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  1. William Fly

    Captain William Fly (d. July 12, 1726) was an English pirate who raided New England shipping until he was captured by some of the crew of a seized ship. He was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts. Reportedly, Fly approached the hanging with complete disdain and even reproached the hangman for doing a poor job, remaking the noose and placing it about his neck with his own two hands. His body was hung in chains (gibbeted) on Nixes Mate Island in Boston Harbor, …

  2. Playa Fly

    Playa Fly (born Ibn Young on September 2, 1977) is a rapper from Memphis, Tennessee's South Parkway. Fly was, at one time, an associate of the Three 6 Mafia (then known as Lil' Fly), but he stopped collaborating in 1995 due to monetary disputes and philosophical differences after recording one album under the group's guidance.

  3. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly

    Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly is the stage name of English artist Sam Duckworth and his band. He is often referred to as Get Cape or GCWCF. Duckworth grew up in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and has supported bands such as Funeral for a Friend, The Magic Numbers and Feeder. Duckworth was signed to Atlantic Records in March 2006, after playing many gigs - both with punk rock band Silverskin and as GCWCF. Duckworth's main influences include Billy Bragg, At the Drive-In, DARTZ!, …

  4. Dj Spanish Fly

    DJ Spanish Fly is a DJ and rapper from Memphis, Tennessee who began his career during the early 1980s. Spanish Fly is one of the pioneers for Memphis rap and helped in the upbringing of Crunk.

  5. Shue Fly

    Shue Fly was a Quarter horse mare who was one of the dominant racehorses on the racetrack during the 1940's.

  6. Per Fly

    Per Fly Plejdrup (born January 14, 1960) is a Danish film director, generally credited simply as Per Fly. He is currently married to Danish actress Charlotte Fich.

  7. Fly

    Fly is an artist, a performer, a punk, a squatter. She has squatted New York's Lower East Side for the last decade, and was involved in the tenant's demonstrations that turned that neighborhood into a modern day war zone in the early 1990s. Fly is a renowned artist. Her art has been seen in Magazines (SF Weekly, WW3, etc) and fanzines (Slug and Lettuce (fanzine), Maximum RocknRoll, etc) from coast to coast.

  8. Nick Drake

    Nicholas Rodney Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician best known for his acoustic, autumnal songs. His primary instrument was the guitar, though he was also proficient at piano, clarinet, and saxophone. Although he failed to find a wide audience during his lifetime, Drake's work has since grown steadily in stature, to the extent that he is now widely considered one of the most influential English singer-songwriters of the last 50 years.

  9. Mark Turner

    Mark Turner is a well-known jazz saxophonist and clarinetist with several recordings to his credit.

  10. Richard Leigh

    Richard Leigh (Born 1951 in Washington, D.C.) is an American country music songwriter. In 1978 he received a Grammy Award for "Best Country Song" for "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" (it was nominated in both pop and country categories and reached number one on both charts). Leigh was raised in Virginia, and currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1994 Leigh was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Foundation Hall of Fame.

  11. Michael Chambers

    Michael Chambers is an African-American dancer and actor best known for his role as "Turbo" in the 1984 cult classic film "Breakin'" and the 1984 hit sequel "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo". In both movies he is credited as Boogaloo Shrimp, a name that remains inextricably linked to the Hollywood phase of popping, boogaloo and robot dancing also the freestyle art of b-boying.

  12. Frederik Ehmke

    Frederik Ehmke, born June 21 1978 in Malsch, Germany is the newest member of the Power Metal band Blind Guardian, having joined in 2005 after long-time drummer Thomen Stauch left to pursue his own project. The band's hopes for Ehmke are very high, and they have confidence that he is the right choice, saying "for us he is the lucky draw." The single "Fly" was Ehmke's first release with Blind Guardian. Ehmke is by far the youngest member of Blind Guardian, …

  13. Miya Masaoka

    Miya Masaoka (b. Washington, D.C., 1958) is an American musician and composer who performs on the 17-string Japanese koto zither, often augmenting it with string preparations and electronic triggers (as in her "Koto Monster", where additional laser beam "strings" hover over the koto). She is known for creative, improvisational technique, and a sensibility that combines experimental Western approaches with the tradition of the koto.

  14. Jerrie Mock

    Geraldine "Jerrie" Fredritz Mock (born November 22 1925 in Newark, Ohio) was the first woman to fly around the world. The trip ended April 17, 1964 and amassed 29 days, 21 stopovers and almost 22,860 miles. The United States Air Force named a street in honor of her at Rickerbacker AFB (presently Rickenbacker International Airport) in Lockbourne, Ohio (near Columbus).

  15. Khairallah Talfah

    Khairallah Talfah was an Iraqi Ba'ath Party official, and the maternal uncle and father-in-law of Saddam Hussein. He was the father of Sajida Talfah, Saddam's first wife, and of Adnan Khairallah, defense minister. Saddam made Khairallah Talfah mayor of Baghdad, but was forced to remove him due to Talfah's corruption. Talfah is the author of "Three Whom God Should Not Have Created: Persians, Jews, and Flies".

  16. Harold Oldroyd

    Harold Oldroyd was a British entomologist, born in 1914. He specialised in the biology of flies, and wrote many books, especially popular science that helped entomology to reach a broader public. His "The Natural History of Flies" is considered to be the "fly Bible". Although his speciality was the Diptera, he acknowledged that they are not a popular topic: "Breeding in dung, carrion, sewage and even living flesh, …

  17. Jack Rebney

    Jack Rebney, also known as The Angriest Man In The World, The World's Angriest RV Salesman, or simply Winnebago Man, is the subject of an internet phenomenon, for a collection of outtakes from an industrial film he made for Winnebago Industries in 1988. The original outtake clip, created by the Midwestern production company hired to edit the final video product, …

  18. Anand Rajaram

    Anand Rajaram (born March 5, 1972), is a Canadian actor, writer and director. Anand Rajaram was born in New Delhi, India, and has a bachelor's degree in Drama and Theatre Arts from Waterloo University. He has done theatre work with CanStage, Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People (LKTYP), Odyssey Theatre, Carousel Players and others, as well as producing and presenting his own works, "Hys Unauthoryzed Lyfe and Tymes" (2001), and "Cowboys & Indians" (2006), …

  19. Hermann Loew

    Friedrich Hermann Loew (July 19, 1807 - April 21, 1879), was a German entomologist who specialised in the study of Diptera, an order of insects including flies, mosquitoes, gnats and midges. He described many world species and was the first specialist to work on the Diptera of the United States.

  20. Dragutin Novak

    Dragutin Karlo Novak (Zagreb, February 16 1892. - Zagreb, October 31 1978.), was first person in Croatia to make a heavier-than-air flight. He flew a plane constructed by Slavoljub Eduard Penkala], June 22 1910.. Dragutin Karlo Novak took to flying as first man to do that in Croatia. He had flown in an airplane made by constructor Slavoljub Penkala in 21/22 June 1910. He fled from the military training-field in Crnomerac, Zagreb.

  21. Fly Williams

    James "Fly" Williams James "Fly" Williams was born in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York City, in 1953, and attended Madison High School, in Brooklyn, New York. His initial interest in sports was in baseball. He was a pitcher, but was advised that he had become too tall to remain competitive in baseball. His initial introduction to basketball did not go well, but he eventually made the adjustment to the new game.

  22. John Bentinck

    John Albert Bentinck (1737 - 1775), captain, was a member of the younger line of the house of Bentinck. His father, William, Count Bentinck, was a younger son of the first Earl of Portland, and married the daughter of the last Count of Aldenburg. John Albert, the second son of this marriage, was born in 1737, and at an early age entered the British navy. In August 1752 he was serving as a volunteer on board the "Centurion", in which vessel he visited Lisbon, …

  23. Jasmine Tollette

  24. E. C. M. D'Assis-Fonseca

    E. C. M. d'Assis-Fonseca was a British dipterist. He was responsible for formally naming a number of fly species, including: * "Dolichopus subpennatus" * "Fannia collini" * "Fannia pseudonorvegica" * "Fannia subatripes" * "Alliopsis similaris" * "Heterostylodes caledonicus" He authored two volumes in the Royal Entomologists' Society's Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects series: * Handbooks for the Ident.

  25. Jean-Charles Jacobs

    Jean-Charles Jacobs was a Belgian doctor and entomologist, a pupil of Constantin Wesmael. He graduated in medicine from the University of Brussels, but never abandoned the study of insects, and was one of the founders of the "Société entomologique de Belgique". He concentrated on the Hymenoptera, often in collaboration with Jules Tosquinet, turning to Diptera later in life.

  26. Ali-Reza Reza Pahlavi II

    Ali Reza Pahlavi (born April 28 1966) is the younger son of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his third wife, the former Farah Diba. Born in Tehran as "Prince Ali Reza Pahlavi", as per official dynastic usage, with the style "His Imperial Highness", he would be second in the line of succession to the Iranian throne, after his elder brother, Reza Pahlavi.

  27. Köprülü Numan Pasha

    Köprülü Numan (or Nuuman) Pasha was the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1710 to 1711. He was a member of the Köprülü family. It was recorded that Numan Pasha was bookish and pale of skin. He was also not of sound mind; his time in office was noted for an incident where he was insistent that there was always a fly landed upon his nose. He was only cured when during an examination, a French physician fed him juleps (lying that it was for medicinal purposes), …

  28. Francois Fly

    I have 96 eyes, though I'm sure I started with more. My eating habits are, shall we say, an acquired taste. I'm a comedian. I'm like other comedians but with 82% less suck.

  29. Gabriel Dover

    Gabriel A. Dover (Gabby Dover) is a British geneticist. He is best known for coining the term molecular drive in 1982 to describe a putative third evolutionary force operating distinctly from natural selection and genetic drift. More generally, his research has been on the evolution of genes and genomes, particularly the complex processes that occur in multigene families such as ribosomal RNA genes. His recent work has focused on development in flies, …

  30. Dragon Fly

    Quiet. I am drawn to people with power, who work hard, have strong values, active lives, and are compassionate, logical and just a little geeky.

  31. Brian Fly
  32. Nat The Fly

    Hello All! Nathan here or Natas. I've been working at Rhino Records in Claremont CA forever, playing in bands and hanging out. Nat The Fly? It is my DJ name.

  33. Betterbutter Fly

    I'm an easygoing chick who likes colours and bright things like diamonds and rhinestones and stuff. I'm creative, spunky, caring, warm, sarcastic, and fun-loving. I can be calm one minute and mooning the car in the next lane the next- you can never tell with me. I like to keep life interesting. I hate order and timetables. And I really love my german sherperd, Max. He's totally protective of me- once he actually bit my date in the ass on prom night, ha ha ha.

  34. Chelsea Fly

    'maybe i feel detatched, i may just look too shy,.

  35. Tisha Of Fannypack~~~~aka Tisha O So Fly~~~~

    INTRODUCTION~~~~ I am scared to truely know people because i fear this world may dissapoint me. The truth is.. the only true love i have ever found has been in a gram of substance, A couple of shots. I fear i will eventually walk this world unfeeling and lifeless.Wake me up when its really worth it. Smile- if you can. All this is, is a collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space.

  36. Aka Esiu Fly

    180cm.......i dont have; me up to 50kg; 36,24,36 isn't my.

  37. Saimun Fly

    very simple flythaiguy... harsh parties.. ha ha just kidding.. I'm too old for that sh*t.. or sure.. I'm very a good boy.. nothing like that..know when to play and know when to be serious!!..lol always thinking aheads but sometimes try to step back and look back..wow.. totally!! for real? ha ha I came to Canada for almost 7-9 years.

  38. Dragon Fly

    aim (sex the moon)

  39. Sparks Fly

    grow mustaches for ironys sake. purposely hit guard rails.

  40. Flydesichickz Fly

    Think ur FLY?....Well we will decide! TRY and add yourself.

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