- Michelle Tea
Michelle Tea (born Michelle Tomasik in 1971) is an American author, poet and ex-prostitute originally from Chelsea, Massachusetts (a suburb of Boston). She currently lives in San Francisco. Tea was the co-founder of the Sister Spit spoken word tour. Her books, mostly memoirs, are known for their views into the riot grrrl and queercore communities. She has toured with the Sex Worker's Art Show alongside Ducky DooLittle and others. - Cocoa Tea
Cocoa Tea (born September 3, 1959 as Calvin George Scott, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae dancehall singer, songwriter, and DJ. He was popular in Jamaica from 1985, but has become successful worldwide only since the 1990s. One of his most famous songs is "Rikers Island", which was later put into a dub version by Nardo Ranks entitled "Me No Like Rikers Island" (featured on Dancehall Reggaespanol) which was released the same year as the original Rikers Island. - Pimp Tea
Pimp Tea, "Positively Influencing More People to Excel Artistically", is a Canadian rapper from Fredericton, New Brunswick. Also known as Brockway Biggs, Pimp-T, and Troy Neilson. His single "Shake Ya Caboose" won a 2005 East Coast Music Award ("ECMA") for "Urban Single of the Year" and has charted on over 35 stations. His two albums have received nominations at the Canadian Urban Music Awards (in 2000) and the ECMA (four, in 2003 and 2005). - Jay Tea
- Richard Longstreet Tea
Richard Longstreet Tea was a US Civil War hero who won the Medal of Honor for heroism on April 23, 1875 during the Indian Wars. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in February, 1842 and died in Prescott, Arizona on September 14, 1911. - Mr. Scruff
Mr. Scruff is the recording name of Andy Carthy (born in 1972 in Macclesfield, England), a British DJ and artist. He is a native of Manchester, England and studied Fine Art at the Sheffield College of Art. His DJ name was inspired by his trademark loose-lined drawing style. He has been DJing since 1994, at first in and around Manchester then nationwide in the United Kingdom. He is known for DJing in marathon sets (often exceeding six hours), … - John Walker
John (Johnnie) Walker was a Scottish grocer, who originated what would become one of the world’s most famous whisky brand names. Walker was born near Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, Scotland. When his father Alexander died in 1819 he was left £417 in trust. In 1820 the trustees invested in an Italian warehouse, grocery, and wine and spirits shop on the High Street in Kilmarnock. In 1833 John married Elizabeth Purves. - Lu Yu
Lu Yu (733–804) is respected as the Sage of Tea for his contribution to Chinese tea culture. He is best known for his monumental book "The Classic of Tea" (茶经), the first definitive work on cultivating, making and drinking tea. - Robert Bruce
Robert Bruce was a Scottish gentleman who introduced the tea plantations in Assam in the early 19th century. He is buried in the cemetery in Tezpur town. - Eisai
Myōan Eisai was a Japanese Buddhist priest, credited with bringing the Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism and green tea from China to Japan. He is often known simply as Eisai Zenji (栄西禅師), literally "Zen master Eisai". Born in Bitchū Province (modern-day Okayama, Okayama), Eisai started his studies of Buddhism in a Tendai temple. Dissatisfied with the state of Buddhism at the time, in 1168 he set off on his first trip to Mt. Tiantai, … - Les Blank
Les Blank (b. 1935, Tampa, Florida, United States) is an American documentary filmmaker best known for his portraits of American traditional musicians. Blank attended Tulane University in New Orleans, where he received a B.A. in English literature and an M.F.A. in theater. Following his university education he founded his own production company, Flower Films, and all of his films since that time have been independently produced, … - David Wheeler
David John Wheeler FRS (9 February 1927 - 13 December 2004) was a computer scientist. He was born in Birmingham and gained a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge to read mathematics, graduating in 1948. His contributions to the field included work on the EDSAC and the Burrows-Wheeler transform. Along with Maurice Wilkes and Stanley Gill he is credited with the invention of the subroutine (which they referred to as the "closed subroutine"). - Emperor Saga Saga
Emperor Saga (786-842) was the 52nd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. He ruled from 809 to 823. - Thomas Twining
Thomas Twining (born January 8, 1735 in Twickenham, London, England; died August 6, 1804 at Colchester) was an English classical scholar. The son of Daniel Twining, tea merchant of London, he was originally intended for a commercial life, but his distaste for it and his fondness for study decided his father to send him to the university. He entered Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (fellow, 1760), took orders, … - Matthew Harding
Matthew Harding (December 26, 1953 - October 22, 1996) was a British businessman and vice-chairman of Chelsea football club. - Yang Yan
Yang Yan was an 8th century minister and reformer of the Tang dynasty Emperor Dezong. Yang served for less than two years. Dezong became emperor in 779/780 and Yang, a close friend of the emperor, was made chancellor on his accession. Yang and the emperor believed that China was in decline. Outdated tax systems demanded immediate attention, and Dezong tasked Yang with those reforms. Emperor Suzong (r. 756-762) had attempted to achieve similar reforms, … - Roger Needham
Roger Michael Needham CBE FREng FRS (9 February, 1935 - 1 March, 2003) was a British computer scientist. Needham began his undergraduate studies at the University of Cambridge in 1953, graduating with a B.A. in 1956 in mathematics and philosophy. His Ph.D. thesis was on applications of digital computers to the automatic classification and retrieval of documents. He worked on a variety of key computing projects in security, operating systems, … - Charles Calvert
Charles Calvert was a wealthy English brewer and Member of Parliament in the early 19th century. Calvert was the third son of Southwark brewer Felix Calvert, and was educated at Tonbridge and Harrow Schools. In 1802, he inherited a half-share in his father’s brewery. A Whig, he stood for Parliament and was elected as MP for Southwark from 1812 to 1830 and then from 1830 until his death in 1832. In Parliament, he allied himself with brewers’ interests, … - Frederick John Horniman
Frederick John Horniman (8 October 1835 - 5 March 1906) was an English tea trader, collector and public benefactor. He was the son of John Horniman, who established a tea business using mechanical packaging. In 1891, it was said to be the biggest tea company in the world. He founded the Horniman Museum in Forest Hill, south London. In 1901, he gave the museum to London County Council for use by the people of London. He was a member of the London County Council, … - Hira Ratan Manek
Hira Ratan Manek (born September 12, 1937) claims that since June 18th, 1995, he has lived exclusively on water, and occasional tea, coffee, and buttermilk. He says sunlight is the key to his health, citing the Jainist Tirthankara Mahavira, ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Native Americans as his inspiration. According to his website, three extended periods of his fasting have been under observed control of scientific and medical teams. - William Archibald Spooner
William Archibald Spooner (July 22, 1844-August 29, 1930) was a famous Oxford don who lends his name to the linguistic phenomenon, the Spoonerism. - James Tilly Matthews
James Tilly Matthews was a London tea merchant with republican sympathies who became embroiled in a self-styled peace mission between France and England in 1793. He was ignored, then jailed, by the French. He returned to England to warn the Prime Minister that teams of "magnetic spies" had infiltrated England and were preparing to use 'air looms' (a type of mind control machine that used "animal magnetism" and mesmerism) to overthrow the government. - Edmund Fanning
Edmund Fanning (July 16, 1769 - April 23, 1841) was an American explorer and sea captain, known as the "Pathfinder of the Pacific." Born in Stonington, Connecticut, he went to sea as a cabin boy at the age of 13, and by the age of 24 was captain of a West Indian brig in which he visited the South Pacific for the first time. A highly successful trader, Fanning made a fortune in the China trade, killing seals in the South Pacific and exchanging their skins in China for silks, … - John Cassell
John Cassell (23 January, 1817 - 2 April, 1865) was a British publisher and businessperson who published magazines aimed at the middle class. He also served as an editor of many of the magazines he published. Originally a tea and coffee merchant, from around 1850 his firm started printing illustrated magazines, with the objective of providing good literature to those who might not read it otherwise. Self-educated, Cassell was born in Manchester and died in London. - David Carnegie
The Hon. David Wynford Carnegie (23 March 1871 - 27 November 1900) was an explorer and gold prospector in Western Australia. In 1896 he led an expedition from Coolgardie through the Gibson and Great Sandy Deserts to Halls Creek, and then back again. David Carnegie was born in London on 23 March 1871, the youngest child of the ninth Earl of Southesk. He was educated at Charterhouse in Godalming, Surrey but dropped out without graduating, … - Saichō
(767-822) was a Japanese Buddhist monk credited with founding the Tendai school in Japan, based around the Chinese Tiantai tradition he was exposed to during his trip to China beginning in 804. He founded the temple and headquarters of Tendai at Enryakuji on Mt. Hiei near Kyoto. He is also said to have been the first to bring tea to Japan. After his death, he was awarded the posthumous title of Dengyō Daishi - James Mayer de Rothschild
James de Rothschild, born May 15, 1792 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany - died November 15, 1868 in Paris, France, was a banker and a member of the prominent Rothschild family. James de Rothschild was the fifth son and youngest child of Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812). James de Rothschild moved to Paris in 1811 and in 1817 expanded the family banking empire to the city, opening de Rothschild Frères. - Vincent Brome
Vincent Brome (14 July 1910 – 21 October 2004) was an English writer, who gradually established himself as a man of letters. He is best known for a series of biographies of politicians, writers and followers of Sigmund Freud. He also wrote numerous novels, and was a dramatist. He was born and brought up in London, and educated at Streatham Grammar School and Elleston School. He failed to enter university, and was found a job at a tea broker. - Balfour Stewart
Balfour Stewart, was a Scottish physicist. Stewart was born in Edinburgh, and was educated at the University of Edinburgh. The son of a tea merchant, he was for some time engaged in business in Leith and in Australia, but, returning to his studies of physics at Edinburgh, he became assistant to J. D. Forbes in 1856. Forbes was especially interested in questions of heat, meteorology, and terrestrial magnetism, and it was to these that Stewart also mainly devoted himself. - Wilhelm ten Rhyne
Wilhelm ten Rhyne (1649 - 1700) was a Dutch doctor and botanist employed by the Dutch East India Company. He wrote the first European account of acupuncture, "De Acupunctura", and the first detailed study of tea. He also wrote a book entitled "An Account of the Cape of Good Hope and the Hottentotes", which describes the lives of the Khoikhoi (then "Hottentots") during the early days of Dutch settlement in the Cape. - Ethel Mutharika
Ethel Mutharika (b. circa 1944 - d. May 28 2007, Lilongwe, Malawi) was the first lady of Malawi and wife of the President of Malawi, Bingu wa Mutharika. Mutharika was orginally from Zimbabwe. She had been married to President Bingu wa Mutharika for 37 years at the time of her death. The couple had four children together. Mutharika was known for her charitable work and had established the Ethel Mutharika Foundation in an effort to help the poor of Malawi. - Caroline Grills
Caroline Grills, born Caroline Mickelson (1890 - October 1960) was an Australian serial killer. Grills became a suspect in 1947 after three family members (87-year-old stepmother Mrs. Christine Mickelson; Mrs. Angelina Thomas, a relative of Mrs. Grills' husband; and Mr. Grills' brother-in-law John Lundberg) and a close family friend (Mrs. Mary Anne Mickelson) died. Authorities tested tea that she had given to two additional family members (Mrs. - Maureen Hingert
Maureen Neliya Hingert (born January 9, 1937) is a Sri Lankan model, dancer and actress. She became the only Sri Lankan representative to win an award at a Miss Universe pageant after finishing as second runner-up at the 1955 event. Hingert was born on January 9, 1937 in Colombo, Sri Lanka to Lionel Hingert and Lorna Mabel De Run. Her father, of Dutch ancestry, was the president of the Bank of Ceylon and held extensive holdings in the tea industry. - Matsudaira Tadateru
(February 16, 1592–August 24, 1683) was a daimyo during the Edo period of Japan. He was the sixth son of Tokugawa Ieyasu. He was born in Edo Castle during the year of the dragon ("tatsu"), and as a child his name was Tatsuchiyo. His mother was, a concubine of Ieyasu. Ieyasu sent the boy to live with a vassal, Minagawa Hiroteru, a daimyo in Shimotsuke Province. In 1599, Ieyasu granted him a fief in Musashi Province, … - Elizabeth van Valkenburgh
Elizabeth van Valkenburgh (1799 - 1846) poisoned her first husband by adding arsenic to his rum, because she was "provoked" by his drinking in bars. She first denied that she had poisoned him but later admitted that she did, although she stated that he was able to work after this, and that she did not intend to kill him. She then married John Van Valkenburgh. In her confession, she stated that he was an alcoholic, that he "misused the children", … - Louise Marie Adelaide Eugènie D'Orléans
Louise Marie Adelaide Eugènie d'Orléans was the daughter of Louis Philip II, Duke of Orléans, and the sister of King Louis-Philippe of France. Born in Paris. She moved to the United States in 1801. She married George Casper von Schroeppel, a Prussian-born tea merchant who was a naturalized American citizen and lived in New York City; they had four children: *"George Casper", drowned at the age of 12 in Morristown, New York; *"Louis Henry William", … - Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour
Jean Baptiste Louis Claude Theodore Leschenault de la Tour (November 13, 1773 - March 14, 1826) was a French botanist and ornithologist. Leschenault de la Tour was chief botanist on Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australia between 1800 and 1803. He collected a great many new specimens in 1801 and 1802, but in April 1803 he was so ill that he had to be put ashore at Timor. - Tea Donguzashvili
Tea Donguzashvili (born 4 June 1976) is a Russian judoka. She won a bronze medal in the heavyweight (+78 kg) division at the 2004 Summer Olympics. - Tea Sugareva
Tea Sugareva is a young Bulgarian poet. Sugareva started writing not long before 2006, when she won her first poetry awards from the National poetic competition "Petya Dubarova" in Burgas and the special prize of the poetiс fest "Resurrection 2006" in Dobrich. She is currently studying in NGDEK. - Sir John Arbuthnot 1st Baronet
Major Sir John Sinclair Wemyss Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet, MBE, TD (11 February 1912 - 13 June 1992) was a British Conservative politician. Arbuthnot was born in Kittybrewster, the son of Major Kenneth Wyndham Arbuthnot and Janet Elspeth Sinclair Wemyss. His father had served with the Seaforth Highlanders since 1893, fighting in the Chitral campaign in 1895, in the Mahdist War in the Sudan in 1898 (including the Battle of Omdurman), and in the Second Boer War from 1900 to 1902.
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