has influenced generations of photographers that followed. Childhood Cartier-Bresson was born in Chanteloup-en-Brie, near Paris, France, the eldest of five children. His father was a wealthy textile manufacturer whose Cartier-Bresson thread was a staple of French sewing kits. He also sketched in his spare time. His mother's family were cotton merchants and landowners from Normandy, where he spent part of his childhood. The Cartier-Bresson family lived in a bourgeois neighborhood in Paris, near the Europe Bridge, and provided h... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor who appeared in 74 films from 1930 to 1967. Tracy is generally regarded as one of the finest actors in motion picture history. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Tracy among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking 9th on the list of 100. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards for Best Actor. Career He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the second son of John Edward Tracy, an Irish American Catholic truck salesman, and Caroline Brown, a Protestant turned Christian Scientist, and was christened Spencer Bonaventure Tracy. Tracy's paternal grandparents, John Tracy and Mary Guhin, were born in Ireland. His mother's ancestry dates back to Thomas Stebbins, who immi... Biography of Candice Bergen
Candice Patricia Bergen (born May 9, 1946) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American actress and former fashion model, primarily for her roles in sitcoms and television. She is currently best known for her starring role on the television situation comedy Murphy Brown, and as William Shatner's legal partner, Shirley Schmidt, on the ABC hit dramedy, Boston Legal. Early life She was born in Beverly Hills, California, the daughter of Frances Westerman (1922 - October 2, 2006) — who was known professionally as Frances Westcott when she was a Powers model — and radio ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. Her paternal grandparents, Johan Henriksson Berggren and Nilla Svensdotter Osberg, were Swedish-born immigrants who Anglicized their surname. As a child Candice was often referred ... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Paracelsus
Paracelsus (10, 11 November or 17 December 1493 in Einsiedeln, Switzerland - 24 September 1541) was an alchemist, physician, astrologer, and general occultist. Born Phillip von Hohenheim, he later took up the name Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim, and still later took the title Paracelsus, meaning "equal to or greater than Celsus", a Roman encyclopedist from the first century known for his tract on medicine. Paracelsus was born and raised in Switzerland, of a Swabian (Wilhelm Bombast von Hohenheim) chemist and physician father and a Swiss mother. As a youth he worked in nearby mines as an analyst. At the age of 16 he started studying medicine at the University of Basel, later moving to Vienna. He gained his doctorate degree from the University of Ferrara. He... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Rachel Sutherland
Rachel Sutherland is the daughter of Donald Sutherland and Shirley Douglas. She is the twin sister of Kiefer Sutherland, half-sister of Rossif Sutherland, stepdaughter of Francine Racette. She is s seven minutes younger than brother Kiefer Sutherland. She has three half-brothers: Roeg Sutherland (b. 1974), Rossif Sutherland (b. 1978) and Angus Sutherland (b. 1979).... Biography of Aimee Osbourne
Aimee Rachel Osbourne (born September 2, 1983 in London, England), is a singer, actress, and columnist. She is the fourth child of rock legend Ozzy Osbourne and the first child to Ozzy's second wife Sharon. Unlike her siblings Jack and Kelly, she chose not to appear on her family's MTV reality show, The Osbournes. She has three half siblings; Elliot, Jessica and Louis from Ozzy's first wife Thelma Riley; an adopted brother, Robert Marcato; and her full siblings Kelly and Jack. Personal life Refusing to involve herself in the media hoopla surrounding the MTV show, Aimee chose to leave home and would not allow the MTV cameras to reveal her face when she was caught on film. Since then, she has broken her silence on her famous family only a handful of times. In 2002, she appeared on the... Add to favourites (2 fans)Biography of Apple Martin
Apple Blythe Alison Martin is the daugther of American actress Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin du groupe Coldplay. On December 5, 2003, Paltrow married Chris Martin of the British rock group Coldplay in a secret wedding ceremony in Southern California. Paltrow gave birth to their first child, Apple Blythe Alison Martin, five months later, on May 14, 2004, in London. She explained the unusual first name on Oprah, saying.... Biography of Milton Erickson
Milton Hyland Erickson, MD (born 5th December 1901 in Aurum, Nevada, died 25th March 1980 in Phoenix, Arizona) was an American psychiatrist specializing in medical hypnosis and family therapy. He was founding president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis and a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychopathological Association. He is noted for: His often unconventional approach to psychotherapy, such as described in the book Uncommon Therapy, by Jay Haley, and the book Hypnotherapy: An Exploratory Casebook, by Milton H. Erickson and Ernest L. Rossi (1979, New York: Irvington Publishers, Inc.) His extensive use of therapeutic metaphor and story as well as hypnosis coining the term Brief Therapy for his a... Biography of Ralf Gothoni
Ralf Gothoni ( Gothóni ) is active as pianist, conductor, chamber musician, professor and composer. In addition to all these activities he published, in 1998, essays such as 'The Creative Moment'. Since his debut with orchestra when he was only eleven years old, Gothoni has performed at the major music festivals and with important orchestras both as soloist and conductor. He is very often performing in a double role conducting from the keyboard. His recording activity has given about one hundred editions for labels such as Bis, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, CPO and Ondine, for which he has carried out more than twenty recordings in the 90th. For this label, he has recorded for ex. the Britten 'Concerto' and, with the Finnish Radio Orchestra of his native country, Heitor Villa-Lobo... Biography of François Léotard
François Gerard Marie Léotard (born March 26, 1942, Cannes) is a retired French politician. He is the brother of singer/actor Philippe Léotard. François Léotard, 1987. Member of the Republican Party, the liberal-conservative component of the Union for French Democracy (UDF), he appeared in the foreground of the political scene in the 1980s. He led a new generation of right-wing politicians, the "renovationmen", who opposed to the old right-wing leaders Jacques Chirac and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Culture Minister, from 1986 to 1988, he sold the main public TV chanel TF1. He returned in the cabinet as Defense Minister, from 1993 to 1995. Supporting the candidacy of Edouard Balladur in the 1995 presidential election, he was dismissed after Chirac's election. Elected president of the... Biography of Jules Mazarin
Jules Mazarin, born Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino (July 14, 1602 – March 9, 1661) was an accomplished Italian politician who served as the chief minister of France from 1642 until his death. Mazarin succeeded his mentor, Cardinal Richelieu. Giulio Mazzarino was born in Pescina then part of the Kingdom of Naples, where his parents were travelling, but was raised in Rome. He bore the name of his grandfather, an artisan of Castel-Mazarino in Sicily, hence the surname Mazarin. His father Pietro was a notary with connections to the Colonna, who became chamberlain to the Constable Filippo I Colonna and gained an easy situation for his family; Mazarin never forgot that the basis of his fortune in life was the patronage of the Colonna, who had provided his father with a wife, Ortensia Buffalini, of... Biography of Philippe Vercruysse
Philippe Vercruysse (born January 28, 1962) is a former football midfielder from France. Vercruysse was born in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire. He earned a total number of twelve international caps (one goal) for the French national team during the 1980s. A player of RC Lens (1980–1986), he was a member of the French team in the 1986 FIFA World Cup. Clubs RC Lens (1980–1986) Girondins de Bordeaux (1986–1987) RC Lens (1987–1988) Olympique de Marseille (1988–1991) Nîmes Olympique (1991–1993) Girondins de Bordeaux (1993–1994) FC Metz (1994–1995) FC Sion (Switzerland, 1995-December 1996) RC Lens (December 1996-1997) FC Sion (Switzerland) Riyadh Club (Saudi Arabia) Etoile Carouge (Switzerland)... Biography of Enki Bilal
Enki Bilal (born Enes Bilalović on October 7, 1951) is a French comic book artist and film director. Born in Belgrade, Serbia (former Yugoslavia).He moved to Paris at the age of 9. There, at 14, he met René Goscinny and with his encouragement tried turning his talent to comic books. He worked on Goscinny's magazine Pilote in the 1970s, publishing his first story, Le Bol Maudit, in 1972. He began working with script writer Pierre Christin in 1975 on a series of dark and surreal tales. The Nikopol trilogy (La Foire aux Immortels, La Femme Piège and Froid Équateur) took more than a decade to appear but is probably Bilal at his best, writing the script as well as doing all the artwork - the final chapter, Froid Équateur, was even awarded the book of the year award by the very ser... Biography of Michael Dudikoff
Michael Dudikoff is an American actor. Michael Joseph Stephen Dudikoff was born on October 8, 1954 in Redondo Beach, California. He later graduated from Redondo Union High School. He was a student at Harbor College studying child psychology when he was discovered as a model. He began his acting-career with small roles, and it wasn't until 1985-86, when he got big parts in Avenging Force (1986), American Ninja (1985), and Radioactive Dreams (1985) that he made a big screen-impact. He then went on to make a lot of action-movies of varying quality, but never became quite the household-name he could have been. Filmography Movies Quicksand (2002) .... Bill Turner Gale Force (2002) (V) .... Jared Dengue Fever (2001) ....Himself Ablaze (2001) .... Daniels Stranded (2001/II) ...... Biography of Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant, born Hiram Ulysses Grant (April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885), was an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869–1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War, capturing Vicksburg in 1863 and Richmond in 1865. He accepted the surrender of his Confederate opponent Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House. After service in the Mexican-American War, an undistinguished peacetime military career, and a series of unsuccessful civilian jobs, Grant returned to service in 1861 at the outset of the Civil War and proved highly successful in training new recruits. His capture of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in February 1862 marked the first major Union victories of the Civil War and opened up prime avenues of ... Biography of Alexander Ruperti
Dr Alexander Ruperti is a famous astrologer, osteopath, and author born May 23, 1931 in Stuttgart. Source for his time of birth: the Steinbrecher Collection. Books Cycles of Becoming: The Planetary Pattern of Growth Astrological Passages: The Planetary Pattern of Growth... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Gilles Villeneuve
Joseph Gilles Henri Villeneuve (Gilles Villeneuve pronounced ) (January 18, 1950 – May 8, 1982) was a Canadian Formula One racing driver. An enthusiast of cars and fast driving from an early age, he started his professional career in snowmobile racing in his native province of Quebec. He moved into single seaters — winning the US and Canadian Formula Atlantic championships in 1976 before being offered a one-off drive with McLaren at the 1977 British Grand Prix. He was taken on by reigning world champions Ferrari for the end of the season — in only his fifth season racing cars — and from 1978 to his death in 1982 drove for the Italian team. He won six Grand Prix races in a short career at the highest level. In 1979 he finished second by four points in the championship to teammate Jody Schec... Biography of Jane Roberts
Jane Roberts (1929 – 1984) was an American author, psychic and trance medium or spirit medium who "channelled" a personality named Seth. The publication of the Seth texts established her as one of the pre-eminent figures in the world of paranormal phenomena. In addition to metaphysical texts, she was an author of short stories, novels, children's literature, and various philosophical texts. Roberts was born in Saratoga Springs, New York, where she attended Skidmore College. The Seth Material In late 1963, Jane Roberts and her husband, Robert Butts, experimented with a Ouija board as part of Roberts' research for a book on extra-sensory perception. According to Roberts and Butts, on December 2, 1963 they began to receive coherent messages from a male personality who eventually identi... Biography of Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol (French pronunciation: ; 24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues and contemporaries Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, Chabrol was a critic for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma before beginning his career as a film maker. Sometimes characterized as a "mainstream" New Wave director, Chabrol remained prolific and popular throughout his half-century career. Biography After spending World War II in the village of Sardent, where he and a friend constructed a makeshift movie theater, Chabrol returned to Paris to study pharmacology at the University of Paris. The... Biography of Paul Weller
Paul Weller (born John William Weller May 25, 1958, in Sheerwater, near Woking, Surrey) is an English singer-songwriter. Weller was the leader and creator behind the formation of two successful bands, The Jam and The Style Council. In the UK, he is recognised as something of a national institution. Because much of his songwriting is rooted in British culture, however, he has remained essentially a national rather than an international star. He is also the principal figure of the Mod revival. Career The Jam Weller first burst onto the national music scene in 1977 with his first band, The Jam, which he had formed four years earlier in Woking with his friends Steve Brooks (lead guitar), Rick Buckler (drums) and Bruce Foxton (rhythm guitar). Weller himself took lead vocal duties and... Biography of Félix Vallotton
Félix Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 (birth time source: Lescaut) – December 29, 1925) was a Swiss painter and printmaker associated with Les Nabis. He was an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut. Life and work He was born into a conservative middle class family in Lausanne, and there he attended Collège Cantonal, graduating with a degree in classical studies in 1882. In that year he moved to Paris to study art under Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger at the Académie Julian. He spent many hours in the Louvre, where he greatly admired the works of Holbein, Dürer and Ingres; these artists would remain exemplars for Vallotton throughout his life. Vallotton's earliest paintings, chiefly portraits, are firmly rooted in the academic tradition. In 1885 he... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Luc Jouret
Luc Jouret (October 18, 1947 - October 5, 1994), born in Kikwit, Belgian Congo, was a Belgian cult leader in Switzerland. He co-founded the Parti Communautaire Européen with Jean Thiriart, a leading member of the neo-Nazi Jeune Europe Belgian group. Later, Jouret also founded the Order of the Solar Temple (also known as the Order of the Solar Tradition). He committed suicide in the Swiss village of Salvan in October 1994, leading to mass suicide of his followers.... Biography of Howard Hewett
Howard Hewett (born October 1, 1955 in Akron, Ohio (birth time source: Frank C. Clifford)) is an American R&B and gospel singer and former lead vocalist of the R&B group Shalamar. Raised in Akron, Ohio, Hewett moved to Los Angeles. He would eventually meet Soul Train dancer and future first wife Rainey Riley-Cunningham, then a secretary of the show's creator and original host Don Cornelius. It was he who introduced Hewett to fellow Soul Train dancers Jody Watley and Jeffrey Daniel, and their group, Shalamar, was born. The trio is best known for songs such as "Second Time Around", "A Night to Remember", "Dancing in the Sheets" and the ballad "This Is For The Lover In You". Hewett was the group's lead singer from 1979 until 1985. When Shalamar broke up in the mid 1980s, Hewett went on to p... Biography of Bernard Boursicot
Bernard Boursicot (born 1944) is a French diplomat who was caught in a honeypot trap, by Shi Pei-Pu, a male Peking opera singer, who Bouriscot believed to be female. The affair lasted for twenty years with Shi even producing an alleged son. China Boursicot first met Shi in China while posted to the French Embassy in Peking as an accountant in 1964. He was 20 years old and Shi was 26. They met at an embassy reception and shortly began a romance. The two became intimate but made love rarely, always in haste and in darkness. Boursicot reportedly attributed Shi's shyness about her body to her Chinese upbringing. Shi insisted in later years that he never claimed to be female to Boursicot. It was a misunderstanding that Shi simply allowed to stand without correction. Spy In 1965, Shi ... Biography of Dayanara Torres
Dayanara Torres Delgado is a Puerto Rican actress, singer, model and former Miss Universe, born on October 28, 1974 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Approached by fame At age 17, Dayanara Torres was discovered while walking through the Plaza de Toa Alta in her hometown, and was subsequently invited to represent Toa Alta in the annual Miss Puerto Rico pageant. She won the pageant, and the right to represent Puerto Rico in the 1993 Miss Universe pageant. In 1992, she participated in the Miss International pageant, where she was a semi-finalist. She also placed second in the 1992 Queen of the World contest. Torres won the crown in the Miss Universe pageant held in Mexico City on May 21, 1993. Torres's victory in the pageant caused some controversy because of the claim that she was still a m... Biography of Alain Ducasse
Alain Ducasse (b. September 13th 1956 on a farm in Castel-Sarrazin in southwestern France) is a famous French chef. In addition to his Louis XV restaurant in Monaco, he also operates two self-titled restaurants at the Jumeirah Essex House in New York City and the Plaza Athénée in Paris. He is currently the only chef within the Michelin Guide to hold three stars (the top ranking) in three different countries. In January 2007 he took the position as chef of the Jules Verne Restaurant located in the Eiffel Tower in Paris . History In 1972, when he was sixteen, Ducasse began an apprenticeship at the Pavillon Landais restaurant in Soustons and at the Bordeaux hotel school. After this apprenticeship, he began work at Michel Guérard’s restaurant in Eugénie-les-Bains while also working for Gas... Biography of Tommy Hilfiger
Thomas Jacob Hilfiger (born March 24, 1951 in Elmira, New York) is a world-famous American fashion designer and creator of the eponymous "Tommy Hilfiger" and "Tommy" brands. Hilfiger grew up in an Irish Catholic family, the second of nine children. He attended Elmira Free Academy for high school. Rather than furthering his education, he started to work in retail at the age of 18. Hilfiger would trek down to New York City to get his hands on jeans and bell-bottom pants which he customized and resold at a local downtown Elmira, New York store, Brown's. He later opened his own store, named The People's Place, around the block in downtown Elmira. Although the store was a hot spot for teens with frequent contests and live DJ appearances, there were often more people hanging out than shopp... Biography of Jon-Erik Hexum
Jon-Erik Hexum (November 5, 1957 – October 18, 1984) was an American actor and model who died accidentally shortly after a firearms incident on the set of Cover Up, a television series in which he was a central cast member. Born to Norwegian immigrant parents, he was the star of the science fiction series Voyagers!, which aired on NBC during the 1982–83 television season. He also appeared in made for television movies The Bear and Making of a Male Model co-starring Joan Collins and Roxie Roker, and in an episode of Hotel, before being cast in the action series Cover Up. Early life and career Hexum was born in Englewood, New Jersey, to Gretha and Thorleif Hexum. He and his elder brother, Gunnar, were raised in Tenafly by their mother after their parents divorced when Hexum was four... Biography of Pope John Paul I
Pope John Paul I (Latin: Ioannes Paulus PP. I, Italian: Giovanni Paolo I), born Albino Luciani, (October 17, 1912—September 28, 1978) reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and as Sovereign of Vatican City from August 26, 1978 until his death. His 33-day papacy was one of the shortest reigns in papal history, resulting in the most recent Year of Three Popes. Having died before he could make a legacy as a pope, he is best remembered for his friendliness and humility, making him known as "the smiling Pope", drawing comparisons with "Good Pope John", the widely popular Pope John XXIII. He was the first pope to choose a double name and did so to honor his two immediate predecessors, Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI. He was also the first (and so far only) pope to use "the first" in... Biography of George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver (July 12, 1864 – January 5, 1943) was an American botanical researcher and agronomy educator who worked in agricultural extension at the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, teaching former slaves farming techniques for self-sufficiency. To bring education to farmers, Carver designed a mobile school. It was called a Jesup Wagon after the New York financier, Morris Ketchum Jesup, who provided funding. In 1921, Carver spoke in favor of a peanut tariff before the House Ways and Means Committee. Given racial discrimination of the time, it was unusual for an African-American to be called as an expert. Carver's well-received testimony earned him national attention, and he became an unofficial spokesman for the peanut industry. Carver wrote 44 practical agricultur... Biography of Elisabeth Bourgine
Elisabeth Bourgine is a French actress born March 20, 1957 in Levallois-Perret. Filmography "Brigade Navarro" .... Rbecca (1 episode, 2007) - Carambolages (2007) TV Episode (as Elizabeth Bourgine) .... Rbecca "Louis la brocante" .... Sabine (1 episode, 2007) - Louis et le condamné à domicile (2007) TV Episode (as Elizabeth Bourgine) .... Sabine "Navarro" .... Anne-Marie Villeneuve / ... (2 episodes, 2006) - L'âme en vrac (2006) TV Episode (as Élizabeth Bourgine) .... Derain, de l'IGS - Au coeur du volcan (2006) TV Episode (as Élizabeth Bourgine) .... Anne-Marie Villeneuve Mon meilleur ami (2006/I) .... Julia ... aka My Best Friend (International: English title) "Commissaire Moulin" .... Sandrine Pelletier (1 episode, 2006) ... aka Commissaire Moulin, police... Biography of Troy Aikman
Troy Kenneth Aikman (born November 21, 1966 in West Covina, California) is a former American football quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League, and currently a television sportscaster for the Fox network. He is also a joint owner of the NASCAR Nextel Cup racing team, Hall of Fame Racing, along with fellow former Cowboys quarterback, Roger Staubach. He is considered one of the best NFL quarterbacks of his era, and was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006. He is referred to as one of "The Triplets" with Cowboys teammates Michael Irvin and Emmitt Smith. Early life The youngest of three children, Aikman was born in West Covina, California on November 21, 1966 to Charlyn and Kenneth Aikman, and lived in Cerritos, California until age 12, when his family... Biography of Elisabeth Huppert
Elisabeth Huppert is a French actress, director and writer, born June 20, 1948 in Paris. She is the sister of actress Isabelle Huppert and Caroline Huppert, the sister-in-law of Ronald Chammah and the aount of Lolita Chammah.... Biography of Leopold II of Belgium
Leopold II (Léopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor (French) or Leopold Lodewijk Filips Marie Victor (Dutch) (April 9, 1835 – December 17, 1909) was King of the Belgians. Born the second (but eldest surviving) son of Leopold I of Belgium, he succeeded his father to the Belgian throne in 1865 and remained king until his death. He was the brother of Empress Carlota of Mexico and cousin to Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. Outside Belgium, he is chiefly remembered as the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State, a private project undertaken by the King to extract rubber and ivory in the Congo region of central Africa, which relied on forced labour and resulted in the deaths of between 5 to 22 million Congolese. The regime of the Congo Free State became one of the more infamous intern... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Christopher Meloni
Christopher Peter Meloni (born on April 2, 1961) is an American Emmy-nominated actor known for his near opposite roles as the protective and committed Det. Elliot Stabler on the NBC drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and as the bisexual serial killer Chris Keller on HBO's Oz. Height: 6' 0½" (1.84 m) Early life Meloni was born in Washington, D.C. to Cecile, a homemaker, and Robert Meloni, an endocrinologist. His maternal ancestry is French Canadian and his paternal ancestry is Italian, although his great-grandfather was adopted. Meloni attended St. Stephen's School (now St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School) and the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he first studied acting, graduating with a degree in history in 1983. After graduation, Meloni went to New York where h... Biography of Vladimir Jirinovski
Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky (Russian: Влади́мир Во́льфович Жирино́вский, formerly Vladimir Volfovich Eidelshtein, born April 25, 1946) is the founder and the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), Vice-Chairman of the State Duma, and a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Early life and politics Zhirinovsky was born in Alma-Ata, the former capital of the then-Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan. In July 1964, Zhirinovsky moved from Alma-Ata to Moscow, where he began his studies in the Department of Turkish Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies at Moscow St... Biography of Jacques Halbronn
Jacques Halbronn, born December 1, 1947 in Paris, is a writer and astrologer. Works 1976 Introduction à la réédition des Remarques Astrologiques de Jean Baptiste Morin de Villefranche, Paris, Retz 1976 Clefs pour l’astrologie, Paris, Seghers 1976 Maîtrise d'Hébreu . Paris III 1977 Traduction du Livre des Fondements Astrologiques d'Abraham Ibn Ezra, Préface G. Vajda, Paris, Retz 1979 Dir. Aquarius ou la Nouvelle Ere du Verseau Ed Albatros 1979 Doctorat en Etudes Orientales( Paris III et Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Ve section.) La problématique astrologique chez les principaux penseurs juifs du Moyen Age espagnol. 1979 Recherches dans le cadre du CNRS (Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes.) 1981 DEA Linguistique Lille III sur les Jugemens astron... Biography of François de Grossouvre
François de Grossouvre (March 29, 1918, Vienne, Isère – April 7, 1994, Paris) was a French politician charged in 1981 by newly-elected president François Mitterrand with overseeing national security and other sensitive matters, in particular those concerning Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, Morocco, Gabon, the Gulf countries, Pakistan and the two Koreas. He was also in charge of the French branch of Gladio, NATO's stay-behind paramilitary secret armies during the Cold War . François de Grossouvre was born in an aristocratic family, the descendant of Jean-François Durand, lord of Grossouvre (1735-1832) . His father, a banker, died in 1923 in Beyrouth where he resided. François de Grossouvre would keep affective ties to Lebanon hereafter. He then studied with the Jesuits in France and studied me... Biography of Tracy Marks
Tracy Marks, born September 26, 1950, is an American astrologer, writer and psychotherapist. She has written a lot of books about astrology.... Biography of Guillaume Durand
Guillaume Durand is a French TV host and journalist, born September 23, 1952 in Boulogne-Billancourt.... |
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