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Biography of Buck Williams
Charles Linwood Williams (born March 8, 1960 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina), better known as "Buck", is a retired American professional basketball player and current assistant coach for the Portland Trail Blazers. He was well known for his rebounding ability and trademark goggles. Williams, 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m), ranks 13th all-time in NBA career rebounds. His 17-year NBA career was highlighted by three All-Star Game appearances, a Rookie of the Year award, an All-Rookie team selection, an All-NBA second team selection and four selections to the first and second NBA All-Defensive teams. As of 2010, he is still the Nets' all-time leader in points (10,440), total rebounds (7,576), rebounds per game (11.9), and free throws made (2,476). College Williams attended Rocky Mount High School (...
Biography of Peter Medawar
Sir Peter Brian Medawar, OM CBE FRS (28 February 1915 – 2 October 1987) was a Brazilian/British biologist, whose work on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance was fundamental to the practice of tissue and organ transplants. He was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet. Until he was partially disabled by a cerebral infarction, Medawar was Director of the National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill. Life Early years Medawar was born on 28 February 1915, in Petrópolis, Brazil (a town 40 miles north of Rio de Janeiro) of a Brazilian mother and a Lebanese father. Medawar left Brazil for England in 1928, and lived there for the rest of his life. Medawar was educated at Marlborough College and Magdalen ...
Biography of Wolfgang Preiss
Wolfgang Preiss (27 February 1910 (source for his time of birth: biography on Imdb) – 27 November 2002) was a German theatre, film and television actor. The son of a teacher, in the early 1930s Preiss studied philosophy, German and drama. He also took private acting classes with Hans Schlenck, making his stage début in Munich in 1932. He went to appear in various theatre productions in Heidelberg, Königsberg, Bonn, Bremen, Stuttgart and Berlin. In 1942 he made his film début - he was exempted from military service specifically - in the UFA production Die grosse Liebe with Zarah Leander. After the end of the Second World War Preiss returned to the theatre, and from 1949 worked extensively dubbing films into German. In 1954 he returned to film acting, appearing in Alfred Weidenmann'...
Biography of Kristoffer Polaha
Kristoffer Polaha (born February 18, 1977 in Reno, Nevada), is an American film and television actor who starred on the FOX TV series North Shore. He is sometimes credited as Kris Polaha. Polaha is married to actress Julianne Morris since June 7, 2003. They have sons Kristoffer Caleb Polaha, Jr. (b. July 28, 2004) and Micah (b. April 6, 2006). He starred on ABC's mid-season replacement series, Miss Guided, and appeared in the Fox Network television series Tru Calling. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1119340/ ) "Better Off Ted" .... Don (1 episode, 2009) - Racial Sensitivity (2009) TV episode .... Don "Without a Trace" .... Justin Morgan (1 episode, 2009) ... aka "W.A.T" (USA: short title) - Daylight (2009) TV episode .... Justin Morgan "Valentine" .... Dan...
Biography of Sung Yu-ri
Sung Yu-ri (born March 3, 1981) was the youngest member of the disbanded Korean pop group Fin.K.L along with Lee Hyori, Ock Joo Hyun and Lee Jin. Known as the "cute one" in the group, she has always been one of the most popular Korean stars, who is known for her beauty as well as her reputation for being a genuinely friendly person. Sung has also made a name for herself as an actress, first appearing in the miniseries "Bad Girls" which earned her the "Best New Actress" award. She followed it up with the popular series "Thousand Years Of Love" in which she portrayed both a current woman and an ancient princess. In addition to her dramatic work, she has also co-hosted an entertainment show in 2004 and has been a catalogue model for various companies. Although she briefly returned to music...
Biography of Luis Puenzo
Luis Adalberto Puenzo (born February 19, 1946) is an Argentine film director, producer and screenplay writer. He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina, but has also worked in the United States. Biography Puenzo was born in Buenos Aires in 1946. He began a successful career in 1965 producing television advertising spots in Argentina. He founded Luis Puenzo Cinema, a production company, with Sergio Tamburri (film editor and trombone player of the famous Porteña Jazz Band); the firm's name was changed to Cinemanía S.A. in 1974. During Argentina's Dirty War in the mid 1970s and early 1980s many filmmakers became victims of repression and some went into exile; some disappeared. During this difficult time, Puenzo decided to work in advertising. In the United States he is known for...
Biography of Don Paul
Don Paul (born March 18, 1925) is a former professional American football linebacker who played for the Los Angeles Rams (1948-1955) in the National Football League. He was selected to three Pro Bowls during his years with the Rams. Was inducted into the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame in 1986. One of only two players to play in 6 UCLA-USC games during World War 2 Years....
Biography of Charles Ferdinand Gambon
Charles Ferdinand Gambon, born March 19, 1820 in Bourges (Cher), died September 16, 1887 in Cosne-sur-Loire (Nièvre), was a French famous politician....
Biography of Yola Ramirez
Yola Ramírez Ochoa (born March 1, 1935 in Tesitlan, Puebla, Mexico) was an internationally renowned tennis player in the 1950s and 1960s. Ochoa was a singles finalist at the French Championships in 1960 and 1961. She lost the 1960 final to Darlene Hard and the 1961 final to Ann Haydon Jones, both International Tennis Hall of Fame enshrinees. She also was a quarterfinalist at Wimbledon in 1959 and 1961, a quarterfinalist at the 1961 and 1963 U.S. Championships, a semifinalist at the 1962 Australian Championships, a semifinalist at the 1959 Italian Championships, and a finalist in Monte Carlo in 1959. Ochoa won the German Championships in 1957 and was a finalist in 1961. Ochoa teamed with Rosie Reyes to win the women's doubles title at the 1958 French Championships and to reach the fin...
Biography of Carlo Gesualdo
Carlo Gesualdo, known as Gesualdo di Venosa or Gesualdo da Venosa (March 8, 1566 – September 8, 1613), Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, was an Italian nobleman, lutenist, composer, and murderer. As a composer of the late Renaissance, he is remembered for writing intensely expressive madrigals and sacred music that use a chromatic language not heard again until the late 19th century. Biography Early life Gesualdo was part of the aristocratic family that had acquired the principality of Venosa in 1560. His uncle was Carlo Borromeo, later Saint Charles Borromeo. In addition, Gesualdo's mother, Girolama, was the niece of Pope Pius IV. Most likely he was born at Venosa, then part of the Kingdom of Naples, but little else is known about his early life. Even his birthdate — 1560...
Biography of Robert Mallet
Robert Mallet, born March 15, 1915 in Paris, died December 4, 2002, was a French civil servant, writer, poet, journalist and radio host. Publications: * La Poursuite amoureuse (1932-1940), Mercure de France, Paris, 1943 ; * L'Égoise clé ou le livre des octosyllabes, R. Laffont, Paris, 1946 ; * Les Poëmes du feu, Éditions de l'ancre d'or, Paris, 1947 ; * De toutes les douleurs, R. Laffont, Paris, 1948 ; * La chatelaine de Coucy ou pas de morale sans amour, Éditions de l'ancre d'or, Paris, 1950 ; * Amour, mot de passe, Seghers, Paris, 1952 ; * Une Mort ambigüe, Gallimard, Paris, 1955 ; * L'Équipage au complet, Gallimard, Paris, 1958 ; * Mahafaliennes, Gallimard, Paris, 1961 ; * Le Poëme du sablier, Gallimard, Paris, 1962 ; * Aposti...
Biography of Brigitte Douay
Brigitte Douay (born 24 February 1947 in Paris) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France. She is a member of the Socialist Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the Committee on Budgets. She is also a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development, a member of the delegation for relations with Japan, and a substitute for the delegation to the EU–Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee. Career Degree in classics (1968), graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies Teacher (1971) Editorial secretary on 30 jours d'Europe (1971–1972) Editorial secretary on issues of the Moniteur devoted to public works (1972–1973) Journalist (1974–1977) Press attaché to Pierre Mauroy...
Biography of James L. Holloway III
James Lemuel Holloway III (born February 23, 1922 in Charleston, South Carolina (birth time sources: Lescaut, Nolle)) is a retired United States Navy admiral and naval aviator who was highly decorated for his actions during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. After the Vietnam War, he was posted to The Pentagon, where he established the Navy's Nuclear Powered Carrier Program. He served as Chief of Naval Operations from 1974–1978. After retiring from the Navy, Holloway served as President of the Naval Historical Foundation from 1980–1998 and served another ten years as its Chairman until his retirement in 2008. He is presently Chairman Emeritus of the Naval Historical Foundation and author of Aircraft Carriers at War: A Personal Retrospective of Korea, Vietnam, and the Soviet...
Biography of Phil Knight
Philip Hampson "Phil" Knight (born February 24, 1938) is an American business magnate and philanthropist. A native of Oregon, he is the co-founder and chairman of Nike, Inc., and previously served as the chief executive officer of Nike. In 2013, Forbes named Knight the 56th richest person in the world and the 24th richest in America, with an estimated net worth of US$18.4 billion. A graduate of the University of Oregon and Stanford Graduate School of Business, he has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to both schools; Knight gave the largest donation in history at the time to Stanford's business school in 2006. A native Oregonian, he ran track under coach Bill Bowerman at the University of Oregon, with whom he would co-found Nike. Early years Phil Knight is the son of lawyer ...
Biography of Norman Taurog
Norman Rae Taurog (February 23, 1899 - April 7, 1981) was an American film director, and screenwriter. Between 1920 and 1968, Taurog directed over 140 films, and directed Elvis Presley in more movies than any other director (nine, starting with G.I. Blues (1960)). He won the 1931 Academy Award for Best Director for the film Skippy and still holds the record as the youngest director (32) to win it. He was later nominated for Best Director for the 1938 film, Boys Town. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Norman Taurog has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1600 Vine Street. Career It could be said that Norman Taurog had five chapters to his career. His first was as a child performer on the stage from an early age, making his movie debut aged 13 in the short fil...
Biography of Doug Ardito
Douglas John Ardito (born March 10, 1971) is a bassist, guitarist, and keyboard player from Bedford, Massachusetts. Doug Ardito is the bassist/guitarist for Puddle of Mudd and has been since 1999. Ardito co-wrote the song "Blurry", from Puddle of Mudd's album Come Clean. Guitar One magazine voted Ardito's guitar part in "Blurry" as one of the "top ten riffs of the decade". "Blurry" won ascap's coveted "song of the year" award and "pop song of the year" in 2003> blurry also won 2 billboard awards in 2002, for "modern rock track of the year" and " rock track of the year" . the group also won "modern rock artist of the year" and "rock artist of the year" awards. sweeping all four rock billboard awards. not done since U2. "blurry" also won kerrang!'s "best single" award in 2002. A few track...
Biography of Mike Walsh
Mike Walsh OBE (born 5 March 1938 in Corowa, New South Wales, Australia) was host of The Mike Walsh Show from 1973 until 1985. Walsh is the only entertainer to be awarded the Sammy Award and Gold Logie award in the same year. Walsh completed his education at Xavier College in Melbourne, Victoria, before studying Pharmacy and Arts at Melbourne University. After a successful media career in television and radio, Walsh began producing theatre shows across Australia and on London's West End. He has been the owner of Her Majesty's Theatre in Melbourne since 2000, and funded and overseen its restoration. Walsh also owns the Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace, an art deco, six cinema complex in Cremorne, Sydney....
Biography of Andy Crane
Howard Andrew 'Andy' Crane (born 24 February 1964, Morecamb (birth time source: Frank C. Clifford, British Entertainers, 1997 ) is an English television and radio presenter, best known for presenting Children's BBC between 1987 and 1990 and for his current work as presenter on BBC Radio Manchester. Career Crane started his career in radio before applying for Children's BBC in 1987, taking over as sole presenter from Philip Schofield. This role saw him present the interstitial sections of the schedule through the use of in-vision continuity. Presenting from the continuity announcer's booth, nicknamed 'The Broom Cupboard', Crane presented links on until leaving in 1990, to be replaced by Andi Peters. In addition to Children's BBC, Crane also acted as a relief presenter on Top of the Pops...
Biography of Edouard Collin
Edouard Collin (born 28 February 1987), is a French actor and comedian. He is best known outside of France for playing gay teenager Martin in the film Crustacés et Coquillages ('Cockles and Muscles'), and Franklin in Hellphone. He has also appeared in theatrical productions and on French television. His new film Les Irréductibles is due out 2006. Filmography Actor 2005 : Crustacés et coquillages de Olivier Ducastel et Jacques Martineau 2006 : Les Irréductibles de Renaud Bertrand 2007 : Hellphone de James Huth 2008 : Nés en 68 d'Olivier Ducastel et Jacques Martineau Television 2006 : Madame le proviseur (2 épisodes) de Philippe Bérenger. 2007 : Clara Sheller (saison 2), de Alain Berliner (série télévisée). 2007 : Marie Humbert, le secret d'une mère de Marc Angelo. ...
Biography of Horia Damian
Horia Damian, born February 24, 1922 in Bucharest, is a Romanian painter and sculptor. He lives in Paris, France. His work "La Colline" was constructed for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York....
Biography of Yves Brainville
Yves Brainville, born Yves René Marie de La Chevardière de La Grandville on March 8, 1914 in Paris (birth time source: her daughter, email on August 15, 2014), died on November 16, 1993 in Paris, was a French comedian and actor. Filmography (source: http://akas.imdb.com/name/nm0104064/) 1991 Marie Pervenche (TV series) – Un ressort diabolique (1991) 1990 Moi, général de Gaulle (TV movie) Philippe Pétain 1990 Haute tension (TV series) M. Guidoux – La porte secrète (1990) … M. Guidoux 1990 Sweet Revenge Chase 1988 Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret (TV series) Le professeur Wiener – Maigret et l'homme de la rue (1988) … Le professeur Wiener 1987 La lettre perdue (TV movie) M. Harvey 1985 L'affaire Caillaux (TV movie) 1984 The Ebony Tower (TV movie) J...
Biography of Heinz Wallberg
Heinz Wallberg (born Herringen, Westphalia, 16 March 1923; died Essen, 29 September 2004) was a German conductor. He studied trumpet, violin and piano. He helped to support his family with his musical training after his father became unable to work. During World War II, he was a morse code operator, and simultaneously directed an army band and led a string quartet. After the war, he studied at the Dortmund and Cologne conservatories. He made his debut as a conductor in Münster with Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. He became principal music director in Augsburg in 1954, and in Bremen in 1955, concluding in both posts in 1960. In 1957, he recorded a scene from Wagner's Lohengrin, with the Philharmonia Orchestra in London and the singers Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Christa Ludwig, under the prod...
Biography of Zdzislaw Beksinski
Zdzisław Beksiński (Polish pronunciation: ; 24 February 1929 – 21 February 2005) was a renowned Polish painter, photographer, and sculptor. Beksiński executed his paintings and drawings either in what he called a 'Baroque' or a 'Gothic' manner. The first style is dominated by representation, with the best-known examples coming from his fantastic realism period when he painted disturbing images of a surrealistic, nightmarish environment. The second style is more abstract, being dominated by form, and is typified by Beksiński's later paintings. Beksiński was murdered in 2005. Early life Beksiński was born in the town of Sanok, in southern Poland. After studying architecture in Kraków, he returned to Sanok in 1955. Subsequent to this education, he spent se...
Biography of Frank Capra Jr.
Frank Capra, Jr. (March 20, 1934 – December 19, 2007) was an American movie studio executive and one of the three children of the film director Frank Capra and his second wife Lou Capra. He was president of EUE Screen Gems Studios in Wilmington, North Carolina and a member of the North Carolina Film Council. Like his father and other family members (son Frank Capra III), Capra Jr. entered into show business. He was a producer of various TV movies and motion pictures mostly in the 1970s and 1980s. Capra died the night of December 19, 2007 at a hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania after a long battle with prostate cancer. He was 73 years old. Filmography * Mark Twain's Greatest Adventure: 'It's a Matter of Time' (2005) (pre-production) (producer) * Queen City Blowout ...
Biography of Todd Bodine
Todd Bodine (born February 27, 1964) is a NASCAR driver. Todd is the younger brother of former racers Geoffrey and Brett Bodine. Bodine is known for his bald head, which has given him the nickname The Onion. He currently drives the #11 Toyota Tundra for Red Horse Racing in the Camping World Truck Series. Early career Bodine would make his Busch Series debut in 1986, for Pistone Racing at Martinsville. He qualified and finished 27th in the 30-car field, falling out of the race early with an engine problem. Bodine went on a three year hiatus from the series until 1990, when he would drive eight races for Diamond Ridge Motorsports #42/#81 Ames Pontiac, making his season debut at Martinsville. He started 11th and finished in the 8th position. He then followed that up with finishes of 7t...
Biography of Geronimo Berroa
Gerónimo Emiliano Berroa (born March 18, 1965 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is a former Major League Baseball player who played for nine teams from 1989 to 2000. Berroa's best season was 1996 when he hit 36 home runs with 106 RBIs for the Oakland Athletics. Signed by the Toronto Blue Jays as an amateur free agent in 1983, he quickly worked his way through the minor leagues, finally making his major league debut with the Atlanta Braves on April 5, 1989. In his 11 seasons in the major league, he hit 101 home runs, had 692 hits, and 510 strikeouts. Apart from the Braves, Berroa also played for the Cincinnati Reds, Florida Marlins, Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, Blue Jays, and Los Angeles Dodgers. On 20 December 2007, Berroa was accused ...
Biography of Pierre Billotte
Pierre Armand Gaston Billotte (1906-1992) was a French Army officer and politician. He was the son of WWII General Gaston Billotte. Following the death of his father and the German victory in the Battle of France, Billotte was imprisoned by the German military. He escaped the next year, and was appointed by the Free French government-in-exile as head of the French Military Mission to Moscow. From 1942 to 1943, he served as chief of staff to Charles de Gaulle. After the Allied invasion of France, he was attached to the 2nd Armored Division. Later in 1944, he was put in command of the 10th Division, and after the liberation of French he became Assistant Chief of Staff of the French Army. From 1946 to 1950, he headed the French Military Mission to the UN. Following his retirement from acti...
Biography of Bobby Jones (golfer)
Robert Tyre "Bobby" Jones Jr. (March 17, 1902 – December 18, 1971) was an American amateur golfer, and a lawyer by profession. Jones was the most successful amateur golfer ever to compete on a national and international level. During his peak as a golfer from 1923 to 1930, he dominated top-level amateur competition, and competed very successfully against the world's best professional golfers. Jones often beat stars such as Walter Hagen and Gene Sarazen, the era's top pros. Jones earned his living mainly as a lawyer, and competed in golf only as an amateur, primarily on a part-time basis, and chose to retire from competition at age 28, though he earned significant money from golf after that, as an instructor and equipment designer. Explaining his decision to retire, Jones said, "It (cham...
Biography of Attilio Nicora
Attilio Nicora (born March 16, 1937) is an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Emeritus Bishop of Verona, and currently the President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See. Nicora was born in Varese, Italy and ordained a priest in 1964. Prior to being ordained, he had earned a license in Canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome as well as a license in theology from the Theological Faculty in Milan. After his ordination, he became a professor of canon law at the Theological Seminary of Venegano. Nicora first became a bishop in 1977, when he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Milan and titular bishop of Furnos Minor. Nicora oversaw the 1984 revision of the concordat, between Italy and the Vatican. From 1992 to 1997, he served as bishop ...
Biography of Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Edward Greenwald (born March 6, 1967) is an American lawyer, journalist and author. He was a columnist for Guardian US from August 2012 to October 2013. He was a columnist for Salon.com from 2007 to 2012, and an occasional contributor to The Guardian. Greenwald worked as a constitutional and civil rights litigator. At Salon he contributed as a columnist and blogger, focusing on political and legal topics. He has also contributed to other newspapers and political news magazines, including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The American Conservative, The National Interest and In These Times. In February 2014 he became, along with Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill, one of the founding editors of The Intercept. Greenwald was named by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the Top 10...
Biography of Ann Burton (singer)
Ann Burton (March 4, 1933, Amsterdam - November 29, 1989, Amsterdam) is the pseudonym of Johanna Rafalowicz (between 1938 and 1971: Johanna de Paauw), a Dutch jazz singer. Discography Ann Burton (1965) Blue Burton (1967) Ballads And Burton (1969) Ann Burton Sings For Lovers And Other Strangers (1972) Misty Burton (1973) By Myself Alone (1974 Ann Burton - Louis van Dijk (1976) Burton For Certain (1977) He's Funny That Way (1977) New York State Of Mind (1979) Some Other Spring (1980) Ann Burton Sings...Vol.1 (1980) Skylark (1980) Ann Burton Collage (1981) Sentimental Touch (1981) Am I Blue (mei 1981) Ann Burton Sings...Vol.2 (1983) It Might As Well Be Love (1984) Everything Happens (1988) ...
Biography of Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze (born in Paris March 15, 1920; died in Cannes on October 6, 1989) was a French actor, critic screenwriter, and director. New Wave In his thirties he played a role in the French New Wave and discussed the beginnings of "the new cinema." He was also a co-founder of Cahiers du cinéma and defended Alain Robbe-Grillet. His own works in this area include directing the film L'Eau à la bouche and acting in some New Wave films. Nevertheless he is generally excluded from the movements "inner circle." Additionally he was friends with François Truffaut who shot the film Une Visite in his flat....
Biography of Christopher Khayman Lee
Christopher Khayman Lee (born Christopher Lee Potts; born March 11, 1978) is an American actor and martial artist. He was born in Miami, Florida, USA and raised in Virginia Beach, VA. His younger sister is actress Chyler Leigh (Dr. Lexie Grey in Grey's Anatomy), who co-starred with him in "Kickboxing Academy" (1997) and "Safe Harbor" (1999). Christopher was intrigued by his sister Chyler's success in modeling and moved to Miami to join her and their mother. At age 17, he joined an acting class and soon moved to Los Angeles to film the role of Andros in Power Rangers in Space (1998) and brought him to his current residence of Los Angeles. He worked behind the screens for a low budget film called Miles from Home. He is now working on the film Another Sleepless Night. He caused some contro...
Biography of Nacho Cano
Ignacio Cano Andrés, aka Nacho Cano, (b. Madrid, February 26, 1963) is a Spanish arranger, composer, musician and record producer. He studied solfège and was one of the members of the Spanish group Mecano along with his brother José María Cano and Ana Torroja. He has released 4 solo albums, including Vivimos siempre juntos with Mercedes Ferrer. As a producer, he founded the company Fairlight Estudios with Alejo Stivel. He also made the 2005 musical Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar which has a great success in Madrid. He is a Buddhist and vegetarian and he collaborates in several humanitarian projects, for example Fundación Sabera, which helps girls in India. Discography Albums recording with Mecano Album: "Mecano" ℗1982 Album: "¿Dónde Está El País De Las Hadas?" ℗...
Biography of Steve Ashley
Steve Ashley, born on March 9, 1946 in London, is a British musician, singer, and composer. External link: http://www.steveashley.co.uk/biography.html...
Biography of Edward Condon
Edward Uhler Condon (March 2, 1902 – March 26, 1974) was a distinguished American nuclear physicist, a pioneer in quantum mechanics, and a participant in the development of radar and nuclear weapons during World War II. He became widely known in 1968 as principal author of The Condon Report, an official review commissioned by the government which concluded that "unidentified flying objects" (UFOs) have prosaic explanations. Early life and career He was born on March 2, 1902, in Alamogordo, New Mexico, where his father was supervising the construction of a narrow-gauge railroad. He was raised a Quaker. After graduating from high school in Oakland, California in 1918, he worked as a journalist for three years at the Oakland Inquirer and other papers. He then attended the University of Ca...
Biography of Arthur P. Gorman
Arthur Pue Gorman (March 11, 1839 (birth time source: Alan Leo, Astrodatabank) – June 4, 1906) was a United States Senator from Maryland, serving from 1881 to 1899 and from 1903 to 1906. He also served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1869 to 1875. He was a prominent Bourbon Democrat and later served as a member of the Mills Commission which investigated the origins of baseball. Gorman was born in Woodstock, Maryland, moved to Laurel, Maryland about 1845 with his younger brother William Henry Gorman, and attended the local public schools. He was appointed as a page in the House of Representatives in 1852 and was transferred to the Senate through the influence of Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas, who made him his private secretary. Gorman subsequently served the Senate as page,...
Biography of Arthur Ranc
Arthur Ranc (20 February 1831 (source: Wikipedia in French) - 10 August 1908) was a French leftwing politician and writer. Born at Poitiers, Vienne, he was educated for the law. Implicated in a plot against Napoleon III in 1853, he was acquitted, but shortly afterwards was imprisoned for belonging to a secret society; for his share in anti-imperialist conspiracies in 1855 he was arrested and deported to Algeria without a trial. The amnesty of 1859 permitted him to return to Paris, where he soon drew the attention of the police to his presence by his violent articles. During the siege of Paris he left the city in a balloon and joined Gambetta, for whom he organized a system of spies through which General Trochu was kept informed of the strength and disposition of the Prussians around ...
Biography of Charles Bonnet
Charles Bonnet (March 13, 1720 – May 20, 1793), Swiss naturalist and philosophical writer, was born at Geneva, of a French family driven into Switzerland by the religious persecution in the 16th century. Life and work Bonnet's life was uneventful. He seems never to have left Switzerland, nor does he appear to have taken any part in public affairs except for the period between 1752 and 1768, during which he was a member of the council of the republic. The last twenty five years of his life he spent quietly in the country, at Genthod, near Geneva, where he died after a long and painful illness on 20 May 1793. His wife was a lady of the family of De la Rive. They had no children, but Madame Bonnet's nephew, the celebrated Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, was brought up as their son. Char...
Biography of David Levy
David Neil Laurence Levy (born 14 March 1945, in London), is a Scottish International Master of chess, a businessman noted for his involvement with computer chess and artificial intelligence, and the founder of the Computer Olympiads and the Mind Sports Olympiads. He has written more than 40 books on chess and computers. Biography Levy was born in London. He won the London Junior Chess Championship in 1965 and 1966. He won the Scottish Chess Championship in 1968. He tied for fifth place at the 1969 Praia da Rocha Zonal tournament, scoring over two-thirds and thereby obtaining the title of International Master. He played on Board One for the Scottish team at the 1972 Chess Olympiad in Skopje, Yugoslavia, scoring six wins, five draws, and seven losses (47.2%). Levy became a professi...
Biography of Marcel Hirscher
Marcel Hirscher (born March 2, 1989) is a World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria. Born in Annaberg-Lungötz, Salzburg, Hirscher made his World Cup debut in March 2007. He has won thirteen World Cup races, seven giant slalom and six slalom, and has been on 33 World Cup podiums in Super G, giant slalom, slalom, and super combined. He is the reigning World Cup overall champion, as well as the World Cup champion in giant slalom. At the 2010 Winter Olympics, Hirscher placed fourth in the giant slalom and fifth in the slalom at Whistler Creekside. He placed fourth in the giant slalom at the 2009 World Championships, but broke his ankle the weekend preceding the 2011 World Championships, which ended his 2011 season. Returning after injury, Hirscher had his best season in 2012 with 9 vict...
Biography of John Stapleton
John Stapleton (born 24 February 1946 in Oldham, Lancashire, England) is an English television presenter. Television career Stapleton is an award winning journalist with more than 40 years experience in newspapers and television. His career began on local newspapers in the North West of England before becoming a staff reporter on the Daily Sketch in Fleet Street. His first job in television was as a researcher and script writer on "This is Your Life" presented by the late Eamonn Andrews. He subsequently worked as a reporter on the Thames TV regional news magazine show Today from 1971 until 1975.He joined the BBC Nationwide programme in 1975 as a reporter, and then became one of the main presenters from 1977 until 1980.While on Nationwide he also carried out major investigations in...
Biography of Henry Houssaye
Henry Houssaye (also Henri) (24 February 1848 – 23 September 1911), was a French historian and academician. He was born in Paris, the son of the novelist Arsène Houssaye. His early writings were devoted to classical antiquity, his knowledge drawn partly from visits to the actual Greek sites in 1868. He published successively Histoire d’Apelles (1867), a study on Greek art; L'Armée dans la Grèce antique (1867); Histoire d’Alcibiade et de la République athénienne, depuis la mort de Périclès jusqu’à l’avènement des trente tyrans (1873); Papers on Le Nombre des citoyens d'Athènes au Vème siècle avant l’ère chrétienne (1882); La Loi agraire à Sparte (1884); Le premier siège de Paris, an 52 avant l’ère chrétienne (1876); and two volumes of miscellanies, Athènes, Rome, Paris, l'histoire et les...
Biography of Cristovam Buarque
Cristovam Ricardo Cavalcanti Buarque (in standard orthography, Cristóvão Ricardo Cavalcate Buarque; Portuguese pronunciation: ; Recife, February 20, 1944) is a Brazilian politician and university professor, member of Democratic Labour Party (PDT). He is married and has two children. Biography Buarque graduated in mechanical engineering from the Federal University of Pernambuco (1966). At that time he engaged in student politics becoming a militant of the Ação Popular, a group of the Leftist Progressive Church. After the 1964 coup, he was persecuted and took exile in France, where he earned a PhD in economics from Sorbonne (Paris), in 1973. He worked at Inter-American Bank of Development (IDB) in Ecuador, Honduras and the United States from 1973 to 79. He was the first elected rector,...
Biography of Umberto Romano
Umberto Romano, born February 26, 1905 in Bracigliano, Italy, died on 1984, was an italian/american artist and painter....
Biography of Georges Colombier
Georges Colombier (born March 8, 1940 in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Isère department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement....
Biography of Mario Davidovsky
Mario Davidovsky (born March 4, 1934) is an Argentine-American composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the US, where he lives today. He is best known for his series of compositions called Synchronisms, which in live performance incorporate both acoustic instruments and electroacoustic sounds played from a tape. Biography Davidovsky was born in Médanos, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, a town nearly 600 km southwest of the city of Buenos Aires and close to the seaport of Bahía Blanca. He is a first-generation Argentinian, his family having emigrated there from Lithuania. Along with the surrounding South American culture, including a strong agrarian economy and Catholic faith, his family's European values and Jewish history shaped his growth and education. At seven he began...
Biography of Antonio Inoki
Antonio Inoki (アントニオ猪木?) (born Kanji Inoki (猪木寛至 Inoki Kanji?) on February 20, 1943) is a Japanese professional wrestling promoter and retired professional wrestler and mixed martial artist who now resides between New York City and Tokyo. He was also the founder and former owner of New Japan Pro Wrestling before selling his controlling share in the promotion to Yukes. He fashioned his name after the wrestler Antonino Rocca as an homage to him. Early life Inoki was born in an affluent family in Yokohama in 1943. He was the sixth son and the second youngest of the seven boys and four girls. His father, Sajiro Inoki, a businessman and politician, died when Kanji was five years old. Inoki entered the Higashidai ...
Biography of Axel Weber
Axel Alfred Weber (born March 8, 1957 in Kusel) is a German economist and has been the president of the Deutsche Bundesbank since April 2004. Axel Weber studied economics and public administration at the University of Konstanz from 1976 to 1982, concluding with a teaching diploma. From 1982-1988 he worked as research assistant in the field of monetary economics at the University of Siegen and was awarded a Doctorate in 1987. In 1994 having passed his Habilitation qualification he went as a Professor to the University of Bonn, from where in 1998 he went to the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (where he remains a member of the Advisors' Board). He was also the Director of the Center for Financial Studies in Frankfurt am Main. In 2001 he became Professor of Internatio...
Biography of Eduardo Saverin
Eduardo Luiz Saverin (Portuguese pronunciation: ) is a Brazilian internet entrepreneur and investor. Saverin is one of five co-founders of Facebook, along with Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, and Andrew McCollum. As of 2012, he owns less than 5% of Facebook's shares and has a net worth of $2.2 billion, according to Forbes. He has also invested in early-stage startups such as Qwiki and Jumio. Personal life Eduardo Saverin was born in São Paulo, Brazil, to a wealthy Jewish Brazilian family, and his family later moved to Rio de Janeiro. Eduardo's father was an industrialist working in export, clothing, shipping, and real estate. By 1993, Saverin's father had become wealthy, and in 1993 it was discovered that his son Eduardo's name had been placed on a list of potential... |
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