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DaviD LandeR (actor, comedian, musician, baseball scout)
1947 - 2020 Lander decided to become an actor when he was 10 years old. He attended the High School for the Performing Arts, and continued studying acting at Carnegie Tech and New York University. He took classes at Carnegie Mellon University where he met fellow actor Michael McKean. The two developed a comedy routine and created their characters Lenny and Squiggy. They became regulars on the tv series Laverne and Shirley from 1976 to 1982. In 1979 they release a music album as Lenny and the Squigtones, along with Christopher Guest on guitar. Lander went on to appear in numerous tv shows and movies. Lander aquired a small stake in the minor league baseball team the Portland (OR) Beavers. From there, he went on to be a talent scout for the Anaheim Angels, and then the Seattle Mariners. In 1984 he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. He died from that disease in 2020 at age 73.
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DaviD Jude Heyworth LaW
David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972) is an English actor. He began his career in theatre before landing small roles in various British television productions and feature films. Law gained recognition for his role in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Law found further critical and commercial success in Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition (2002), Minghella's Cold Mountain (2003), for which he earned Academy Award and BAFTA nominations, in addition to the drama Closer (2004) and the romantic comedy The Holiday (2006). His subsequent roles were as Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), a young Albus Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022), and Yon-Rogg in Captain Marvel (2019); all of which rank among his highest-grossing releases. Other notable films include Contagion (2011), Hugo (2011), Side Effects (2013), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Spy (2015), as well as the television series The Young Pope (2016), The New Pope (2020), and Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (2024).
In addition to his film work, Law has performed in several West End and Broadway productions including Les Parents terribles in 1994, Hamlet in 2010, and Anna Christie in 2011. These earned him nominations for two Tony Awards. He has also been awarded the Honorary César and was named a knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government.
Hidden Figures was a good movie. We enjoyed Jude Law in The Young Pope and The New Pope.
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Allen, we watched The Six Triple Eight last night. Big thumbs up. I knew there existed racism in the military, but the movie magnified what the ladies experienced in a way that was kinda horrific. The accomplishment of getting that backlog out to the troops was awesome and something I never knew happened. Good recommendation.
Dic K Wol F (Film Producer)
Best known for his Law & Order franchise. Since 1990, the franchise has included six police/courtroom dramas and four international spinoffs. He is also co-creator and executive producer of the Chicago franchise, which since 2012, has included four Chicago-based dramas, and the co-creator and executive producer of the FBI franchise, which since 2018, has also become a franchise after spinning off two additional series.
Wolf has also written four books. The first, the non-fiction volume Law & Order: Crime Scenes, is a companion to the Law & Order television series. The Intercept, The Execution, and The Ultimatum are works of fiction in a thriller series featuring an NYPD detective named Jeremy Fisk.
Personal note: I've not watched hardly any of the Law&Order franchise so I was unaware of the magnitude of this guy's work until now. I know that being a writer in Hollywood is tough business. My first-cousin Bill Wisher wanted to be an actor but turned to writing instead, was part of The Terminator franchise, and his biggest solo writing endeavor was the movie The 13th Warrior starring Antonio Banderas. After this, he never could hit anything out of the park and basically subsisted taking staff writing jobs just to pay the bills. I've had talks with him about his line of work and it's not for the faint of heart. So Dick Wolf is kind of a stand-out here. Here's a visual of his franchise:
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01-01-2025, 05:11 PM
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Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs
Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who supplied information from the American, British, and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after World War II. While at the Los Alamos Laboratory, Fuchs was responsible for many significant theoretical calculations relating to the first nuclear weapons and, later, early models of the hydrogen bomb. After his conviction in 1950, he served nine years in prison in the United Kingdom, then migrated to East Germany where he resumed his career as a physicist and scientific leader.
The son of a Lutheran pastor, Fuchs attended the University of Leipzig, where his father was a professor of theology, and became involved in student politics, joining the student branch of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), and the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, an SPD-allied paramilitary organisation. He was expelled from the SPD in 1932, and joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). He went into hiding after the 1933 Reichstag fire and the subsequent persecution of communists in Nazi Germany, and fled to the United Kingdom, where he received his PhD from the University of Bristol under the supervision of Nevill Francis Mott, and his DSc from the University of Edinburgh, where he worked as an assistant to Max Born.
After the Second World War broke out in Europe, he was interned in the Isle of Man, and later in Canada. After he returned to Britain in 1941, he became an assistant to Rudolf Peierls, working on "Tube Alloys"—the British atomic bomb project. He began passing information on the project to the Soviet Union through Ursula Kuczynski, codenamed "Sonya", a German communist and a major in Soviet military intelligence who had worked with Richard Sorge's spy ring in the Far East. In 1943, Fuchs and Peierls went to Columbia University, in New York City, to work on the Manhattan Project. In August 1944, Fuchs joined the Theoretical Physics Division at the Los Alamos Laboratory, working under Hans Bethe. His chief area of expertise was the problem of implosion, necessary for the development of the plutonium bomb. After the war, he returned to the UK and worked at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell as head of the Theoretical Physics Division.
In January 1950, Fuchs confessed that he had passed information to the Soviets over a seven-year period beginning in 1942. A British court sentenced him to fourteen years' imprisonment and he was subsequently stripped of his British citizenship. He was released in 1959, after serving nine years, and migrated to the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), where he was elected to the Academy of Sciences and became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) central committee. He was later appointed deputy director of the Central Institute for Nuclear Physics in Dresden, where he served until his retirement in 1979.
Post Cold War declassified information states that the Russians freely acknowledged that Fuchs gave them the fission bomb.
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DicK WolF (Film Producer)
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KarL FreunD (Cinematographer and film director)
1890 - 1969 Freund was born in Bohemia, and his family moved to Berlin when he was 11. In 1905 he was hired as an assistant projectionist by a German pioneer in silent films. In 1908 he moved to Austria and worked on over 100 films as a cinematographer. One of the films he worked on was Fritz Lange's Metropolis in 1927. Freund was a pioneer of the "unchained camera" technique, which freed the camera from the tripod and allowed it to move around the set. He came up with the technique of the handheld camera, and also putting cameras on tracks and booms and cranes. In 1929 he emigrated to the US, and filmed movies such as Dracula in 1931. In that movie, director Tod Browning left much of the directoral duties to Freund, making him an uncredited director. He was also the director for The Mummy with Boris Karloff, and Mad Love starring Peter Lorre. In 1944 he founded a company that manufactured TV cameras and exposure meters. In 1951 he connected with Desi Arnez and became the cinematographer for the tv series I Love Lucy. He designed the flat lighting system that became standard for shooting multi-camera sitcoms. He also worked on other tv shows at Desilu Studios, including Our Miss Brooks. He retired in 1960 and died in 1969 at age 79.
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01-02-2025, 08:04 AM
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Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs
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Chindog: Allen beat your answer by 11 minutes.
Sirha N Sirha N (Convicted Murderer of Robert Kennedy)
A Palestinian-Jordanian man who assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In 1989, Sirhan told British journalist David Frost: "My only connection with Robert Kennedy was his sole support of Israel and his deliberate attempt to send those 50 fighter jets to Israel to obviously do harm to the Palestinians."
As an adult, Sirhan changed church denominations several times, joining Baptist and Seventh-day Adventist churches. In 1966, he joined the esoteric organization Ancient Mystical Order of the Rose Cross, one of the Rosicrucian Orders.
Around 12:15 a.m. PDT on June 5, 1968, Sirhan fired a .22 LR Iver-Johnson Cadet revolver at United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the crowd surrounding him in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, shortly after Kennedy had finished addressing supporters in the hotel's main ballroom. Authors George Plimpton, Jimmy Breslin, Pete Hamill, former professional football player Rosey Grier, and 1960 Olympic gold medalist Rafer Johnson were among several men who subdued and disarmed Sirhan after a struggle.
In 1974, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn dedicated their communist manifesto Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism to Sirhan (along with 200 others), hailing him as a courageous political prisoner.
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Nolan North
Nolan North (born October 31, 1970) is an American actor best known for his voice acting roles.
After his breakthrough role as Dr. Chris Ramsey on the ABC soap opera Port Charles in 1997, North moved into voice acting when the show ended in 2003 and has since become best known for his video game roles as Nathan Drake in the Uncharted series, Desmond Miles in the Assassin's Creed series, Merasmus in Team Fortress 2, the Prince in Prince of Persia, Dr. Edward Richtofen in the Call of Duty franchise, Deadpool in various Marvel Comics media, the Penguin in the Batman: Arkham franchise, Captain Martin Walker in Spec Ops: The Line, David in The Last of Us, himself as one of the voices for the player character in Saints Row IV, Tony Stark in Marvel's Avengers, and Ghost in the Destiny video game series.
In animation, North voices Smokescreen on Transformers: Prime, Superboy on Young Justice, and the titular character in Blaze and the Monster Machine
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Napoleo N Hil L (Author)
He is best known for his book Think and Grow Rich (1937), which is among the best-selling self-help books of all time.[1][2] Hill's works insisted that fervid expectations are essential to improving one's life. Most of his books are promoted as expounding principles to achieve "success".
Hill is a controversial figure. Accused of fraud, modern historians also doubt many of his claims, such as that he met Andrew Carnegie and that he was an attorney.
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01-03-2025, 05:17 PM
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NaT LovE
Nat Love (June 14, 1854 – February 11, 1921) was an American cowboy and writer active in the period following the Civil War. His reported exploits have made him one of the more famous heroes of the Old West.
Nat Love was born into slavery on the plantation of Robert Love in Davidson County, Tennessee on June 14, 1854. His father was a slave foreman who worked in the plantation's fields, and his mother the manager of its kitchen. Love had two siblings: an older sister, Sally, and an older brother, Jordan.
Despite slavery-era statutes that outlawed black literacy, he learned to read and write as a child with the help of Sampson, his father. When slavery ended, Love's parents stayed on the Love plantation as sharecroppers, attempting to raise tobacco and corn on about 20 acres, but Sampson died shortly after the second crop was planted. Afterward, Nat took a second job working on a local farm to help make ends meet. At about this time, he was noted as having a gift for breaking horses. After some time of working extra odd jobs in the area, he won a horse in a raffle on two occasions, which he then sold back to the owner for $50 each time. He used the money to leave town, and at the age of 16, headed to the Western United States.
Love traveled to Dodge City, Kansas, where he found work as a cowboy with cattle drivers from the Duval Ranch (located on the Palo Duro River in the Texas Panhandle). According to his autobiography, Love fought cattle rustlers and endured inclement weather. He trained himself to become an expert marksman and cowboy, for which he earned from his co-workers the moniker Red River Dick. In 1872, Love moved to Arizona, where he found work at the Gallinger Ranch located along the Gila River.[4] He wrote in his autobiography that he met Pat Garrett, Bat Masterson, Billy the Kid, and others while working the cattle drives in Arizona.
After driving a herd of cattle to the rail head in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, he claimed to have entered a rodeo on the 4th of July in 1876, enticed by the $200 prize money. The only difficulty with this story is that Deadwood newspapers, which covered every event of the Fourth of July celebrations, make no mention of a rodeo that day. He claimed to have won the rope, throw, tie, bridle, saddle, and bronco riding contests. It was at this rodeo that he claims friends and fans gave him the nickname "Deadwood Dick",[ a reference to a literary character created by Edward Lytton Wheeler, a dime novelist of the day.
In October 1877, Nat Love wrote that he was captured by a band of Pima Indians while rounding up stray cattle near the Gila River in Arizona. Although he claimed to have received over 14 bullet wounds in his career (with "several" received in his fight with the Native Americans while trying to avoid capture), Love wrote that his life was spared because the Indians respected his heritage, a large portion of the band themselves being of mixed blood. He almost married the chief's daughter. The band of Native Americans nursed him back to health, wishing to adopt him into the tribe. Eventually, Love writes, he stole a pony and escaped into West Texas.
Love left the cowboy life before he settled down, and married a woman named Alice Owens, in Denver, Colorado, on August 2, 1888. They lived in Denver initially. He then took a job in 1890 as a Pullman porter, which involved overseeing sleeping cars on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. While working for the railroad, he and his family resided in several western states, before finally moving to southern California.
In 1907, Love published his autobiography titled Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle
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NapoleoN HilL (Author)
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1947 - 1983 Evans was the bass player for the band Badfinger. He co-wrote their 1970 song "Without You". The band was initially called The Ivey's, but they changed the name to Badfinger after the working title of the Beatles song With A Little Help From My Friends. The band was recording under the Apple records label, and got a boost from the Beatles Paul McCartney when he gave them a song he wrote called Come and Get It. McCartney also produced the song for them. In November 1983, Evans got into a heated argument with another bandmember over the royalties from the songwriting royalties for Without You. The next day, he committed suicide by hanging himself.
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Marvi N Eugene Smit H (American songwriter, executive and producer)
He is a former protege of Motown producer Norman Jesse Whitfield. He has been active in the music industry for 40 years.
His songs have been recorded by a diverse range of artists that include Jerry Butler ("The Devil in Mrs. Jones" Motown 1977) to Rose Royce ("You're A Winner" Whitfield-Warner 1980, "Somehow We Made It Through the Rain" Epic 1981) to Trey Songz ("Gotta Go" Capital 2004) to Charlie Wilson ("There Goes My Baby" BMG 2009) to Mario, Chris Brown and Nicki Minaj ("Somebody Else" RCA 2013).
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ToM EvanS (musician)
NathanieL HawthornE
Nathaniel Hawthorne ( July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion.
He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, from a family long associated with that town. Hawthorne entered Bowdoin College in 1821, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1824, and graduated in 1825. He published his first work in 1828, the novel Fanshawe; he later tried to suppress it, feeling that it was not equal to the standard of his later work. He published several short stories in periodicals, which he collected in 1837 as Twice-Told Tales. The following year, he became engaged to Sophia Peabody. He worked at the Boston Custom House and joined Brook Farm, a transcendentalist community, before marrying Peabody in 1842. The couple moved to The Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts, later moving to Salem, the Berkshires, then to The Wayside in Concord. The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850, followed by a succession of other novels. A political appointment as consul took Hawthorne and family to Europe before their return to Concord in 1860. Hawthorne died on May 19, 1864.
Much of Hawthorne's writing centers on New England, and many works feature moral metaphors with an anti-Puritan inspiration. His fiction works are considered part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, dark romanticism. His themes often center on the inherent evil and sin of humanity, and his works often have moral messages and deep psychological complexity. His published works include novels, short stories, and a biography of his college friend Franklin Pierce, written for his 1852 campaign for President of the United States, which Pierce won, becoming the 14th president.
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LilI ElbE (thought she was a woman, but she was another man)
1882 - 1931 Elbe was born in Denmark as Einer Wegener, a male. While in college studying art in 1904 in Denmark, he married Gerda Gottlieb, an artist who illustrated books and fashion magazines. Einer became a painter specializing in landscapes. Einer filled in as a fashion model for Gerda's drawings and decided he liked dressing in women's clothing. In 1912, the couple moved to Paris, and Einer began posing as Gerda's sister, and dressed as a woman. In the 1920's, Einer changed his name to Lili Elbe, and Gerda became somewhat famous for her paintings of beautiful women dressed in chic clothing. Elbe was the model for these paintings. In 1930, he decided he wanted to be able to get pregnant, so he began a series of surgeries to remove his man parts and implant a uterus and construct a vaginal canal. The case was a sensation in Danish and German newspapers, and a Danish court annulled the marriage to Gerda. Elba was the second transgender person to undergo vaginoplasty surgery, a few weeks after Dora Richter did it in 1931. The uterine transplant did not go well, and Elba's body rejected it, causing an infection that he ultimately died from.
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01-05-2025, 09:08 AM
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Ia N Evan S (historian, knew he was a man)
An Australian author, publisher and historian. Evans discovered the use of deliberately concealed objects to protect Australian houses and other buildings from evil spiritual forces in the period 1788-1935. The author of books on the history and conservation of old Australian houses, Evans contributed to the growth of the heritage movement that spread throughout Australia in the 1980s. His first book, Restoring Old Houses is credited with having stimulated the movement.
In 2010, Evans received a PhD from the University of Newcastle for his thesis on this topic. Entitled "Touching Magic: Deliberately Concealed Objects in old Australian Houses and Buildings". From 2017-2019, Evans conducted the Tasmanian Magic Project, looking for apotropaic marks like hexafoils and burn marks at numerous historic properties in Tasmania's Midlands and in the Western Districts of Victoria Southern Midlands.
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