- Boris Said
Boris Said (born September 18, 1962) is an American race car driver from Carlsbad, California. His father, Bob Said, was an Formula 1 racer and US Olympic bobsled driver in 1968 and 1972. He currently drives the #60 SoBe No Fear Energy Drink Ford Fusion. Although he is now making the move to full-time NASCAR competition as co-owner of his SoBe No Fear team alongside crew chief Frank Stoddard and a third partner, Mark Simo, … - Mark Wyland
Mark Bryan Wyland (born October 27, 1946 in Escondido, California) is a U.S. Republican politician from the state of California, who represents the 38th District in the California State Senate. Wyland grew up in Escondido, California, where he co-owned a family business. Wyland has a BA in international relations from Pomona College and an MA in political science from Columbia University. Before his election to the California State Assembly, … - Deena Kastor
Competing in her third Olympics in the marathon (Aug. 17), Deena is the top female distance runner in the United States. She took home the bronze medal in the women's marathon in Athens in 2004. The Agoura, CA, native now resides in Mammoth Lakes, CA. Deena Kastor was forced to withdraw during the women's marathon due to injury. - Brian Simo
Brian Simo (born October 1, 1959) is a race car driver from Carlsbad, California, USA. He drove the 33 Korbel Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing at the Infineon Raceway in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series in 2005, recording an impressive top ten finish. He is a veteran of Trans-Am racing. He also created the No Fear Clothes line. - Sean Watkins
Sean Charles Watkins, (born February 18 1977) is a guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, and is one third of the contemporary folk band Nickel Creek. - Victor Villaseñor
Victor Villaseñor is an American fiction and non-fiction author. His works center on the Mexican American experience. His 1991 book "Rain of Gold", a "New York Times" bestseller, describes the roots of his family. His works are often taught in American schools. He has gone on to write "Thirteen Senses", a continuation of "Rain of Gold" and "Burro Genius: A Memoir" that describes his own life. He has also written screenplays. - Linda Wertheimer
Linda Wertheimer is a radio journalist for National Public Radio (NPR). Wertheimer was born on March 19 1943 in Carlsbad, New Mexico. She graduated from Wellesley College with the class of 1965. She worked for the BBC and WCBS after graduating. Wertheimer was reportedy told she should be a researcher, rather than an on-air reporter, by an executive at NBC. NPR, however, had no such reservations. Wertheimer began her career with NPR from the beginning in 1971, … - Juan María Marrón
Juan María Marrón was an early settler of San Diego, California. Marrón was a ship's captain before settling San Diego in the early 1820s. On January 12, 1834 Marrón married Felipa Osuna. She was born c. 1818, daughter of Juan María Osuna. They had three sons and one daughter. Marrón served as the first Alcade of the Pueblo of San Diego during 1 January 1835 - 1836. He also served as Regidor (Alderman) and Juez de Paz (Justice of the Peace). - Walter Serner
Walter Serner was a German-language writer and essayist. His manifesto "Letzte Lockerung" was an important text of Dadaism. Walter Serner was born Walter Eduard Seligmann in Carlsbad, Bohemia (then Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic). In 1913 he studied Promotion law in the Austro-Hungarian capital of Vienna. With the outbreak of World War I he escaped to Switzerland in 1914 and participated in Dada activities in Zürich, Geneva, … - Eduard Suess
Eduard Suess (August 20, 1831 - April 26, 1914) was a geologist who was an expert on the geography of the Alps. He is responsible for discovering two of the Earth's major now-lost geographical features, the supercontinent Gondwana (proposed 1861) and the Tethys Ocean. Born in London to a Saxon merchant, when he was three his family relocated to Prague, then to Vienna when he was 14. Interested in geology at a young age, … - Václav Neumann
Václav Neumann was a Czech conductor, violinist and viola player. Neumann was born in Prague and studied at the conservatoire there. He co-founded, and played 1st violin in, the Smetana Quartet, before holding conducting posts in Carlsbad and Brno. In 1956 he became conductor at the Komische Oper in Berlin, leaving in 1964 he left to become conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. - Paul Leonhardt
Paul Saladin Leonhardt was a German chess master. He was born in Posen, today part of Poland and died of a heart attack in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad), during a game of chess. A player with a low profile and not many tournament wins, Leonhardt has been largely forgotten by the history books. However, at his best, he was able to defeat most of the elite players of the period. Tarrasch, Tartakower, Nimzowitsch, Maroczy and Reti all succumbed to his fierce, … - Adelaide Phillips
Adelaide Phillips, American contralto singer, was born at Stratford-upon-Avon, England, her family emigrating to America in 1840. Her mother taught dancing, and Adelaide began a career on the Boston stage at ten years old. But in 1850 her talent for singing became evident, and through Jenny Lind and others she was sent to London and to Italy to study. In 1855 she returned to America an accomplished vocalist; and for many years she was the leading American contralto, … - Ignaz Ziegler
Ignaz Ziegler, Austrian rabbi; born at Also-Kubin, Hungary, 29 September 1861; educated at the Rabbinical Seminary and at the University of Budapest (Ph.D. 1888). Immediately after his graduation he was called to the rabbinate of Carlsbad. Through his efforts the Kaiser Franz Josef Regierungs-Jubiläum Hospiz was erected at Carlsbad, at a cost of 500,000 Austrian crowns, to provide food, shelter, … - Kenneth L. Dixon
Kenneth Lee "Ken" Dixon (April 3, 1915 - June 29, 1986), was a prominent journalist who reported, edited, and penned columns for seven newspapers, including two in Louisiana -- Lake Charles and Baton Rouge. He was also a war correspondent during World War II. Dixon was born in McDonough County, Illinois, near the small town of Colchester to Roy Lee Dixon and the former Martha R. Mourning. - Ivan Wernisch
Ivan Wernisch (12 June 1942) is a Czech poet, editor and a collage artist. He studied Ceramics Secondary school in Carlsbad (he left 1959) and has since done many jobs, mostly manual. In 1961, after publishing his debut poetry book, he quickly established himself as one of the best and most loved writers of his generation. - Nahum Trebitsch
Menahem Nahum Trebitsch (born at Prague August 141779; died there July 41842) was a Czech rabbi. He was a son of Selig Trebitsch, ḥazzan at the Altneuschule, and he received a thorough Talmudical training at the yeshibah of Jacob Günsberg. Upon the recommendation of the "Landesrabbiner" Mordecai Benet (Marcus Benedict), Trebitsch became rabbi of Prossnitz in 1826. On May 13, 1832, the government confirmed the election of Trebitsch as "Landesrabbiner" of Moravia, … - Wachtang Djobadze
Wachtang Djobadze (1917-2007) was a Georgian art historian and Professor at the California State University. During the Soviet Union, he lived as an émigré in the United States, and was the only Georgian scholar to have opportunity to travel to Turkey where a number of medieval Georgian churches and monasteries lay in ruins in the historical Tao-Klarjeti region and Antioch. He studied and described these monuments in several works, … - Gia Carlsbad
A Friendster Community for GIA students and alumni worldwide. (E-mail: giacarlsbad@yahoo.com) - Cetta Lombardi
Super Marketeer, living the life at the beach in Carlsbad, California - Nevada Barr
Nevada Barr (born March 1,1952, Yerington, Nevada) is a mystery fiction author, known for her "Anna Pigeon" series of mysteries, set in National Parks in the United States. Barr was named after the state of her birth. She grew up in Johnsonville, California. She finished college at the University of California, Irvine. Originally, Barr started to pursue a career in theatre, but decided to be a park ranger. In 1984 she published her first novel, "Bittersweet", … - Brady Anderson
Brady Kevin Anderson (born January 18 1964 in Silver Spring, Maryland) is a former center and left fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, and Cleveland Indians. Anderson attended Carlsbad High School in Carlsbad, California. After graduating, he studied economics at the University of California, Irvine. He played outfield and first base for the Anteaters, … - Sir Bentley Turbo Of Carlsbad
My early life was a struggle to say the least. I grew up an orphan, in basically the roughest conditions that any of you could possibly fathom. Needless to say, though, I rose from the gutter in a triumphant flurry, and I stand before you an upper class dignitary. Bow down bitches! - Andrew Reynolds
Andrew Reynolds (born June 6, 1978 in Lakeland, Florida, USA), is a professional skateboarder who has been riding since the age of nine. He emerged onto the skateboarding scene in the early 1990s and won Thrasher magazine's "Skater of the Year" award in 1998. He is nicknamed Drew, The Boss, Spock, and Turtle Boy. His signature trick is the frontside flip. - August von Kotzebue
August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue (May 3, 1761 in Weimar - March 23, 1819 in Mannheim) was a German dramatist. One of Kotzebue's books was burned during the Wartburg festival in 1817. August von Kotzebue was murdered in 1819 by Karl Ludwig Sand, a militant member of the "Burschenschaften". The murder of Kotzebue gave Metternich the pretext to issue the Carlsbad Decrees of 1819, which dissolved the "Burschenschaften", … - Ernst Moritz Arndt
Ernst Moritz Arndt (December 26, 1769 - January 29, 1860), was a German patriotic author and poet. Early in his life, he fought for the abolition of serfdom, later against Napoleonic dominance over Germany, and had to flee to Sweden for some time due to his anti-French positions. He is one of the main founders of German nationalism and the movement for German unification. - Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. He is currently the largest Disney shareholder and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries. Jobs' history in business has contributed greatly to the mythos of the quirky, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, … - Carlsbad
Carlsbad, California 'Karls-bad [German Karlsbad "Charles' watering place"] : A coastal city in northern San Diego County, California. Location: 33 07 41.7 N, 117 16 48.3 W. Population 78,247 (2000 census), Inc. 1952. Elevation 44'. - Carlsbad
Date of Incorporation: July 16, 1952, Type of City: General Law, Form of Government: Council/Manager, Area: 42.19 sq. miles, Population (CA Dept of Finance Report 1/1/01): 83,469, Net Assessed Valuation: $ 10,490,115,729, Number of Street Lights: 6,138, Miles of Streets: 281. - Christopher Carlson
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It does not take a lot to impress me, I am very down to earth. I love to be sarcastic and laugh. I love to watch movies by myself but I also would like to have company. I treat myself to dinner because I believe I do not need company to enjoy a good meal, however company is always welcome. - Lisa Maughan
- Dustin
Im Dustin. I like cold things like snow and mountain dew. i lived in Massachusetts for 10 years, it was cool. moved to C-Bad freshman year it was hot. Goin to Humboldt State for college majoring in geography. I enjoy snowboarding and i drive a 98 honda prelude. Im a big 49ers fan. They are gunna put up a fight this year(i hope). um, im pretty laid back and mellow, i dont get upset easily and im not easily. - Russell Dickerson
What's to know? - Micah Murray
My name is Micah. Though I would imagine you could tell that by the title. I am Irish. Got alot of pride, but that just comes with the territory. No, I have never been to Ireland before though I do know my ancestors come from Southern Ireland (County Galway to be more specific). Graduated from Carlsbad High school, Class of 2006. I work at the San Diego airport. Going to school at Mira Costa college. - Nicole Green
My name is Nicole. - Ryan Martin
I'm a twenty-something year old guy who loves music and helping with the youth at church. I teach remedial math at NMSU-C and teach high school math at Paradise Academy. I love talking about music, theology, books, and God. - C. W. Bangs
Chauncey Ward Bangs (January 19 1814 - March 21 1892) was mayor of Ottawa, Canada in 1878. He was born in Standstead in the Eastern Townships of Lower Canada in 1814, the son of Benjamin Bangs. His family came to Canada from the United States during the War of 1812 and later moved to L'Orignal. He entered the hat and fur business, the same as his father, and came to Bytown in 1847. In 1849, Bangs married Elizabeth Kirby from Hawkesbury. - Matthew
PUT YOUR ABOUT ME SECTION HERE!What of the Rebellion? I'm sorry, but all questions must be submitted in writing...Hey, buddy, I'm not paying you to share your thoughts on life. Now how is that information gonna help me do my job? Fine. Well, I suppose if it is worthless then there's no point in me keeping it. Okay. I get it.
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