- Norman Worker
Norman Worker was a British comic book writer, best known for his work on comic books featuring Lee Falk's "The Phantom". Norman was born in Kent, England, in 1927. When he was 17 years old, he fought in World War II in India. After that, he worked in his father's furniture factory until it went bankrupt in the 1950s. It was his cousin, "Modesty Blaise"-creator Peter O'Donnell, who suggested that Norman could become a comic book writer. - Emma McCune
Emma McCune (1964 in India - 1993 in Nairobi) was an expatriate British foreign aid worker in Sudan who married guerrilla leader Riek Machar. She was killed in a car accident in Kenya. McCune was born in India to ex-colonial parents who could not adjust to life in England after their return. Eventually her parents divorced and her father committed suicide. In 1985 Emma flew to Australia and back in a single engined light aircraft with her friend Bill Hall. - John Gates
John Gates, born Solomon Regenstriet in New York City in 1913, was a prominent American Communist from 1939 to 1958. While a student at City College of New York, he became interested in communism and joined the Young Communist League, USA (YCL). He was active in the campaign to free the Scottsboro Boys. Upon leaving college, he first worked with unemployed workers in Ohio. - Emma Miller
Emma Miller (June 26, 1839 - January 22, 1917) was a pioneer trade union organiser, suffragist, and founder of the Australian Labor Party in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Miller was born in Chesterfield, England, to a family with Unitarian beliefs and activism in the Chartist movement. She married three times and had four children, migrating to Queensland with her second husband in 1879. In Queensland she worked as a gentlemen's shirt maker and seamstress. - Karl Meyer
Karl Meyer (b. 1937) is an American Scientist pacifist, activist, Catholic worker and tax resister. Karl Meyer helped to further the study of Botulism by working with canning industries. - Si Kahn
Si Kahn is an American singer-songwriter and activist. Originally from State College, Pennsylvania, Kahn moved to the south as an activist in the Civil Rights Movement, and he now lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. His grandfather Gabriel Kahn, his mother Rosalind Kahn, and his father Benjamin Kahn, a rabbi, taught Si the rudiments of rhythm and harmony as a child. Kahn is the founder and director of Grassroots Leadership, … - Sebastião Salgado
Sebastião Salgado is a Brazilian documentary photographer and photojournalist. After a somewhat itinerant childhood, Salgado initially trained as an economist, earning a master’s degree in economics from the University of São Paulo in Brazil. He began work as an economist for the International Coffee Organization, often traveling to Africa on missions for the World Bank, when he first started seriously taking photographs. - William Astley
William Astley (1854 - 5 October 1911), Australian short story writer who wrote under the pseudonym "Price Warung". William Astley was the second son of Captain Thomas Astley and his wife Mary Price. He was born in Liverpool, England, in 1854, and was brought to Australia when he was four years old. The family settled in Richmond, Victoria, and William was educated at St Stephen's school and the Melbourne model school. - Pieter Jelles Troelstra
Pieter Jelles Troelstra was a Dutch politician active in the socialist workers' movement. He is most remembered for his fight for universal suffrage and his failed call for revolution at the end of World War I. Troelstra was married from 1888 until 1904 to Sjoukje Bokma de Boer, who was a well-known children's book writer under the pen name of Nynke van Hichtum. - Rose Summerfield
Rose Anna Summerfield (April 18 1864 - April 14 1922) also known as Rose Cadogan or Rose Hummer, was a radical Australian feminist and labour activist. Rose was born in Middleton Creek, Victoria; her father was Polish and her mother Irish. In 1886 she married Henry Lewis Summerfield, the moved to Waverly in Sydney and had one son in 1887. Summerfields political activities began in 1886 when she joined in Australasian Secularist Association, … - George Augustine Taylor
George Augustine Taylor (1872 - January 20 1928) was an Australian artist, journalist, and inventor. Taylor was born at Sydney in 1872. He first became known as an artist, and was a member of the Sydney Bohemian set in the 1890s, whose doings he was afterwards to record in his "Those Were the Days", a volume of reminiscences published in 1918. He contributed drawings to "The Bulletin", "Worker", "Sunday Times", "Referee", … - Ferdinand Schichau
Ferdinand Schichau (1814-1896) was born and died in Elbing, West Prussia. Schichau, whose father was a smith and iron worker in Elbing, studied engineering in Berlin. He visited the Rhineland and England, before starting his own company in Elbing in 1837. The "Schichau-Werft" became a large industrial complex, which employed several thousand people. Schichau made hydraulic presses, industrial machines and steam engines. - Ishwar Modi
Ishwar Modi is an Indian Sociologist and a pioneer of leisure studies in India. His work in this field has been widely reviewed in both, the country and abroad. He did his Masters in Sociology and Ph.D. from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. He also worked for his Ph.D. under the title ‘"Leisure, Mass Media and Social Structure"’ (1985) at the Centre for the Study of Social Sytems, [Jawaharlal Nehru University, … - Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton is a junior Democratic Senator from New York. Married to former President Bill Clinton , she was First Lady from 1993 to 2001. She is currently seeking the Democratic nomination for President in 2008 and is considered the front-runner. Mike Huckabee - Graham Webb
Born in Birmingham, UK, to L. Webb a battle of El Alamein war widow, I was the youngest of 5 children. Started cycling at the age of 8 and was many times British National cycling champion and National record holder at 10 miles, 25 miles and 1 hour. Moved to the Netherlands in 1967 where I became world cycling road champion, signed a professional contract with the French Mercier team in 1968 and moved to Belgium, where I still live with my family. http://crazyaboutbelgium.co.uk/blogs/webb.htm - Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 - 30 April 1945) was the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (The Nazi party). He was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, and became FAhrer (leader) [2] in 1934, remaining in power until his suicide in 1945. - Viggo Mortensen
Young Viggo was an artistic kid, always to be seen with a pencil and paper on hand. This would continue back in New York State when, his parents divorcing in 1969, he and his brothers would move with their mother from Argentina back to Watertown. - Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev ; surname more accurately romanized as Khrushchyov ; – September 11, 1971) was the chief director of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. He was removed from power by his party colleagues in 1964 and replaced by Leonid Brezhnev. - Yoshua Daely
Green Property and Resort Management. Has 30 years experience in Hospitality Industry, previously working with various hotels and resorts. Involved with The HITA properties. It is a luxury traditional home concept that will feature all exclusive private villas in a design that respects the surrounding environment, offer an enriching lifestyle experience that is based on local art, culture and community spirit. - Franz Kafka
What will be my fate as a writer is very simple. My talent for portraying my dreamlike inner life has thrust all matters into the background; my life has dwindled dreadfully, nor will it cease to dwindle. Nothing else will ever sat - Phyllis Schlafly
Phyllis Schlafly has been a national leader of the conservative movement since the publication of her best-selling 1964 book, A Choice Not An Echo. She has been a leader of the pro-family movement since 1972, when she started her national volunteer organization now called Eagle Forum. In a ten-year battle, Mrs. Schlafly led the pro-family movement to victory over the principal legislative goal of the radical feminists, called the Equal Rights Amendment. - Edwidge Danticat
Fiction writer Edwidge Danticat conjures the history of her native Haiti in award-winning short stories and novels. She is equally at home describing the immigrant experience--what she calls "dyaspora"--and the reality of life in Haiti today. Her first novel, the loosely biographical Breath, Eyes, Memory, was a 1998 selection of the Oprah Winfrey Book Club, thus assuring its bestseller status. - Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett (born May 9, 1934) is an English author and actor noted for his work, his boyish appearance and his sonorous Yorkshire accent. - Trish Godman
Patricia 'Trish' Godman (born 31 October 1939, Govan, Glasgow) is a Scottish Labour politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for West Renfrewshire constituency since 1999. Before entering the Scottish Parliament Godman was a Glasgow City councillor and before that she was a social worker working in the East End of Glasgow from 1979-1989. After leaving school at 15 Godman worked with a charity for some time, as a waitress, in a bar, … - Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mary Mantel CBE (born 6 July 1952) is an English novelist. She is the author of nine acclaimed novels, a short story collection and a memoir, and was created a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) on 17 June 2006. Hilary Mantel was born in Glossop, north Derbyshire in 1952. She was educated at a convent school in Cheshire and went on to the LSE and Sheffield University, where she studied law. After university she was briefly a social worker in a geriatric hospital, … - Mary Parker Follett
Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933) was an American social worker, consultant, and author of books on democracy, human relations, and management. She worked as a management and political theorist, introducing such phrases as "conflict resolution," "authority and power," and "the task of leadership." Follett was born into an affluent Quaker family in Massachusetts and spent much of her early life there. In 1898 she graduated from Radcliffe College. - Ansar Burney
Ansar Burney, after 16 years of campaigning, was successful in finally convincing the governments of Qatar and the UAE to ban the use of child camel jockeys - Taufiq Rafat
Taufiq Rafat (1927-1998) was an English language Pakistani poet born in Sialkot, Punjab in 1927. Educated in Dehra Dun, Aligarh and Lahore, Rafat and his family returned to Sialkot in 1947. After graduating from the Hailey College of Commerce, Lahore, Rafat became a company executive and married his wife Rehana, who was a social worker and women's rights activist from the local Kashmiri community. - Miriam Waddington
Miriam Waddington was a Canadian poet, short story writer and translator. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she studied at the University of Toronto and the University of Pennsylvania. She worked for many years as a social worker in the then Toronto suburb of North York. In 1964, she joined the English department at York University. She retired in 1983. Her poem "Jacques Cartier in Toronto" is featured on the back of the Canadian $100 bill released in 2004. - Kamini Roy
Kamini Roy (12 October 1864 - 27 September 1933) was a leading Bengali poet, social worker and feminist from India. She was the first woman honours graduate in India. - Anna Lo
Anna Lo, MLA is an Alliance Party politician from Northern Ireland. Born in Hong Kong, of Chinese ethnicity, Lo was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly for South Belfast in the 2007 assembly election. She was the first ethnic minority politician elected at a national level in Northern Ireland, and the first politician born in East Asia elected to any national parliament or assembly in the United Kingdom. - Cathy Tyson
Cathy Tyson (born June 121965 in Liverpool) is an English actress. - Blanca Canales
Blanca Canales Torresola (1906 - 1996) was a Puerto Rican nationalist leader. Canales may possibly have been the first women to have led a revolt against the United States when at age 24, she led the The Jayuya Uprising. - Muzaffar Ali
Muzaffar Ali (born 21 October, 1944; Lucknow) is an Indian film-maker, a fashion designer, a poet, an artist, a music-lover, a revivalist, a social worker. In 2005 he was awarded the Padma Shri for his achievements. His son Shaad Ali is a film director. - Jacob Billikopf
Jacob Billikopf, Ph.B., L.L.D., (b. 1883, Wilna, Russia - d. December 31, 1950) was a nationally known figure in social work, Jewish philanthropy and labor arbitration. Billikopf had a long and distinguished career in public service work. He served as superintendent of the United Jewish Charities in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Kansas City, Missouri, before becoming the executive director of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, … - Sabriye Tenberken
Sabriye Tenberken (born 1970) is a German socialworker and co-founder of the organisation Braille Without Borders. - Dan Norris
Dan Norris (born January 28, 1960) is the Labour Member of Parliament for Wansdyke in England. - Catie Curtis
Catie Curtis (born 1965) is an American singer-songwriter. She was raised in the small city of Saco, Maine, and played her first performances there. She was originally a drummer, but later changed instruments to acoustic guitar. After leaving Saco, she went to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. While at college, she became involved in the local coffeehouse circuit. - Eric Walters
Eric Walters is one of Canada's leading authors of young adult fiction, and the only three-time winner of the Silver Birch Award (a children's book award in the province of Ontario, created in 1994 by the Ontario Library Association). He was born in Toronto raised up in Toronto’s west end, which is a rather poor section of Toronto. When Eric was about 10 to 15-years-old, he wanted to be a teacher; at the time there were few jobs for teachers, … - Ellen Tarry
Ellen Tarry is an African-American author of literature for young adults. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 26, 1906. Although raised in the Congregational Church, she converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922. She attended Alabama State Normal School, now Alabama State University, and became a teacher in Birmingham. At the same time, she began writing a column for the local African-American newspaper entitled "Negroes of Note", …
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