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Biography of Rikki Rockett
Richard Allan Ream (born August 8, 1961), better known by the stage name Rikki Rockett, is an American drummer best known for his work with the glam metal band, Poison. Biography Born in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, Rockett was the younger of two children to Norman and Margaret Ream. He attended Cedar Cliff High School in Camp Hill. Before founding Poison with vocalist Bret Michaels, Rockett worked as a hairdresser, lifeguard, dishwasher, Emergency Medical Technician and a suit salesman. Rockett was always an integral part of Poison's success featuring on every Poison album ever released. The tattoo photo featured on Poison's 1990 album Flesh and Blood is Rockett's right shoulder. The logo was already done a couple of years prior but he added "Flesh and Blood" in support of the ti...
Biography of Indra Dewitte
Indra Dewitte, born on August 9, 1972 in Leuven, is a Belgian journalist and TV host....
Biography of Tom Leykis
Thomas Joseph Leykis (pronounced: /ˈlaɪkɪs/; born August 1, 1956) is an American talk radio personality best known for hosting The Tom Leykis Show from 1994 to 2009 (nationally syndicated), and April 2012 to the present (internet streamcast/podcast). The show follows the Hot Talk format, which brought Leykis much success, particularly in the Southern California radio market. Due to the provocative nature of the show, Leykis has often been described as a shock jock. The show's best-known feature is "Leykis 101", in which he purports to teach men "how to get laid" while spending the least amount of time, money, and effort. This part of his persona led some critics to charge Leykis with misogyny. He is also the host of The Tasting Room with Tom Leykis, a most-weekly lifestyl...
Biography of Jon Turteltaub
Jonathan Charles "Jon" Turteltaub (born 8 August 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He has directed several successful mainstream movies including 3 Ninjas (1992), Cool Runnings (1993), While You Were Sleeping (1995), Phenomenon (1996), Instinct (1999), Disney's The Kid (2000), 2004's National Treasure, as well as its 2007 sequel National Treasure: Book of Secrets. Turteltaub produced the CBS television series, Jericho and also directed the first three episodes, "Pilot", "Fallout", and "Four Horsemen". Filmography * 3 Ninjas (1992) * Cool Runnings (1993) * While You Were Sleeping (1995) * Phenomenon (1996) * From the Earth to the Moon (1998) - epis...
Biography of Alain Veinstein
Alain Veinstein (born 17 August 1942 in Cannes) is a poet and writer, winner of the Mallarmé prize and a host and producer of radio. Biography Since 1978, Alain Veinstein is also the voice of the nights of France Culture with interviews on the program Overnight and broadcasts, Surprised by the night, and surprised by the poetry. He created "The magnetic Nights" in 1978. He interviewed Marguerite Duras. Works Fiction * L'accordeur. Calmann-Lévy. 1996. ISBN 9782702125779. (The Piano Tuner). Calmann-Levy (1996) - "The narrator, who never knew his father, was raised by his grandfather, a dark and quiet man who worked as a gravedigger. When, in turn it becomes father words intended for his son missed. A novel about the incompatibility between human beings and on the descent...
Biography of Micah Alberti
Micah Alberti (born August 19, 1984) is an American model and actor who played James Edward Martin on All My Children. He also guest starred on 8 Simple Rules and Smallville. He starred on the ABC Family series, Wildfire. He previously dated Rumer Willis before splitting in 2011. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1226767/) 2011 The Icarus II Project (TV series) Jones – Jessica … Jones 2010 Wake Up (short) Rob 2010 Mon père, ce rockeur (TV movie) Ryan 2009 L'homme à la gâchette (video) Burt Baker 2009 Doc West (TV movie) Burt Baker 2009/II Forget Me Not Jake 2009 Xtra Credit (TV movie) Cole hurley 2008 Beer for My Horses Jeff 2005-2008 Wildfire (TV series) Matt Ritter – The Ties That Bind: Part 2 (2008) … Matt Ritter – The Ties ...
Biography of Brenda Benet
Brenda Benet (August 14, 1945 – April 7, 1982) was an American television and film actress. Benet was best known for her roles on the soap operas The Young Marrieds and Days of our Lives. Early life and career Benet was born Brenda Ann Nelson in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. She attended UCLA for a time. Her first acting roles were in 1964, with appearances on Shindig! and The Young Marrieds. She eventually became an actress very much in demand for roles in episodic prime time television in the 1960s and 1970s, including I Dream of Jeannie, Mannix, My Three Sons, Hogan's Heroes, Love, American Style, and The Courtship of Eddie's Father. She also had a major feature role in the film Walking Tall (1973). Although many of the characters she portrayed seemed to be either sweet o...
Biography of Ken Linseman
Kenneth "The Rat" Linseman (born August 11, 1958) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played 15 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Philadelphia Flyers, Edmonton Oilers, Boston Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs. He also played one season in the World Hockey Association (WHA) for the Birmingham Bulls. Playing career Linseman spent his entire junior career with the Kingston Canadians of the OMJHL from 1974 to 1977. He played in 187 games, scoring 286 points (133 goals-153 assists). He also added 33 points (16G-17A) in 25 playoff games. Linseman was drafted by the WHA's Birmingham Bulls in the 1977 WHA Amateur Draft, and spent the 1977–78 with the Bulls, getting 76 points (38G-38A) in 71 games, and adding 4 points (2G-2A) in five playoff games. He was th...
Biography of Vernon Reid
Vernon Reid (born August 22, 1958) is an English-born American guitarist, songwriter, composer and bandleader. Best known as the founder and primary songwriter of the heavy metal band Living Colour, Reid was named #66 on Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Critic Steve Huey writes, " rampant eclecticism encompasses everything from heavy metal and punk to funk, R&B and avant-garde jazz, and his anarchic, lightning-fast solos have become something of a hallmark as well." Biography Early life and career Reid was born in London, England to Caribbean parents, but grew up in New York City. He attended the prestigious math-science-engineering Brooklyn Technical High School. He first came to prominence in the 1980s in the band of drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson. ...
Biography of Marin Preda
Marin Preda (Romanian pronunciation: ; 5 August 1922 – 16 May 1980) was a Romanian novelist, one of the best post-WWII Romanian writers. Preda was born in Teleorman county, in a village called Siliştea-Gumeşti, into a family of peasants. He first studied at school in his home village, then schools in Abrud and Cristur-Odorhei. He moved to Bucharest in 1940 and became a proofreader at Timpul ("Times") magazine. His first novella was called Calul ("The Horse"). It was written in 1943 and read in Eugen Lovinescu's literary circle, Sburătorul ("The Flier"). It was included in his debut volume of 1948, Întâlnirea din pământuri. ("The Meeting between the Lands"). Between 1943 and 1945 he served in the army, which was to inspire some of his later works. In 1945 he was...
Biography of Iddo Goldberg
Iddo Goldberg (Hebrew: עדו גולדברג; born 5 August 1975) is an English-Israeli actor. On June 17, 2012, Iddo Goldberg married his long-time girlfriend Ashley Madekwe. Goldberg was born in Haifa, Israel. He has had several notable roles, including playing Ben on the television show Secret Diary of a Call Girl. He also appeared in the 2008 war film Defiance, starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber. Filmography Actor Film Year Film Role Notes 1998 Fast Food Junkie 1999 Jesus Seth Made-for-TV film 2001 Uprising Zygmunt Frydrych Made-for-TV film 2002 L'Auberge espagnole Alistair 2004 Dead Fish Thief Suzie Gold Anthony Silver The Defender Scripts 2005 A Little Trip to Heaven Russle 20...
Biography of Arthur Longo
Arthur Longo, born on July 27, 1988 in Grenoble, is a French swnoboarder....
Biography of Maureen Herman
Maureen Herman (born July 25, 1966 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (birth time source: herself on her official Facebook, copy at http://www.astrotheme.fr/images/Maureen_Herman_time_of_birth.jpg) is a former musician known for being the bass player for the Minneapolis-based band Babes in Toyland from 1992 until 1996. Early years Herman was raised in Libertyville, Illinois, and attended Libertyville High School. She worked on the high school paper Drops of Ink with Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and The Nightwatchman, Adam Jones of Tool, and Jim Naureckas, editor at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). Herman was introduced to punk, new wave, and alternative culture at an early age through schoolmate and high school friend Stephanie Brown, whose brother was an album cover...
Biography of Glenn Hughes
Glenn Hughes (born 21 August 1951) is an English rock bassist and vocalist, best known for playing bass and performing vocals for funk rock pioneers Trapeze and the Mk. III and IV line-ups of Deep Purple, as well as briefly fronting Black Sabbath in the mid-1980s. In addition to being an active session musician, Hughes also maintains a notable solo career, and previously fronted the supergroup Black Country Communion. History Hughes fronted Finders Keepers in the 1960s as bassist/vocalist, as well as the British funk rock band Trapeze. Hughes was recruited to replace Roger Glover as bassist in Deep Purple in 1973, though he considered himself a vocalist more so than a bassist. He was reportedly uninterested in the Deep Purple job until some of the other members proposed that Paul Rodge...
Biography of Elsa Marpeau
Elsa Marpeau, born on August 10, 1975 in Ancenis, is a French writer, screenwriter, and novelist. Works Novels * Recherche au sang, éditions du Félin, 2003 * En pièces, 2006 * Les Yeux des morts, Gallimard, coll. « Série Noire », 2010 * Le Petit Livre des brunes Non fiction * Des crocodiles dans les égouts, et autres légendes urbaines, Poche, 2006 Miscellaneous * “Antigone” de Sophocle, J. Bousquet, M. Vacquelin et Elsa Marpeau (2005) * “Les Diaboliques” de Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Marc Robert et Elsa Marpeau (2005) * “Les Onze Mille Verges ou les Amours d'un hospodar” de Guillaume Apollinaire (2006) * Carpe diem : l'art du bonheur selon les poètes de la Renaissance, collectif (2006)...
Biography of Trevor Bannister
Trevor Gordon Bannister (14 August 1934 – 14 April 2011) was an English actor best known for playing the womanising junior salesman Mr. Lucas in the sitcom Are You Being Served? from 1972 to 1979, and for his role as Toby Mulberry Smith in the longest-running sitcom Last of the Summer Wine, from 2003 until it ended its run in 2010. He died the following year. Career In 1960, Bannister appeared on stage at the Cambridge Theatre in London in Billy Liar, which starred Albert Finney. He starred as Darkie Pilbeam, a wartime spiv, in the 1968 television series The War of Darkie Pilbeam, and from 1969 to 1970 he appeared as "Heavy Breathing" in Jack Rosenthal's sitcom, The Dustbinmen. Shortly afterwards, he was asked to play Mr Lucas in a Comedy Playhouse pilot called Are You Being Served? ...
Biography of Nigel Martyn
Antony Nigel Martyn (born 11 August 1966), more commonly known as Nigel Martyn, is a former English football goalkeeper who played more than 600 competitive matches in English football. He played for Crystal Palace where he became the first £1million goalkeeper in British football and also won the Full Members Cup. Martyn then left to spend six seasons at Leeds United. He went on to win 23 England caps. An ankle injury forced him to retire in 2006, following three seasons at Everton. Club career Early career Born in St Austell, Martyn started his career as a midfielder until invited to play as a goalkeeper for his brother's works team when he was sixteen. He started by playing amateur football for Cornish sides Heavy Transport F.C., Bugle and St Blazey while working in a plastics f...
Biography of Valter Birsa
Valter Birsa (born 7 August 1986) is a Slovenian footballer who currently plays for Italian Serie A side Genoa and the Slovenian national team. Club career Born in the town of Šempeter pri Gorici, he spent his childhood in Nova Gorica, Slovenia. Birsa's career began at the age of 5, when he started playing for NK Bilje, a small football club of the village of Bilje near Nova Gorica. As he was a talented player, he was soon transferred first to NK Primorje, then to ND Gorica at the age of 17. By the second season he was already the second best striker and one of the best in the Slovenian first league, scoring 29 goals for his home team, an outstanding goalscoring record for a midfielder. In 2006, he signed for French club Sochaux in Ligue de Football Professionnel, Ligue 1. He was dec...
Biography of Sir Mix-a-Lot
Anthony Ray (born August 12, 1963), better known by his stage name Sir Mix-a-Lot, is an American MC and producer based in Seattle, Washington. The founder of the Nastymix record label, he debuted in 1988 with Swass. Sir Mix-a-Lot is best known for his 1992 album Mack Daddy and its Grammy Award-winning single "Baby Got Back." Career In 1986, Sir Mix-a-Lot and his DJ, Nasty Nes, founded the Nastymix record label. His first hit, released in 1987, was the single "Posse on Broadway," whose title referred to a street in Seattle's Capitol Hill district. The Godzilla remix of "Posse on Broadway" contained a sample from David Bowie's 1975 hit "Fame," but neither the album version nor the original seven-inch edit version (which was used for the video) used the Bowie sample. Swass, his debut albu...
Biography of Edward Frederic Benson
Edward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 – 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. His friends called him Fred. Life E.F. Benson was born at Wellington College in Berkshire, the fifth child of the headmaster, Edward White Benson (later Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral, Bishop of Truro and Archbishop of Canterbury), and Mary Sidgwick Benson ("Minnie"), who was described by Gladstone as the 'cleverest woman in Europe' and after her husband's death set up a lesbian household with Lucy Tait, daughter of the previous Archbishop of Canterbury, Archibald Campbell Tait. Benson was the younger brother of Arthur Christopher Benson, who wrote the words to Land of Hope and Glory, Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson, autho...
Biography of Anne Marie de Bourbon
Anne Marie de Bourbon (Anne Marie Victoire; 11 August 1675 – 23 October 1700. ) was the daughter of the Prince of Condé and of a Bavarian princess. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, she was a Princesse du Sang. She never married and died of lung disease. Biography Anne Marie Victoire was the seventh child born to the Duke and Duchess of Enghien. Her father was the only surviving son of le Grand Condé while her mother was a daughter of the political hostess Anna Gonzaga. She was born at the Hôtel de Condé in Paris, the city residence of the Prince of Condé when not at court at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye outside the capital. The two previous months prior to Anne Marie's birth saw the death of two siblings; Anne de Bourbon (1670–1675), known as Mademoiselle d’Enghi...
Biography of Luigi Borro (sculptor)
Luigi Borro, born July 29, 1826 in Ceneda, died January 6, 1880, was an Italian sculptor....
Biography of Billy Paultz
William Edward "Bill" Paultz (born July 30, 1948 in River Edge, New Jersey) is a retired American professional basketball player. Paultz played college basketball at Saint John's University and was selected in the seventh round of the 1970 NBA Draft by the San Diego Rockets and by the Virginia Squires in the 1970 ABA Draft. Paultz opted to sign with the Squires. On August 11, 1970 the Squires traded his rights to the New York Nets in exchange for a draft choice and cash. He played professional ball both in the National Basketball Association and in the now defunct American Basketball Association. His nickname was "The Whopper", and he stands 6 feet 11 inches tall. As a rookie, Paultz made his first playoff appearance in 1970-1971 with the New York Nets. He spent his first five sea...
Biography of Brian Fuentes
Brian Christopher Fuentes (play /ˈfwɛntɨs/; born August 9, 1975) is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher who currently plays for the Oakland Athletics. Previously, he played for the Seattle Mariners, the Colorado Rockies, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, and the Minnesota Twins. He bats and throws left-handed. Early years Fuentes was born in in Merced, California, and attended high school at Merced High School in Merced, California. After graduating from high school, Fuentes attended Merced Junior college. Professional career Seattle Mariners Fuentes was drafted by the Seattle Mariners in the 25th round of the 1995 amateur draft. He spent one season for the Mariners appearing in ten games. Colorado Rockies On December 16, 2001, Fuentes was traded to the...
Biography of Bernard Fanning
Bernard Joseph Fanning (born 15 August 1969 in Brisbane, Australia) is a musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer and frontman of Australian alternative rock band Powderfinger from its formation in 1989 to its dissolution in 2010. Born and raised in Toowong, Brisbane, Fanning was taught the piano by his mother at an early age. At the age of 12, while attending St. Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace, Fanning began writing music, and upon graduating from St. Joseph's, moved on to the University of Queensland, where he studied journalism for a short time. He would go on to drop out to pursue a music career, after meeting Ian Haug in an economics class. Fanning joined Haug, John Collins, and Steven Bishop, who had recently formed Powderfinger, and took the role of ...
Biography of Jacques-Antoine Granjon
Jacques-Antoine Granjon, born on August 9, 1962 in Marseille, is a French entrepreneur, the founder and CEO of Vente-privee.com, a French ecommerce company that pioneered the model of online flash sales (also called event sales). The site, that celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2011, was developed in an online environment to host sales of designer brands only for members with discounted prices from 50% to 70% off. These sales include a diverse selection of product categories: fashion, accessories, toys, watches, home appliances, sports equipment, technology and wines. The site has diversified its offer and now even travels, entertainment tickets and music are in sale. For example, the last album of the punk legend Iggy Pop, "Après", was launched by the site....
Biography of Melinda Stolp
Melinda Stolp, born on August 17, 1983 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is an American TV personality. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1954084/) 2006-2012 Real World/Road Rules Challenge (TV series) Herself – Battle of the Seasons: The Perks of Being a Rookie (2012) … Herself – Battle of the Seasons: Tis the Season (2012) … Herself – Cutthroat: Where the Red Team Blows (2010) … Herself – Cutthroat: Couching Tyger, Hidden Danimal (2010) … Herself – Cutthroat: Swat the Hell? (2010) … Herself 2005 The Real World (TV series) Herself – Tex, Hugs, and Rock and Roll: The Real World Austin Reunited (2005) … Herself – Goodbye Austin (2005) … Herself – Who's in Jail? (2005) … Herself – Nehemiah's Actin' Up (2005) … Herself – Watch Out, Costa Rica (2005) … Herself...
Biography of Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen
Archduke Albrecht Friedrich Rudolf Dominik of Austria, Duke of Teschen (3 August 1817 – 18 February 1895) was an Austrian Habsburg general. Inspector General for 36 years, he was honored with the rank of Field Marshal in the armies of Austria-Hungary (1888) and Germany (1893). Early life He was the eldest son of Archduke Charles of Austria, who defeated Napoleon Bonaparte at Aspern (1809), and Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg. Born in Vienna, from an early age he had a military disposition, which his father encouraged. Albrecht was subject to a mild form of epilepsy, according to report, but this did not visibly interfere with his military career. He entered the Austrian army in 1837 with Feldmarshal Joseph Radetzky as his military governor. Having received a thorough militar...
Biography of Mack Calvin
Mack Calvin (born July 27, 1947 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American former basketball player. High school career Calvin prepped at Long Beach Poly. College career A 6'0" point guard from Long Beach City College and the University of Southern California, Calvin was a 14th-round draft pick of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers in 1969. In his final college season, Calvin and his Trojans defeated the UCLA Bruins, 46–44, in Pauley Pavilion, ending the Bruins' 41 consecutive game winning streak, 45 in a row in Pacific 8 Conference play wins, and 17 in a row over USC. The victory also ended UCLA's 51 victories in Pauley Pavilion. Pro career He played seven seasons (1969–1976) in the now-defunct American Basketball Association (ABA) and four seasons in the National Basketball As...
Biography of Gerald Wallace
Gerald Jermaine Wallace (born July 23, 1982 in Sylacauga, Alabama) is an American professional basketball forward for the Portland Trail Blazers of the NBA. High school Wallace attended Childersburg High School in Childersburg, Alabama, where he had a very successful career. For his senior season efforts he was named the Naismith Prep Player of the Year, an honor given to the best high school basketball player. College Wallace attended the University of Alabama for one season before declaring himself eligible for the 2001 NBA Draft. NBA Sacramento Kings In three seasons with the Sacramento Kings, Wallace rarely played, but in the brief appearances he made himself known for his versatility and extraordinary athleticism. In the 2002 Slam Dunk Contest, Wallace finished secon...
Biography of Kamya Panjabi
Kamya Punjabi, born on August 13, 1979 in Mubai (source: http://www.metromasti.com/page/biography/32473) is a television actress from India, who generally plays the vamp or negative characters in Hindi television serials and is also well known for Standup comedy. Career Punjabi is a model who played several bit roles in Hindi films such as Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai (girl taunting Amisha Patel on the cruise ship), Na Tum Jaano Na Hum (lady in the final wedding scene) and Koi Mil Gaya (one of the inhabitants of the Hill Stations). In 1997, she featured in a music video called Mehndi Mehndi, and was also part of the music video Kala Shah Kala by Anamika. She was also seen in the movies Yaadein (talking to Kareena Kapoor at the cycle race competition), as well as in Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani...
Biography of Gerry Ritz
Gerry Ritz, PC, MP (born August 19, 1951) is Canada's Agriculture minister and a Canadian Member of Parliament for Battlefords—Lloydminster, a largely rural riding in Saskatchewan. Born in Delisle, Saskatchewan, he was elected as the Reform Party candidate in 1997, and then re-elected with the Canadian Alliance in 2000 and the Conservative Party of Canada in 2004. Ritz has been the vice-chair of the House of Commons Agriculture Committee since 2002. He was appointed Secretary of State for small business and tourism in the Harper government on January 4, 2006. On August 14, 2007, Ritz was promoted to the Cabinet as Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food replacing Chuck Strahl . Prior to his political career, Ritz worked as a farmer at the family farm for over 20 years and owned a contract...
Biography of Vugar Gashimov
Vugar Gashimov (Azerbaijani: Vüqar Həşimov), born July 24, 1986 in Baku, is one of the leading chess players from Azerbaijan. He is a noted player of Bullet chess and three times Azerbaijani national chess champion (1995, 1996 and in 1998). He won at Athens 2005 (Acropolis International). He is a two-times winner of the colossal Cappelle-la-Grande open: in 2007 (Wang Yue won the Buchholz tie-break) and 2008 (clear first). In 2010/11, he tied for first with Francisco Vallejo Pons at Reggio Emilia and won the event on tie-break. After the first four of six tournaments, he is fifth of the FIDE Grand Prix 2008-2009. Career In 2010, Gashimov became winner of Reggio Emilia chess tournament. Playing Style Gashimov is known as a particularly strong blitz chess player. ...
Biography of Dale Hunter
Dale Robert Hunter (born July 31, 1960) is a Canadian former ice hockey player and current co-owner (with younger brother Mark) and head coach of the London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League. NHL career He was selected by the Quebec Nordiques in the 1979 NHL Entry Draft and played seven seasons in Quebec. He scored in overtime for Quebec in Game 5 of their 1982 opening round best-of-5 series vs. the Montreal Canadiens, and in 1988 scoring against Ron Hextall on a breakaway in overtime for Washington in Game 7 of their opening round best-of-7 series vs. the Philadelphia Flyers, making Hunter the first player in NHL history to score two overtime series-clinching goals in the playoffs. Hunter was traded to the Washington Capitals in return for a draft pick used to select Joe Sakic. ...
Biography of Carolina Indriago
Lucbel Carolina Indriago Pinto is a Venezuelan show hostess and a pageant titleholder. She was born in Valencia, Venezuela on August 22, 1980. She is the first woman of noticeably black heritage to win the Miss Venezuela title. Indriago was the Miss Venezuela titleholder for 1998, and was the official representative of Venezuela to the Miss Universe 1999 pageant held in Chaguaramas, Trinidad & Tobago on May 26, 1999, when she classified in the 5 finalists....
Biography of Aaron Douglas (actor)
Aaron Douglas (born August 23, 1971) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Galen Tyrol on the Sci Fi Channel's television program Battlestar Galactica. He headlined on the CTV drama The Bridge, which was also picked up by CBS for broadcast in the United States. Douglas played Frank Leo, a charismatic police union leader who is simultaneously battling criminals on the street while facing down corruption within the ranks of his own department. CBS ordered thirteen episodes, which began production in May 2009 but was dropped after showing just three episodes. Aaron starred along side fellow Battlestar Galactica actor Paul Campbell in a Syfy original movie, Killer Mountain, which premiered August 27, 2011. Early life Aaron Douglas was born in New Westminster, a suburb ...
Biography of Viv Anderson
Vivian Alexander "Viv" Anderson MBE (born 29 July 1956 in Clifton, Nottingham) is an English football player and coach, who played for clubs including Nottingham Forest, Arsenal, Manchester United and Sheffield Wednesday in the 1970s and 1980s. He is also notable for being the first black football player to represent England in a full international match. Playing career Nottingham Forest Anderson had broken into the Nottingham Forest team during 1974 and became a regular after the arrival of Brian Clough as manager of the East Midlands club, then in the Second Division, in January 1975. He was part of the side that won promotion to the First Division in 1977, winning the title, along with the League Cup, a year later. Anderson was one of the first black players to represent top En...
Biography of Michael Skibbe
Michael Skibbe (born August 4, 1965 in Gelsenkirchen) is a German football manager who most recently was the head coach of Galatasaray. Skibbe was sacked as Galatasaray manager on 23 February 2009 , after a run of poor form culminating in a frustrating 2-5 home defeat against Kocaelispor. Club career In his youth, Skibbe played for SG Wattenscheid 09. Then he switched to the professional team of Schalke 04. From 1984 to 1986, he appeared in 14 Bundesliga games, but then he tore his cruciate ligament three times, which forced him to end his playing career. Managerial career At the age of 22, he started his career as coach with Schalke 04 youth team. Borussia Dortmund In 1989, he became the youth coach for Borussia Dortmund, where he became head coach in 1998, thus becoming t...
Biography of Mike Garson
Mike Garson, born on July 29, 1945 in New York, New York, is an American pianist, most notable for his work with David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, Billy Corgan, Free Flight, and The Smashing Pumpkins. Early career In the early 1970s, Garson was a member of rock/country/jazz amalgam Brethren with Rick Marotta, Tom Cosgrove and Stu Woods. They recorded two hard-to-find albums on the Tiffany label, which featured guest piano and liner notes by Dr. John (and, strangely enough, album photography by Murray Head, who scored a hit with "Say it Ain't So Joe" and later with the single "One Night In Bangkok"). Garson also earned notice when he played on the I'm the One album by early 1970s experimental artist Annette Peacock. Bowie asked Peacock to join him on a tour; she declined, but Garson be...
Biography of Chris Brokaw
Chris Brokaw, born August 1, 1964 in New York, is an American musician, mostly known for his work with the bands Come and Codeine. While studying at Oberlin College, Brokaw met many people who became figures on the American indie rock scene of the 1990s, among them Stephen Immerwahr, who formed Codeine with Brokaw, as well as Sooyoung Park of Bitch Magnet and Seam, Liz Phair and John McEntire of Tortoise. Soon after graduating from Oberlin, Brokaw played drums for G.G. Allin. He also played drums on the two first Codeine albums, and helped kick-start Liz Phair's career. In 1990 he returned to the guitar, one of his two main instruments, and teamed up with Thalia Zedek, a well-known figure on New York's post-No Wave scene. The two formed Come, a band that despite never gaining much ma...
Biography of Teresa de Marzo
Teresa de Marzo, born on August 4, 1903 in São Paulo, died on February 9, 1986, was a Brazilian aviation pioneer....
Biography of Misty May-Treanor
Misty Elizabeth May-Treanor (born July 30, 1977) is a retired American professional beach volleyball player. She is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, and as of August 2012 the most successful female beach volleyball player with 112 individual championship wins in domestic and international competition. Misty May-Treanor and teammate Kerri Walsh Jennings were the gold medalists in beach volleyball at the 2004, 2008, and 2012 Summer Olympics. Together, May-Treanor and Walsh Jennings are considered the greatest beach volleyball team of all time. May-Treanor retired from competitive play on August 8, 2012 after she and Walsh Jennings finished first in the 2012 Summer Olympic games; they defeated the United States team of Jennifer Kessy and April Ross in the gold medal match. Early life...
Biography of Jay R. Ferguson
Jay Rowland Ferguson, Jr. (born July 25, 1974) is an American actor. Biography Ferguson was born in Dallas, Texas. In 1989, Jay was plucked from obscurity to play Ponyboy Curtis in the television adaptation of S. E. Hinton's novel The Outsiders. Over the last 22 years, he has appeared in television and film. His notable television roles include Taylor Newton in four seasons of the CBS sitcom Evening Shade, Dr. Todd Hooper on Judging Amy, Rich Connelly in the 2005 NBC television series Surface, Agent Warren Russell on the Showtime series Sleeper Cell and most recently Stan Rizzo on the AMC series Mad Men. His film roles include Billy in Higher Learning, Elmer Conway in The Killer Inside Me, and Keith Clayton in The Lucky One. Filmography Year Film Role Other notes 1990 The O...
Biography of Billy Mayfair
William Fred Mayfair or Billy Mayfair (born August 6, 1966) is an American PGA Tour golfer. Mayfair was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and now lives in Scottsdale, Arizona where he plays out of Estrella Mountain Range Golf Club. He went to Arizona State University and won the 1986 U.S. Amateur Public Links and the 1987 U.S. Amateur Championship where he beat University of Tennessee graduate Eric Rebmann 4&3. On July 31, 2006, Mayfair was diagnosed with testicular cancer. He had surgery on August 3 of that year and it has been reported that the cancer was contained. Professional career Mayfair turned professional in 1988 and has won five events on the PGA Tour, including the 1995 Tour Championship. He has featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings. He holds the dist...
Biography of Graham Hancock
Graham Hancock (/ˈhænkɒk/; born 2 August 1950) is a British writer and journalist. Hancock specialises in unconventional theories involving ancient civilisations, stone monuments or megaliths, altered states of consciousness, ancient myths and astronomical/astrological data from the past. One of the main themes running through many of his books is a posited global connection with a "mother culture" from which he believes all ancient historical civilisations sprang. Biography Born in Edinburgh, Hancock's formative years were spent in India, where his father worked as a surgeon. Having returned to the UK, he graduated from Durham University in 1973, receiving a First Class Honours degree in sociology. As a journalist, Hancock worked for many British papers, such as The Times, T...
Biography of Azim Premji
Azim Hashim Premji (born 24 July 1945) is an Indian business tycoon and philanthropist who is the chairman of Wipro Limited, guiding the company through four decades of diversification and growth to emerge as one of the Indian leaders in the software industry. According to Forbes, he is currently the fourth wealthiest Indian, and the 61st richest in the world, with a personal wealth of $15.3 billion in 2014. In 2000, he was voted among the 20 most powerful men in the world by Asiaweek. He has twice been listed among the 100 most influential people by TIME Magazine, once in 2004 and more recently in 2011. Premji owns 79 percent of Wipro and also owns a private equity fund, PremjiInvest, which manages his $1 billion personal portfolio. Career In 1967 on the news of his father's death, ...
Biography of Dino Bravo
Adolfo Bresciano (August 6, 1948 – March 10, 1993) was an Italian-born Canadian professional wrestler, best known for his work as Dino Bravo, self-proclaimed as "Canada's Strongest Man". Professional wrestling career Territories Bresciano began wrestling in 1970, taking the "Dino Bravo" moniker from a wrestler from the early 1960s who had teamed with Dominic DeNucci as the Bravo brothers, Dino and Dominic. He was trained by Gino Brito and often worked in a tag team with his mentor, billed as Brito's cousin. Bravo worked in a number of other tag teams, partnering with, among others, "Mr. Wrestling" Tim Woods and DeNucci. Dino's actual height was 5'11" and he weighed in around 255 pounds. Bravo held the Jim Crockett Promotions version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship with Wo...
Biography of Kylian Hazard
Kylian Hazard, born on August 5, 1995 in La Louvière (birth time source: André Dekoster, acte n° 1117), is a Belgian footballer, the young brother of footballers Torghan Hazard and Eden Hazard. he has also a young brother, Ethan Hazard....
Biography of Daniele Luchetti
Daniele Luchetti (born 25 July 1960 in Rome) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor. He was born in Rome. He debuted as assistant director for Nanni Moretti in Bianca (1983) and La messa è finita (1985). Luchetti's first film as director was Domani accadrà of 1988, which won a David di Donatello as best debuting film and received a mention in the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. His subsequent work was the successful Il portaborse (1991), featuring Silvio Orlando as the ghost-writer of a ruthless politician, played by Nanni Moretti. It was seen as a forecast of the Mani Pulite corruption scandal that struck Italy the following year. The film won four David di Donatello awards. Luchetti's theatre spectacle Sottobanco, inspired to Domenico Starnone's works, was later turned i...
Biography of Ralph Simpson
Ralph Derek Simpson (born August 10, 1949 in Detroit, Michigan) is a retired American basketball player. He played professionally in the ABA and NBA from 1970 to 1980. Simpson, a 6'5" guard/forward, was a star at Detroit's Pershing High School, where he teamed with Spencer Haywood to win the Michigan state championship in 1967. After two strong years at Michigan State University, he signed a professional contract with the ABA's Denver Rockets (later Denver Nuggets), and he would represent the franchise in five ABA All-Star games. Simpson had his finest season in 1971–1972, in which he averaged 27.4 points, 4.7 rebounds, and 3.1 assists. After the ABA-NBA merger in 1976, Simpson joined the Detroit Pistons, but his level of production dropped significantly (from 18 points per game in 19... |
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