- Wang Bi
Wang Bi, courtesy name Fu Si (辅嗣), was a Chinese philosopher. His most important works are commentaries on Laozi's "Dao De Jing" and the "I Ching". The text of the "Dao De Jing" that appeared with his commentary was widely considered as the best copy of this work until the discovery of the Mawangdui texts in 1973. He served as a minor bureaucrat in the Kingdom of Wei, one of the Three Kingdoms, and was married with a daughter. - Kenneth Bi
Kenneth Bi graduated with Honors in Theatre/Film from Brock University in Canada. He has written, directed, and acted in Canada and Hong Kong in numerous theatre and film productions. In 1992 he won a Special Merit Award in Toronto for his CBC-Radio Drama, "Rice Krinkles." Local director/producer Teddy Robin enlisted Bi in the multi-talented capacities of actor, writer, … - Bi Kidude
Fatuma Binti Baraka is a 93 year old Zanzibari Taarab singer. She is considered the undisputed queen of Taarab and Unyago music and is also a protègè of Siti Binti Saad. Bi Kidude was born in the village of Mfagimaringo, she was the daughter of a coconut seller in colonial Zanzibar. Bi Kidude’s exact date of birth is unknown, much of her life story is uncorroborated, giving her an almost mythical status. - Graham Webb
Born in Birmingham, UK, to L. Webb a battle of El Alamein war widow, I was the youngest of 5 children. Started cycling at the age of 8 and was many times British National cycling champion and National record holder at 10 miles, 25 miles and 1 hour. Moved to the Netherlands in 1967 where I became world cycling road champion, signed a professional contract with the French Mercier team in 1968 and moved to Belgium, where I still live with my family. http://crazyaboutbelgium.co.uk/blogs/webb.htm - John Travolta
John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and singer. He established his career as a leading Hollywood actor with films such as "Saturday Night Fever" and "Grease". Travolta enjoyed a career revival in the 1990s, stemming from his role in "Pulp Fiction". - Muhammad Al-Qa'Im Bi-Amrillah
Muhammad al-Qaim Bi-Amrillah was the second Caliph of the Fatimids in Ifriqiya and ruled from 934 to 946. Al-Qaim was born in Salamya in Syria in 893 with the name Abd ar-Rahman. After his father Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah (910-934) seized power in Ifriqiya he was named heir to the throne in 912, and helped put down several revolts. However campaigns into Egypt faltered against the resistance of the Abbasids (914-915 and 919-921), with heavy casualties. - Al-Hakim Bi-Amr Allah
- Roberta Beach Jacobson
Roberta Beach Jacobson (born July 21, 1952) is an American journalist, humorist, and early ezine editor. Jacobson was born as Roberta Beach Johnson in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her first publication came at age 8 in "Jack and Jill". After finishing high-school in 1970, she joined the United States Army which sent her to Europe. She remains an expatriate, saying "I prefer Europe. I'm where I want to be". - Phil Amicone
Philip A. Amicone is the forty first Mayor of the City of Yonkers, NY. He took office January 1, 2003 after serving eight years as Deputy Mayor. As Deputy Mayor he was involved in all phases of the city’s redevelopment. He was also responsible for the day-to-day operations of the city departments. Prior to becoming Deputy Mayor of Yonkers, Mayor Amicone was Commissioner of the Department of Building for the City of White Plains. - Brit Shalom
Brit Shalom (lit. "covenant of peace";, "Tahalof Essalam"; also called the Jewish-Palestinian Peace Alliance) was a group of Jewish intellectuals, founded in 1925. The original "Brit Shalom" sought a peaceful coexistence between Arabs and Jews, achieved by a Jewish renunciation of the Balfour Declaration. It supported the establishment of a bi-national regime under the British Mandate, where both Jews and Arabs would enjoy equality. - Joe Hisaishi
Mamoru Fujisawa (藤澤 守 "Fujisawa Mamoru"), known professionally as Joe Hisaishi is a composer and director responsible for over 100 soundtracks and conventional albums dating back to 1981. He is best-known for his work with animator Hayao Miyazaki, including the soundtracks to "Spirited Away" (2002), "Howl's Moving Castle" (2004), "Princess Mononoke" (1997), "My Neighbour Totoro" (1988), … - Yechezkel Landau
Yechezkel ben Yehuda Landau was an influential authority in halakha (Jewish law). He is best known for the work "Nodah bi-Yehudah" (נודע ביהודה), by which title he is also known. - June Millington
June Millington (born 1949, Manila, Philippines), and her sister Jean Millington, founded Fanny in 1969, the first all girl rock band to be signed to a major record label, and record a full album. June Millington left Fanny in 1973, after recording five albums and touring worldwide. Her sister Jean married David Bowie's then guitarist, Earl Slick. In 1987, June Millington, together with her long time partner, Ann Hackler, formed the Institute for the Musical Arts (IMA). - Rahi Masoom Raza
Dr. Rahi Masoom Reza, born in Ghazipur in eastern Uttar Pradesh (India) in a Muslim family, was a famous Urdu shayar. He also wrote in Hindustani and Hindi language. He was also an eminent lyricist of Bollywood. He wrote the script for a popular TV serial, "Mahabharat". The TV serial was based on the epic, the Mahabharata. The serial became one of the most popular TV serial of north India, and its peak Television Rating was around 86%. - Flemming Christensen
Flemming Christensen is a Danish former football (soccer) player and current manager of Danish 1st Division club Næstved BK. In his active career, Christensen played for Danish clubs AB and Lyngby BK, as well as French club AS Saint-Etienne and FC Aarau from Switzerland. He debuted for the Danish national team in 1982, and he played a total of 11 national team matches and scored 2 goals. He was selected to represent Denmark at the 1986 World Cup, … - Tony Rock
Tony Rock is an American actor and stand-up comic. He is the younger brother of comedian Chris Rock. Born in the same hospital as his seven brothers and one sister, Tony was the fourth child to Julius and Rose Rock (however known as Rochelle on Everybody Hates Chris). He grew up on Decatur Street in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood, which was one of the toughest neighborhoods in Brooklyn at the time. Growing up, he loved watching wrestling, telling jokes, … - Kris Burm
Kris Burm is the Belgian designer of the award-winning Gipf series of abstract board games. He was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1957 and as of 2004, still lives there. Published games: *Invers, 1991 *Oxford, 1993 *Balanx, 1994 *Tashkent (3x3), 1995 *Flix, 1995 *Orient, 1995 *Quads, 1996 *Tashkent (5x5), 1997 *Dicemaster, 1997 *Bi-litaire, 1997 *Batik, 1997 *Gipf, 1997 *Tamsk, 1999 *Zèrtz, 2000 *Elcanto, 2001 *Dvonn, 2001 *Yinsh, 2003 *Pünct, … - Liu Fu
Liu Fu minister of the Kingdom of Wei during the Three Kingdoms Period of China. Liu Fu was the protector of Yang. Liu Fu became very well known through the fact that he turned He Fei into a stronghold for enacting colonization, irrigation, and even the building of schools. According to the novel, Liu Fu was killed by the currently drunken Cao Cao due to discrediting a poem that Cao Cao wrote before the Battle of Chi Bi as being inauspicious. - Jasmin Stavros
Jasmin Stavros (born 1954 in Split) is a Croatian pop musician. One of his most popular songs remains "Dao bi sto Amerika" ("I Would Give a Hundred Americas"), which relates to his time spent in the United States before his return to Croatia shortly before the country's independence. He is currently signed to Hit Records. - Cort Stevens
Cort Stevens was a porn star who appeared in gay and bi-sexual pornographic movies and magazines in the 1990s. He was blond and muscular, and performed in both the bottom and top roles. He reportedly had a long term romantic relationship with fellow adult star Bo Summers until Summers had a crisis of sexual identity and left Stevens to marry a woman. - Yuan Hongdao
Yuan Hongdao or Yüan Hung-tao (袁宏道 1568 – 1610) was Chinese poet of the Ming Dynasty, and one of the Three Yuan Brothers. His life spanned nearly the whole of the Wanli period (1573-1620) in Chinese history. Yuan was from Gong'an in Hukuang. His family had been military officials for generations. Yuan showed an interest in literature from youth and formed his own literary club at age fifteen. - Ivan de Battista
Ivan De Battista (September 13, 1977) is a Maltese film and theatre actor. He has been involved in the theatre and musical scene since he was six. His early theatre performances were held at the De Porres Theatre, situated in Sliema with the Young Deporrians. As an actor, Ivan performed many major roles in productions with Atturi De Porrians, Atturi Salesjani, Bronk Productions, CurtainRaiser Theatre Troupe, Kumpanija Teatru Rjal, Produzzjoni Teatrali Irtokki, … - Chen Ying
Chen Ying (陳應) is, in the novel "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", an officer of the Three Kingdoms Period that served as vassal under Zhao Fan. Chen Ying also served as an officer to Gui Yang. Chen Ying then followed in his loss to Zhao Yun, who had invaded Gui Yang after the Battle of Chi Bi. Chen Ying then pretended to surrender, but failed in deceiving Zhao Yun and was killed. - Sascha Scatter
Sascha Altman DuBrul, also known as Sascha DuBrul or Sascha Scatter, is an American anarchist, bi-polar activist, writer, farmer and punk rock musician. He is best known for his writing, and as a founding and current member of the ska-punk band Choking Victim. He is a co-founder of the Icarus Project. He is from New York City and currently lives and works at the Germantown Community Farm in Columbia County, New York. - Lady Bardales
Lady Bardales (born 1982) is a Peruvian woman who worked for president Alejandro Toledo in 2005. She serves as a lieutenant on the Peruvian police force who was originally assigned to provide protection for the wife of Toledo. According to peruvian newspapers, she had an affair with him for a car and apartment in exchange. - Al-Amir
Al-Amir Bi-Ahkamillah was the tenth Fatimid Caliph (1101-1130). Like his father Al-Musta'li (1094-1101), Al-Amir was controlled by the regent Malik al-Afdal (1094-1121) and had little influence in political matters. However, after the overthrow of al-Afdal in 1121 he managed to gain control of government. His reign was marred by the loss of Tyros to the Crusaders, as well as by the continuation of the Shiite schism between the Nizari (Assassins) and the Mustalids. - Mary Ann Horton
Mary Ann Horton, formerly Mark R. Horton, was a Usenet pioneer. Horton co-wrote the B News server software. In the early 1970's, Horton designed and implemented the HORTRAN compiler. He was an expert user of early networked computing systems, such as the HP 2000 minicomputer, and provided fellow students with valuable advice that led many to life-long careers in computer science and related fields that rely heavily on computing. - Marcelinho da Lua
Marcelinho da Lua is a Brazilian reggae/electronic singer. He released the album Tranqüilo in 2003. The album's staple song, Tranqüilo, was part of the playlist for EA sports' FIFA 06 video game. Both Seu Jorge and Mart'nália participated to Tranqüilo. Another album, "Mad Professor Meets Marcelinho da Lua In a Dubwise Style", features not only Mad Prof., but also Bi Ribeiro, Black Alien, Robert Menescal, as well as Mart'nália and Seu Jorge. - Joseph Doria
Joseph V. Doria Jr. (June 28, 1946) is an American Democratic Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey State Senate since 2004, where he represents the 31st Legislative District. Doria also serves as Mayor of Bayonne, a position he has held since 1998. - Kyoko Hayashi
is a Japanese author. Hayashi was born in Nagasaki and spent the years from 1931-1945 with her family in Shanghai. She returned to Nagasaki in March 1945 and enrolled in Nagasaki Girls' High School, where she was mobilized in the Mitsubishi Munitions Factory. She was working at the factory when the atomic bomb blast destroyed Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Hayashi was seriously ill for two months, and suffered afterwards from fragile health. - Will Wynn
Will Wynn is the current mayor of Austin, Texas. Born and raised in Beaumont, Texas, Texas, Wynn was the sixth of seven children. He attended Texas A&M University, where he graduated cum laude with a degree in Environmental Design in 1984. Although Wynn was born in East Texas, his family's roots in Austin and Central Texas run deep; two of his great-great-great grandparents, James and Julia Olive, settled in southern Williamson County in 1843. - Kathy Taylor
Kathryn L. Taylor is a United States politician and member of the Democratic Party. She was elected the 38th Mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma on April 4, 2006, in the city’s largest voter turnout for a mayoral election. She resigned as Oklahoma’s Secretary of Commerce and Tourism - a post where she managed three agencies, 2,700 employees and a more than $200 million budget - in order to run for mayor. - Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (born in 1919 died in 1994) is a Palestinian author who was born in Bethlehem at the time of the British Mandate. Educated in Jerusalem and, later, at Cambridge University, he settled in Iraq following the events of 1948. Poet, novelist, translator and literary critic, he has also translated some English works into Arabic, including James Frazer's "The Golden Bough" and the some of the work of T.S. Eliot. - Ed Pawlowski
Ed Pawlowski is the mayor of Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the United States. He has held this office since January 2006. Pawlowski is a Democrat. A Chicago native, he holds a Bachelor of Arts from Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and a Master of Arts from the University of Illinois. He served as Director of Community and Economic Development for the first three years of the administration of previous Allentown mayor Roy C. Afflerbach, but resigned in protest. - Joseph P. Riley Jr.
Joseph P. Riley, Jr. is an American politician. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1943, graduated from The Citadel in 1964, and the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1967. He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1968-1974. First elected Mayor of Charleston, South Carolina in December 1975, as of April 2007 he is serving an unprecedented eighth term. Riley is a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition, … - Jerramiah Healy
Jerramiah T. Healy (born December 1950) is the current Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey. He ran for the unexpired term of the late Glenn D. Cunningham and was elected in November 2004. In the special election, he defeated Acting Mayor L. Harvey Smith. He was subsequently elected to a full term by a record landslide. Healy entered public service as an assistant prosecutor for the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office in 1977. - Eka Kurniawan
Eka Kurniawan was born in Tasikmalaya, Indonesia; November 28, 1975. He studied philosophy at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta. He works as journalist, writer and designer. He writes novels, short stories, movie scripts and graphic novel, as well as essay. His works including Cantik itu Luka (The Beauty is Scar, 2002), Lelaki Harimau (Tigerman, 2004), Gelak Sedih dan Cerita-cerita Lainnya (Laughable Sadness and Other Stories, 2005), … - Loraine Hutchins
Loraine Hutchins is a bisexual, feminist writer, activist, and sex educator. She is the co-editor with Lani Ka'ahumanu of the groundbreaking anthology, "Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out" (Alyson, 1991). Hutchins is one of the co-founders of BiNet USA and of AMBi, the Alliance of Multicultural Bisexuals, in Washington, DC. In 2001 she earned her Cultural Studies doctorate in queer feminist sacred sexualities. - Julián Retegi
Julián Retegui Barbería, also know as Retegi II is an ex-player of Basque pelota. He is also called "El mago de Erasun", since he is one of the best Basque pelota players of all times. He played as a foreplayer. Nephew of Juan Ignacio Retegi (another pelotari who won the pelota championship six times, usually know as Retegi I), he started to get interested in the Basque pelota when he was a child. - Lin Xiangru
Lin Xiangru was a politician of the Warring States Period, who served the state of Zhao. He figures prominently in two stories of the period, namely the episode of "Returning the Jade to Zhao", as well as the story of "Carrying Thorned Grass and Pleading Guilt". Lin Xiangru was born sometime in the reign of King Wuling of Zhao, and due to his intellect and superior skills he rose quickly through the ranks of the Zhao bureaucracy.
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