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Syria This article is part of the series: Politics and government of Syria President Prime Minister Political parties Elections edit Assad speaks fluent English and French, having studied at the Franco-Arab al-Hurriyet elite school in Damascus (the Syrian capital), before going on to medical school there at the University of Damascus Faculty of Medicine. He then went on to get a subspeciality training in the field of ophthalmology in London's academic hospitals. He is married to Asma' al-Akhras, a Syria ...

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Bashar al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad - Personal, Bashar al-Assad - Foreign relations, Bashar al-Assad - Internal power struggle, Bashar al-Assad - 2005 Lebanon crisis, Bashar al-Assad - Family

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Douglas lost both her parents to separate cases of cancer. She was awarded the first-ever Jim V Foundation Comeback of the Year Award in 2001 for her perseverance after a string of tragic, personal losses. [1] One week after the 2005 WNBA Finals loss to the Sacramento Monarchs, Douglas married Vasilis Giapalakis in Athens, Greece. Giapalakis is a sports agent who represents male and female basketball players. Douglas, who played for a Lithuanian basketball team in the WNBA offseason, met Giapala ...

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Katie Douglas, Katie Douglas - Purdue University, Katie Douglas - WNBA career, Katie Douglas - Personal, Katie Douglas - Vital statistics

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When he was 14 years old, Culkin's career was short cut thanks to a bitter custody battle between his mother and father. His father, Kit Culkin, had been Macaulay's manager and was widely known for being the stereotypically aggressive "showbiz parent." Culkin is the nephew of actress Bonnie Bedelia. Culkin married actress Rachel Miner on June 21, 1998. They were divorced on August 5, 2000. Around 2003, the time of release of the films Party Monster and Saved!, much speculation was given on Macaulay's sexual preference, mainly due to the fact that both films had some sort of gay conte ...

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Macaulay Culkin, Macaulay Culkin - Personal, Macaulay Culkin - Career, Macaulay Culkin - Filmography

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On 08/27/1994 Martin married lingerie designer Suzanne Boisvert, and has two daughters with her: Viva Lee Gore (b. 6 June 1991) and Ava Lee Gore (b. July 1995). He also has a Son Kalo born July 27, 2002 Shortly before Martin and his Texan girlfriend Suzanne were about to have a child, Martin's mother one night had a few drinks and talked to him. Martin was told that his birth-father was actually an American G.I., and was black.. Martin was shocked, because the man he always thought was his father growing up wasn't. Martin's mother tho ...

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Martin Gore, Martin Gore - Personal, Martin Gore - Solo discography, Martin Gore - Singles, Martin Gore - Depeche Mode songs with Martin on lead vocals, Martin Gore - Duet, Martin Gore - Live

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An Army veteran, former undercover narcotics cop and black belt in tae kwon do, Kerik published in 2001 a memoir, The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice, in which he described how he came from a broken home in Newark, New Jersey. In the book, he said his parents divorced when he was 3 and his mother, an alcoholic and prostitute, was murdered when he was 4. Kerik was declared bankrupt in March 1988, but today he is a multimillionaire, the result of a lucrative partnership with former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and an even more profitable ...

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Bernard Kerik, Bernard Kerik - Personal, Bernard Kerik - Military and police experience, Bernard Kerik - Commissioner of NYC Department of Correction, Bernard Kerik - New York City Police Commissioner, Bernard Kerik - Consulting work, Bernard Kerik - Nomination as Secretary of Homeland Security, Bernard Kerik - Bibliography

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Mia Farrow was stricken with polio as a youngster and spent a year in an iron lung. Farrow married Frank Sinatra on July 19, 1966, when she was only 21, and he was 50. While she was filming Rosemary's Baby with director Roman Polanski, Sinatra served her divorce papers in front of the cast and crew. The move came as a shock to Mia, who did not think Frank would divorce her because she had refused his prior demand that she quit filming in order to work on his movie, The Detective. T ...

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Mia Farrow, Mia Farrow - Personal, Mia Farrow - Trivia, Mia Farrow - Filmography, Mia Farrow - TV Work

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Burgess was born in Rochester, Minnesota and graduated from North Texas State University. He graduated from the medical school at the University of Texas in Houston and completed a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. Burgess worked in Obstetrics and Gynaecology for over 20 years, delivering over 3000 babies in North Texas, including Paul LeBon and his children (Burgess would ...

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Michael C. Burgess, Michael C. Burgess - Personal, Michael C. Burgess - Political career

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Assad speaks fluent English and French, having studied at the Franco-Arab al-Hurriyet elite school in Damascus (the Syrian capital), before going on to medical school there at the University of Damascus Faculty of Medicine. He then went on to get a subspeciality training in the field of ophthalmology in London's academic hospitals. He is married to Asma' al-Akhras, a Syrian Sunni Muslim whom he met in Great Britain. The al-Assad family are members of the minority muslim Alawite group, and members of that group have been prominent in t ...

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Bashar al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad - Personal, Bashar al-Assad - Foreign relations, Bashar al-Assad - Internal power struggle, Bashar al-Assad - 2005 Lebanon crisis, Bashar al-Assad - Family

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She grew up in a basketball family. Her father, William Wolters, is in the Boston College Hall of Fame and played professional basketball for the Seattle SuperSonics in the NBA. Her brother, Ray, played at Assumption College and Eastern Connecticut State University, and her sister, Kristen, was a standout player at the University of Rhode Island. She formed the "Kara Kares Foundation", which supports brain tumor research. ...

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Kara Wolters, Kara Wolters - Personal, Kara Wolters - University of Connecticut, Kara Wolters - WNBA Career, Kara Wolters - International Competition, Kara Wolters - Trivia

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As a young boy, 'Frank' Parkman was found to be of poor health, and was sent to live with his maternal grandfather, who owned a 3000 acre (12 km²) tract of wilderness in nearby Medford, Massachusetts, in the hopes that a more rustic lifestyle would sturdy him up some. In the four years he stayed there, Parkman developed his love of the forests, which would animate his historical research. Indeed, he would later summarize his books as "the history of the American forest." He learned how to sleep and hunt, and could survive in the wilderness like a true pioneer. He later even learned to ride bareback, a skill that would come in handy ...

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Francis Parkman, Francis Parkman - Personal, Francis Parkman - Selected works

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In 1997 Scott had a much-publicized battle with testicular cancer. He made a return to skating after his treatment and his story was featured in magazines and on television. It was also announced on November 12, 2004 that Scott has a benign brain tumor, which was treated at the Cleveland Clinic. On November 14, 2002 he married Tracie Robinson, a nutritionist. The couple have one child, Aidan McIntosh (born September 16, 2003). ...

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Scott Hamilton, Scott Hamilton - Childhood, Scott Hamilton - Career, Scott Hamilton - Personal, Scott Hamilton - Navigation

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Richard Pryor was married seven times to five different women: Patricia Price (1960 - ?) (divorced) 1 child Shelly Bonus (1967 - 1969) (divorced) 1 child Deborah McGuire (22 September 1977 - 1979) (divorced) 1 child Jennifer Lee (August 1981 - October 1982) (divorced) Flynn Belaine (October 1986 - January 1987) (divorced) Flynn Belaine (1 April 1990 - ?) (divorced) Jennifer Lee (June 2 ...

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Richard Pryor, Richard Pryor - Early life and career, Richard Pryor - Mainstream success, Richard Pryor - The freebasing incident and its aftermath, Richard Pryor - Later life, Richard Pryor - Death, Richard Pryor - Remembrance and legacy, Richard Pryor - Personal, Richard Pryor - Discography, Richard Pryor - Compilations and repackagings, Richard Pryor - Filmography

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Rounds, the oldest of eleven children, was born in Huron, South Dakota and has lived in Pierre, the state capital, since he was three. Several members of the Rounds family have been involved in state government. His father, Don Rounds, worked at various times as state director of highway safety, a staffer for Rural Electrification Administration, and executive director of the South Dakota Petroleum Council. Rounds' brother, Tim Rounds, is a member of the South Dakota State Legislature represen ...

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Mike Rounds, Mike Rounds - Personal, Mike Rounds - Political, Mike Rounds - State Senator, Mike Rounds - 2002 Gubernatorial Election, Mike Rounds - Political Future, Mike Rounds - Rounds Administration

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Both during and after his racing career Prost received many honours, including: Legion d'Honneur (France, 1985), the Champion of Champions award (Grand Prix Former Drivers' Club, 1988), an OBE (Britain, 1993), and induction into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame (1999). Throughout his career Prost also earned a set of nicknames; "The Professor" and "The Calculator" (owing to his smooth driving style - which strongly contrasted with more dramatic drivers such as Senna, and his carefully considered approach to race tactics), "The King of Rio" (Prost won six times in Brazil; five in Rio de Janeiro) and "Fast ...

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Alain Prost, Alain Prost - Formula 1, Alain Prost - Renault, Alain Prost - McLaren, Alain Prost - Prost and Senna, Alain Prost - Ferrari, Alain Prost - Williams, Alain Prost - Prost Grand Prix, Alain Prost - Personal, Alain Prost - Resources, Alain Prost - External link

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A baptized Roman Catholic, she attended Sacred Heart schools in St. Louis, and received her bachelor's degree Phi Beta Kappa from Washington University. She also received a master's degree from Harvard, and an LLB from the Washington University School of Law. She was married to the late J(ohn) Frederic Schlafly, Jr., a prominent lawyer, and has six children. As a controversial figure, she attracts attention. For example, in 1992, gay activist Michelangelo Signorile outed her eldest son, John Schlafly, as a homosexual. John did not deny this revelation of his sexual orientation, but still wo ...

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Phyllis Schlafly, Phyllis Schlafly - 'Stop ERA', Phyllis Schlafly - Career, Phyllis Schlafly - Personal, Phyllis Schlafly - Published works

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His well-respected Ghanaian first wife, Sally (née Hayfron, born 1933), died in 1992, from a chronic kidney ailment (their only son died at age 4, while Mugabe was in prison). About two years before, Mugabe had married his former secretary, Grace Marufu, 40 years his junior and with whom he already had two children, in a tribal ceremony. Mugabe justified the marriage under a traditional African l ...

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Robert Mugabe, Robert Mugabe - Early life, Robert Mugabe - Anti-colonial conflict, Robert Mugabe - Prime Minister then Executive President, Robert Mugabe - Social programmes, Robert Mugabe - Land reforms, Robert Mugabe - 2000 referendum, Robert Mugabe - Elections, Robert Mugabe - Foreign opposition to Mugabe, Robert Mugabe - Succession, Robert Mugabe - Personal, Robert Mugabe - Contemporaries, Robert Mugabe - Events, Robert Mugabe - Parties, Robert Mugabe - Reference

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He and actress Sondra Kerr were married in 1964 and divorced in 1983. They had two children, actor Noah Blake (born 1965) and Delinah Blake (born 1967). Robert Blake actor - Bonnie Lee Bakley. In 1999, Blake met Bonnie Lee Bakley, reportedly a woman with a very shady past. She was seeing Christian Brando, son of Marlon Brando, before becoming acquainted with Blake. She then had a baby, Rose Lenore Sophia (born June 2, 2000). Blake and Bakley married November 19, 2000 after DNA tests proved that he was in fact the biological father ...

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Robert Blake actor, Robert Blake actor - Early years, Robert Blake actor - Film career, Robert Blake actor - As a child actor, Robert Blake actor - As an adult actor, Robert Blake actor - Personal, Robert Blake actor - Bonnie Lee Bakley, Robert Blake actor - Notes

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Powell was married three times. His first wife was nightclub entertainer Isabelle Washington (sister of actress Fredi Washington). Together they had adopted son Preston. Powell and his second wife, Hazel Scott, had a son, Adam Clayton Powell III. ACP III is a visiting professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. Powell and his third wife, Puerto Rican Yvette Diago Powell, had son Adam Clayton Powell Diago. This son changed is name to Adam Clayton Powell IV (and started con ...

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Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Adam Clayton Powell Jr. - Early years, Adam Clayton Powell Jr. - Congressman, Adam Clayton Powell Jr. - Personal

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Saddam married Sajida Talfah in 1958. Sajida is the daughter of Khairallah Talfah, Saddam's uncle and mentor. Their marriage was arranged when Saddam was 5 and Sajida was 7, however, the two didn't meet until their wedding; they were married in Egypt during his exile. They had two sons (Uday and Qusay) and three daughters, Rana, Raghad and Hala. Uday controlled the media, and was named Journalist of the Century by the Iraqi Union of Journalists. Qusay ran the elite Republican Guard, and was considered Saddam's heir. Both brothers made a fort ...

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Saddam Hussein, Saddam Hussein - Youth, Saddam Hussein - Consolidation of power, Saddam Hussein - Modernization, Saddam Hussein - Succession, Saddam Hussein - Saddam Hussein as a secular leader, Saddam Hussein - Foreign affairs, Saddam Hussein - The Iran-Iraq War 1980–1988, Saddam Hussein - Tensions with Kuwait, Saddam Hussein - The Persian Gulf War, Saddam Hussein - Gulf War aftermath, Saddam Hussein - 1991-2003, Saddam Hussein - 2003 Invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein - Pursuit and capture, Saddam Hussein - Trials, Saddam Hussein - Personal, Saddam Hussein - Notes

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