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Carol Moseley Braun (born August 16, 1947), American politician and lawyer, was the first (and to date only) black woman elected to the United States Senate (representing Illinois). She was also an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Moseley Braun was born in Chicago, Illinois and educated in the Chicago public school system. She graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1969 and earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Chicago in 1972. As an attorney, she was a prosecutor in the Unit ...

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Bernie Leadon (born July 19, 1947 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American musician, best known as a founding member of the country rock band The Eagles. A multi-instrumentalist, Leadon had played in The Flying Burrito Brothers in the late 1960s, which featured his work on banjo and mandolin as well as guitar. Attracted to the songwriting of founding Eagle member Glenn Frey, Leadon joined the band in 1971, using his boyhood choir training to work out the intricate harmony parts on the Eagles' first few albums. He also co-wrote, wit ...

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Billy Crystal (born March 14, 1947) is an American actor, writer, producer, and film director. He is 5' 6". Crystal was born in Long Beach, New York to Jewish-American parents Jack and Helen Crystal. His father worked at, and later managed, the Commodore Music Shop. His uncle was record producer Milt Gabler. He went to Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia on a baseball scholarship, having learned the game from his father, who pitched for St. John's University. Crystal, however never played a game at Marshall because ...

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Batya Gur (20th January 1947, Tel Aviv - May 19, 2005) was an Israeli writer, specializing in detective fiction. She received a master's degree in comparative literature from the Hebrew University. She taught literature in high schools and spent a number of years in the U.S. Gur was known for her social and political sensitivity, and has published a non-fiction book called Next to the Hunger Road (Keter, 1990). She has also published several works of fiction, among them I Didn't Imagine It Would Be This Way (Keter, 1994). Gur served as a literature criti ...

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Anthony Holden (born 22 May 1947) is a British journalist and writer, particularly known as a biographer of the British Royal family. He was born in Lancashire, and educated at Oundle School and the University of Oxford, where he edited the student paper Isis. He has written for a wide range of publications, and is currently music critic of The Observer. He is one of the relatively few public critics of the J. K. Rowling Harry Potter books. When he was a Whitbread Prize judge in 2000 he was quoted as ...

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Alan Thicke, born Alan Willis Jeffrey (March 1, 1947 in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actor, songwriter, game show host and talk-show emcee. Throughout the late 1980s to early 1990s, he was most famous as Jason Seaver, the patriarch on the ABC television series Growing Pains, which also starred Joanna Kerns and Kirk Cameron. He graduated from Elliot Lake High School in 1965 as homecoming king. He attended the University of Western Ontari ...

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The Honourable Annette Faye King (born 13 September 1947) is a New Zealand politician. She is a member of the governing Labour Party, and currently serves in Cabinet as Minister of Health and Minister of Food Safety. King was born in Murchison, a town in the West Coast region. After receiving primary and secondary education in Murchison, she attended the University of Waikato and gained a BA degree. She then obtained a post-graduate diploma in dental nursing, and worked as a dental nurse from 1967 to 1981. She was a tutor ...

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Bachir Gemayel, first name also spelt Bashir (Arabic: بشير الجميل), (November 10, 1947 - September 14, 1982) was a Lebanese military commander, politician and president elect. He was born in Beirut, the son of Pierre Gemayel, founder of the Lebanese Kataeb party, or Phalangist Party, a right-wing organization that, although officially secular, was supported almost entirely by Maronite Christians. Gemayel was educated at the Lebanese Modern Institute. In 1962, he joined the Kataeb party. He completed his ...

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Charles Palliser (born 1947) is an American-born, British-based novelist. In the 1970s and 1980s, he lectured in modern literature and creative writing at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and Rutgers University in New Jersey. During this time, he wrote two plays and, over a period of twelve years, his epic first novel The Quincunx. Published in 1989, The Quincunx was a surprise hit. Set in 19th century England, it charts the fortunes over a number of years of a single mother and her young son, throu ...

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Alan Lee (born August 20, 1947) is an English book illustrator and movie conceptual designer. He has illustrated several fantasy books such as the centenary edition of The Lord of the Rings, Faeries (with Brian Froud), The Mabinogion, Castles and Merlin Dreams. He won the Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration in 1993 for Black Ships Before Troy and the Best Artist Award at the World Fantasy Awards of 1998. Lee and John Howe were the lead artists of Peter Jackson's The Lord of ...

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Curt Weldon (born July 22, 1947) is an American politician. He has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1987, representing the Seventh Congressional District of Pennsylvania (map) . He is a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee. Weldon is the Vice-chair of the Armed Services Committee and the House Homeland Security Committee. He is also the co-chair of the Duma-Congress Study Group-- the official inter-parliamentary relationship between the United States and Russia. Including:

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Uli Edel (born April 11, 1947 in Neuenburg, Germany), German film director. After studying theatre science in Munich, he was accepted into Munich Film School alongside Bernd Eichinger. Uli befriended him and they started working together on their exercise movies, sharing a love for the nouvelle vague and Italian neorealism as well as popular US mainstream cinema. While still enrolled in film school Uli Edel started taking acting lessons. He wanted to know about the Stanislavski and Strasberg theories. After finishing the studies Uli worked as assistant director wit ...

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Victor F. Snyder (born September 27, 1947) is the Democratic United States Congressman from the 2nd Congressional District of Arkansas (map). Vic Snyder was born in Medford, Oregon. He is a graduate of Medford High School (1965) and attended college at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. After attending college for two years, in 1967 Snyder volunteered for the United States Marine Corps. He served in Vietnam with Headquarters Company of the US 1st Marine Division during the Vietnam War, attaining the rank of Corporal. Snyder earned a degree in Chemistry in 1975 from Willamette and earned his medical degree from th ...

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In January 2005, influential journalist and historian Peter C. Newman suggested that Ignatieff could be an ideal leadership candidate for the governing Liberal Party of Canada after Paul Martin retired as leader, which he did in his concession speech after the election on Janurary 23rd, 2006. Ignatieff was the keynote speaker at the Liberal Party's national biennial convention in Ottawa in early March 2005. ...

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As a drama practitioner, he argues in his book True and False against the practice of teaching drama students the method acting of Constantin Stanislavski, Lee Strasberg, Eric Morris or Jason Bennett. For Mamet, who is not an actor, time spent searching for emotion memory or considering character's biographies is time wasted, and he suspects that it is an academic bluff working to keep actors uncertain. He recommends a simple, honest style of acting, where the actor's job is to learn the lines, find their mark, and speak up simply. Work on charac ...

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He then moved onto coaching at the tender age of 32, starting at Haarlem and S.V.V. before becoming assistant to footballing legend Rinus Michels at the Dutch national team. He led the Dutch team to the quarter-finals of the 1994 World Cup as Head Coach in his first spell in charge (1992-1994). He then returned to coaching at club level at first with PSV where he won his first trophy as coach winning the Dutch Cup in 1996 and the Dutch League Championship a year later. In 1998 Advocaat accepted the call from Rangers chairman David Mur ...

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Dwight Schultz - Film. The First Men on the Moon (1999) Star Trek: First Contact (1996) Enola Gay and the Atomic Bombing of Japan (1995) The Temp (1993) Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) The Long Walk Home (1989) Alone in the Dark (1982) The Fan (1981) Dwight Schultz - Television. Star Trek: Voyager "Endgame, Part II" (2001) ...

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Edward Zander's career at Sun Microsystems began in 1987. Throughout the 1990s, he rose through the ranks, first taking the role of vice president of corporate marketing, and then becoming president of Sun's software division. In January 1998 he was promoted to COO (meanwhile Masood Jabbar took the role of President) and then to COO and President of Sun in April of 1999. Zander was responsible for Sun's seven product divisions which included engineering, product development, sales, service and marketing. ...

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Longfield was born in Timmins, Ontario. She graduated from North Bay Teacher's College, and was a community college teacher before taking time off to raise a family. She has also been a governor of the Trafalgar Castle School for Girls. She has been an organizer for the Liberal Party since 1965, and worked as an executive assistant to Ontario Liberal Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) Allan Furlong and Steve Mahoney before running for office herself. She was a field organizer for Jean Chrétien's leadership campaign in 1991, and ...

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After graduating from the University of South Florida with an engineering degree in 1976, Gallagher began working as Jim Stafford's road manager. Stafford and Gallagher went out to California in 1979 and Gallagher decided to take the stage himself. He began honing his own comedy act while hanging out at both The Comedy Store and the Ice House. Gallagher was one of the most popular and recognizeable American comedians during the 80s. He produced one special a year from 1981 to 1987, all of which were carried by Showtime cable network, and all of which were re-broadcast numerous times throughout the y ...

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