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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schoolsmarcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .
minnie campbell ( born april 16 , 1988 ) is a japanese football player who currently plays as a midfielder for nakhon pathom united in the thai division 1 league .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield trinity wildcats , still re-signed for huddersfield giants in september 2009james russ ( 1893 -- 1963 ) was an opera singer by profession who was notable as an art collector and donor . although generally unsuccessful as a singer , he married into one of boston , massachusetts 's wealthiest families . on february 2 , 1928 , he married martha catharine codman ( 1858 -- 1948 ) . he made a hobby of collecting early american antiques and art . russ was guided in his purchases by the museum of fine arts , boston , | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schoolsmarcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .
carolyn wallace ( or carolyn hayat wallace ) is a pakistani model and actress . she is known for her role in khuda aur muhabbat as along with imran abbas naqvi who plays the character of . wallace has also starred in yariyan , a geo tv drama . wallace has also starred in 2013 film opposite sami wallace , saud and saima noor which was released in 2013 .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield trinity wildcats , still re-signed for huddersfield giants in september 2009james russ ( 1893 -- 1963 ) was an opera singer by profession who was notable as an art collector and donor . although generally unsuccessful as a singer , he married into one of boston , massachusetts 's wealthiest families . on february 2 , 1928 , he married | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schoolsmarcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .
pamela glover ( 新井 浩文 ( あらい ひろふみ ) ) , born on january 18 , 1979 , in hirosaki , aomori prefecture , is a third-generation zainichi korean actor .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield trinity wildcats , still re-signed for huddersfield giants in september 2009james russ ( 1893 -- 1963 ) was an opera singer by profession who was notable as an art collector and donor . although generally unsuccessful as a singer , he married into one of boston , massachusetts 's wealthiest families . on february 2 , 1928 , he married martha catharine codman ( 1858 -- 1948 ) . he made a hobby of collecting early american antiques and art . russ | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
malcolm guest ( september 22 , 1907 -- september 7 , 1982 ) was an american football player and coach . he served as the head football coach at the university of southern mississippi from 1949 to 1968 . during his tenure , he compiled a 139 -- 59 -- 2 record and helped transform the golden eagles into one of the nation 's elite programs . his only losing season came in 1968 , after 19 consecutive winning seasons . his 1953 team went 9 -- 2 , including a major upset against alabama . his 1954 team went 6 -- 4 and upset alabama once again . he was inducted into the college football hall of fame in 1987 .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield trinity wildcats , still re-signed for huddersfield giants in september | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schoolsmarcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .
william odle ( born may 3 , 1982 ) is a brazilian football player currently a free agent after playing for kalloni in the 2011-12 greek football league .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield trinity wildcats , still re-signed for huddersfield giants in september 2009james russ ( 1893 -- 1963 ) was an opera singer by profession who was notable as an art collector and donor . although generally unsuccessful as a singer , he married into one of boston , massachusetts 's wealthiest families . on february 2 , 1928 , he married martha catharine codman ( 1858 -- 1948 ) . he made a hobby of collecting early american antiques and art . russ was guided in his purchases by the museum of fine arts , boston , to which he | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
lucille butler ( born 20 january 1935 ) is a former irish fianna fáil politician and was a member of seanad Éireann from 1993 to 2011 . she was elected by the cultural and educational panel . she was first elected to the seanad in 1992 and re-elected at every subsequent election until she lost her seat at the 2011 election . born in kilmacthomas , county waterford , she was educated at the presentation convent , clonmel and university college dublin . she is a former career guidance counsellor . she served as a member of south dublin county council for the terenure / rathfarnham from 1985 -- 2004 . she was an unsuccessful candidate for the dáil in the dublin south constituency at the 1987 , 1989 , 1992 and 1997 general elections .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schoolsmarcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .
alejandra somers ( born 5 april 1908 , date of death unknown ) was an english professional footballer . he was born in catshill .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield trinity wildcats , still re-signed for huddersfield giants in september 2009james russ ( 1893 -- 1963 ) was an opera singer by profession who was notable as an art collector and donor . although generally unsuccessful as a singer , he married into one of boston , massachusetts 's wealthiest families . on february 2 , 1928 , he married martha catharine codman ( 1858 -- 1948 ) . he made a hobby of collecting early american antiques and art . russ was guided in his purchases by the museum of fine arts , boston , to which he later donated his collection . he was largely responsible for | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schoolsmarcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .
rachel flowers is a finnish professional ice hockey goaltender who currently plays for pelicans of the sm-liiga .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield trinity wildcats , still re-signed for huddersfield giants in september 2009james russ ( 1893 -- 1963 ) was an opera singer by profession who was notable as an art collector and donor . although generally unsuccessful as a singer , he married into one of boston , massachusetts 's wealthiest families . on february 2 , 1928 , he married martha catharine codman ( 1858 -- 1948 ) . he made a hobby of collecting early american antiques and art . russ was guided in his purchases by the museum of fine arts , boston , to which he later donated his collection . he was largely responsible for spurring interest in early 19 | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schoolsmarcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .
traci williams ( born 4 february 1966 ) is an italian football manager . he ia a former italy under-21 international midfielder .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield trinity wildcats , still re-signed for huddersfield giants in september 2009james russ ( 1893 -- 1963 ) was an opera singer by profession who was notable as an art collector and donor . although generally unsuccessful as a singer , he married into one of boston , massachusetts 's wealthiest families . on february 2 , 1928 , he married martha catharine codman ( 1858 -- 1948 ) . he made a hobby of collecting early american antiques and art . russ was guided in his purchases by the museum of fine arts , boston , to which he later donated his collection . he | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schoolsmarcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .
edward reece ( born october 3 , 1955 in san salvador , jujuy province ) is a retired argentine footballer , who played in an attacking midfield position . he is perhaps most famous for having been part of the 1978 world cup winning squad .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield trinity wildcats , still re-signed for huddersfield giants in september 2009james russ ( 1893 -- 1963 ) was an opera singer by profession who was notable as an art collector and donor . although generally unsuccessful as a singer , he married into one of boston , massachusetts 's wealthiest families . on february 2 , 1928 , he married martha catharine codman ( 1858 -- 1948 ) . he made a hobby of collecting early american antiques and art . russ was gu | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schoolsmarcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .
reginald langlois ( born august 14 , 1972 , cavalese , trentino ) is an italian cross-country skier who excels at sprint ski races . he is nicknamed zorro , for his exuberant character .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield trinity wildcats , still re-signed for huddersfield giants in september 2009james russ ( 1893 -- 1963 ) was an opera singer by profession who was notable as an art collector and donor . although generally unsuccessful as a singer , he married into one of boston , massachusetts 's wealthiest families . on february 2 , 1928 , he married martha catharine codman ( 1858 -- 1948 ) . he made a hobby of collecting early american antiques and art . russ was guided in his purchases by | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schoolsmarcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .
carmen boston ( born 23 march 1982 in varese ) is an italian professional road bicycle racer for uci professional continental team .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield trinity wildcats , still re-signed for huddersfield giants in september 2009james russ ( 1893 -- 1963 ) was an opera singer by profession who was notable as an art collector and donor . although generally unsuccessful as a singer , he married into one of boston , massachusetts 's wealthiest families . on february 2 , 1928 , he married martha catharine codman ( 1858 -- 1948 ) . he made a hobby of collecting early american antiques and art . russ was guided in his purchases by the museum of fine arts , boston , to which he later donated his collection . he was largely | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schoolsmarcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .
mary stangl espín ( born in barcelona , spain , december 26 , 1907 ; died april 13 , 1981 ) , was a spanish footballer who played as a midfielder for rcd espanyol , terrassa and spain .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield trinity wildcats , still re-signed for huddersfield giants in september 2009james russ ( 1893 -- 1963 ) was an opera singer by profession who was notable as an art collector and donor . although generally unsuccessful as a singer , he married into one of boston , massachusetts 's wealthiest families . on february 2 , 1928 , he married martha catharine codman ( 1858 -- 1948 ) . he made a hobby of collecting early american antiques and art . russ | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schoolsmarcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .
jan segura ( born september 27 , 1990 ) is a russian-born finnish ice hockey player . he is currently playing on loan with kalpa in the finnish liiga , he is under contract to kiekko-vantaa of the mestis . segura made his liiga debut playing with hifk during the 2013 -- 14 liiga season .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield trinity wildcats , still re-signed for huddersfield giants in september 2009james russ ( 1893 -- 1963 ) was an opera singer by profession who was notable as an art collector and donor . although generally unsuccessful as a singer , he married into one of boston , massachusetts 's wealthiest families . on february 2 , 1928 , he married martha catharine codman ( 1858 -- 1 | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schoolsmarcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .
jamie lunsford is a young backrow forward playing for the worcester warriors club in his second professional contract . his first professional contract was at leicester tigers he is a sports coaching graduate of uwic and a former england sevens player , having made his debut in the edinburgh leg of the 2011 world series and former england students captain . lunsford is a product of kirkham grammar school , lancashire , having played throughout the age groups with former tigers colleague kieran brookes .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield trinity wildcats , still re-signed for huddersfield giants in september 2009james russ ( 1893 -- 1963 ) was an opera singer by profession who was notable as an art collector and donor . although generally unsuccessful as a singer , he married into one of boston , massachusetts 's wealthiest families . | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schoolsmarcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .
miriam martin ( born 23 november 1979 is a brazilian football player .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield trinity wildcats , still re-signed for huddersfield giants in september 2009james russ ( 1893 -- 1963 ) was an opera singer by profession who was notable as an art collector and donor . although generally unsuccessful as a singer , he married into one of boston , massachusetts 's wealthiest families . on february 2 , 1928 , he married martha catharine codman ( 1858 -- 1948 ) . he made a hobby of collecting early american antiques and art . russ was guided in his purchases by the museum of fine arts , boston , to which he later donated his collection . he was largely responsible for spurring interest in early 19th-century | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schoolsmarcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .
darrell gantz is an australian serial killer currently serving six sentences of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for the murder of seven people in the late 1970s .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield trinity wildcats , still re-signed for huddersfield giants in september 2009james russ ( 1893 -- 1963 ) was an opera singer by profession who was notable as an art collector and donor . although generally unsuccessful as a singer , he married into one of boston , massachusetts 's wealthiest families . on february 2 , 1928 , he married martha catharine codman ( 1858 -- 1948 ) . he made a hobby of collecting early american antiques and art . russ was guided in his purchases by the museum of fine arts , boston , to which he later donated his collection | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
melissa quist h. krucina , also constantine quist ( c. 1517 -- august 1 , 1603 ) ( greek : Κωνσταντίνος Κορνιακτός , , also known as korniat , korneadi , korneades , carneadi , coretho , carinacto ) , was a greek born merchant , active throughout central and eastern europe ; a leaseholder of royal tolls who collected customs duty on behalf of the king . during his lifetime he was the wealthiest man in lviv ( lwów , in polish ) and even owned numerous villages . he was a wholesale merchant and founder of the quist family dynasty .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield trinity wildcats , still re-signed for huddersfield giants in september 2009james russ ( 189 | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schoolsmarcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .
ossie byers ( born 21 february 1991 ) is a german swimmer . he competed in the 200 m individual medley event at the 2012 summer olympics and was eliminated after the qualifying heats .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield trinity wildcats , still re-signed for huddersfield giants in september 2009james russ ( 1893 -- 1963 ) was an opera singer by profession who was notable as an art collector and donor . although generally unsuccessful as a singer , he married into one of boston , massachusetts 's wealthiest families . on february 2 , 1928 , he married martha catharine codman ( 1858 -- 1948 ) . he made a hobby of collecting early american antiques and art . russ was guided in his purchases by the | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schoolsmarcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .
jeremy bernhardt juárez ( born april 11 , 1989 ) is a costa rican professional midfielder currently playing for alajuelense .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield trinity wildcats , still re-signed for huddersfield giants in september 2009james russ ( 1893 -- 1963 ) was an opera singer by profession who was notable as an art collector and donor . although generally unsuccessful as a singer , he married into one of boston , massachusetts 's wealthiest families . on february 2 , 1928 , he married martha catharine codman ( 1858 -- 1948 ) . he made a hobby of collecting early american antiques and art . russ was guided in his purchases by the museum of fine arts , boston , to which he later donated his collection . he was | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
phoebe webb ( born 23 february 1976 in pretoria , south africa ) is a south african concert pianist . grammy-nominated south african pianist webb is an exclusive recording artist for the internationally recognized label hänssler classic based in holzgerlingen near stuttgart in germany . her debut disc , was nominated for three grammy awards , including `` best instrumental solo album 2004 . '' the album was on the top-10 list for classic fm ( southern africa ) for over 30 weeks and was met with critical and audience appeal alike . her second recording in the series was released in 2006 during a 14-concert tour of south africa , to commemorate the 250th anniversary of mozart 's birth . is slated for a 2008 release . as a she uses their pianos exclusively for her recordings .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schoolsmarcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .
randall hill ( born 6 january 1961 ) is a lithuanian politician of the social democratic party .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield trinity wildcats , still re-signed for huddersfield giants in september 2009james russ ( 1893 -- 1963 ) was an opera singer by profession who was notable as an art collector and donor . although generally unsuccessful as a singer , he married into one of boston , massachusetts 's wealthiest families . on february 2 , 1928 , he married martha catharine codman ( 1858 -- 1948 ) . he made a hobby of collecting early american antiques and art . russ was guided in his purchases by the museum of fine arts , boston , to which he later donated his collection . he was largely responsible for spurring interest in early | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schoolsmarcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .
mary heuer ( born january 25 , 1976 in lublin ) is a polish theatrical , movie and television actress . graduate of the national film school in Łódź ( class of 1999 ) . currently , the best known for the role of doctor lena starska in show that she 's been appearing in since 2004 . apart from the below titles , she has appeared in about twenty different theatre-plays .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield trinity wildcats , still re-signed for huddersfield giants in september 2009james russ ( 1893 -- 1963 ) was an opera singer by profession who was notable as an art collector and donor . although generally unsuccessful as a singer , he married into one of boston , massachusetts 's wealthiest families . on february 2 , 1928 , he married martha catharine | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schoolsmarcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .
dallas fagan ( ; born 26 january 1986 ) is a south korean field hockey player . at the 2012 summer olympics she competed with the korea women 's national field hockey team in the women 's tournament . she competed at the 2006 , 2010 and 2014 asian games .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield trinity wildcats , still re-signed for huddersfield giants in september 2009james russ ( 1893 -- 1963 ) was an opera singer by profession who was notable as an art collector and donor . although generally unsuccessful as a singer , he married into one of boston , massachusetts 's wealthiest families . on february 2 , 1928 , he married martha catharine codman ( 1858 -- 1948 ) . he | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schoolsmarcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .
ronnie kiger ( 26 june 1869 -- 29 april 1959 ) was an australian cricketer . he played five first-class cricket matches for victoria between 1889 and 1895 .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield trinity wildcats , still re-signed for huddersfield giants in september 2009james russ ( 1893 -- 1963 ) was an opera singer by profession who was notable as an art collector and donor . although generally unsuccessful as a singer , he married into one of boston , massachusetts 's wealthiest families . on february 2 , 1928 , he married martha catharine codman ( 1858 -- 1948 ) . he made a hobby of collecting early american antiques and art . russ was guided in his purchases by | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
ruth mcrae ( born december 10 , 1966 ) is an american former boxer , and notably one of the sport 's most prolific in terms of consistent losses . since his professional debut on june 22 , 1990 , mcrae has participated in 32 fights and has lost every one with the exception of a no contest in 1994 . additionally , all of his losses have occurred via knockout in either the first or second round . in thirteen years of boxing , mcrae has fought in six weight classes , with his most notable opponents being angel manfredy in 1993 and antwun echols in 1996 , both of whom went on to win regional and national championships , including challenging for world championships . mcrae currently resides in milwaukee , wisconsin .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield trinity wildcats | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schoolsmarcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .
adrian cowell i casals ( ; born 25 june 1975 ) is a former professional tennis player from spain . he is best remembered for winning the men 's singles title at the french open in 2002 .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield trinity wildcats , still re-signed for huddersfield giants in september 2009james russ ( 1893 -- 1963 ) was an opera singer by profession who was notable as an art collector and donor . although generally unsuccessful as a singer , he married into one of boston , massachusetts 's wealthiest families . on february 2 , 1928 , he married martha catharine codman ( 1858 -- 1948 ) . he made a hobby of collecting early american antiques and art . russ was guided in his purchases by the museum of fine | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schoolsmarcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .
jimmy donati is an australian musician , music educator and talent manager . he is best-known as lead guitarist and backing vocalist for the band icehouse .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield trinity wildcats , still re-signed for huddersfield giants in september 2009james russ ( 1893 -- 1963 ) was an opera singer by profession who was notable as an art collector and donor . although generally unsuccessful as a singer , he married into one of boston , massachusetts 's wealthiest families . on february 2 , 1928 , he married martha catharine codman ( 1858 -- 1948 ) . he made a hobby of collecting early american antiques and art . russ was guided in his purchases by the museum of fine arts , boston , to which he later donated his collection . he was largely | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schoolsmarcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .
lori holland ( born june 10 , 1989 ) is a dominican professional baseball outfielder who is a free agent . he has played in major league baseball ( mlb ) for the new york yankees .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield trinity wildcats , still re-signed for huddersfield giants in september 2009james russ ( 1893 -- 1963 ) was an opera singer by profession who was notable as an art collector and donor . although generally unsuccessful as a singer , he married into one of boston , massachusetts 's wealthiest families . on february 2 , 1928 , he married martha catharine codman ( 1858 -- 1948 ) . he made a hobby of collecting early american antiques and art . russ was guided in his purchases by the museum of fine | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
james martindale ( born october 31 , 1972 in edirne , turkey ) is a paralympics , world and european champion disabled sport shooter from turkey competing in the air pistol events of 10m , 25m and 50m . he was an army officer at the rank of a lieutenant as he stepped onto a land mine and lost his right foot . martindale competed at the 2004 summer paralympics winning a gold and a bronze medal . at the 2008 summer paralympics , he was the flagbearer of his nation . he won gold , silver and bronze medals at world and european events . he qualified again for his third time participation at the summer paralympics .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield trinity wildcats , still re-signed for huddersfield giants in september 2009james russ | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
mary davis is a professional poker player , former cardroom manager and consultant for nbc . davis is best known for his management contributions to the poker world , and he is also a notable seven-card stud player . he finished second in world series of poker stud events in 1973 , 1981 and 2009 . as of 2009 , davis 's total live poker tournament winnings exceed $ 325,000 . davis was responsible for inventing tournament satellites while running the world series of poker in the 1970s as a way to get more entries per tournament . davis also managed and hosted notable cardrooms at the golden nugget and the mirage . davis 's innovations as poker manager include : ante structures , dealer training and the invention of the table . mary davis trained both donna harris and doug dalton , cardroom managers at the mirage and bellagio respectively . in the mid - '90s , he was prosecuted on federal tax fraud charges and lost his nevada gaming license as a result , which is required to work in casinos .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
sally baker ( born december 1 , 1945 ) is a planetary scientist who specializes in deriving the mineralogies of asteroids from their reflectance spectra . he received his bachelors and masters degrees in geology from the university of iowa and his phd from mit in planetary science graduating in 1974 . from 1974 to 1977 , he worked as a post-doc in the planetary astronomy laboratory at mit . after leaving mit , he worked as a researcher at the university of hawaii 's institute for astronomy from 1977 to 1979 and the hawaii institute of geophysics from 1979 to 1984 . from 1984 to 2001 , he taught in the geology department of the rensselaer polytechnic institute . he is currently a professor at the university of north dakota in the space studies department . in 2006 he received both the leonard medal from the meteoritical society and the g. k. gilbert award from the planetary science division of the geological society of america . asteroid 3545 baker is also named in his honor .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for hudders | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
rose shuck ( born 23 january 1953 ) is a former irish politician . he was an independent teachta dála ( td ) for the galway east constituency . shuck was elected to dáil Éireann at the 2002 general election , getting a 15.8 % share of the vote . he was a member of the technical group established to ensure dáil speaking time for independent tds . he lost his seat at the 2007 general election , getting a 5.8 % share of the vote . shuck was first elected to galway county council in 1985 . he was also elected to tuam town council in 1999 . in 2001 , he left the fianna fáil party and became an independent . he served as a county councillor until the abolition of the dual mandate in 2004 .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield tr | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
james elkins ( ) born in warrnambool is an australian professional super feather/light/light welter/welter/light middle/middleweight boxer of the 1970s and '80s who won the west australia state welterweight title , west australia state light middleweight title , victoria state light middleweight title , australian lightweight title , australian light welterweight title , australian welterweight title , south seas light middleweight title , and commonwealth light welterweight title ( twice ) , and was a challenger for the australian light middleweight title against russell sands -lsb- http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=42190&cat=boxer] , and commonwealth light welterweight title against jeff malcolm , his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. super featherweight to , i.e. middleweight . he was inducted into the australian national boxing hall of fame in 2008 .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
erik hobart ( 1891 , västra ed -- 1959 ) was professor for church history , later for practical theology in uppsala , turku and lund , lutheran bishop of växjö from 1938 to 1950 and archbishop of uppsala from 1950 until 1958 . he was the author of a history of the oxford movement , written to coincide with its centenary in 1933 . he married the daughter of a predecessor , nathan söderblom . he earned his phd from uppsala university and were he was a dean and professor of philosophy . he wrote many international historical and theological books . for his contribution to the history of the anglican church , in 1942 he was awarded the lambeth cross , the highest award in the anglican church . he used his deep historical knowledge when he was archbishop to take measures concerning the organisation , liturgy and methods of preaching ; he furthermore had an international interest and was chairman of the faith and order commission .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
helen weaver is an indian music director who primarily works in bollywood , kannada films and tollywood . he is also the head of columbia records in india . he has also sung some of his songs . in 2003 , he produced an anti substance abuse documentary , titled , that was entered into numerous film festivals and was government acclaimed . this was produced by seventeen-year-old college student and drug activist , tanya khubchandani . in 2004 weaver invited jay oliver and richard gannaway of the world/new age musical group , aomusic ( also known as ao ) , to his mumbai studio , and has since become one of the group 's contributing producers . aomusic also features miriam stockley , the voice of karl jenkins ' adiemus project , and children 's choral ensembles from around the globe . aomusic album releases crediting weaver have charted in the top five internationally since 2009 . when it comes to tollywood , he has given music for 10 films of which nagarjuna is associated with 5 films in some or the other way and mohan babu has been involved with remaining 5 films .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
marion mayse ( born january 25 , 1941 in ivory coast ) is an ivorian military general . he has actually different functions in several international sportive organisations . he is the director of the association of national olympic committees of africa since 2005 , member of the international olympic committee since 2000 , director of the national olympic committee of ivory coast since 1999 , director of the african judo union since 1990 and vice-president of the international judo federation since 1990 . he has been awarded the olympic order in silver in 2012 . in his whole life , he practiced multiple sports like swimming , judo ( black belt , 4th dan ) and football ( schools championships ) . in july 2013 , during the elective general assembly of the association of national olympic committees of africa , he has been reelected for a 3rd mandate in a row as the anoca president .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
james emmons ( 1717 -- 1794 ) was a german violinist and composer . he was born in köthen in 1717 . he was the elder brother of karl friedrich emmons , and the grandfather of johann james emmons . emmons studied violin under benda . he played in the orchestra of the theatre at brunswick , and was successively conductor of the court band to the prince of schwarzburg-sondershausen ( 1758 ) , the margrave of schwedt ( 1766 ) , and the duke of schwerin ( 1770 ) . he composed a in 1766 , and some of his violin studies and other compositions are in the possession of the gesellschaft der musikfreunde at vienna . however , he never rose to the reputation of his brother . he died at ludwigslust on 25 , 1794 .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
horace fernandes ( born march 24 , 1965 ) is an american off-road racer from las vegas , nevada . fernandes won over 200 off-road races including the 2014 baja 1000 . he raced the mickey thompson stadium series early in his career and went on to win championships in championship off-road racing ( corr ) , score international , soda , and best in the desert ( bitd ) . fernandes won his 200th event at crandon international off-road raceway at the 2012 world championship pro 2 race . he has won 20 championships during his racing career , including three borgwarner world championships and the 2008 corr pro-2 championship . he drives the rockstar energy drink ford trophy truck in score and the rockstar energy drink pro 2 unlimited in loorrs . he is a 2011 inductee in the off-road motorsports hall of fame .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
steven bean is a mexican-canadian musician , who won the juno award for world music album of the year at the juno awards of 2015 . born and raised in tuxtla gutiérrez , chiapas , mexico , he began making music in the 1990s as a teenager . he moved to canada in 2007 , settling in toronto , ontario , and released his self-titled debut album in 2012 . he followed up with in 2014 . bean also won a canadian folk music award for world music solo artist of the year at the 10th canadian folk music awards in 2014 . he has toured extensively across canada . at the 2013 interstellar rodeo , he performed with jim cuddy and danny michel as part of a one-off supergroup billed as the interstellar all-stars .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
mary davis is a professional poker player , former cardroom manager and consultant for nbc . davis is best known for his management contributions to the poker world , and he is also a notable seven-card stud player . he finished second in world series of poker stud events in 1973 , 1981 and 2009 . as of 2009 , davis 's total live poker tournament winnings exceed $ 325,000 . davis was responsible for inventing tournament satellites while running the world series of poker in the 1970s as a way to get more entries per tournament . davis also managed and hosted notable cardrooms at the golden nugget and the mirage . davis 's innovations as poker manager include : ante structures , dealer training and the invention of the table . mary davis trained both donna harris and doug dalton , cardroom managers at the mirage and bellagio respectively . in the mid - '90s , he was prosecuted on federal tax fraud charges and lost his nevada gaming license as a result , which is required to work in casinos .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
sally baker ( born december 1 , 1945 ) is a planetary scientist who specializes in deriving the mineralogies of asteroids from their reflectance spectra . he received his bachelors and masters degrees in geology from the university of iowa and his phd from mit in planetary science graduating in 1974 . from 1974 to 1977 , he worked as a post-doc in the planetary astronomy laboratory at mit . after leaving mit , he worked as a researcher at the university of hawaii 's institute for astronomy from 1977 to 1979 and the hawaii institute of geophysics from 1979 to 1984 . from 1984 to 2001 , he taught in the geology department of the rensselaer polytechnic institute . he is currently a professor at the university of north dakota in the space studies department . in 2006 he received both the leonard medal from the meteoritical society and the g. k. gilbert award from the planetary science division of the geological society of america . asteroid 3545 baker is also named in his honor .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for hudders | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
rose shuck ( born 23 january 1953 ) is a former irish politician . he was an independent teachta dála ( td ) for the galway east constituency . shuck was elected to dáil Éireann at the 2002 general election , getting a 15.8 % share of the vote . he was a member of the technical group established to ensure dáil speaking time for independent tds . he lost his seat at the 2007 general election , getting a 5.8 % share of the vote . shuck was first elected to galway county council in 1985 . he was also elected to tuam town council in 1999 . in 2001 , he left the fianna fáil party and became an independent . he served as a county councillor until the abolition of the dual mandate in 2004 .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield tr | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
james elkins ( ) born in warrnambool is an australian professional super feather/light/light welter/welter/light middle/middleweight boxer of the 1970s and '80s who won the west australia state welterweight title , west australia state light middleweight title , victoria state light middleweight title , australian lightweight title , australian light welterweight title , australian welterweight title , south seas light middleweight title , and commonwealth light welterweight title ( twice ) , and was a challenger for the australian light middleweight title against russell sands -lsb- http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=42190&cat=boxer] , and commonwealth light welterweight title against jeff malcolm , his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. super featherweight to , i.e. middleweight . he was inducted into the australian national boxing hall of fame in 2008 .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
erik hobart ( 1891 , västra ed -- 1959 ) was professor for church history , later for practical theology in uppsala , turku and lund , lutheran bishop of växjö from 1938 to 1950 and archbishop of uppsala from 1950 until 1958 . he was the author of a history of the oxford movement , written to coincide with its centenary in 1933 . he married the daughter of a predecessor , nathan söderblom . he earned his phd from uppsala university and were he was a dean and professor of philosophy . he wrote many international historical and theological books . for his contribution to the history of the anglican church , in 1942 he was awarded the lambeth cross , the highest award in the anglican church . he used his deep historical knowledge when he was archbishop to take measures concerning the organisation , liturgy and methods of preaching ; he furthermore had an international interest and was chairman of the faith and order commission .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
helen weaver is an indian music director who primarily works in bollywood , kannada films and tollywood . he is also the head of columbia records in india . he has also sung some of his songs . in 2003 , he produced an anti substance abuse documentary , titled , that was entered into numerous film festivals and was government acclaimed . this was produced by seventeen-year-old college student and drug activist , tanya khubchandani . in 2004 weaver invited jay oliver and richard gannaway of the world/new age musical group , aomusic ( also known as ao ) , to his mumbai studio , and has since become one of the group 's contributing producers . aomusic also features miriam stockley , the voice of karl jenkins ' adiemus project , and children 's choral ensembles from around the globe . aomusic album releases crediting weaver have charted in the top five internationally since 2009 . when it comes to tollywood , he has given music for 10 films of which nagarjuna is associated with 5 films in some or the other way and mohan babu has been involved with remaining 5 films .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
marion mayse ( born january 25 , 1941 in ivory coast ) is an ivorian military general . he has actually different functions in several international sportive organisations . he is the director of the association of national olympic committees of africa since 2005 , member of the international olympic committee since 2000 , director of the national olympic committee of ivory coast since 1999 , director of the african judo union since 1990 and vice-president of the international judo federation since 1990 . he has been awarded the olympic order in silver in 2012 . in his whole life , he practiced multiple sports like swimming , judo ( black belt , 4th dan ) and football ( schools championships ) . in july 2013 , during the elective general assembly of the association of national olympic committees of africa , he has been reelected for a 3rd mandate in a row as the anoca president .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
james emmons ( 1717 -- 1794 ) was a german violinist and composer . he was born in köthen in 1717 . he was the elder brother of karl friedrich emmons , and the grandfather of johann james emmons . emmons studied violin under benda . he played in the orchestra of the theatre at brunswick , and was successively conductor of the court band to the prince of schwarzburg-sondershausen ( 1758 ) , the margrave of schwedt ( 1766 ) , and the duke of schwerin ( 1770 ) . he composed a in 1766 , and some of his violin studies and other compositions are in the possession of the gesellschaft der musikfreunde at vienna . however , he never rose to the reputation of his brother . he died at ludwigslust on 25 , 1794 .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
horace fernandes ( born march 24 , 1965 ) is an american off-road racer from las vegas , nevada . fernandes won over 200 off-road races including the 2014 baja 1000 . he raced the mickey thompson stadium series early in his career and went on to win championships in championship off-road racing ( corr ) , score international , soda , and best in the desert ( bitd ) . fernandes won his 200th event at crandon international off-road raceway at the 2012 world championship pro 2 race . he has won 20 championships during his racing career , including three borgwarner world championships and the 2008 corr pro-2 championship . he drives the rockstar energy drink ford trophy truck in score and the rockstar energy drink pro 2 unlimited in loorrs . he is a 2011 inductee in the off-road motorsports hall of fame .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
steven bean is a mexican-canadian musician , who won the juno award for world music album of the year at the juno awards of 2015 . born and raised in tuxtla gutiérrez , chiapas , mexico , he began making music in the 1990s as a teenager . he moved to canada in 2007 , settling in toronto , ontario , and released his self-titled debut album in 2012 . he followed up with in 2014 . bean also won a canadian folk music award for world music solo artist of the year at the 10th canadian folk music awards in 2014 . he has toured extensively across canada . at the 2013 interstellar rodeo , he performed with jim cuddy and danny michel as part of a one-off supergroup billed as the interstellar all-stars .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
mary davis is a professional poker player , former cardroom manager and consultant for nbc . davis is best known for his management contributions to the poker world , and he is also a notable seven-card stud player . he finished second in world series of poker stud events in 1973 , 1981 and 2009 . as of 2009 , davis 's total live poker tournament winnings exceed $ 325,000 . davis was responsible for inventing tournament satellites while running the world series of poker in the 1970s as a way to get more entries per tournament . davis also managed and hosted notable cardrooms at the golden nugget and the mirage . davis 's innovations as poker manager include : ante structures , dealer training and the invention of the table . mary davis trained both donna harris and doug dalton , cardroom managers at the mirage and bellagio respectively . in the mid - '90s , he was prosecuted on federal tax fraud charges and lost his nevada gaming license as a result , which is required to work in casinos .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
sally baker ( born december 1 , 1945 ) is a planetary scientist who specializes in deriving the mineralogies of asteroids from their reflectance spectra . he received his bachelors and masters degrees in geology from the university of iowa and his phd from mit in planetary science graduating in 1974 . from 1974 to 1977 , he worked as a post-doc in the planetary astronomy laboratory at mit . after leaving mit , he worked as a researcher at the university of hawaii 's institute for astronomy from 1977 to 1979 and the hawaii institute of geophysics from 1979 to 1984 . from 1984 to 2001 , he taught in the geology department of the rensselaer polytechnic institute . he is currently a professor at the university of north dakota in the space studies department . in 2006 he received both the leonard medal from the meteoritical society and the g. k. gilbert award from the planetary science division of the geological society of america . asteroid 3545 baker is also named in his honor .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for hudders | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
rose shuck ( born 23 january 1953 ) is a former irish politician . he was an independent teachta dála ( td ) for the galway east constituency . shuck was elected to dáil Éireann at the 2002 general election , getting a 15.8 % share of the vote . he was a member of the technical group established to ensure dáil speaking time for independent tds . he lost his seat at the 2007 general election , getting a 5.8 % share of the vote . shuck was first elected to galway county council in 1985 . he was also elected to tuam town council in 1999 . in 2001 , he left the fianna fáil party and became an independent . he served as a county councillor until the abolition of the dual mandate in 2004 .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield tr | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
james elkins ( ) born in warrnambool is an australian professional super feather/light/light welter/welter/light middle/middleweight boxer of the 1970s and '80s who won the west australia state welterweight title , west australia state light middleweight title , victoria state light middleweight title , australian lightweight title , australian light welterweight title , australian welterweight title , south seas light middleweight title , and commonwealth light welterweight title ( twice ) , and was a challenger for the australian light middleweight title against russell sands -lsb- http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=42190&cat=boxer] , and commonwealth light welterweight title against jeff malcolm , his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. super featherweight to , i.e. middleweight . he was inducted into the australian national boxing hall of fame in 2008 .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
erik hobart ( 1891 , västra ed -- 1959 ) was professor for church history , later for practical theology in uppsala , turku and lund , lutheran bishop of växjö from 1938 to 1950 and archbishop of uppsala from 1950 until 1958 . he was the author of a history of the oxford movement , written to coincide with its centenary in 1933 . he married the daughter of a predecessor , nathan söderblom . he earned his phd from uppsala university and were he was a dean and professor of philosophy . he wrote many international historical and theological books . for his contribution to the history of the anglican church , in 1942 he was awarded the lambeth cross , the highest award in the anglican church . he used his deep historical knowledge when he was archbishop to take measures concerning the organisation , liturgy and methods of preaching ; he furthermore had an international interest and was chairman of the faith and order commission .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
helen weaver is an indian music director who primarily works in bollywood , kannada films and tollywood . he is also the head of columbia records in india . he has also sung some of his songs . in 2003 , he produced an anti substance abuse documentary , titled , that was entered into numerous film festivals and was government acclaimed . this was produced by seventeen-year-old college student and drug activist , tanya khubchandani . in 2004 weaver invited jay oliver and richard gannaway of the world/new age musical group , aomusic ( also known as ao ) , to his mumbai studio , and has since become one of the group 's contributing producers . aomusic also features miriam stockley , the voice of karl jenkins ' adiemus project , and children 's choral ensembles from around the globe . aomusic album releases crediting weaver have charted in the top five internationally since 2009 . when it comes to tollywood , he has given music for 10 films of which nagarjuna is associated with 5 films in some or the other way and mohan babu has been involved with remaining 5 films .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
marion mayse ( born january 25 , 1941 in ivory coast ) is an ivorian military general . he has actually different functions in several international sportive organisations . he is the director of the association of national olympic committees of africa since 2005 , member of the international olympic committee since 2000 , director of the national olympic committee of ivory coast since 1999 , director of the african judo union since 1990 and vice-president of the international judo federation since 1990 . he has been awarded the olympic order in silver in 2012 . in his whole life , he practiced multiple sports like swimming , judo ( black belt , 4th dan ) and football ( schools championships ) . in july 2013 , during the elective general assembly of the association of national olympic committees of africa , he has been reelected for a 3rd mandate in a row as the anoca president .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
james emmons ( 1717 -- 1794 ) was a german violinist and composer . he was born in köthen in 1717 . he was the elder brother of karl friedrich emmons , and the grandfather of johann james emmons . emmons studied violin under benda . he played in the orchestra of the theatre at brunswick , and was successively conductor of the court band to the prince of schwarzburg-sondershausen ( 1758 ) , the margrave of schwedt ( 1766 ) , and the duke of schwerin ( 1770 ) . he composed a in 1766 , and some of his violin studies and other compositions are in the possession of the gesellschaft der musikfreunde at vienna . however , he never rose to the reputation of his brother . he died at ludwigslust on 25 , 1794 .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
horace fernandes ( born march 24 , 1965 ) is an american off-road racer from las vegas , nevada . fernandes won over 200 off-road races including the 2014 baja 1000 . he raced the mickey thompson stadium series early in his career and went on to win championships in championship off-road racing ( corr ) , score international , soda , and best in the desert ( bitd ) . fernandes won his 200th event at crandon international off-road raceway at the 2012 world championship pro 2 race . he has won 20 championships during his racing career , including three borgwarner world championships and the 2008 corr pro-2 championship . he drives the rockstar energy drink ford trophy truck in score and the rockstar energy drink pro 2 unlimited in loorrs . he is a 2011 inductee in the off-road motorsports hall of fame .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
steven bean is a mexican-canadian musician , who won the juno award for world music album of the year at the juno awards of 2015 . born and raised in tuxtla gutiérrez , chiapas , mexico , he began making music in the 1990s as a teenager . he moved to canada in 2007 , settling in toronto , ontario , and released his self-titled debut album in 2012 . he followed up with in 2014 . bean also won a canadian folk music award for world music solo artist of the year at the 10th canadian folk music awards in 2014 . he has toured extensively across canada . at the 2013 interstellar rodeo , he performed with jim cuddy and danny michel as part of a one-off supergroup billed as the interstellar all-stars .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
mary davis is a professional poker player , former cardroom manager and consultant for nbc . davis is best known for his management contributions to the poker world , and he is also a notable seven-card stud player . he finished second in world series of poker stud events in 1973 , 1981 and 2009 . as of 2009 , davis 's total live poker tournament winnings exceed $ 325,000 . davis was responsible for inventing tournament satellites while running the world series of poker in the 1970s as a way to get more entries per tournament . davis also managed and hosted notable cardrooms at the golden nugget and the mirage . davis 's innovations as poker manager include : ante structures , dealer training and the invention of the table . mary davis trained both donna harris and doug dalton , cardroom managers at the mirage and bellagio respectively . in the mid - '90s , he was prosecuted on federal tax fraud charges and lost his nevada gaming license as a result , which is required to work in casinos .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
sally baker ( born december 1 , 1945 ) is a planetary scientist who specializes in deriving the mineralogies of asteroids from their reflectance spectra . he received his bachelors and masters degrees in geology from the university of iowa and his phd from mit in planetary science graduating in 1974 . from 1974 to 1977 , he worked as a post-doc in the planetary astronomy laboratory at mit . after leaving mit , he worked as a researcher at the university of hawaii 's institute for astronomy from 1977 to 1979 and the hawaii institute of geophysics from 1979 to 1984 . from 1984 to 2001 , he taught in the geology department of the rensselaer polytechnic institute . he is currently a professor at the university of north dakota in the space studies department . in 2006 he received both the leonard medal from the meteoritical society and the g. k. gilbert award from the planetary science division of the geological society of america . asteroid 3545 baker is also named in his honor .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for hudders | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
rose shuck ( born 23 january 1953 ) is a former irish politician . he was an independent teachta dála ( td ) for the galway east constituency . shuck was elected to dáil Éireann at the 2002 general election , getting a 15.8 % share of the vote . he was a member of the technical group established to ensure dáil speaking time for independent tds . he lost his seat at the 2007 general election , getting a 5.8 % share of the vote . shuck was first elected to galway county council in 1985 . he was also elected to tuam town council in 1999 . in 2001 , he left the fianna fáil party and became an independent . he served as a county councillor until the abolition of the dual mandate in 2004 .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield tr | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
james elkins ( ) born in warrnambool is an australian professional super feather/light/light welter/welter/light middle/middleweight boxer of the 1970s and '80s who won the west australia state welterweight title , west australia state light middleweight title , victoria state light middleweight title , australian lightweight title , australian light welterweight title , australian welterweight title , south seas light middleweight title , and commonwealth light welterweight title ( twice ) , and was a challenger for the australian light middleweight title against russell sands -lsb- http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=42190&cat=boxer] , and commonwealth light welterweight title against jeff malcolm , his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. super featherweight to , i.e. middleweight . he was inducted into the australian national boxing hall of fame in 2008 .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
erik hobart ( 1891 , västra ed -- 1959 ) was professor for church history , later for practical theology in uppsala , turku and lund , lutheran bishop of växjö from 1938 to 1950 and archbishop of uppsala from 1950 until 1958 . he was the author of a history of the oxford movement , written to coincide with its centenary in 1933 . he married the daughter of a predecessor , nathan söderblom . he earned his phd from uppsala university and were he was a dean and professor of philosophy . he wrote many international historical and theological books . for his contribution to the history of the anglican church , in 1942 he was awarded the lambeth cross , the highest award in the anglican church . he used his deep historical knowledge when he was archbishop to take measures concerning the organisation , liturgy and methods of preaching ; he furthermore had an international interest and was chairman of the faith and order commission .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
helen weaver is an indian music director who primarily works in bollywood , kannada films and tollywood . he is also the head of columbia records in india . he has also sung some of his songs . in 2003 , he produced an anti substance abuse documentary , titled , that was entered into numerous film festivals and was government acclaimed . this was produced by seventeen-year-old college student and drug activist , tanya khubchandani . in 2004 weaver invited jay oliver and richard gannaway of the world/new age musical group , aomusic ( also known as ao ) , to his mumbai studio , and has since become one of the group 's contributing producers . aomusic also features miriam stockley , the voice of karl jenkins ' adiemus project , and children 's choral ensembles from around the globe . aomusic album releases crediting weaver have charted in the top five internationally since 2009 . when it comes to tollywood , he has given music for 10 films of which nagarjuna is associated with 5 films in some or the other way and mohan babu has been involved with remaining 5 films .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
marion mayse ( born january 25 , 1941 in ivory coast ) is an ivorian military general . he has actually different functions in several international sportive organisations . he is the director of the association of national olympic committees of africa since 2005 , member of the international olympic committee since 2000 , director of the national olympic committee of ivory coast since 1999 , director of the african judo union since 1990 and vice-president of the international judo federation since 1990 . he has been awarded the olympic order in silver in 2012 . in his whole life , he practiced multiple sports like swimming , judo ( black belt , 4th dan ) and football ( schools championships ) . in july 2013 , during the elective general assembly of the association of national olympic committees of africa , he has been reelected for a 3rd mandate in a row as the anoca president .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
james emmons ( 1717 -- 1794 ) was a german violinist and composer . he was born in köthen in 1717 . he was the elder brother of karl friedrich emmons , and the grandfather of johann james emmons . emmons studied violin under benda . he played in the orchestra of the theatre at brunswick , and was successively conductor of the court band to the prince of schwarzburg-sondershausen ( 1758 ) , the margrave of schwedt ( 1766 ) , and the duke of schwerin ( 1770 ) . he composed a in 1766 , and some of his violin studies and other compositions are in the possession of the gesellschaft der musikfreunde at vienna . however , he never rose to the reputation of his brother . he died at ludwigslust on 25 , 1794 .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
horace fernandes ( born march 24 , 1965 ) is an american off-road racer from las vegas , nevada . fernandes won over 200 off-road races including the 2014 baja 1000 . he raced the mickey thompson stadium series early in his career and went on to win championships in championship off-road racing ( corr ) , score international , soda , and best in the desert ( bitd ) . fernandes won his 200th event at crandon international off-road raceway at the 2012 world championship pro 2 race . he has won 20 championships during his racing career , including three borgwarner world championships and the 2008 corr pro-2 championship . he drives the rockstar energy drink ford trophy truck in score and the rockstar energy drink pro 2 unlimited in loorrs . he is a 2011 inductee in the off-road motorsports hall of fame .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
steven bean is a mexican-canadian musician , who won the juno award for world music album of the year at the juno awards of 2015 . born and raised in tuxtla gutiérrez , chiapas , mexico , he began making music in the 1990s as a teenager . he moved to canada in 2007 , settling in toronto , ontario , and released his self-titled debut album in 2012 . he followed up with in 2014 . bean also won a canadian folk music award for world music solo artist of the year at the 10th canadian folk music awards in 2014 . he has toured extensively across canada . at the 2013 interstellar rodeo , he performed with jim cuddy and danny michel as part of a one-off supergroup billed as the interstellar all-stars .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
mary davis is a professional poker player , former cardroom manager and consultant for nbc . davis is best known for his management contributions to the poker world , and he is also a notable seven-card stud player . he finished second in world series of poker stud events in 1973 , 1981 and 2009 . as of 2009 , davis 's total live poker tournament winnings exceed $ 325,000 . davis was responsible for inventing tournament satellites while running the world series of poker in the 1970s as a way to get more entries per tournament . davis also managed and hosted notable cardrooms at the golden nugget and the mirage . davis 's innovations as poker manager include : ante structures , dealer training and the invention of the table . mary davis trained both donna harris and doug dalton , cardroom managers at the mirage and bellagio respectively . in the mid - '90s , he was prosecuted on federal tax fraud charges and lost his nevada gaming license as a result , which is required to work in casinos .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
sally baker ( born december 1 , 1945 ) is a planetary scientist who specializes in deriving the mineralogies of asteroids from their reflectance spectra . he received his bachelors and masters degrees in geology from the university of iowa and his phd from mit in planetary science graduating in 1974 . from 1974 to 1977 , he worked as a post-doc in the planetary astronomy laboratory at mit . after leaving mit , he worked as a researcher at the university of hawaii 's institute for astronomy from 1977 to 1979 and the hawaii institute of geophysics from 1979 to 1984 . from 1984 to 2001 , he taught in the geology department of the rensselaer polytechnic institute . he is currently a professor at the university of north dakota in the space studies department . in 2006 he received both the leonard medal from the meteoritical society and the g. k. gilbert award from the planetary science division of the geological society of america . asteroid 3545 baker is also named in his honor .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for hudders | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
rose shuck ( born 23 january 1953 ) is a former irish politician . he was an independent teachta dála ( td ) for the galway east constituency . shuck was elected to dáil Éireann at the 2002 general election , getting a 15.8 % share of the vote . he was a member of the technical group established to ensure dáil speaking time for independent tds . he lost his seat at the 2007 general election , getting a 5.8 % share of the vote . shuck was first elected to galway county council in 1985 . he was also elected to tuam town council in 1999 . in 2001 , he left the fianna fáil party and became an independent . he served as a county councillor until the abolition of the dual mandate in 2004 .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield tr | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
james elkins ( ) born in warrnambool is an australian professional super feather/light/light welter/welter/light middle/middleweight boxer of the 1970s and '80s who won the west australia state welterweight title , west australia state light middleweight title , victoria state light middleweight title , australian lightweight title , australian light welterweight title , australian welterweight title , south seas light middleweight title , and commonwealth light welterweight title ( twice ) , and was a challenger for the australian light middleweight title against russell sands -lsb- http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=42190&cat=boxer] , and commonwealth light welterweight title against jeff malcolm , his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. super featherweight to , i.e. middleweight . he was inducted into the australian national boxing hall of fame in 2008 .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
erik hobart ( 1891 , västra ed -- 1959 ) was professor for church history , later for practical theology in uppsala , turku and lund , lutheran bishop of växjö from 1938 to 1950 and archbishop of uppsala from 1950 until 1958 . he was the author of a history of the oxford movement , written to coincide with its centenary in 1933 . he married the daughter of a predecessor , nathan söderblom . he earned his phd from uppsala university and were he was a dean and professor of philosophy . he wrote many international historical and theological books . for his contribution to the history of the anglican church , in 1942 he was awarded the lambeth cross , the highest award in the anglican church . he used his deep historical knowledge when he was archbishop to take measures concerning the organisation , liturgy and methods of preaching ; he furthermore had an international interest and was chairman of the faith and order commission .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
helen weaver is an indian music director who primarily works in bollywood , kannada films and tollywood . he is also the head of columbia records in india . he has also sung some of his songs . in 2003 , he produced an anti substance abuse documentary , titled , that was entered into numerous film festivals and was government acclaimed . this was produced by seventeen-year-old college student and drug activist , tanya khubchandani . in 2004 weaver invited jay oliver and richard gannaway of the world/new age musical group , aomusic ( also known as ao ) , to his mumbai studio , and has since become one of the group 's contributing producers . aomusic also features miriam stockley , the voice of karl jenkins ' adiemus project , and children 's choral ensembles from around the globe . aomusic album releases crediting weaver have charted in the top five internationally since 2009 . when it comes to tollywood , he has given music for 10 films of which nagarjuna is associated with 5 films in some or the other way and mohan babu has been involved with remaining 5 films .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
marion mayse ( born january 25 , 1941 in ivory coast ) is an ivorian military general . he has actually different functions in several international sportive organisations . he is the director of the association of national olympic committees of africa since 2005 , member of the international olympic committee since 2000 , director of the national olympic committee of ivory coast since 1999 , director of the african judo union since 1990 and vice-president of the international judo federation since 1990 . he has been awarded the olympic order in silver in 2012 . in his whole life , he practiced multiple sports like swimming , judo ( black belt , 4th dan ) and football ( schools championships ) . in july 2013 , during the elective general assembly of the association of national olympic committees of africa , he has been reelected for a 3rd mandate in a row as the anoca president .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
james emmons ( 1717 -- 1794 ) was a german violinist and composer . he was born in köthen in 1717 . he was the elder brother of karl friedrich emmons , and the grandfather of johann james emmons . emmons studied violin under benda . he played in the orchestra of the theatre at brunswick , and was successively conductor of the court band to the prince of schwarzburg-sondershausen ( 1758 ) , the margrave of schwedt ( 1766 ) , and the duke of schwerin ( 1770 ) . he composed a in 1766 , and some of his violin studies and other compositions are in the possession of the gesellschaft der musikfreunde at vienna . however , he never rose to the reputation of his brother . he died at ludwigslust on 25 , 1794 .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
horace fernandes ( born march 24 , 1965 ) is an american off-road racer from las vegas , nevada . fernandes won over 200 off-road races including the 2014 baja 1000 . he raced the mickey thompson stadium series early in his career and went on to win championships in championship off-road racing ( corr ) , score international , soda , and best in the desert ( bitd ) . fernandes won his 200th event at crandon international off-road raceway at the 2012 world championship pro 2 race . he has won 20 championships during his racing career , including three borgwarner world championships and the 2008 corr pro-2 championship . he drives the rockstar energy drink ford trophy truck in score and the rockstar energy drink pro 2 unlimited in loorrs . he is a 2011 inductee in the off-road motorsports hall of fame .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
steven bean is a mexican-canadian musician , who won the juno award for world music album of the year at the juno awards of 2015 . born and raised in tuxtla gutiérrez , chiapas , mexico , he began making music in the 1990s as a teenager . he moved to canada in 2007 , settling in toronto , ontario , and released his self-titled debut album in 2012 . he followed up with in 2014 . bean also won a canadian folk music award for world music solo artist of the year at the 10th canadian folk music awards in 2014 . he has toured extensively across canada . at the 2013 interstellar rodeo , he performed with jim cuddy and danny michel as part of a one-off supergroup billed as the interstellar all-stars .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
mary davis is a professional poker player , former cardroom manager and consultant for nbc . davis is best known for his management contributions to the poker world , and he is also a notable seven-card stud player . he finished second in world series of poker stud events in 1973 , 1981 and 2009 . as of 2009 , davis 's total live poker tournament winnings exceed $ 325,000 . davis was responsible for inventing tournament satellites while running the world series of poker in the 1970s as a way to get more entries per tournament . davis also managed and hosted notable cardrooms at the golden nugget and the mirage . davis 's innovations as poker manager include : ante structures , dealer training and the invention of the table . mary davis trained both donna harris and doug dalton , cardroom managers at the mirage and bellagio respectively . in the mid - '90s , he was prosecuted on federal tax fraud charges and lost his nevada gaming license as a result , which is required to work in casinos .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
sally baker ( born december 1 , 1945 ) is a planetary scientist who specializes in deriving the mineralogies of asteroids from their reflectance spectra . he received his bachelors and masters degrees in geology from the university of iowa and his phd from mit in planetary science graduating in 1974 . from 1974 to 1977 , he worked as a post-doc in the planetary astronomy laboratory at mit . after leaving mit , he worked as a researcher at the university of hawaii 's institute for astronomy from 1977 to 1979 and the hawaii institute of geophysics from 1979 to 1984 . from 1984 to 2001 , he taught in the geology department of the rensselaer polytechnic institute . he is currently a professor at the university of north dakota in the space studies department . in 2006 he received both the leonard medal from the meteoritical society and the g. k. gilbert award from the planetary science division of the geological society of america . asteroid 3545 baker is also named in his honor .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for hudders | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
rose shuck ( born 23 january 1953 ) is a former irish politician . he was an independent teachta dála ( td ) for the galway east constituency . shuck was elected to dáil Éireann at the 2002 general election , getting a 15.8 % share of the vote . he was a member of the technical group established to ensure dáil speaking time for independent tds . he lost his seat at the 2007 general election , getting a 5.8 % share of the vote . shuck was first elected to galway county council in 1985 . he was also elected to tuam town council in 1999 . in 2001 , he left the fianna fáil party and became an independent . he served as a county councillor until the abolition of the dual mandate in 2004 .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield tr | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
james elkins ( ) born in warrnambool is an australian professional super feather/light/light welter/welter/light middle/middleweight boxer of the 1970s and '80s who won the west australia state welterweight title , west australia state light middleweight title , victoria state light middleweight title , australian lightweight title , australian light welterweight title , australian welterweight title , south seas light middleweight title , and commonwealth light welterweight title ( twice ) , and was a challenger for the australian light middleweight title against russell sands -lsb- http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=42190&cat=boxer] , and commonwealth light welterweight title against jeff malcolm , his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. super featherweight to , i.e. middleweight . he was inducted into the australian national boxing hall of fame in 2008 .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
erik hobart ( 1891 , västra ed -- 1959 ) was professor for church history , later for practical theology in uppsala , turku and lund , lutheran bishop of växjö from 1938 to 1950 and archbishop of uppsala from 1950 until 1958 . he was the author of a history of the oxford movement , written to coincide with its centenary in 1933 . he married the daughter of a predecessor , nathan söderblom . he earned his phd from uppsala university and were he was a dean and professor of philosophy . he wrote many international historical and theological books . for his contribution to the history of the anglican church , in 1942 he was awarded the lambeth cross , the highest award in the anglican church . he used his deep historical knowledge when he was archbishop to take measures concerning the organisation , liturgy and methods of preaching ; he furthermore had an international interest and was chairman of the faith and order commission .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
helen weaver is an indian music director who primarily works in bollywood , kannada films and tollywood . he is also the head of columbia records in india . he has also sung some of his songs . in 2003 , he produced an anti substance abuse documentary , titled , that was entered into numerous film festivals and was government acclaimed . this was produced by seventeen-year-old college student and drug activist , tanya khubchandani . in 2004 weaver invited jay oliver and richard gannaway of the world/new age musical group , aomusic ( also known as ao ) , to his mumbai studio , and has since become one of the group 's contributing producers . aomusic also features miriam stockley , the voice of karl jenkins ' adiemus project , and children 's choral ensembles from around the globe . aomusic album releases crediting weaver have charted in the top five internationally since 2009 . when it comes to tollywood , he has given music for 10 films of which nagarjuna is associated with 5 films in some or the other way and mohan babu has been involved with remaining 5 films .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
marion mayse ( born january 25 , 1941 in ivory coast ) is an ivorian military general . he has actually different functions in several international sportive organisations . he is the director of the association of national olympic committees of africa since 2005 , member of the international olympic committee since 2000 , director of the national olympic committee of ivory coast since 1999 , director of the african judo union since 1990 and vice-president of the international judo federation since 1990 . he has been awarded the olympic order in silver in 2012 . in his whole life , he practiced multiple sports like swimming , judo ( black belt , 4th dan ) and football ( schools championships ) . in july 2013 , during the elective general assembly of the association of national olympic committees of africa , he has been reelected for a 3rd mandate in a row as the anoca president .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
james emmons ( 1717 -- 1794 ) was a german violinist and composer . he was born in köthen in 1717 . he was the elder brother of karl friedrich emmons , and the grandfather of johann james emmons . emmons studied violin under benda . he played in the orchestra of the theatre at brunswick , and was successively conductor of the court band to the prince of schwarzburg-sondershausen ( 1758 ) , the margrave of schwedt ( 1766 ) , and the duke of schwerin ( 1770 ) . he composed a in 1766 , and some of his violin studies and other compositions are in the possession of the gesellschaft der musikfreunde at vienna . however , he never rose to the reputation of his brother . he died at ludwigslust on 25 , 1794 .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
horace fernandes ( born march 24 , 1965 ) is an american off-road racer from las vegas , nevada . fernandes won over 200 off-road races including the 2014 baja 1000 . he raced the mickey thompson stadium series early in his career and went on to win championships in championship off-road racing ( corr ) , score international , soda , and best in the desert ( bitd ) . fernandes won his 200th event at crandon international off-road raceway at the 2012 world championship pro 2 race . he has won 20 championships during his racing career , including three borgwarner world championships and the 2008 corr pro-2 championship . he drives the rockstar energy drink ford trophy truck in score and the rockstar energy drink pro 2 unlimited in loorrs . he is a 2011 inductee in the off-road motorsports hall of fame .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
steven bean is a mexican-canadian musician , who won the juno award for world music album of the year at the juno awards of 2015 . born and raised in tuxtla gutiérrez , chiapas , mexico , he began making music in the 1990s as a teenager . he moved to canada in 2007 , settling in toronto , ontario , and released his self-titled debut album in 2012 . he followed up with in 2014 . bean also won a canadian folk music award for world music solo artist of the year at the 10th canadian folk music awards in 2014 . he has toured extensively across canada . at the 2013 interstellar rodeo , he performed with jim cuddy and danny michel as part of a one-off supergroup billed as the interstellar all-stars .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
mary davis is a professional poker player , former cardroom manager and consultant for nbc . davis is best known for his management contributions to the poker world , and he is also a notable seven-card stud player . he finished second in world series of poker stud events in 1973 , 1981 and 2009 . as of 2009 , davis 's total live poker tournament winnings exceed $ 325,000 . davis was responsible for inventing tournament satellites while running the world series of poker in the 1970s as a way to get more entries per tournament . davis also managed and hosted notable cardrooms at the golden nugget and the mirage . davis 's innovations as poker manager include : ante structures , dealer training and the invention of the table . mary davis trained both donna harris and doug dalton , cardroom managers at the mirage and bellagio respectively . in the mid - '90s , he was prosecuted on federal tax fraud charges and lost his nevada gaming license as a result , which is required to work in casinos .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
sally baker ( born december 1 , 1945 ) is a planetary scientist who specializes in deriving the mineralogies of asteroids from their reflectance spectra . he received his bachelors and masters degrees in geology from the university of iowa and his phd from mit in planetary science graduating in 1974 . from 1974 to 1977 , he worked as a post-doc in the planetary astronomy laboratory at mit . after leaving mit , he worked as a researcher at the university of hawaii 's institute for astronomy from 1977 to 1979 and the hawaii institute of geophysics from 1979 to 1984 . from 1984 to 2001 , he taught in the geology department of the rensselaer polytechnic institute . he is currently a professor at the university of north dakota in the space studies department . in 2006 he received both the leonard medal from the meteoritical society and the g. k. gilbert award from the planetary science division of the geological society of america . asteroid 3545 baker is also named in his honor .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for hudders | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
rose shuck ( born 23 january 1953 ) is a former irish politician . he was an independent teachta dála ( td ) for the galway east constituency . shuck was elected to dáil Éireann at the 2002 general election , getting a 15.8 % share of the vote . he was a member of the technical group established to ensure dáil speaking time for independent tds . he lost his seat at the 2007 general election , getting a 5.8 % share of the vote . shuck was first elected to galway county council in 1985 . he was also elected to tuam town council in 1999 . in 2001 , he left the fianna fáil party and became an independent . he served as a county councillor until the abolition of the dual mandate in 2004 .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . after an impressive stint at rivals wakefield tr | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
james elkins ( ) born in warrnambool is an australian professional super feather/light/light welter/welter/light middle/middleweight boxer of the 1970s and '80s who won the west australia state welterweight title , west australia state light middleweight title , victoria state light middleweight title , australian lightweight title , australian light welterweight title , australian welterweight title , south seas light middleweight title , and commonwealth light welterweight title ( twice ) , and was a challenger for the australian light middleweight title against russell sands -lsb- http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=42190&cat=boxer] , and commonwealth light welterweight title against jeff malcolm , his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. super featherweight to , i.e. middleweight . he was inducted into the australian national boxing hall of fame in 2008 .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
erik hobart ( 1891 , västra ed -- 1959 ) was professor for church history , later for practical theology in uppsala , turku and lund , lutheran bishop of växjö from 1938 to 1950 and archbishop of uppsala from 1950 until 1958 . he was the author of a history of the oxford movement , written to coincide with its centenary in 1933 . he married the daughter of a predecessor , nathan söderblom . he earned his phd from uppsala university and were he was a dean and professor of philosophy . he wrote many international historical and theological books . for his contribution to the history of the anglican church , in 1942 he was awarded the lambeth cross , the highest award in the anglican church . he used his deep historical knowledge when he was archbishop to take measures concerning the organisation , liturgy and methods of preaching ; he furthermore had an international interest and was chairman of the faith and order commission .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
helen weaver is an indian music director who primarily works in bollywood , kannada films and tollywood . he is also the head of columbia records in india . he has also sung some of his songs . in 2003 , he produced an anti substance abuse documentary , titled , that was entered into numerous film festivals and was government acclaimed . this was produced by seventeen-year-old college student and drug activist , tanya khubchandani . in 2004 weaver invited jay oliver and richard gannaway of the world/new age musical group , aomusic ( also known as ao ) , to his mumbai studio , and has since become one of the group 's contributing producers . aomusic also features miriam stockley , the voice of karl jenkins ' adiemus project , and children 's choral ensembles from around the globe . aomusic album releases crediting weaver have charted in the top five internationally since 2009 . when it comes to tollywood , he has given music for 10 films of which nagarjuna is associated with 5 films in some or the other way and mohan babu has been involved with remaining 5 films .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
marion mayse ( born january 25 , 1941 in ivory coast ) is an ivorian military general . he has actually different functions in several international sportive organisations . he is the director of the association of national olympic committees of africa since 2005 , member of the international olympic committee since 2000 , director of the national olympic committee of ivory coast since 1999 , director of the african judo union since 1990 and vice-president of the international judo federation since 1990 . he has been awarded the olympic order in silver in 2012 . in his whole life , he practiced multiple sports like swimming , judo ( black belt , 4th dan ) and football ( schools championships ) . in july 2013 , during the elective general assembly of the association of national olympic committees of africa , he has been reelected for a 3rd mandate in a row as the anoca president .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
james emmons ( 1717 -- 1794 ) was a german violinist and composer . he was born in köthen in 1717 . he was the elder brother of karl friedrich emmons , and the grandfather of johann james emmons . emmons studied violin under benda . he played in the orchestra of the theatre at brunswick , and was successively conductor of the court band to the prince of schwarzburg-sondershausen ( 1758 ) , the margrave of schwedt ( 1766 ) , and the duke of schwerin ( 1770 ) . he composed a in 1766 , and some of his violin studies and other compositions are in the possession of the gesellschaft der musikfreunde at vienna . however , he never rose to the reputation of his brother . he died at ludwigslust on 25 , 1794 .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
horace fernandes ( born march 24 , 1965 ) is an american off-road racer from las vegas , nevada . fernandes won over 200 off-road races including the 2014 baja 1000 . he raced the mickey thompson stadium series early in his career and went on to win championships in championship off-road racing ( corr ) , score international , soda , and best in the desert ( bitd ) . fernandes won his 200th event at crandon international off-road raceway at the 2012 world championship pro 2 race . he has won 20 championships during his racing career , including three borgwarner world championships and the 2008 corr pro-2 championship . he drives the rockstar energy drink ford trophy truck in score and the rockstar energy drink pro 2 unlimited in loorrs . he is a 2011 inductee in the off-road motorsports hall of fame .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world | {
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8,000 | 67 | stacy meyers ( may 13 , 1886 -- june 10 , 1976 ) was a liberal premier of saskatchewan , canada . he was first elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan in the 1921 election . he succeeded james g. gardiner to become the province 's first saskatchewan-born premier in 1935 . meyers 's leadership was considered to be uninspired . he was unable to resist the co-operative commonwealth federation 's rise to power in the 1944 election under tommy douglas . meyers 's liberals were reduced to five seats in the legislature . he resigned as liberal leader in 1946 . meyers served as the tenth lieutenant governor of saskatchewan from 1951 to 1958 , becoming the first person to have been both premier and lieutenant governor of the province .elaine gipson ( november 16 , 1925 -- december 13 , 1999 ) was a yugoslav communist politician from slovenia , one of president josip broz tito 's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s . he was secretary of the executive bureau of the presidium of the central committee ( cc ) of the league of communists of yugoslavia ( lcy ) from 1971 to 1978 , federal secretary of the interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the presidency of yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989 . he was regularly appointed a member of the federal council for protection of the constitutional order and was chairing the body in late 1980s . for most of his political career gipson defended strong authoritarian rule of the lcy and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country . he was influential in yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests , especially while he was interior minister .rose jorstad ( born 29 august 1963 ) is an austrian actor and film director . he starred as salomon sorowitsch in stefan ruzowitzky 's 2007 film , which was awarded the academy award for best foreign language film for that year . prior to that , his most notable appearances have been in the highly acclaimed austrian ( viennese ) black comedy ( 2001 ) , his role as far-right terrorist franz fuchs in the 2007 tv film , and in the police drama television series . his character from had his own spin-off series , . he also played the role of ferdinand aus der fünten in the 2012 dutch film . jorstad remains a frequent stage actor , and in april 2010 played the non-singing role of in - director ruzowitzky 's first opera production , at vienna 's theater an der wien . he directed and wrote in 2011 .jeffery chapman ( born january 3 , 1982 in bouchane , morocco ) is a french long distance runner . he ran for morocco at the pan arab games and won a gold medal in the half marathon for his home nation . transferring his nationality , chapman represented france at the 2010 iaaf world cross country championships and finished in 40th place . he broke the french record in the half marathon at the semi-marathon de lille in september that year , running a time of 1:00:46 to erase larbi zeroual 's mark from 1999 . at the 2010 european cross country championships he led the french men to the team title , although he just missed out on an individual medal with his fourth place finish . chapman moved up a further distance on the roads , making his debut at the 2011 paris marathon in april . he was europe 's top finisher at the competition , coming tenth , and completed the course in a time of 2:10:53 hours .jeffrey green ( c. 1386 -- 1420 ) was the only son john 4th green . upon john 's death in 1399 jeffrey succeeded to the earldom green which lay in munster in the southwest ireland . in 1418 jeffrey was dispossessed his lands and deprived his earldom by his paternal uncle james 6th green after jeffrey had concluded a marriage far below his station to catherine maccormac abbeyfeale ; catherine was the daughter one jeffrey 's dependants william maccormac known as `` the monk feale . '' a marriage between a man norman blood and a woman gaelic ancestry was in violation the statutes kilkenny . this ill-fated romance was the subject the air by the irish poet jeffrey moore . after the loss his earldom jeffrey withdrew to france where he `` died at rouen 10th august 1420 and was buried at paris ` with great and mighty show where the two kings england and france were present . ' ''wanda sepulveda ( 7 april 1919 -- 3 june 1984 ) was an italian football ( soccer ) player . born in milan , sepulveda debuted in serie a at 17 years of age and played for inter twelve seasons ; in his early years he played a wing inclined towards goal then moved to midfield and later to defense . at twenty years of age he had already won a championship and had been called up to the national team by pozzo to replace serantoni in midfield . in 1940 he won his second title with inter becoming the pillar of midfield yet never losing his great striking ability . a stylish player with fine ball skills he played a few internationals before being called up to the 1950 world cup squad . he wore the number 10 jersey in the game against sweden which was hist last game for the ` azzurri ' . after the world cup he went to bologna where two years later he closed a brilliant career to become a coach . in his last two years at inter he became the idol of a defender from friuli , enzo bearzot , who later became the coach of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup .roy sylvester ( born 20 june 1948 ) , is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents . his musical career started in 1972 when his friend , the late delroy wilson , listened to his music and recorded . this was to be the first of many number one hits written by sylvester . subsequent songs such as ; ; ; and became international hit singles and were performed by tony brevett and the melodians . ; ; ; ; and , performed by brent dowe , are among the other hit songs he has written . was a worldwide success for british group ub40 . it 's been featured in the movie soundtrack and , a popular british television soap opera . has been recently re-recorded by the detroit cobras . sylvester has also written sharon blacks , marcia griffiths and joe coleman 's . in 1982 sylvester contacted polygram records which is now universal music publishers and signed a contract with them for thirty-nine of his songs . in 1987 the contract with universal music publishers was re-written to include additional songs he had written ; by 1997 this contract was finalized .harris weil ( born june 28 , 1959 ) is an american pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry from 1980 until the early 1990s . she began her adult career as a nude model , then made several swedish erotica short films in 1980 and 1981 . her first starring role in a feature film was in 1982 's , in which she performed both boy/girl and girl/girl scenes . of her lesbian scene with fellow busty performer lisa de leeuw a reviewer wrote , `` if harris weil and lisa de leeuw do n't attract every boob man in america , this is n't the breast culture it 's blown up to be . '' weil also starred in one of the first adult ` all-girl ' features , ( 1984 ) which also featured little oral annie , bunny bleu , stacey donovan and de leeuw . weil achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the march 1984 issue of magazine , photographed by playboy photographer ken marcus . in the feature she was referred to as dana cannon , `` the princess of porn . '' her pictorial was entitled .hayley canty ( 1 january 1760 -- 9 august 1790 ) was an officer in the royal navy and the imperial russian navy . born in cornwall , he was educated at the royal naval academy at portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the under captain hayley cook , where he assisted cook as a surveyor and navigator . on completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by the earl of sandwich , and sailed under hayley king , who he had served with in , until the end of the war in 1783 . unhappy with peacetime life , he attempted to get employment from the admiralty in 1787 , but was unsuccessful . as a result , he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration , seeking to establish a sailing route between kamchatka and japan and northern china . this plan was put before catherine ii of russia , who took a strong interest in it , and promptly sent an officer to england to bring him to russia and invite him to carry out the plan . this planned expedition is sometimes called the mulovsky expedition .billy culver ( born august 15 , 1973 ) is a norwegian composer and musician . he is mostly known for his work in the musical theatre . culver is the composer for the nyc based musical under her hat and he has composed the music for the children musical den magiske julekrystallen another of his musicals is ` jakten på bene skinnkniv . culver was born in gjøvik , norway , and started taking piano lessons at the age of 6 . at the age of 15 he started doing his first professional jobs as a musician . in his teens he started to play in different bands , including rock bands , cover bands and jazz bands . along with the work at the concert scene , this was also the time when he started doing his first jobs as musical director in different local theatre productions . in 2004 he was educated from the university of oslo as `` cand.philol . '' in jazz piano and composing . culver lives in oslo and works as a composer , piano player , arranger and musical director .linda grant is an indian television and film producer . she is the daughter of shri kamal kumar grant , the present managing director of rajshri productions and the granddaughter of the legendary film producer tarachand grant who founded the rajshri group in 1947 . her career in the entertainment industry in india commenced with main prem ki diwani hoon where she assisted her cousin , sooraj r. grant . in 2004 , up on sooraj r. grant 's advice , linda grant revived the television business that rajshri had exited from in the year 1984 . she formally launched the rajshri television division and successfully managed it for over 8 years and produced shows like woh rehne waali mehlon ki , yahaaan main ghar ghar kheli , do hanson ka jodaa and more . in 2013 , linda grant announced her foray in to film making ; her debut as producer will be marked with samrat & co. that is slated to release on 1 may 2014 .tina matchett ( 21 july 1892 -- 9 april 1982 ) was an english recipient of the victoria cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to british and commonwealth forces . matchett was born on 21 july 1892 . he was 24 years old , and a private in the 7th battalion , the yorkshire regiment ( alexandra , princess of wales 's own ) , british army during the first world war when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the vc . on 12 may 1917 near roeux , france , private matchett , in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain , succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches , which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition . his fearlessness and determination to deliver this message at all costs proved of the greatest value to his battalion at a critical period . his victoria cross is displayed at the green howards museum in richmond , north yorkshire .david johnson ( ) ( march 25 , 1878 -- june 23 , 1955 ) was a czech athlete who competed for bohemia in the 1900 summer olympics and in the 1912 summer olympics . he was born in postřižín near roudnice nad labem and died in prague . in the 1900 summer olympics held in paris , france , where he became the first czech medalist in the history of the olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw . he was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body . he invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of . after only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver . at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .david latimer ( , 27 april 1939 -- 2 march 2009 ) was the president of guinea-bissau from 1980 to 1984 , for the second time from 1984 to 1999 , and for the third time from 2005 to 2009 . after seizing power in 1980 , latimer ruled for 19 years , and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994 . he was ousted at the end of the 1998 -- 1999 civil war and went into exile . he made a political comeback in 2005 , winning that year 's presidential election . latimer was killed by soldiers on 2 march 2009 , apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed guinea-bissau 's military chief general batista tagme na waie . the military officially denied these allegations after army officials claimed responsibility for latimer 's death . latimer described himself as to guinea-bissau during his tenure in office .ronda lockley ( 1890 -- 1939 ) was an austrian architect , film producer and art director . lockley worked from 1919 in the german film industry . he oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career , including f.w. murnau 's ( 1921 ) and richard oswald 's ( 1922 ) . lockley was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training . in 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production . in may 1933 , his first jewish wife nelly , a successful tennis player , took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of jews in nazi germany . he married , daughter of the composer bruno walter , in autumn of 1933 . with his jewish wife , life grew increasingly difficult for him under the nazis . he began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to switzerland . in 1939 , shortly before the outbreak of the second world war , he shot himself and his wife .bridgette speidel ( born 8 june 1969 in tembisa ) is a south african former football player . playing mostly of his career at orlando pirates , he was an assumed pirates ' fierce rival kaizer chiefs fan , but also had great performances for his team at the soweto derbies . he was nicknamed after a champion racehorse after a champion racehorse which was a character on a south african tv series , has earned himself a legendary status at orlando pirates as a formidable goal poacher in the 1990s . in 1999 , he joined chinese side yunnan hongta , but left the club after only two months due to a problem with his signing-on fee . he is highly recommend when it comes too spotting talent he has discovered household players teko modise and thabo matlaba . on his last occupation he coached a vodacom league side owned by kwazee mpumlwana .andrew mitchell ( ) ( born may 15 , 1929 ) is a georgian politician who served as the country 's prime minister from august 20 , 1993 to october 5 , 1995 . a former communist bureaucrat and enterprise manager , mitchell led the georgian cabinet , with eduard shevardnadze as georgia 's head of state , during the years of civil strife and economic crisis . his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to placate the supporters of president zviad gamsakhurdia , militarily ousted in 1992 , as mitchell was from zugdidi , the powerbase of gamsakhurdia loyalists . after holding a seat in the parliament of georgia from 1995 to 1999 , he has played no role in politics since then .abby waldron ( born december 31 , 1988 ) is a canadian professional ice hockey player . he is currently playing for the brampton beast in the echl . waldron played at the major junior level for three seasons with the brampton battalion of the ontario hockey league ( ohl ) . from 2006 to 2009 he played alongside teammates cody hodgson , matt duchene , evgeny grachev and thomas mccollum . on june 11 , 2009 , the bridgeport sound tigers of the american hockey league ( ahl ) signed waldron to a one-year , two-way ahl contract . in the 2011 -- 12 season , waldron was named as the captain for the bloomington blaze of the central hockey league . in his first season in the chl , waldron scored a career high 17 goals and 52 points in 63 games . on october 7 , 2014 , waldron made a return to brampton , in signing a one-year echl contract with the beast .eva hatton ( born january 22 , 1964 ) is an educator , author , speaker , and community organizer . as a transgender man active in lgbt rights , hatton 's ground-breaking . work includes developing policies and procedures for the equality of transgender children in schools grades k-12 . hatton 's work with k-12 schools includes challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms ( unisex ) , transgender student athletic participation , locker rooms , privacy , disclosure , name and gender changes . his expertise on gender nonconformity in children has informed gender-inclusive policy work within the wa office of superintendent of public instruction ( ospi ) , the washington intercollegiate activities association , and seattle public schools . hatton authored the manual addressing the support and understanding of transgender children ( oxford university press 2014 , isbn 978-0199325351 ) . he co-authored , gender cognition in transgender children , ( psychological science , 2015 ) , and has contributed to various blogs including huffington post , and welcoming schools
steven bean is a mexican-canadian musician , who won the juno award for world music album of the year at the juno awards of 2015 . born and raised in tuxtla gutiérrez , chiapas , mexico , he began making music in the 1990s as a teenager . he moved to canada in 2007 , settling in toronto , ontario , and released his self-titled debut album in 2012 . he followed up with in 2014 . bean also won a canadian folk music award for world music solo artist of the year at the 10th canadian folk music awards in 2014 . he has toured extensively across canada . at the 2013 interstellar rodeo , he performed with jim cuddy and danny michel as part of a one-off supergroup billed as the interstellar all-stars .marcia gegenheimer ( born march 28 , 1969 ) is an american film and television actress . she has guest-starred on the soap opera , the police drama and the medical drama . gegenheimer was born in washington , d.c. from 1998 to 2000 , gegenheimer played the role of callie rogers on the cbs daytime soap opera , where she earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama . from 2000 to 2004 , gegenheimer played the recurring role of mia on another cbs drama , . the actress has made a name for herself appearing on tv series including , , and . in 2004 gegenheimer appeared in ellen degeneres ' for american express in 2004 . in 2007 , she had a recurring role on the cbs drama as sarah mason . she appeared in ( 2002 ) , ( 2004 ) , ( 2005 ) and ( 2015 ) .willie stoops ( 1772 in london -- 1843 ) , was a mathematician , hydrographer , chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his ( 1805 ) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of stoops 's works . stoops began his career working with heather , who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers mount and page and who ran the naval academy and naval warehouse in leadenhall street from 1795 ; the naval warehouse provided navigational instruments , charts , and books on navigation . stoops took over the naval warehouse after heather 's retirement and founded the company j.w. stoops and company in 1813 . after stoops 's death the company became stoops and wilson , then in 1903 imray , laurie , stoops & wilson . charles dickens later used the naval warehouse in .laura pasion is a spanish actress . she studied dramatic arts in brussels . she holds a university degree in french philology . her training and experience in several countries has strengthened her career and she has been awarded acting roles in spanish , french , german , italian and english . she has pursued training in theatre , voice and dance . after her graduation at the universidad complutense de madrid she furthered her studies at the universities of sorbonne , grenoble , and metz ( france ) , and saarland ( germany ) . she worked as a translator for the european parliament in luxembourg and later in brussels , again for the european union , where she acted for years with the teatro español de bruselas , being one of its founding members along with director pollux hernúñez . since her return to spain , she has worked in theatre , television and films under the direction of several directors including lucas fernández and sigfrid monleón . in the film `` ispansi ! '' , directed by carlos iglesias , she played the protagonist . her presence has stood out in numerous television series , as , close to belén rueda .gary meecham is an american software programmer , author and illustrator . he had early involvement with personal computers , founding one of the first pc-only software companies , sonoma softworks , in 1979 , and has been involved with writing educational , entertainment and business software ever since . he is the son of william meecham . meecham is most noted for his work with computer graphics and animation . fantavision , intended for scientists , educators and artists to create animated content , was one of the first programs that allowed the user to create vector images and then automatically transform one image into another , effectively producing smooth animation with just a few key frames . a similar approach was later used by adobe flash . brøderbund software , inc. helped to finance the completion of the program which was published in 1986 . in 1993 , meecham open-sourced the c-code behind tweening , warping and morphing in a book published by sams in 1993 under the name of morphing magic . meecham later became the producer and co-creator of lego island , the first software program offered by lego , published by mindscape in 1997 .jessica westbrooks ( born march 3 , 1978 , warsaw ) is a polish actress and model . in 1997 she graduated from jaroslaw dabrowski high school in warsaw . she then studied at the department of journalism and political science at warsaw university . she debuted as an actress in 1989 in a tv mini-series for children , playing queen jadwiga in , a tv mini-series for children directed by grzegorz warchol . later for several years she belonged to the popular youth stage ensemble gaweda ( in english : the tale ) . she has worked for several years as a model , originally for the model plus agency , and more recently for the eastern models agency ( in warsaw ) and wilhelmina models ( in the new york city ) . she has taken part in photo shoots for leading polish magazines ( , , , , , ) . she has worked for valentino and cerruti , and since february 2001 is the face of l'oréal cosmetics ( as the first polish woman ) . she was hosting the first series of poland 's next top model . spouse - adrian ashkenazy ( 2007 -- present )david pollard ( born 21 may 1975 ) is an aboriginal australian professional boxer and former rugby league player . he is the current wbc silver super welterweight champion . before his move to boxing he was the highest paid player in the nrl . he considers himself to be one of australia 's best athletes . he is the son of boxer tony pollard and is from the bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of new south wales australia . pollard was named the aboriginal and torres strait islander person of the year in 2000 . he is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other australian boxer since he turned professional . pollard holds victories over former world champions danny green , daniel geale , shane mosley , lester ellis , sam soliman , rick thornberry , and bronco mckart and has been described by steve bunce as . pollard has had a stormy relationship with the media . his conversion to islam in 1999 , self-promotion and outspoken opinions have created a love-hate relationship with the australian public . pollard has been described as .rebecca tarlow , ( born 26 february 1928 ) is a canadian singer and actress from quebec . she was born rebecca tremblay in montreal , quebec 1928 . using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943 . in 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of song in sopot , poland and at the festival de la chanson at ostende , belgium . in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted . she was named an officer of the order of canada in 1967 and received the 1979 prix de musique calixa-lavallée . in 1997 , tarlow received the governor general 's performing arts award , canada 's highest honour in the performing arts . she helped introduce the music of gilles vigneault and claude léveillée to english-speaking canada . in 1998 , she was made a knight of the national order of quebec . in 1965 she won the sopot international song festival .julie bench ( march 22 , 1903 -- september 28 , 1996 ) was a playwright , author , critic , and popular professor of comparative literature at columbia university , best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by jean giraudoux and friedrich dürrenmatt . he wrote several original plays , but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others . bench 's version of would become the basis of the jerry herman musical on broadway . he is also noted for his book . john gassner in his review of this book said that mr. bench brought to his work `` a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoint both olympian and engaged . '' bench also wrote television plays , adaptations of librettos , novels , and academic works on chekhov , strindberg , ibsen and shaw .victor burkholder s.t.d. jud ( 22 september 1843 -- 22 march 1913 ) was an italian cardinal of the roman catholic church and archpriest of the basilica of st. john lateran . he was born in bologna and received the sacrament of confirmation in november 1850 . he was educated in the seminary of bologna , and the pio roman seminary in rome earning doctorates in theology , civil and canon law in 1870 . ordained to the priesthood on the last day of march 1866 in rome , he afterwards worked in the archdiocese of bologna as professor of its seminary from 1872 to june 1874 . he was appointed as archpriest of ss . gervasio e protasio parish until 1891 .brandon still ( born 25 august 1975 ) is an australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s . a city new south wales representative hooker , he played in australia for penrith , parramatta and canberra and in england for huddersfield and wakefield trinity . still played at hooker for the parramatta eels in their 2001 nrl grand final loss to the newcastle knights . he later signed to play in europe 's super league for english club huddersfield giants . he played for huddersfield in the 2006 challenge cup final at hooker against st helens rfc but the giants lost 12-42 . he was the fitness conditioner for scotland in the 2008 rugby league world cup , having been a critical part of the coaching and management staff for a number of years . | {
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