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04-25-2024, 05:18 PM
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TaD DorgaN (cartoonist)
Don Nelson
Don Nelson s an American former professional basketball player and head coach. Nelson is second all-time in regular season wins of any coach in NBA history, with 1,335 (he held the record for most wins for almost 12 years before he was surpassed by Gregg Popovich in 2022). He coached the Milwaukee Bucks, the New York Knicks, the Dallas Mavericks, and the Golden State Warriors. After an All-American career at the University of Iowa, Nelson won five NBA championships playing with the Boston Celtics, with his number 19 retired by the franchise in 1978.
His unique brand of basketball is often referred to as "Nellie Ball". A coaching innovator, Nelson is credited with, among other things, pioneering the concept of the point forward, a tactic which is frequently employed by teams at every level today. He was named one of the Top 10 coaches in NBA history.
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04-26-2024, 09:34 AM
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TaD DorgaN (cartoonist)
Born in 1877 as one of 11 children. His brother John was publicity manager for Madison Square Garden, and another brother, Richard, was an illustrator and cartoonist. Tad lost several fingers in an accident when he was a child, and took up drawing as therapy. At age 14, he joined the art staff of the San Francisco Bulliten. In 1902, he created his first comic strip, Johnny Wise. By 1905 he was working in New York City at the New York Journal as a sports writer and cartoonist. Jack Dempsey described him as the greatest authority on boxing. His main claim to fame came from his creation of slang that became popular. Words and phrases he created or popularized include: Dumbbell, for crying out loud, cat's meow and cat's pajamas, skimmer (hat), drugstore cowboy, as busy as a one armed paper hanger, and Yes, we have no banana's (which was turned into a popular song). Funk and Wagnall's dictionary placed him in the top 10 of America's most fecund makers of slang. He died in 1929 at age 52 of heart disease hastened by pneumonia.
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Ha.. that was cool. Good one!
NevillE DukE (British test pilot and fighter ace of the Second World War)
He started working as an auctioneer and estate agent before attempting to join the Fleet Air Arm on his 18th birthday. He was rejected and joined the RAF instead as a cadet in June 1940. On 30 November 1941, Duke was shot down by the high scoring German ace Oberfeldwebel Otto Schulz from Jagdgeschwader 27. On 5 December, he was again shot down by a pilot from JG 27 and wounded by splinters in the leg. He managed to crash-land near Tobruk and was sent back to Cairo in a Blenheim for a rest. However, his own tally of victories continued to mount and, after the squadron was re-equipped with the more capable Curtiss Kittyhawk, by February 1942, Duke had at least eight victories, resulting in the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) in March.
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04-26-2024, 05:15 PM
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NevillE DukE (British test pilot and fighter ace of the Second World War)
Edward England (Pirate)
Edward England was an Irish pirate. The ships he sailed on included the Pearl (which he renamed The Royal James) and later the Fancy, for which England exchanged the Pearl in 1720. His flag was the classic Jolly Roger — almost exactly as the one "Black Sam" Bellamy used — with a human skull above two crossed bones on a black background. Like Bellamy, England was known for his kindness and compassion as a leader, unlike many other pirates of the time.
England was born Edward Seegar in Ireland around 1685. He took part in Henry Jennings' expedition for the sunken 1715 Treasure Fleet off the coast of Florida, and then began sailing with Charles Vane in 1718. Upon Vane and other prominent pirates accepting the King's Pardon, England and some of his men sailed for Africa. Along his way he spawned the career of Bartholomew Roberts, among others. In 1720, near the African island of Comoros, England and his men got into a violent conflict with James Macrae. After 10 days of hiding on an island, England and Macrae agreed to a peace deal, upsetting England's crew; he was subsequently voted out as captain and marooned on the island of Mauritius. After four months, England and the loyal crewman that had been stranded with him managed to build a boat and sail to a pirate safe haven in Madagascar. He died sometime in the winter of 1720–21, possibly from tropical disease.
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04-26-2024, 08:52 PM
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NevillE DukE (British test pilot and fighter ace of the Second World War)
Edward England (Pirate)
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Ah, the dreaded pirate Roberts!
DonalD DuncaN (entrepreneur and inventor)
1892 - 1971 You've played with his toys. He is founder of Duncan Toys that marketed the Yo-Yo and made it a commercial success, although he didn't invent it. He also founded other companies, including a parking meter manufacturing firm, and the Good Humor frozen treats franchise. He is credited with creating the "incentive premium" concept, where customers collected boxtops or proofs of purchase to redeem for rewards. He died of a stroke in 1971. His birthday, June 6, has been immortalized as National Yo-Yo Day.
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04-27-2024, 08:15 AM
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Ah, the dreaded pirate Roberts!
DonalD DuncaN (entrepreneur and inventor)
1892 - 1971 You've played with his toys. He is founder of Duncan Toys that marketed the Yo-Yo and made it a commercial success, although he didn't invent it. He also founded other companies, including a parking meter manufacturing firm, and the Good Humor frozen treats franchise. He is credited with creating the "incentive premium" concept, where customers collected boxtops or proofs of purchase to redeem for rewards. He died of a stroke in 1971. His birthday, June 6, has been immortalized as National Yo-Yo Day.
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NelsoN S. DilwortH (American farmer)
Dilworth sponsored legislation to prevent Communists from employment in the state government. He also introduced legislation that removed the US Communist Party from the ballot in California. Dilworth authored the Fourth Report of the Senate Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities, 1948: Communist Front Organizations.
Dilworth is quoted as saying, "It is going to be hard to save America from those who are pushing us and taxing us downhill into a form of state socialism. And there is no time to lose."
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04-27-2024, 04:56 PM
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NelsoN S. DilwortH (American farmer)
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NoeL HaggarD (musician)
Born in 1963, he is the son of country music star Merle Haggard. He was in his dad's backup band, and still plays with them.
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04-27-2024, 05:09 PM
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NoeL HaggarD (musician)
Leo Durocher
Leo Durocher was an American professional baseball player, manager and coach. He played in Major League Baseball as an infielder. Upon his retirement, he ranked fifth all-time among managers with 2,008 career victories, second only to John McGraw in National League history. Durocher still ranks twelfth in career wins by a manager. A controversial and outspoken character, Durocher's half-century in baseball was dogged by clashes with authority, the baseball commissioner, the press, and umpires; his 95 career ejections as a manager trailed only McGraw when he retired, and still ranks fourth on the all-time list. He won three National League pennants and one world championship.
Durocher was posthumously elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994.
In his first season as player-manager, Durocher came into his own. The most enduring image of Durocher is of him standing toe-to-toe with an umpire, vehemently arguing his case until his inevitable ejection from the game. Durocher's fiery temper and willingness to scrap came to epitomize the position for which he was to become most famous. Earning him the nickname "Leo the Lip" and "Lippy".
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04-28-2024, 07:23 AM
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NoeL HaggarD (musician)
Leo Durocher
Leo Durocher was an American professional baseball player, manager and coach. He played in Major League Baseball as an infielder. Upon his retirement, he ranked fifth all-time among managers with 2,008 career victories, second only to John McGraw in National League history. Durocher still ranks twelfth in career wins by a manager. A controversial and outspoken character, Durocher's half-century in baseball was dogged by clashes with authority, the baseball commissioner, the press, and umpires; his 95 career ejections as a manager trailed only McGraw when he retired, and still ranks fourth on the all-time list. He won three National League pennants and one world championship.
Durocher was posthumously elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994.
In his first season as player-manager, Durocher came into his own. The most enduring image of Durocher is of him standing toe-to-toe with an umpire, vehemently arguing his case until his inevitable ejection from the game. Durocher's fiery temper and willingness to scrap came to epitomize the position for which he was to become most famous. Earning him the nickname "Leo the Lip" and "Lippy".
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OtiS ReddinG (Musician)
Just sittin' on the dock of the bay, watching the tide roll away. Nicknamed the "King of Soul", Redding's style of singing gained inspiration from the gospel music that preceded the genre. His singing style influenced many other soul artists of the 1960s.
On December 9 1967, the band was traveling to performances in Redding's Beechcraft H18 airplane. Although the weather was poor, with heavy rain and fog, and despite warnings, the plane took off. Four miles from their destination at Truax Field in Madison, pilot Richard Fraser radioed for permission to land. Shortly thereafter, the plane crashed into Lake Monona. Ben Cauley, the accident's only survivor, was sleeping shortly before the accident. He woke just before impact to see bandmate Phalon Jones look out a window and exclaim, "Oh, no!" Cauley said the last thing he remembered before the crash was unbuckling his seat belt. He then found himself in frigid water, grasping a seat cushion to keep afloat. As a non-swimmer, he was unable to rescue the others. The cause of the crash was never determined.
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04-28-2024, 05:05 PM
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OtiS ReddinG (Musician)
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Famous musicians should never travel on small planes. They don't have a good track record.
StaN GetZ (musician)
American jazz saxaphonist, he came to prominence playing with Woody Herman's big band in the 1940's. He helped popularize bossa nova with the 1964 song The Girl From Ipanema. He died in 1991 from liver cancer, and he was cremated and his ashes poured from his saxaphone into the ocean off the coast of Marina Del Rey, California.
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04-29-2024, 07:32 AM
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Famous musicians should never travel on small planes. They don't have a good track record.
StaN GetZ (musician)
American jazz saxaphonist, he came to prominence playing with Woody Herman's big band in the 1940's. He helped popularize bossa nova with the 1964 song The Girl From Ipanema. He died in 1991 from liver cancer, and he was cremated and his ashes poured from his saxaphone into the ocean off the coast of Marina Del Rey, California.
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NikolaI Vladimirovich ZateyeV (Submariner Captain, USSR)
Commander of the Soviet submarine K-19 in July 1961 during the Hotel class submarine's nuclear-reactor coolant leak. Zateyev and the actions of his crew managed to avert disaster, despite severe radiation exposure. After the event, Zateyev and his crew were sworn to secrecy by the Soviet government regarding the events that transpired and were only permitted to reveal the story after its collapse. Zateyev later released his memoirs on the event, which were used as the basis for a number of literary works on the disaster, as well as a 2002 documentary and film.
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04-29-2024, 05:14 PM
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NikolaI Vladimirovich ZateyeV (Submariner Captain, USSR)
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IrenE VernoN (actress)
She was born Irene Vergauwen in 1922. She began her acting career with several uncredited roles in movies in the 1940's. In the 1950's she switched to television and guest starred in many different shows including The Lone Ranger, Dennis the Menace, Danger, Flight, and The Donna Reed Show. In the 1960's, she began playing Louise Tate on Bewitched. She was a friend of show writer Danny Arnold, and when he left the show Vernon was pressured to leave by Elizabeth Montgomery and her husband and show director William Asher. She left the show in 1966. She died in 1998 of heart disease at age 76.
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04-29-2024, 05:22 PM
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IrenE VernoN (actress)
Emmy Noether (mathematician)
Emmy Noether was a German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra. She proved Noether's first and second theorems, which are fundamental in mathematical physics. She was described by Pavel Alexandrov, Albert Einstein, Jean Dieudonné, Hermann Weyl and Norbert Wiener as the most important woman in the history of mathematics. As one of the leading mathematicians of her time, she developed theories of rings, fields, and algebras. In physics, Noether's theorem explains the connection between symmetry and conservation laws.
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04-30-2024, 07:37 AM
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IrenE VernoN (actress)
Emmy Noether (mathematician)
Emmy Noether was a German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra. She proved Noether's first and second theorems, which are fundamental in mathematical physics. She was described by Pavel Alexandrov, Albert Einstein, Jean Dieudonné, Hermann Weyl and Norbert Wiener as the most important woman in the history of mathematics. As one of the leading mathematicians of her time, she developed theories of rings, fields, and algebras. In physics, Noether's theorem explains the connection between symmetry and conservation laws.
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RoberT YounG (Actor, best remembered Father Knows Best)
Young is most remembered as the affable insurance salesman in the long-running popular sitcom Father Knows Best (1949–1954 on radio, 1954–1960 on television), for which he and his co-star Jane Wyatt won several Emmy Awards. Young's final television series was Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969–1976), co-starring a young James Brolin. This show earned an Emmy for Young, for best leading actor in a drama series.
This part, I did not know: Despite his trademark portrayal of happy, well-adjusted characters, Young's bitterness toward Hollywood casting practices never diminished, and he suffered from depression and alcoholism, culminating in a suicide attempt in January 1991.
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04-30-2024, 04:05 PM
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I remember that suicide attempt. Then he got better.
TenziN GyatsO (religious leader)
I did not know he actually had a name, but he is the 14th Dalai Lama, the head of Tibetan Buddhism. Born in 1935 in China, he was enthroned when he was 5 years old. He assumed full political duties when he was 15. In 1959, China annexed Tibet, and the Dalai Lama fled to India where he resides in exile. He retired as political head of the Tibetan government in 2011 to make way for a democratic government, but remains as spiritual leader. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. He is currently 89 years old.
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