- James K. Polk
Often referred to as the first "dark horse" President, James K. Polk was the last of the Jacksonians to sit in the White House, and the last strong President until the Civil War. He was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, in 1795. Studious and industrious, Polk was graduated with honors in 1818 from the University of North Carolina. As a young lawyer he entered politics, served in the Tennessee legislature, and became a friend of Andrew Jackson .
- Annette Bening
Annette Bening was born on May 29, 1958 in Topeka, Kansas, the youngest of four children. Her family moved to California when she was young, and she grew up there.
- Robert Dallek
Robert Dallek, born May 16 1934, is a prominent American historian with a specialism of American Presidents. He is a Professor of History at Boston University and has previously taught at Columbia University, UCLA and Oxford. He has won the Bancroft Prize and numerous other awards for scholarship and teaching.
- Mark Thompson
Mark Thompson is an Emmy award winner two times over for writing, hosting and producing specials for the Fox Television Stations. He is the on-air nightly weather anchor and lifestyle reporter for KTTV FOX 11 in Los Angeles. Thompson also hosts the weekly entertainment program "That's So Hollywood." Mark was a creative partner in NEXT entertainment (The Bachelor) and in fact was the first person to pitch the program The Bachelor to ABC.
- Paul van Dyk
Paul van Dyk is one of the world's leading electronic dance music DJs and producers.
- Bill Pascrell
Bill was first elected to Congress in 1996 after defeating an incumbent Republican congressman. His grassroots campaign took him to town halls and front doors throughout the district. Bill has been reelected every two years, and brings his commitment to the people of the 8th district with him every time he hops on the train to Washington. In the House of Representatives, Bill sits on the Committee on Ways and Means, and the Committee on Homeland Security.
- Alexander Gardner
Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was an American photographer. He is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War and his portraits of American President Abraham Lincoln. Gardner has often had his work misattributed to Mathew Brady, and despite his considerable output, historians have tended to give Gardner less than full recognition for his documentation of the Civil War. Gardner was born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1821.
- Charles Bierbauer
Charles Bierbauer was CNN’s senior Washington correspondent and a veteran reporter covering national and international affairs. As a CNN correspondent, Bierbauer reported on five presidential campaigns and served as CNN’s senior White House correspondent for almost a decade during the Reagan and Bush Administrations. He has traveled with American presidents to all 50 states and more than 30 nations.
- Don Newman
Don Newman, C.M. is the senior parliamentary editor for CBC Television. He is also the host of CBC Newsworld's daily politics program CBC News: Politics. Originally from Winnipeg, Newman began his career at CTV where he served as the network's Washington correspondent from 1972 until 1976. In 1976 he moved to CBC and remained in Washington until 1979. He served two years as the Edmonton correspondent before moving to the parliamentary bureau in 1981.
- Francis Bok
Francis Piol Bol Bok (born February 1979) is a Dinka tribesman, former Sudanese, alleged slave turned abolitionist. He was captured and enslaved during an Arab militia raid on the village of Nymlal in Southern Sudan on May 15, 1986 and enslaved at age seven. Bok lived in bondage for 10 years before his escape and journey to America. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts, and currently works for the American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG).
- Wintley Phipps
Wintley Augustus Phipps (b. 1955) was born in Trinidad and Tobago. Phipps is an ordained Seventh-day Adventist minister, world-renowned vocal artist, and innovative initiator of special projects such as the "US Dream Academy" founder of Songs of Freedom Publishing Company and Coral Records Recording Company. Mr. Phipps has been the featured speaker and performer at many notable occasions around the world. He has performed for American President Jimmy Carter, …
- Armin T. Wegner
Armin T. Wegner (October 16 1886 - May 17 1978) was a soldier in World War I, a writer and a co-creator of German Expressionism, a political activist for Armenian and Jewish human rights, and a victim of Nazi persecution. He was born in the town of Elberfeld, Rhineland (Wuppertal) in Germany. He enrolled as a volunteer nurse in Poland at the outbreak of World War I during the winter of 1914-1915, and was awarded the Iron Cross for assisting wounded under fire.
- Fielding Lewis
Fielding Lewis (1726-1781) was born at Warner Hall in Gloucester County, Virginia and died in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He married Catharine Washington on 18 October 1746. She was his second cousin, daughter of John Washington and Catharine Whiting and first cousin to George Washington. The marriage produced three children. Catharine died on 19 February 1750. His second marriage was to Elizabeth "Betty" Washington, …
- Herbert Shughart
Herbert Shughart was the father of Randall Shughart, an American soldier who was killed during the Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia, October 3, 1993. Shughart opposed the conflict and received some media attention in 1994 when, on May 29, he refused to shake hands with President Bill Clinton, during the presentation of a posthumous Medal of Honor for his son's service.
- Richard C. Weaver
Richard C. Weaver is a mysterious Californian man known by the nickname Handshake Man. Weaver has earned notoriety for the way he is frequently able to bypass the US Secret Service and shake the hand of the American President. Weaver has allegedly been able to personally shake hands with every US President since Jimmy Carter, in some cases even multiple times on different occasions.
- Michael Stevens
I am just me. "Knight in Shining Armor", "Too Good to be True", "A Friend". I have been called them all. And more. I am just me.
- Kim
found this.
- Charlie
After retiring from the Insurance industry, I have been a contractor with FedEx Custom Critical delivering priority industrial freight all over the MidWest and Eastern U.S. in my van. Am extrememly happily married to Jena and have son and daughter of my own and two great step-daughters. Have lived in Kentucky practically all my life, but may someday relocate to North Carolina as two of kids already live there.
- Karen Reagan
I am a graduate of Grand Valley State University, and currently teach high school math and science. I love to sew and make quilts. This is from my summer vacation. Check it out!
- Brie
- Laurie
- Roger Hui
Roger Hui was co-developer of the J Programming Language. He was born in Hong Kong in 1953 and he immigrated to Canada with his entire family in 1966. In 1973, Roger entered the University of Alberta. Those who knew him then still speak of his extraordinary talents. In his second year he took a course on Probability and Statistics in which students were expected to learn APL (programming language) with little or no formal instruction.
- Scott Brazda
- Lucy Washington
Lucy Washington (née Payne, one of eight children born to John Payne and Mary Coles, was the sister of Dolley Madison, the wife of American President James Madison. She first married Major George Steptoe Washington, a nephew of American President George Washington. After his death, she married Supreme Court Justice Thomas Todd, and the couple had three children: William J., Madisonia, and James Madison.
- Abraham Lincoln
Reviews Lincoln's early years as a farmer and his significant impact on U.S. agriculture, including the establishment of the USDA and the beginnings of the National Agricultural Library. Also includes various full text documents and agricultural Acts from the 1860s.
- Maria Owings Shriver
Shriver was born in Chicago in 1955 to two very political parents. She is a member of Kennedy family through her mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver , who is the sister of President John Kennedy . Her father, Sargent Shriver , is a former ambassador and a former candidate for the U.S. Vice-Presidency. Maria Shriver was born into politics, and seemingly cannot escape from the political life.
- Ron Karenga
Ron Karenga was a notorious gangleader, murder, torturer and traitor to Black People and the Black Power Movement.
- Rob Nokes
SoundStorm's Academy Award-winning sound effects library was purchased by Rob Nokes in January, 2005, in addition to the libraries of Tattersall - Cassablanca and Masters' Workshop. Rob has an extraordinary collection of microphones, hydrophones, and hard disk recorders (Deva5), and has traveled to thirty-five countries in his pursuit of new sounds. His current pursuit is musical winds and whales or dolphins.
- Richard Milhous Nixon
Nixon Resignation Excerpt (file info) — play in browser ( beta ) Excerpt of televised speech from the Oval Office on 8 August 1974 . (80 KB , ogg / Vorbis format).
- Ronald Reagan
my name is Ronlad REagan yea yea i knoe. . .i live in louisiana and i am 45 years old. I am divorced with 3 kids.. 2 boys and 1 girl. if yew wanna knoe more you know what to do?
- M. Lee Pelton
M. Lee Pelton • President, Willamette University Les Purce • President, Evergreen State College
- Kevin Perez
George W Bush worked on his father's successful election campaign in 1989, and became a partner of the Texas Rangers in 1994. He became the 46th Governor of the State of Texas in 1995. He was elected as President of the United States in 2001, and was re-elected as President in 2004. Read more on the The White House website .
- Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States. He presided over the final victory of the Allies in World War II, the beginning of the Cold War, the conversion from a war economy to a peacetime economy, and most of the Korean War. The TeachWithMovies.com Learning Guide to Truman will show teachers and parents how to use the film to supplement curriculum about U.S. History in the middle of the 20th century and introduce one of our most respected presidents.
- Francisco Franco
Franco was born in Ferrol, Galicia, Spain . His father Nicolas Franco Salgado-Araujo was a Navy accounting officer. His mother Pilar Bahamonde Pardo de Andrade also came from a family with naval tradition. He was sibling to Nicolás Franco Bahamonde, navy officer and diplomat, a sister, Pilar Franco Bahamonde, latter a well known socialite, and Ramón Franco a pioneer aviator and political conspirator.
- Lyndon B. Johnson National
Johnson was born in Stonewall, Texas , on August 27 , 1908 , in a small farmhouse in a poor area on the Pedernales River. His parents, Samuel Ealy Johnson and Rebekah Baines, had three girls and two boys: LBJ and his brother, Sam Houston , and sisters Rebekah (1910-1978), Josefa (1912-1961), and Lucia (1916-1997). Johnson attended public school s and graduated from Johnson City High School in 1924.
- Melan Jaich
- Janet Harbison
Janet Harbison was born in Dublin in the mid 1950s at a time of great renewal and interest in Irish music. Having spent some time as a child boarding at an Irish language college in Rinn, County Waterford, her passion for traditional music and song inspired her career choice which after winning all major national and a number of prestigious international harp competitions, involved traveling the world as a performing soloist for a number of years.
- Larry Watts
Larry Watts Vice President of Information Technology Larry joined CTSI in 2000, as Director, Information Technology and served in this capacity for three years before being promoted to Vice President, Freight Payment Operations in 2003. Larry joined CTSI in 2000, as Director, Information Technology and served in this capacity for three years before being promoted to Vice President, Freight Payment Operations in 2003.
- George W Bush
Long live Islam in the world.
- Chadwick F. Smith
Dr. Chadwick F. Smith , chair of the Internet2 Orthopaedic Surgery Working Group , will present at the Second Symposium on Internet2 Applications to Orthopaedic Surgery on 12 September 2003, in conjunction with the SICOT/SIROT Second Annual International Conference in Cairo. In August 2002, Dr. Smith was elected President-Elect of SICOT, the International Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, that will make him the second American president in SICOT's 73-year history.