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Biography of Valerie Martin (novelist) (excerpt)
Valerie Martin, born Metcalf March 14, 1948, is an American novelist and short story writer.Her novel "Property" won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2003. Raised in New Orleans, Martin earned a BA from the University of New Orleans and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Biography of Manuel Felguérez (excerpt)
Manuel Felguérez Barra (December 12, 1928 – June 8, 2020) was a Mexican abstract artist, part of the Generación de la Ruptura that broke with the muralist movement of Diego Rivera and others in the mid 20th century. Recognition In 1973 he was made a member of Mexico's Academia de Artes.
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Biography of Livio Manzin (excerpt)
Livio Manzin (born in Turin, July 25, 1956) is a former Italian footballer who played as a midfielder. Career Raised in Torino, he made his professional debut in Serie C in 1975 with Albese. He then played two seasons in Serie C with Reggina.
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Biography of Abe Jacob (excerpt)
Abe John Jacob, born October 7, 1944, is an American sound designer and audio engineer, known as the "Godfather of Sound." He greatly influenced modern musical theatre sound design and was among the first to be credited as a sound designer on Broadway in 1971. ![]()
Biography of Bettye LaVette (excerpt)
Bettye LaVette (born Betty Jo Haskins, January 29, 1946) is an American soul singer who made her first record at sixteen, but achieved only intermittent fame until 2005, when her album I've Got My Own Hell to Raise was released to widespread critical acclaim, and was named on many critics' "Best of 2005" lists.
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Biography of Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (excerpt)
Arkadii Trofimovich Dragomoshchenko (3 Februray 1946 – 12 September 2012) was a Russian poet, writer, translator, and lecturer.He is considered the foremost representative of language poetry in contemporary Russian literature. Literary style Dragomoshchenko fused elements of poetry, essay, philosophy, journalism and fictional prose.
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Biography of José Antonio Griñán (excerpt)
José Antonio Griñán Martínez (born 7 June 1946 in Madrid) is a Spanish politician.He was the chairman of the centre-left Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), and from 23 April 2009 until 7 September 2013 he held the position of President of the Regional Government of Andalusia.
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Biography of Francine Leca (excerpt)
Francine Leca, born May 20, 1938, in Neuilly-sur-Seine and passed away on June 15, 2024, in Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche, was a pioneer in pediatric cardiac surgery in France. She specialized in congenital heart diseases after discovering cardiac surgery at Laennec Hospital. In 1971, she became the first female cardiac surgeon in France.
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Biography of Marijane Meaker (excerpt)
Marijane Agnes Meaker (May 27, 1927 – November 21, 2022) was a pioneering American writer credited with launching the lesbian pulp fiction genre in the 1950s. Using various pseudonyms, she wrote across multiple genres: mystery and crime as Vin Packer, nonfiction about lesbians as Ann Aldrich, young-adult fiction as M.E.
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Biography of Gerhard Geisler (agricultural scientist) (excerpt)
Gerhard Geisler, born on August 30, 1927, in Berlin and passed away on July 13, 2010, in Kiel, was a German crop science researcher. From 1969 to 1992, he taught at the University of Kiel, focusing his research on the ecophysiology of yield formation in agricultural crops, with particular emphasis on root growth.
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Biography of Teresa Pàmies (excerpt)
Teresa Pàmies Bertran (8 October 1919 – 13 March 2012) was a Spanish Catalan-language writer. She was leader of the Unified Socialist Youth of Catalonia (1937) and one of the founders of the National Alliance of the Young Woman (1937–1939). Married to Gregorio López Raimundo , General Secretary of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC), she was the mother of writer Sergi Pàmies.
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Biography of Karan Thapar (excerpt)
Karan Thapar (born 5 November 1955 in Srinagar) is an Indian journalist, news presenter and interviewer working with The Wire. Thapar was associated with CNN-IBN and hosted The Devil's Advocate and The Last Word. His time of birth comes from him, in his autobiography Devil's Advocate: The Untold Story by Karan Thapar (Harper India, 2018).
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Biography of Antonello Falqui (excerpt)
Antonello Falqui, born on November 6, 1925, in Rome, was an Italian director and television program creator, particularly known for variety shows. The son of critic and writer Enrico Falqui, he initially enrolled in law school but left to pursue cinema.From 1947 to 1949, he studied directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.
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Biography of Federico Zeri (excerpt)
Federico Zeri (August 12, 1921 – October 5, 1998) was an Italian art historian specializing in Italian Renaissance painting. He graduated from Sapienza University of Rome in 1945, worked for the Ministry of Public Education, and directed the Galleria Spada. In 1963, he joined the Getty Villa board, leaving in 1984 after a dispute over a forgery issue.
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Biography of Roberto Citran (excerpt)
Roberto Citran (born 26 January 1955) is an Italian actor. Life and career Born in Padua, Citran graduated in psychology and founded the university film club CINEMAUNO there. After some sporadic stage works he founded a small theater company, "Punto e Virgola". Citran is best known for his films with fellow Paduan director Carlo Mazzacurati, who debuted him in a main role in 1989, for Il prete bello.
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Biography of Pete Runnels (excerpt)
James Edward "Pete" Runnels (January 28, 1928 – May 20, 1991) was an American professional baseball player, coach and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as an infielder for the Washington Senators (1951–57), Boston Red Sox (1958–62) and Houston Colt .45s (1963–64).
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Biography of François Armanet (excerpt)
François Armanet, born on September 29, 1951, in Fontenay-sous-Bois, is a French journalist, currently editor-in-chief at L'Obs.He is the author of several works, including four novels, and two films. He began his career in 1981 at Libération, where he remained until 1989 as the director of special issues.
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Biography of Donald MacLeary (excerpt)
Donald Whyte MacLeary OBE (born 22 August 1937) is a retired British ballet dancer, a former principal dancer and a ballet master with the Royal Ballet, where he was a member of the company for 48 years. Born in Glasgow, Donald MacLeary studied with Sheila Ross from 1950 to 1951 and at the Sadler's Wells Ballet School. ![]()
Biography of Larry Cox (baseball) (excerpt)
Larry Eugene Cox (September 11, 1947 – February 17, 1990) was an American professional baseball catcher and coach. He played all or parts of nine seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1973 until 1982. Cox threw and batted right-handed, standing 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m; 180 cm) tall, and weighing 190 pounds (86 kg; 14 st), during his playing days.
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Biography of Enzo Bearzot (excerpt)
Enzo Bearzot Grande Ufficiale OMRI (26 September 1927 – 21 December 2010) was an Italian professional football player and manager. A defender and midfielder in his playing career, he also coached the Italy national team to victory in the 1982 FIFA World Cup.
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Biography of Queta Lavat (excerpt)
Enriqueta Margarita Lavat Bayona (22 February 1929 – 4 December 2023), known professionally as Queta Lavat, was a Mexican actress. She was the sister of actor Jorge Lavat and voice actor José Lavat, and mother of Mexican sports anchor Pablo Carrillo.
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Biography of Gilles Gaston Granger (excerpt)
Gilles Gaston Granger (January 28, 1920 – August 24, 2016) was a French epistemologist and rationalist philosopher, considered one of the most significant epistemologists of the 20th century. A former student of the École normale supérieure, he studied under Gaston Bachelard and Jean Cavaillès.
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Biography of Randy Johnson (third baseman) (excerpt)
Randall Glenn Johnson (born June 10, 1956) is a former Major League Baseball third baseman. He played three full seasons in the Majors, from 1982 through 1984, for the Atlanta Braves. He also played two seasons in Japan, 1987 and 1988, for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.
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Biography of Francine Prose (excerpt)
Francine Prose, born on April 1, 1947, is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and critic.She is a visiting professor of literature at Bard College and a former president of PEN American Center. Born in Brooklyn, she graduated from Radcliffe College in 1968.
Biography of Orlando Duarte (excerpt)
Orlando Duarte Figueiredo (18 February 1932 – 15 December 2020) was a Brazilian sports journalist and commentator. Career He was one of the most complete sports chroniclers in Brazil.Acting for a long time on radio and television in São Paulo and writing a column distributed throughout the country, he covered 14 world football championships, ten Olympic Games and championships of various sports.
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Biography of Gary Ruvkun (excerpt)
Gary Bruce Ruvkun (born March 26, 1952, Berkeley, California) is an American molecular biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Ruvkun discovered the mechanism by which lin-4, the first microRNA (miRNA) discovered by Victor Ambros, regulates the translation of target messenger RNAs via imperfect base-pairing to those targets, and discovered the second miRNA, let-7, and that it is conserved across animal phylogeny, including in humans.
Biography of David Yewdall (excerpt)
David Lewis Yewdall (October 30, 1950 – July 4, 2017) was an American supervising sound editor. He worked with Roger Corman on Battle Beyond the Stars and as the co-supervising sound editor on Talvisota. He published a book about the profession in 2007, Practical Art of Motion Picture Sound, which was called a "must-read for all students of film."
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Biography of Michael Kabotie (excerpt)
Michael Kabotie, also known as Lomawywesa (September 3, 1942 – October 23, 2009), was a Hopi silversmith, painter, sculptor, and poet, renowned for his geometric and petroglyph-inspired imagery. Born in Shongopovi, Arizona, to Fred Kabotie, a Hopi artist, and Alice Talayaonema, a traditional weaver, he grew up in Shongopavi.
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Biography of Jehan Jonas (excerpt)
Jehan Jonas, whose real name was Gérard Beziat, was born on August 12, 1944, in Paris’s 17th arrondissement and died on April 29, 1980, in the 13th arrondissement.He was a French singer-songwriter active during the 1960s and 1970s. An overlooked artist, he is best known for his satirical songs and libertarian ideas.
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Biography of Mary Doria Russell (excerpt)
Mary Doria Russell (born August 19, 1950) is an American novelist. Originally from Elmhurst, Illinois, she graduated from Glenbard East High School in Lombard.Her literary career began with The Sparrow (1996) and Children of God (1998), a science fiction series exploring alien contact, the problem of evil, and faith.
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Biography of Raoul Rémy (excerpt)
Raoul Rémy, born on October 25, 1919, in Marseille and died on June 26, 2002, in Marseille (8th arrondissement), was a French cyclist who competed professionally from 1939 to 1957. He participated in nine Tours de France and won two stages: the 5th stage from La Rochelle to Bordeaux in 1948 and the 13th stage from Monaco to Aix-en-Provence in 1952.
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Biography of Lu Alckmin (excerpt)
Maria Lúcia Ribeiro Alckmin (born July 12 1951), commonly known as Lu Alckmin, is former first lady of the state of São Paulo, occupying the position of president of the São Paulo Social Fund between 2001 and 2006 and 2011 and 2018.
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Biography of Eleanor Sanger (excerpt)
Eleanor Sanger (September 15, 1929 – March 7, 1993) was a 7-time Emmy-award-winning television writer and producer, who was the first woman Network Sports Producer. "Women television producers are still as rare as Howard Cosell's silences, but at least one has begun to break through the double barriers of televised sports.
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Biography of Galina Polskikh (excerpt)
Galina Aleksandrovna Polskikh (born 27 November 1939) is a Soviet and Russian film actress. She has appeared in more than 100 films since 1962. Polskikh became famous after playing lead roles in such Soviet films as Walking the Streets of Moscow (1962), The Journalist (1967) and Expectations (1966).
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Biography of Astor Larsen (excerpt)
Jan Astor Larsen (born August 30, 1949, in Oslo) is a Norwegian journalist and editor. Active in left-wing politics during the 1960s, he was a member of the Socialist Youth League (Sosialistisk Ungdomsforbund, SUF) and became the editor of its magazine Ungsosialisten in 1967, making it a central organ of the Marxist-Leninist movement.
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Biography of Anna Maria Alberghetti (excerpt)
Anna Maria Alberghetti (born May 15, 1936) is an Italian-American actress and soprano.Alberghetti sang in concert from the time she was a child and performed at Carnegie Hall at age 13. She began working in American films at age 15 with Frank Capra's 1951 musical Here Comes the Groom.
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Biography of Anna Lutoslawska (excerpt)
Anna Lutosławska-Jaworska (born July 16, 1928, in Kraków, died December 19, 2022, in the same city) was a Polish actress, theater director, and educator. Her time of birth comes from her in this article on April 19, 2014. She began her career in 1945 in Kraków and performed in various theaters in Kraków and Wrocław.
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Biography of Francis Fukuyama (excerpt)
Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama (born October 27, 1952) is an American political scientist, political economist, and writer. He is best known for The End of History and the Last Man (1992), where he argues for liberal democracy as humanity’s final form of government.
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Biography of Joyce (singer) (excerpt)
Joyce Moreno (born 31 January 1948), commonly known as Joyce, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist. The first record of her work as a singer dates back to 1964, when she participated in a vocal quartet in a studio recording of the album Sambacana, by Pacífico Mascarenhas.
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Biography of Eraldo Pecci (excerpt)
Eraldo Pecci (born 12 April 1955 in San Giovanni in Fiore) is an Italian writer, pundit, and former footballer, who played as a midfielder. Club career During his club career, Pecci played for Bologna, Fiorentina, S.S.C. Napoli and Torino, winning a Coppa Italia with Bologna, and a Serie A title with Torino.
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Biography of James B. Thayer (excerpt)
James Burdette Thayer (March 10, 1922 – September 16, 2018) was an American brigadier general who served on active duty during World War II.On May 4, 1945, Thayer and his platoon discovered and liberated 15,000 people held at a concentration camp near Wels, Austria.
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Biography of Wally Lamb (excerpt)
Wally Lamb (born October 17, 1950 in Norwich, Connecticut, ) is an American author known as the writer of the novels She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, both of which were selected for Oprah's Book Club. He was the director of the Writing Center at Norwich Free Academy in Norwich from 1989 to 1998 and has taught Creative Writing in the English Department at the University of Connecticut.
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Biography of Franco Causio (excerpt)
Franco Causio (born 1 February 1949 in Lecce) is an Italian former professional footballer who won the 1982 FIFA World Cup and came through the ranks of his hometown club Lecce before making his name at Juventus for many years in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Biography of Dick Tuck (excerpt)
Richard Gregory Tuck (born January 25, 1924, and died May 28, 2018) was an American political consultant, campaign strategist, and well-known political prankster. Tuck first met Richard Nixon in 1950 while working for Helen Gahagan Douglas's Senate campaign.He orchestrated famous pranks against Nixon, including the "Chinatown Caper" in 1962.
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Biography of Bruno Coulais (excerpt)
Bruno Coulais, born in Paris on 13 January 1954, is a French composer known for his film scores. He began with a classical music background in violin and piano, then shifted to composing for films. His career started in 1977 with the music for the documentary Mexico Magico.
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Biography of Robert Abraham (excerpt)
Robert Abraham, born on November 23, 1921, in Dourdan (Essonne) and died on November 27, 2004, was a French colonel and Companion of the Liberation. In September 1941, after the Syrian campaign, he joined the Free French Forces in Beirut. Assigned to the 1st Free French Tank Company, he took part in the Libyan campaign and the Battle of El Alamein, where he was wounded.
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Biography of Marvin Travis Runyon (excerpt)
Marvin Travis Runyon (September 16, 1924 – October 3, 2004) was an American business executive and civil servant. He had a long career as a manufacturing executive at Ford Motor Company until his retirement, then joined Nissan as head of North American operations.
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Biography of Robert Coover (excerpt)
Robert Lowell Coover (February 4, 1932 – October 5, 2024) was an American novelist, short story writer, and T. B. Stowell Professor Emeritus in Literary Arts at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction. He became a proponent of electronic literature and was a founder of the Electronic Literature Organization.
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Biography of Paul Savoie (actor) (excerpt)
Paul Savoie (born May 21, 1946 in Montréal, Québec, Canada) is a Canadian actor. He is most noted for his performance in the 2015 film The Diary of an Old Man (Le Journal d’un vieil homme), for which he was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Actor at the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2016, and won the award for Best Performance in a Borsos Competition Film at the Whistler Film Festival. ![]()
Biography of Jack Matthews (author) (excerpt)
Jack Matthews, born July 22, 1925, and passed away on November 28, 2013, was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, and professor. He published 7 novels, 11 story collections, a novella, and 8 volumes of essays. A passionate book collector, many of his finds influenced his essays and historical fiction. |
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