Robert Hood is an American electronic music producer and DJ. He is best known for producing hard minimal techno. He started his career with Detroit Techno collective Underground Resistance and since then has released records with various labels including Axis, Peacefrog Records, Music Man and his own M-Plant.

Michael Anthony Banks also known as "Mad Mike" lives in Detroit and is a former studio musician (bass/guitar). He is the co-founder, along with Jeff Mills, of US record label "Underground Resistance". Part of the "second generation" of Detroit techno, UR combine militant imagery with pseudo-mysticism and sci-fi overtones as a front to their stripped down productions. Mike Banks takes his musical influences in Gospel, Kraftwerk, …

Legowelt (real name Danny Wolfers) is a Dutch electro musician who describes his musical style as a hybrid form of slam jack combined with deep Chicago house, romantic ghetto technofunk and EuroHorror Soundtrack. Already a few years in the business Legowelt has released a dozen or so projects on various formats, most of them on vinyl released on Bunker records, The Hague's electronic music label.

James Pennington, also known as Suburban Knight, is an artist and DJ/Producer with "Underground Resistance" (UR), an independent record label based in Detroit, USA. Music by Pennington and other UR members was featured in the video game Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition, which is set on the streets of Detroit. A crucial figure on the outskirts of Detroit techno since the mid '80s, …

Mortiz von Oswald, better known as Maurizio, went on to become one of the most influential producers of techno music in the 1990's. In the 1980's he was percussionist for Palais Schaumburg, but would segue into electronic music by the late 80's and early 90's. First as 3MB (with Thomas Fehlmann), and solo work as TV Victor, he co-founded of Basic Channel Records (with Mark Ernestus), whose various releases came to epitomize minimal techno.

Russell Haswell (born 1970, Coventry, UK) is a multidisciplinary artist. He has exhibited conceptual and wall based visual works, video art, public sculpture, as well as audio presentations in both art gallery and concert hall contexts. Extreme Computer Music is one specialized area of activity. An ongoing collaboration (2003 +) with Florian Hecker working with Iannis Xenakis' graphic-input 'UPIC Music Composing System' is one project, …

Ron Mitchell is an African American Soulful house music singer/songwriter from the Detroit area who is a popular international nightclub performer that has been featured on Gerald Mitchell's "Set Me Free" on Soul City and Underground Resistance's infamous "Hardlife" on Underground Resistance.

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (IPA: [xoliaa mandela]; born 18 July 1918) was the first President of South Africa to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, serving in the office from 1994-1999. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of the African National Congress's armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe.

Cecily Margot Lefort (April 30, 1900 - May 1, 1945) was a heroine of World War II. Born in London of Scottish ancestry, Lefort lived on the coast of Brittany in France from the age of 24 with her French husband, Dr. Alex Lefort.

Hadi Saleh was an Iraqi trade unionist and was International Secretary of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions. Saleh had been involved in Iraqi trade unions for much of his adult life, and was sentenced to death in 1969 because of his involvement in independent unions after the 1968 Ba'ath coup. He served five years in jail before the sentence was commuted, and he fled to Sweden, where he lived as a refugee until after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Dmitry Nikolaevich Medvedev (August 22, 1898 - December 14, 1954), colonel, one of the leaders of Soviet partisan movement in western Russia and Ukraine. Dmitry Medvedev was born in Bryansk in a steelworker's family. During the Russian Civil War joined the Red Army and in 1920 he joined the All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Between 1920 and 1935 worked in Cheka, OGPU and NKVD in Soviet Ukraine. In 1936 Dmitry Medvedev was sent as NKVD intelligence agent abroad.

Shimon Tzabar (born 5 March, 1926 in Tel Aviv, died 19 March, 2007 in London) was a member of the editorial board of Imperial News. He described himself as a "Hebrew speaking Palestinian". In his teens he was a member of all three Jewish underground military organizations in British Mandatory Palestine: Lehi [the Stern Gang], Etzel, and Haganah (Palmach) that fought the British and the surrounding Arab populations as Arab attacks on Jews increased, …

Nester Trubecki. He was imprisoned in Warsaw. Trubecki fled arrest in April 1906 and went to Zürich, where he became a contributor of "Der Weckruf" and a member of Jan Machajski's squad in Geneva; expelled from Switzerland, lived in several European countries and returned to Congress Poland; active in the Polish-Belarusian underground resistance until his death in 1907.

Russell "Maroon" Shoatz (1943 -) is a former Black Panther and Black Liberation Army member, currently serving two life sentences in Waynesburg, PA for the 1970 murder of a police officer. Shoatz's supporters argue that he is a political prisoner. As a young man Shoatz was a community activist and co-founder of the Black Unity Council, an organization that joined the Black Panther Party (BPP) in 1969.

Günter Reimann was a member of the Communist Party of Germany and at the forefront of the underground resistance to Adolf Hitler within Nazi Germany. Reimann was born Hans Steinicke in Angermünde, German Empire. After fleeing Germany for London, he wrote "The Vampire Economy: Doing Business Under Fascism", published in 1939.

Else Christensen (1913-2005), affectionately referred to as the "Folk Mother", was a pioneering Danish figure in the emergence of Asatru and Odinism in the Post-World War II Era. Else Ochsner was born in Esbjerg, Denmark in 1913, and met her husband Alex in 1937. She and her husband became syndicalist activists before the war and thus were under heavy scrutiny by Nazi occupation troops.

Wahome Mutahi (October 24 1954 - July 22 2003) was one of the most beloved humourists of Kenya. He was popularly known as "Whispers" after the name of the column he wrote for "The Daily Nation" from 1982 to 2003, offering a satirical view of the trials and tribulations of Kenyan life. Mutahi was equally well-known in theatre where he wrote and acted in English- and Kikuyu-language plays that caricatured Kenya's society and politics.

William (Bill) Moriarty (born in London, United Kingdom 1890 - April 14 1936) was a Canadian Communist and Right Oppositionist. Moriarty was born in England and became a trade unionist working as a tin minder in Cornwall, a railway worker and then a miner in Wales. He moved to Canada in 1912 and worked first as a harvest worker.

Peter Dmytruk (b. May 27, 1920 in Radisson, Saskatchewan, Canada, d. December 9, 1943 at Les Martres-de-Veyre, Puy-de-Dôme in the Auvergne area of France) is a military hero of World War II. At the outbreak of World War II, Peter Dmytruk was living in Wynyard, Saskatchewan when he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in July of 1941. Following his training, he was shipped overseas where he served as a tail gunner with the 405th Bomber Squadron.

General Lieutenant Boris Aleksandrovich Shteifon was an officer of the Russian Tsarist army, the Russian anti-communist White army, and the leader of the Russian Corps in Serbia during World War II. Boris Shteifon was born on December 6, 1881 in the city of Kharkov (currently Ukraine). His father was a Jewish merchant (converted to Orthodox Christianity), his mother was the daughter of a Russian Orthodox deacon.

Eva Sybille Haule-Frimpong (born 16 July 1954 in Stuttgart) was a terrorist associated with the third generation Red Army Faction. She took her abitur in Stuttgart before going underground in 1984.

Vyacheslav Ivanovich Zof was a Soviet military figure and a statesman of Czech nationality. Zof joined the revolutionary movement in 1910. Three years later he became a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). During the World War I, Zof worked as a fitter at an arms factory in Sestroretsk, where he was in charge of the Bolshevist underground.

Felix Maria Davídek was a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He was born in Chrlice in what today is the Czech Republic. He was ordained a priest on June 29, 1945 in the diocese of Brno. He was arrested by the Czech secret police and was in prison from 1950 to 1964. He was secretly ordained a bishop by Bishop Jan Blaha, under appeal to pontifical privileges granted from 1951 to 1989 to bishops in communist countries, on October 29 1967, …