- Us
uS... was the principal pseudonym for the American artist Chris Johnson (born Christopher David Johnson, May 17, 1973) until early 2006, who notably was drawn to the profession upon visiting many of the prominent art museums in Europe while serving a court ordered enlistment as a cook in the United States Navy.
- Joel Hefley
Joel M. Hefley (born April 18, 1935) is a U.S Republican politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives representing the 5th Congressional District of Colorado from 1987 to 2007. His wife, Dr. Lynn Hefley, is currently a member of the Colorado State House of Representatives. They have three daughters. He was born in Ardmore, Oklahoma, earned his BA at Oklahoma Baptist University and his MA at Oklahoma State University.
- Michael Kennedy
Michael LeMoyne Kennedy, was the sixth of eleven children of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy. He was a nephew of former U.S. president John F. Kennedy and senator of Massachusetts Edward M. Kennedy. He had six brothers and four sisters. His siblings, from oldest to youngest, are Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (b. 1951), Joseph Patrick Kennedy II (b. 1952), Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (b.1954), David Anthony Kennedy (1955-1984), Courtney Kennedy Hill (b. 1956), …
- Jay Abraham
Jay Abraham is an American marketing consultant. Many of his clients have credited him for creating "miracles" for them. Currently he is among the highest paid marketing consultant in the U.S. and is called "American's Number one Marketing Wizard" by some in the industry. Consultants live on their reputations. Web search on Mr. Abraham returns no negative comments in the top 200 hits.
- Bart Peterson
Barton R. Peterson (born June 15, 1958 to parents Howard and Lori) has been mayor of the U.S city of Indianapolis, Indiana, since 2000. A Democrat, he defeated Sue Anne Gilroy 52 percent to 41 percent in 1999 to become Indianapolis' first Democratic mayor since 1967. He was re-elected in 2003 with 63 percent of the vote. He announced his intention to run for re-election on February 22, 2007.
- Tamim Ansary
Mir Tamim Ansary is an Afghan-American author and speaker. He is the author of West of Kabul, East of New York, a book published shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Ansary was born in Afghanistan and lived there until high school, when he won a scholarship to an American boarding school, Colorado Rocky Mountain School.
- Charlotte Diamond
Charlotte Diamond is a Canadian children’s singer. She has recorded 12 albums including the Juno Award winning "10 Carrot Diamond". Some of her most popular songs include "4 Hugs a Day", "I am a pizza", "Octopus", "I am a flower", and "May there always be sunshine". Charlotte Diamond has also recorded songs in Spanish and French, including "Soy una pizza" and "Qu’il y ait toujours le soleil".
- Lewis Terman
Lewis Madison Terman (born 15 January 1877 in Johnson County, Indiana, died 21 December 1956 in Palo Alto, California) was a U.S psychologist, noted as a pioneer in cognitive psychology in the early 20th century at Stanford University. He is best known as the inventor of the Stanford-Binet IQ test. He was a prominent eugenicist and was a member of the Human Betterment Foundation.
- Alison King
Alison King (born March 3, 1973) is a British actress best known for her role as Carla Connor in Coronation Street and prior to that for Lynda Block in the Sky One television series "Dream Team". She has also made appearances in a series of well known recurring television adverts for Daz. During her break from working on Dream Team, …
- Armond White
Armond White (born in Detroit, Michigan) is one of America's leading film critics and has been the chairman of the "New York Film Critics Circle" since the mid-1990s. Known as one of the many "Paulettes" (acolytes of Pauline Kael), White made his reputation as a critic who shares many of Kael's enthusiasms, though he has established his own individual critical voice. He currently writes for "New York Press".
- James A. Graham
Captain James Albert Graham (1940-1967) was a United States Marine who was posthumously awarded the highest U.S military honor - the Medal of Honor for his heroism and sacrifice of life in June 1967, during the Vietnam War. James Albert Graham was born on 25 August 1940, in the Pittsburgh suburb of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. He attended to high school in Brandywine, Maryland.
- Claude Poirier
Claude Poirier (b. October, 1938) is a negotiator and crime reporter for the Quebec-based Canadian French-language television network TVA. He is best known for negotiating with suspects during hostage situations. His 46-year career as a legal chronicler started in 1960 when he did the description of a bank robbery. He continued to do the job for several months without receiving a salary.
- Ajay Mehta
Ajay Mehta (born on July 3, 1938) is an Indian American actor. Mehta was born in New Delhi, India and he was educated in two of the most prestigious institutions in New Delhi - Mayo College and St. Stephens College, Delhi University. After university, Ajay moved to Hong Kong to be a scriptwriter for the Hong Kong English TV channel TVB Pearl and occasionally appeared as cameo in different TV dramas and commercials. He later moved to U.S. He has appeared in many TV shows, …
- Emily Blackwell
Emily Blackwell (1826-1910) was the second woman to earn a medical degree at what is now Case Western Reserve University, and the third woman to earn a medical degree in the United States. Blackwell was born on October 8 1826 in Bristol, England; in 1832 the family emigrated to the U.S., and in 1837 settled near Cincinnati, Ohio. Inspired by the example of her older sister, Elizabeth, she studied medicine, earning her degree in 1854.
- Lewis Boss
Lewis Boss (1846-1912) was an American astronomer. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1870 he graduated from Dartmouth College, then went to work as a clerk for the U.S. Government. He served as an assistant astronomer for a government expedition to survey the U.S-Canadian border. In 1876 he became the directory of the Dudley Observatory in Schenectady, New York. He became editor of the "Astronomical Journal" in 1909, but responsibility passed to his son, …
- Monica Cameron
Monica Cameron is a Hungarian pornographic actress and model Before becoming a porn star Cameron worked in a number of bars in Budapest. She started making porn movies in 1998 at the age of 19. Monica’s career as a porn performer lasted about 5 years, from 1998 to 2003, and her list of credits includes more than 45 adult features. She performs anal sex in nearly all of her movies, and is also know for taking a facial from her male costars.
- Benjamin Willard
Benjamin Willard, Jr. (1743 - 1803) was a U.S. clockmaker.
- John L. Helm
John LaRue Helm (July 4, 1802-September 8, 1867) was the eighteenth and twenty-fourth governor of the U.S state of Kentucky.
- Beverly Oden
Beverly ("Bev") Oden (born March 19, 1971 in Millington, Tennessee) is a volleyball player from the United States. She played middle blocker for the U.S women's volleyball team in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Oden played volleyball for Stanford University and was named the 1990 NCAA Player of the Year. Oden's sisters - Kim (1998, 1992) and Elaina (1992)- were also Olympians and former NCAA Players of the Year.
- Fred Plimley
Fred Plimley is President of DK Malaysia Development, LLC and responsible for guiding the strategic direction of the company, business development and day-to-day operations. Fred has successfully created International business strategies affectively presenting Malaysia as the "Gateway" to Asia Pacific and Middle East markets.Other profiles: www.linkedin.com/in/fredplimley - http://www.naymz.com/search/fred/plimley/792293 - http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?id=113481
- Jay Leyda
Jay Leyda (1910 - February 15, 1988) was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film historian, noted for his work on U.S, Soviet and Chinese Cinema. He was a member of the Workers Film and Photo League in the early 1930s. He participated in the filming of Sergei Eisenstein's lost film "Bezhin Meadow" (1935-7). In the 1940s he translated Eisenstein's writings. He was awarded the Eastman Kodak Gold Medal Award in 1984.
- Ernest Kouwen-Hoven
Ernest Kouwen-Hoven came to the U.S at the age of 20 from Holland. He was married by 1908 when his son, Jack, was born. His daughter, Phylis followed in 1910. In 1915, he arrived in Melbourne, Florida from California with his wife, and 2 children, Jack and Phylis. He purchased land and platted it in 1916, thus founding Indialantic, Florida. The plat was later revised in 1919. In the same year, he began construction of his toll bridge across the Indian River.
- Fred Aaron Savage
Frederick Aaron Savage (born July 9, 1976) is an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-nominated American actor and television director.
- David Mathenge
David Mathenge (born August 1976), better known for his stage name Nameless, is a Kenyan hip hop artist signed to the Ogopa DJ's label. He came to fame in 1999 through a star-search contest on Kenya's urban music station 98.4 Capital FM, which he won with his original song "Megarider." The song was about a penniless young man who is trying to seduce a woman but only has enough money for Kenya Bus tickets, and not the rich lifestyle she desires.
- Chris Bachelder
Chris Bachelder (born 1971) is an American writer, e-book pioneer and frequent contributor to the publications "McSweeney's Quarterly Concern" and "The Believer". Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he grew up in Christiansburg, Virginia. He attended Virginia Tech (BA, 1992) and the University of Florida at Gainesville (MFA, 2002). Bachelder has taught fiction writing and literature courses at Colorado College (Assistant Professor), …
- Gilbert Sorrentino
Gilbert Sorrentino (April 27 1929 - May 18 2006) was an American novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, and editor. In over twenty-five works of fiction and poetry, Sorrentino explored the comic and formal possibilities of language and literature. His insistence on the primacy of language and his forays into metafiction mark him as a postmodernist, but he is also known for his ear for American speech and his attention to the particularities of place, …
- Matthew Polashek
Matthew Polashek is a contemporary saxophonist living in the New York City area. His work focuses on the development of his own real-time computer-based interactive multimedia performance system. Polashek performs with his own group, the Matthew Polashek Exchange, and has performed and recorded with internationally renowned artists including David Liebman and Bryan Lynch.
- Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro Jované
Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro Jované served as president of Panama from January 16, 1931 to September 20, 1932. He belonged to the Liberal Party. Dr. Alfaro began a career in the diplomatic service in 1905 as under-secretary for foreign affairs. He was first assigned to the U.S. in 1912 as legal counselor of the Panamanian legation for the Panama-Costa Rica border dispute. Dr.
- Gaurav Shah
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- Marcus Sachs
Marcus H. Sachs directs the Washington operations of SRI International's Computer Science Laboratory. He was born in Lahore, Pakistan on October 4 1959 and moved to Tallahassee, Florida with his parents and younger brother in 1961. He grew up in Tallahassee and graduated from Godby High School in 1977.
- Colin Powell
General Colin Luther Powell, United States Army (Ret.) (born April 5, 1937) is a former American military leader and statesman. He became the first African-American to be confirmed as United States Secretary of State. As the 65th United States Secretary of State (2001-05) under President George W. Bush, Powell became the highest ranking African American government official in the history of the United States.
- Eugene K. Bird
Lieutenant Colonel Eugene K. Bird (1926, Lambert, Montana - October 28, 2005, Berlin) was U.S. Director of the Spandau prison from 1964 to 1972. For more than two decades, Bird guarded deputy Nazi Fuehrer Rudolf Hess. Bird was born in Lambert, Montana. In 1944, Bird joined the U.S. Army. He was sent to Europe, where he fought against the Germans. In 1947, he became the first American guard at the Spandau prison.
- Husain Haqqani
Husain Haqqani is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. He is a syndicated columnist for The Indian Express and The Nation (of Pakistan) and serves as chairman of Communications Research Strategies, a Pakistani consulting company. Mr. Haqqani's journalism career includes work as East Asian correspondent for Arabia - The Islamic World Review and Pakistan and Afghanistan correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review .
- Kelly Perdew
Kelly Crawford Perdew (born January 29,1967) of Carlsbad, California was the winner of the second season of "The Apprentice".
- William Frank Buckley Sr.
William Frank Buckley, Sr. (born: 11 July 1881 Washington on the Brazos, Texas & died 5 October 1958 in New York City) was a Texan lawyer who became influential in Mexican politics during the term of President Victoriano Huerta and was expelled from Mexico during the Presidency of Álvaro Obregón. Buckley is best known as the father of the publisher of "National Review" magazine, William Frank Buckley, Jr. and as the father of former U.S. Senator James L. Buckley, …
- Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Jasspon Kunitz /'kju:nɪts/ (July 29, 1905 – May 14, 2006) was a noted American poet who served two years (1974-1976) as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (a precursor to the modern Poet Laureate program), and served another year as United States Poet Laureate in 2000.
- Eddie August Schneider
Eddie August Schneider (October 20, 1911 - December 23, 1940) set the transcontinental airspeed record for pilots under the age of twenty-one in 1930. When he received his pilot's license, he was the youngest licensed pilot in the United States. He was a pilot in the Spanish Civil War in the Yankee Squadron and he died in 1940 while training a new pilot, when a bomber clipped his tail at Floyd Bennett Field.
- Tammy Duckworth
Ladda "Tammy" Duckworth (born March 12 1968) is an Illinois National Guard Major and Iraq War veteran from the U.S. state of Illinois. She was the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives seat for the sixth district of Illinois and lost by 2% of the vote in the highly competitive 2006 House election. On 21 November 2006, Duckworth was appointed the director of the Illinois Veterans' Affairs Department by governor Rod Blagojevich.
- Joseph Arthur Padway
Joseph Arthur Padway (1891-1947) was a U.S. labor lawyer and politician. Padway, who was born in Leeds, England, went to Milwaukee in 1905. Admitted to the Wisconsin bar in 1912, he was appointed legal counsel for the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor three years later. He was elected to the Wisconsin State Senate on the Socialist Party of America ticket and served in the 1925 session of the legislature. Padway was twice appointed to the Milwaukee civil court bench (1924, …
- Mark Martin
Mark Anthony Martin (born January 9, 1959 in Batesville, Arkansas) is a NASCAR Nextel Cup Series driver for Ginn Racing, driving the #01 U.S. Army Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS/Impala, and is also a part-time driver in the Busch Series and Craftsman Truck Series for Hendrick Motorsports, and Wood Brothers/JTG Racing. Martin is often nicknamed Mr. Consistency because he frequently places in the top 10 in races.