- Piracy
Piracy is a robbery committed at sea, or sometimes on the shore, by an agent without a commission from a sovereign nation. Seaborne piracy against transport vessels remains a significant issue (with estimated worldwide losses of US$13 to $16 billion per year), particularly in the waters between the Pacific and Indian Oceans, off the Somali coast, and in the Strait of Malacca and Singapore, which are used by over 50,000 commercial ships a year. - Lorie van Auken
Lorie Van Auken is a 9/11 widow, one of the "Jersey Girls". Her husband, Kenneth Van Auken, was a bond trader at Cantor Fitzgerald L.P., and worked on the 105th floor of WTC Tower One. Along with three other 9/11 New Jersey widows (Kristen Breitweiser, Mindy Kleinberg and Patty Casazza), Lorie worked to form the 9/11 Commission, despite attempts by The White House to block it. After the release of the 9/11 Commission Report, … - Meyer Lansky
Meyer Lansky was an American gangster who, with Charles "Lucky" Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the so-called "National Crime Syndicate" in the United States. He was the intellectual impetus behind the Commission and the so-called "Mogul of the Mob." Interestingly, while nearly all Lansky's contemporary criminal associates were either arrested or murdered, Lansky himself served only a short sentence and died a natural death. - Nadhmi Auchi
Nadhmi Auchi, born in 1937, is a British-resident, Iraqi-born billionaire businessman. In the "Sunday Times Rich List 2007" ranking of the wealthiest people in the UK he was placed 18th with an estimated fortune of £1,995 million. Nadhmi Auchi graduated in Economics and Political Science from the Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad in 1967. He also worked with the Iraqi Ministry of Oil, becoming Director of Planning and Development. - Richard Holmes
Edward Richard Holmes CBE TD JP (born March 29 1946), known as Richard Holmes, is a British soldier and noted military historian, particularly well-known through his many television appearances. Holmes was educated at the University of Cambridge, as well as Northern Illinois University and the University of Reading. In 1964, he enlisted in the Territorial Army, the part-time volunteer reserve organisation of the British Army. - Carlos Marcello
Carlos Marcello (Calogero Minacore ) was born in Tunis, North Africa, on 6th February, 1910. Marcello emigrated to the United States and in 1929 was arrested for bank robbery by the police in New Orleans . These charges were later dropped but the following year he was convicted of assault and robbery and was sentenced to the State penitentiary for 9 years (served 5 years). In 1938 Marcello was arrested and charged with the sale of more than 23 pounds of narcotics. - George Murray
Sir George Murray, GCB (February 6 1772, Perth - July 28 1846) was a Scottish soldier and politician, the second son of Sir William Murray of Ochtertyre, 5th Baronet. In 1789, he obtained a commission into the 71st Foot, reaching the rank of Captain in 1794, and seeing service in Flanders (1794-95), the West Indies, England and Ireland. - Barbara Thomas
The Hon. Barbara Thomas (Lady Judge) (born 28 December 1946) is Chair of the UK Atomic Energy Authority and of the Governing Body of the School of Oriental and African Studies. Born Barbara S. Thomas, she was educated at the University of Pennsylvania (Bachelor of Arts) and New York University School of Law (Juris Doctor "cum laude", coming second in a class of 324 candidates and winning nineteen prizes). - Crispin Blunt
Crispin Jeremy Rupert Blunt (born 15 July 1960) is the Conservative Member of Parliament for the English constituency of Reigate. He replaced rebel Eurosceptic George Gardiner in 1997. Crispin Blunt was born in 1960 and is married with two children. His niece is Golden Globe-award winning actress Emily Blunt. He was educated at Wellington College, and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where he won the Queen's Medal, gaining a Regular Commission, … - David Case
Air Commodore David Case is the highest ranking black officer in the Royal Air Force of the United Kingdom, and at the age of 47 is the highest ranking black officer ever to serve in Britain's armed forces. He was born in Guyana, and immigrated to Britain at the age of 5. He was educated at Beckenham Grammar School and learnt to fly on a Flying Scholarship while still at school. - Tom Strickland
Tom Strickland is an attorney and politician in Colorado. Born in Texas, Tom Strickland left the Lone Star State to attend college at LSU. He later returned, studying law at the University of Texas, where he graduated in 1977. Strickland got involved in politics early in life, volunteering for then-Colorado Governor Dick Lamm, and later becoming Lamm's director of policy and research and serving on two state transportation commissions. - Al Held
Al Held was an American Abstract expressionist painter. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1928, Held showed no interest in art until he left the Navy in 1947. Inspired by friend Nicholas Krushenick, Held enrolled in the Art Students League of New York, then, in 1949, using the support of the G.I. Bill, he went to Paris for three years, to learn at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. He returned to New York in 1953, and struggled with his work for several years. - Bill Ketron
Bill Ketron, born September 4, 1953, is a Tennessee politician and a member of the Tennessee Senate for the 13th district, which is composed of Lincoln, Marshall, and Maury counties, as well as part of Rutherford County. Bill Ketron has served as a state senator since being elected to the 103rd Tennessee General Assembly. He is currently the Floor Leader of the Senate Republican Caucus, the Secretary of the State and Local Government Committee, … - Claude Cousineau
Claude Cousineau is a politician and teacher in Quebec, Canada. He represents the constituency of Bertrand in the National Assembly. He represents the Parti Quebecois since 1998. Cousineau went at the Université du Québec à Montréal and obtained a bachelor's degree in cellular and molecular biology. He also received a certificate in education at the same university. - Jan Rokita
Jan Rokita is a Polish liberal-conservative politician, a member of Sejm, the lower chamber of the Polish parliament. He was chairman of the parliamentary club of Platforma Obywatelska ("Civic Platform") from 2003 to 2005. Rokita graduated from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków with a degree in law. He joined a dissident "Wolność i Pokój" (WiP, "Freedom and Peace") organization. - Larry D. Welch
General Larry D. Welch (born 1934) was the 12th Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force. As chief, he served as the senior uniformed Air Force officer responsible for the organization, training and equipage of a combined active duty, Guard, Reserve and civilian force serving at locations in the United States and overseas. As a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he and the other service chiefs function as the principal military advisers to the Secretary of Defense, … - Thomas Picton
Sir Thomas Picton (August, 1758 - June 18, 1815) was a Welsh military leader who fought in a number of campaigns for Britain, and rose to the rank of lieutenant general. According to the historian Alessandro Barbero, Picton was "respected for his courage and feared for his irascible temperament." He is chiefly remembered for his exploits under the Duke of Wellington in the Iberian Peninsular War and at the Battle of Waterloo, … - Piero Malvestiti
Piero (Peter) Malvestiti was an Italian Christian Democratic politician who was a minister in successive governments in the 1940s and 1950s, a European Commissioner and President of the European Coal and Steel Community. He was one of the founders of the Christian Democratic party in 1942, when he merged his own Movimento Guelfo d’Azione with the Italian Peoples Party. - Jean Mischo
Jean Mischo (b. 1938), was an Advocate General of the European Court of Justice. Jean Mischo studied law and political sciences at the universities of Montpellier, Paris and Cambridge. He was a member of the Commission Legal Service, Principal Administrator in the private offices of two Members of the Commission, … - George Hilton
George Woodman Hilton, born 1925, is a United States historian and economist, who specializes in social history, transportation economics, regulation by commission, the history of economic thought and labor history. Hilton attended Dartmouth College and earned his A.B. in Economics "summa cum laude" in 1946. He obtained his M.A. in 1950. Hilton attended the London School of Economics in 1953-1955, and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1956. - Nelson Allen
Nelson Robert Allen (1933-2005) was a former Kentucky state Senator renowned for his commitment to education. Allen was a resident of Greenup County, KY. He was born in Floyd County, Kentucky and received a Masters degree in Education as well as an honorary doctorate from Morehead State University. He was also a Navy veteran of the Korean War. Allen was elected to the state Senate in 1973 from the 18th District (which includes Greenup, Carter, Lewis, Mason, Bracken, … - Alexander Smyth
Alexander Smyth (1765 - April 17, 1830) was an American lawyer, soldier, and politician from Virginia, who served in the United States House of Representatives and as a general during the War of 1812. Smyth was born on the Island of Rathlin, Ireland. He immigrated to the United States and settled in Botetourt County, Virginia in 1775 where he completed preparatory studies. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Abingdon, Virginia. - Joshua Bates
Joshua Bates (1788-1864) was an American financier, born in Weymouth, Massachusetts. A merchant and a banker, in 1828 he became associated with the great house of Baring Brothers & Co. of London, of which he eventually became the senior partner. He was umpire of the commission convened in 1853 to arbitrate the claims of American citizens arising from the War of 1812. He became a British Citizen in 1842. - William Grant Stairs
William Grant Stairs (July 1, 1863 - June 9, 1892) was a Canadian-British explorer, soldier, and adventurer who had a leading role in two of the most controversial expeditions in the history of the colonisation of Africa Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the sixth child and third son of John Stairs and Mary Morrow, he attended school at Fort Massey Academy in Halifax, Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Royal Military College of Canada. - Diane Sands
Diane Sands (born March 23 1947) is an American politician from Montana. A Democrat, she serves in the Montana House of Representatives, representing the 95th house district, based in Missoula. Born in St. Ignatius, Montana, Sands obtained a B.A. from the University of Montana before doing graduate work at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.. Sands began her career in the Montana State Legislature in 1996, … - William A. Webb
William A. Webb was an American sailor and Mexican-American War veteran who resigned his United States Navy commission after more than 20 years of service to join the Confederate States Navy in the American Civil War. Webb was decorated for his service as Captain of the CSS "Teaser", part of the James River Squadron, during the Battle of Hampton Roads (1862). In 1863, his orders sent him to Savannah, … - Alan Gordon Cunningham
General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham, GCMG, KCB, DSO, MC (1 May 1887 - 30 January 1983) was a British Army officer, noted for victories over Italian forces in the East African Campaign during the Second World War. He was the younger brother of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Cunningham of Hyndhope. Cunningham was born in Dublin, Ireland. He was educated at Cheltenham College and the Royal Military Academy before taking a commission in the army in 1906. - José Santana
José Manuel Santana Silvestre, is the Executive Director of the Dominican Republic Presidential Commission of Science and Technology and Research Associate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Santana was born in Santo Domingo capital of the Dominican Republic, and is an economist specialist in technology and development. Following Ex-President & Professor Juan Bosch's recommendations, Santana moved to Costa Rica where he finished high school. - Tommy Gagliano
Gaetano "Tommy" Gagliano (1884 - 16 February, 1951) became the head of the former Reina crime family in 1931. Gaetano or "Tommy" as he was known retired and relinquished control of the Gagliano crime family allegedly in 1953 to his Underboss, Gaetano "Tommy Brown" Luchese, while some have 1951 as the year. The Lucchese crime family would go on to become one of the most powerful criminal organizations in America, … - William J. Lennox Jr.
Lieutenant General (Ret.) William James Lennox, Jr. of Houston, Texas, assumed duties as the 56th Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York on 8 June 2001. He entered the Army following graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1971, where he earned his commission as a lieutenant of Field Artillery. General Lennox has served in a wide variety of field assignments. He served as a Forward Observer, Executive Officer, … - Fausto Elhuyar
Fausto de Elhuyar Lubize was a Spanish chemist, and the joint discoverer of tungsten with his brother Juan José Elhuyar in 1783. Fausto de Elhuyar was in charge, under a King of Spain commission, of organizing the School of Mining in México City and so was responsible of building an architectural jewel known as "Palacio de Minería". Elhuyar abandoned Mexico right after the Mexican War of Independence, when most of the Spanish residents in Mexico were expelled. - Edmund Lodge
Sir Edmund Lodge, KH (1756-1839) was a long-serving English officer of arms and a writer on heraldic subjects. He was born in London on 13 June 1756 and was the son of Edmund Lodge, rector of Carshalton, Surrey. He held a Cornet's commission in the army, which he resigned in 1773. In 1782 he became Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary at the College of Arms. He subsequently became Lancaster Herald of Arms in Ordinary, Norroy King of Arms, and Clarenceux King of Arms. - Daniel Augustus Joseph Sullivan
Daniel Augustus Joseph Sullivan was a United States Navy officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War I. Sullivan enrolled in the United States Naval Reserve Force on April 12 1917, a few days after the United States entered World War I. He later received a commission to the rank of Ensign. On May 21 1918, while serving as an officer of the USS "Christabel" (SP-162), … - John Rosworm
John Rosworm or Rosworme ("fl." 1630 - 1660) was a Dutch or German soldier and military engineer who served the Parliamentarian cause during the English Civil War. After serving throughout Europe, Rosworm settled in Manchester in 1642 where the town engaged him on a GBP30, six-month contract to lead their defence against the Royalist Lord Strange. Despite an approach from Strange to defect to the Royalists, … - Knud Enemark Jensen
Knud Enemark Jensen (died August 26 1960) was a Danish cyclist who participated in the 1960 Summer Olympic Games in Rome, Italy. Under the influence of amphetamines, he collapsed during a race during the Games, fracturing his skull, and in a nearby Rome hospital shortly thereafter, he was pronounced dead. His death led the International Olympic Committee to form a medical commission in 1967 and institute drug testing at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, … - Iven Carl Kincheloe Jr.
Iven Carl "Kinch" Kincheloe, Jr. (July 2, 1928 - July 26, 1958) was an American test pilot, recipient of Silver Star, DFC and double ace in the Korean War. Kincheloe was born in Detroit, Michigan but grew up in Cassopolis, Michigan. He was interested in aircraft from a very young age. He attended Purdue University, where he majored in aeronautical engineering and joined the ROTC. - John Boxtel
John Boxtel was born in the Netherlands in 1930. He studied architecture at the Technical School in Tilburg, Netherlands. After emigrating to Canada in 1954, he studied at the University of Toronto, Ontario College of Art in Toronto, Ontario and the Artists' Workshop in London, Ontario. In 1967, he became an art teacher. His works include sculpture, woodcarving, architectural drafting, design and building. He has had gallery exhibitions in Toronto, Hamilton, Montreal, … - Edwin O. Stanard
Edwin Obed Stanard (January 5, 1832 - March 12, 1914) was a nineteenth century politician, businessman and teacher from Missouri. Born in Newport, New Hampshire, Stanard moved to Iowa Territory with his parents in 1836, completed preparatory studies and moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1853. He taught school in Illinois in 1854 and 1855, graduated from St. Louis Commercial College in 1855, engaged in the commission business in 1856 and later in the milling business in St. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt III
Roosevelt upset the party bosses by supporting a rebel Democrat as New York's senator. Roosevelt's dissent group received a lot of publicity and he became a well known figure in New York politics. Roosevelt's abilities were brought to the attention of President Woodrow Wilson and in 1913 he appointed him as assistant secretary of the navy, a post he held for the next six years. - Viviane Reding
Viviane Reding European Union Commissioner for Information Society and Media
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