Appian ("c." 95 – "c." 165), of Alexandria was a Greek historian with Roman citizenship who flourished during the reigns of Trajan, Hadrian and Antoninus Pius. He was born ca. 95 in Alexandria. He tells us that, after having filled the chief offices in the province of Egypt, he repaired to Rome ca. 120, where he practiced as an advocate, pleading cases before the emperors. In 147 at the earliest he was appointed to the office of procurator, …

Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, lawyer, political theorist, philosopher, widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. Cicero is generally seen as one of the most versatile minds of Roman culture and his writing the paragon of Classical Latin. He introduced the Romans to the chief schools of Greek philosophy and created a Latin philosophical vocabulary.

Mariel Hadley Hemingway (born November 22, 1961 in Mill Valley, California) is an American actress. She is the granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway and sister of Margaux Hemingway.

Deborah Mazar (born August 15, 1964), better known as Debi Mazar, is an American actress, best known for her trademark "Jersey Girl"-type appearances, and as edgy, sharp-tongued women in independent films. Mazar was born in Queens, New York. Her father, Harry Mazar, was born in the Latvian SSR, Soviet Union, to a Jewish family, …

Lucius, or Marcus, Annaeus Seneca, known as Seneca the Elder and Seneca the Rhetorician (ca. 54 BC- ca. 39 AD) was a Roman rhetorician and writer, born of a well-to-do equestrian family of Córdoba, Spain. His "praenomen" is uncertain, but in any case Marcus is an arbitrary conjecture of Raphael of Volterra. During a lengthy stay on two occasions at Rome, Seneca attended the lectures of famous orators and rhetoricians, …

Yen Hsi-shan, (8 October, 1883 – 22 July, 1960) was a Chinese warlord who served in the government of the Republic of China. Yen received his formal military training first in China and later at Imperial Japanese Army Academy. In Japan he became a member of Sun Yat-sen's Revolutionary Alliance (Tongmenghui) and following the 1911 Xinhai Revolution he seized power in the province of Shanxi. Though a member of the Beiyang Army and affiliated with Duan Qirui, …

Barbara Bosson (born November 1,1939 in the Pittsburgh suburb of Charleroi, Pennsylvania, USA) is an American actress who has starred on television and in film.

Lucius Lucceius, Roman orator and historian, friend and correspondent of Cicero. A man of considerable wealth and literary tastes, he may be compared with Atticus. Disgusted at his failure to become consul in 60 BC, he retired from public life, and devoted himself to writing a history of the Social and Civil Wars. This was nearly completed, when Cicero earnestly requested him to write a separate history of his (Cicero's) consulship.

James Leigh Strachan-Davidson (1843-1916) was an English classical scholar, born at Penrith. He was educated at Leamington College and at Balliol College, Oxford, and from 1907 was master of Balliol. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the universities of St. Andrews and Glasgow. His publications include an edition of "Selections from Polybius" (1888); of Appian, "Civil Wars", …

Nicolas de Montreux (Maine, c. 1561 - 1608) was a French nobleman, novelist, poet, translator and dramatist. He was the son of a "maître des requêtes" and may have become a priest around 1585. In 1591 he came under the protection of the Duke of Mercoeur (he became his librairian) and participated in the civil wars on the side of the Ligue, until he was imprisoned. Upon his release, he joined the court of Henri IV of France.

François Béroalde de Verville was a French Renaissance novelist, poet and intellectual. He was the son of Matthieu Brouard (or Brouart), called "Béroalde", a professor of Agrippa d'Aubigné and Pierre de l'Estoile and a Huguenot; his mother, Marie Bletz, was the niece of the humanist and Hebrew scholar François Watebled (called "Vatable"). At the time of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, his family fled to Geneva (1573), but Béroalde returned to Paris in 1581.

David Leslie, Lord Newark (c. 1600-1682) was a cavalry officer and General in the English Civil War and Scottish Civil Wars. The son of the 1st Earl of Lindores, he fought for the Swedish army of Gustavus Adolphus as a professional soldier during the Thirty Years' War. On the outbreak of the Civil Wars in Great Britain, he returned to his native Scotland, to command the armies of the Covenanter Scottish government.

James Warwick (born on November 17, 1947 in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, England) is a British actor, known for his roles on television. He is probably best remembered for his leading roles in "Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime" (alongside Francesca Annis as the sleuthing couple Tommy and Tuppence Beresford) and the BBC serial "The Nightmare Man". He also appeared in the "Doctor Who" serial "Earthshock" as Lieutenant Scott.

James A. "Jim" Corbett (born Casper, Wyoming, October 8, 1933 - died near Benson, Arizona, August 2, 2001) was an American rancher, writer, Quaker, philosopher, and human rights activist and a co-founder of the Sanctuary movement. The son of a teacher and a substitute teacher, Corbett was descended from European-American settlers and Blackfoot Indians, and spent part of his childhood living on an Indian reservation.

George Foster Emmons was a U.S. naval officer in the early to mid 19th century. Born 23 August 1811 in Clarendon, Vt., Emmons began his distinguished career as a midshipman 1 April 1828. As a lieutenant in "Peacock" he participated in the Wilkes Exploring Expedition of 1838-42, which discovered the Antarctic Continent, and throughout the south seas.

Napoleon B. Harrison (19 February 1823 - 27 October 1870) was an officer of the United States Navy who served during the Mexican-American and Civil Wars. Harrison was born in Martinsburg, Va. (now West Virginia), 19 February 1823 and was appointed Midshipman 26 February 1838. Serving in California during the Mexican War in "Portsmouth", he was a volunteer in the expedition to rescue General Philip Kearny's command, …

Peter Onorati was born and raised in Boonton, New Jersey. He attended college at Lycoming College, where he received his B.A. degree in Business Administration. He was an NCAA all-conference wide receiver, and signed up to play in the World Football League, which quickly collapsed. He then enrolled in Fairleigh Dickinson University, where he received an MBA. He worked for Ford Motor Company and McCall's magazines. He started in comedy, and left the business world for acting. He now lives...

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David Marciano was born 7th January, and raised in Newark, New Jersey. He says his early life was full of bluster and drugs, and by the age of 17 he was in with a bad crowd of hoodlums. His choice was simple: clean up his act or he was unlikely to reach 40. He chose to clean up his act, and now says that his early experiences have been useful research for his acting roles. Later, he attended Northeastern University in Boston where he began studying Biomedical Engineering. He soon...

Father of Francesca Catalano Appeared at Robotech conventions in the 1980s dressed as Rick Hunter, even though he never portrayed the character in the animated series. This was because he resembled the character more than the actual voice actor, Tony Oliver, and had a similar voice.