Marvin Camras (1916–1995) was an electrical engineer and inventor who was widely influential in the field of magnetic recording. Camras built his first recording device, a wire recorder, in the 1930s for a cousin who was an aspiring singer. Shortly afterwards he discovered that using magnetic tape made the process of splicing and storing recordings easier. Camras's work attracted the notice of his professors at what is now Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and was offered a position at Armour Research Foundation (which merged with Lewis Institute in 1940 to become IIT) to develop his work. Before and during World War II Camras' early wire recorders were used by the armed forces to train pilots. They were also used for disinformation purposes: battle sounds were recorded and amplified and the recordings placed where the D-Day invasion was not going to take place. This work was kept secret until after the war. In June 1944 he was awarded U.S. Patent 2,351,004, titled \"Method and Means of Magnetic Recording\". In all, Camras received more than 500 patents, largely in the field of electronic communications. Camras received a bachelor's degree in 1940 and a master's degree in 1942, both in electrical engineering, from IIT. In 1968, the institution awarded him an honorary doctorate. In May 1962 Camras wrote a predictive paper titled \"Magnetic recording and reproduction - 2012 A.D.\". In his paper Camras predicted the existence of mass-produced portable media players he described as memory packs the size of a package of playing cards holding up to 1020 bits of information. Such devices would not have any mechanically moving parts and would store both sound and movies. He also predicted music and movie downloads, online shopping, access to online encyclopedias and newspapers and the widespread use of online banking transactions. In recognition of his achievements, he received the National Medal of Technology award in 1990. Marvin Camras died of kidney failure at the age of 79 in Evanston, Illinois.


Georges Meyer-Darcis, full name Georg Gottlieb August Meyer-Darcis (or Meyer Darcis) (12 September 1860 in Wohlen – 3 January 1913 in Florence) was a Swiss botanist and entomologist. Georges Meyer-Darcis was the son of a world-famous straw goods manufacturer (Sogin & Meyer). From 1875 to 1878 he was educated in the Technical Department of the cantonal school in Aarau. Encouraged by Professor Mühlberg, he collected rare plants and insects with his friend Samuel Döbeli. After a commercial apprenticeship in Geneva, he managed the straw goods factory. In Geneva, he collected insects in his spare time, encouraged by the curator of the Entomological collections of the University of Geneva Dr. Emil Frey-Gessner (1826–1917). In addition to his own collections, he purchased world Coleoptera and plant collections, including one by Johann Luzi Krättli (1812–1903), which he then presented to the Botanical Museum of the University of Zurich. Some parts of his beetle collection were sold to the French entomologist René Oberthür and are now preserved in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris.


Robson Moura Fonseca is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu competitor, instructor and a mixed martial artist. He started training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at the age of 10 in Teresópolis, Brazil. His first Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu teacher was Ailson \"Jucão\" Brites, though Moura attained the rank of black belt at the age of 18 from Nova União co-founder Andre Pederneiras. Today Moura holds a 5th degree black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Professor Brites. He has a mixed martial arts record of 2-1-1. Moura is known for his innovative style and ever-evolving technique in the world of jiu-jitsu. He won his division in the BJJ Mundials from 1996 through 2000, and again in 2007. He is recognized by the IBJJF, CBJJF & CBJJO. Having established and taught at academies in Brazil, he runs his Robson Moura Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Academy at 11220 W. Hillsborough, Tampa, Florida. In addition to his position as Head Instructor at RMNU Headquarters in Tampa, Florida, Moura directs additional academies in Brazil that are run by his black belt instructors. Moura travels frequently across the country sharing his knowledge and experience with other jiu jitsu players. In 2008, he established the Robson Moura Association, with over 45 affiliates around the world. He continues to compete, recently winning his division at the Rickson Gracie Invitational, and competing at Polaris and the Abu Dhabi World Pro in 2016..


Anna Styazhkina (born 5 July 1997) is a Russian chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master (WIM). She won the under 10 girls' section of the World Youth Chess Championship in 2007 and the under 16 girls' in 2012.She was the runner-up at the World U12 Girls' Championship in 2009 and at the World U14 Girls' Championship in 2011. Styazhkina also won the U12 Girls' division of the European Youth Chess Championship in 2008 and the U16 Girls' in 2013. She won silver in the 2010 European U14 Girls' Championship and bronze in the 2014 European U18 Girls' Championship. She played for \"Peter Rook 1\" team that took first place in the 2015 Russian Youth Team Championship. In this competition she also won the prize for the best female player, thanks to her 8.5/9 score and a 2485 performance rating. In 2016 she won the Women's Saint Petersburg Chess Championship. She comes from a chess family: her father Viacheslav is an International Master and Peter Svidler's first trainer, and her mother Olga is a Woman Grandmaster.


Wang Maozhai (1862–1940) was one of Wu Quanyou's of Wu-style t'ai chi ch'uan three primary disciples. When Wu Quanyou's son Wu Chien-ch'uan (Wu Jianquan) moved from Beijing to Shanghai in 1928 he remained to lead the Wu-style Beijing group. He was the founder of the Beijing Tai Miao t'ai chi ch'uan Research Centre. In 1929, the first documentary book on Wu-style t'ai chi 'The record of Wu Style Tai Chi Chuan' was published by Wu Chien-ch'uan, Wang Maozhai and Guo Fen. His primary disciple was Yang Yuting. The beginnings of Wu-style were created by a Manchurian named Wu Quanyou (1834–1902). Wu was a student of Yang Luchan, (founder of the Yang style), and Yang Banhou. Wu Quanyou’s son, Wu Jianquan (1870–1942), loved martial arts from his youth and studied under the tutorship of his father. After 1912 he continuously developed the teaching t'ai chi ch'uan at the Beijing Sport Research Society, gradually refining his father’s style to what is currently recognised as Wu-style.


George M. Kerns (1871-1941 or 1942) was an architect in Iowa. He was born in Moline, Illinois. He opened private practice in Ottumwa, Iowa in 1902. A number of his works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Works include (with spelling and other variations in attribution): \n* B'nai Jacob Synagogue, 529 E. Main, Ottumwa, IA (Kerns, George M.), NRHP-listed  \n* One or more works in Court Hill Historic District, 111 E. Court and 407-1004 N. Court Sts., Ottumwa, IA (Kerns, George), NRHP-listed \n* Dahlonega School No. 1, Cty. Rd. H25, 2 mi. NE of Ottumwa, Ottumwa, IA (Kerns, George M.), NRHP-listed \n* J.W. Garner Building, 222-224 E. 2nd St., Ottumwa, IA (Kerns, George M.), NRHP-listed \n* R. B. and Lizzie L. Louden House, 107 W. Washington Ave., Fairfield, IA (Kerns, G.M.), NRHP-listed \n* Ottumwa Cemetery Gateway and Office, (1906–08) within Ottumwa Cemetery Historic District, 1302 North Ct., Ottumwa, IA (Kerns, George M.), NRHP-listed \n* Ottumwa County Club buildings (c. 1910) \n* Ottumwa National Guard Armory (1934) \n* Peoples National Bank Building-Fries Building, 1729-1731 and 1723-1727 2nd Ave., Rock Island, IL (Kerns, George M.), NRHP-listed \n* Russell Harper Residence (1915) within the Vogel Place Historic District, roughly bounded by Ottumwa Country Club, Court St., Ottumwa Cemetery and former St. Joseph Hospital, Ottumwa, IA (Kerns, George M.), NRHP-listed


Andrew R. Brodbeck (April 11, 1860 – February 27, 1937) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Andrew R. Brodbeck was born in Jefferson, Pennsylvania. He was engaged in agricultural pursuits, and taught in the public schools of York County from 1878 to 1880. He moved to Hanover, Pennsylvania, in 1880 and engaged in the farm implement and fertilizer business until 1896. He served as sheriff of York County from 1896 to 1899. He was a member of the board of directors of various business enterprises. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1910. Brodbeck was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914. He was again elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918. He was a delegate at large to the 1920 Democratic National Convention. He retired in 1920 and died in Hanover. Interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery.


Jamie Robert Murray, OBE (born 13 February 1986) is a Scottish professional tennis player. He is a three-time Grand Slam winner and a Davis Cup champion, currently the world No. 3 doubles player, and a former doubles world No. 1. Murray is the elder brother of Britain's world No. 2 singles tennis player Andy Murray. He has won three Grand Slam titles: the mixed doubles title at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships with Jelena Janković and the men's doubles titles at the 2016 Australian Open and 2016 US Open with Bruno Soares. Murray had an early career partnership with Eric Butorac, winning three titles in 2007. Having split with Butorac at the end of 2007, he subsequently played with 43 partners over the next  5 1⁄2 years; his following seven ATP finals came with six different partners. In 2013, he began a new partnership with John Peers, winning six ATP tournaments, and reaching two Grand Slam men's doubles finals. After the partnership split up, Murray joined with Bruno Soares for the 2016 Tour, the new pair enjoying almost immediate success after winning only their second ATP tournament playing together. This turned out to be a good indicator of more success to come the pair going on to win the Australian Open, US Open and Jamie reaching the world no. 1 doubles ranking. Murray was in the Great Britain team that won the Davis Cup in 2015, the nation's first success in the tournament for 79 years. With his brother Andy, he won the doubles matches in Britain's quarter-final, semi-final and final victories.The Davis Cup team was awarded the 2015 BBC Sports Personality Team of the Year Award. Brad Gilbert, who coached Andy Murray, gave Jamie the name 'Stretch' because of his 6-foot 3 inch height and long arms.


Fabrice Ndala Muamba (born 6 April 1988) is an English retired professional footballer who played for Arsenal, Birmingham City and Bolton Wanderers as a central midfielder. Born in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Muamba moved to England at the age of 11 and subsequently played for England up to under-21 level. Muamba began his career in 2002, joining Arsenal's youth academy. After three years, he turned professional in 2005. He made his debut for Arsenal in the League Cup, but played only one other professional match for the club. Following a loan spell with Birmingham City, he made the move permanent in 2007. He stayed with Birmingham City for one additional year, and left after making more than 70 appearances and making his England under-21 debut while with the team. He joined Bolton Wanderers in 2008. In March 2012, Muamba suffered a cardiac arrest during a televised FA Cup match between Bolton and Tottenham Hotspur, from which he recovered despite his heart having stopped for 78 minutes. Following medical advice, he announced his retirement from professional football in August 2012.


Oscar Estrada (February 15, 1904 – January 2, 1978) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who appeared in one game for the St. Louis Browns in 1929. The left-hander stood 5'8\" and weighed 160 lbs. Estrada played in 1924 and 1925 for the integrated Cuban Stars (East) in the Eastern Colored League but most of his baseball career was in Cuba. In 1926 and 1927, Estrada pitched for the Lynn Papooses of the New England League. He played for the Shreveport Sports in 1929. On April 21, 1929, the 25-year-old Estrada came in to pitch the top of the 9th inning in a home game against the Detroit Tigers at Sportsman's Park. He was the Browns' fourth pitcher in the game, relieving Herb Cobb. He pitched a scoreless inning, although he allowed a hit and a walk, but the Browns lost 16–9. His lifetime ERA stands at 0.00. Following his brief major league stint, Estrada returned to the Sports. His minor league baseball career continued until 1934, which he split between the Syracuse Chiefs, Greensboro Patriots, and Harrisburg Senators. He died in his hometown of Havana, Cuba at the age of 73.


Dirk Mai is an American photographer, currently working for Cliché Magazine. From May 3-August 31, 2008, photographs of Mai were on display in The Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh, PA). Deemed an 'Uberstar'--along with designer Rami Kashou, internet celebrity Cory Kennedy, model/designer Audrey Kitching, journalist Rose Apodaca and writer/actor Clint Catalyst—Mai was hand-picked by sculptor/visual artist Glenn Kaino to represent his 21st Century take on Andy Warhol's Superstars. For the exhibit, Kaino took portraits of his \"Uberstars\" using a Polaroid Big Shot camera, the same camera Warhol used for his infamous series. Kaino's Polaroids and Warhol's portraits were then juxtaposed, aligning each of Kaino's cyber-celebrities to their Superstar-era counterpart. In the summer of 2009 Mai is also known to have dated Disney Superstar Demi Lovato, which also gained him some recognition from the public... Most recently, Mai provided the photography for The Maine (band)'s book, This Is Real Life, which documented the band's 2009 Warped Tour experience he is also close friends with the band and films most of their recent videos. Additionally, he has worked with Los Angeles-based designers Skin Graft Designs and Brian Lichtenberg.


Bekhan Tungaev is a Chechen wrestler who was born in Kazakhstan. He became famous in Chechnya after winning a European championship back in the 1970s. He started wrestling in 1967, when he went to section of wrestling trainer Degi Bagayev (Дэги Багаев), also in the same year he took part in his first championship - championship of the republic among boys, where he got the first place. He was member of the Soviet Union team was from 1969 to 1976. In 1970 he won the championship of the USSR. He was also a three-time champion of the Soviet Armed Forces, two-time winner of the Soviet Cup, winner of international tournaments in Mongolia, Turkey, Iran, Hungary, Romania. He was also the of the tournament Olympic Hopes (Олимпийская надежда), where friendly armies played. He got the silver medal in the Games of the Soviet nations (Спартакиада народов СССР) and he was a three-time champion of the Caucasus. At various tournaments he defeated many world, European and Olympic champions, such as: Gennadi Strakhov (USSR), David Peterson (USA), Davat Surena (Mongolia), József Csatári (Hungary), Sukhet Saraya (Iran), Ilya Mate (USSR), Paweł Kurchewski (Poland), Alyeksandr Prokopchuk (USSR).


Taher Mohamed Ahmed Taher (born 31 December 1997) is an Egyptian professional footballer, who plays for French club Le Havre, on loan from Egyptian club El Mokawloon, and the Egypt national under-20 team as an attacking midfielder. Profile Taher started his early career in the Arab Contractors FC at the age of 8 as he first joined the elder team of 96, he achieved the best player trophy in 2009, 2010 and 2012. In 2008 he participated with the Arab Contractors 1996 team in the Danone Nations cup held in Paris where he showed a very high performance, in this competition the famous Tunisian legend Al Zubair Baya announced on Al Jazeera Satellite channel that he should be nominated as the best player in the championship, The French Legend Zein Aldinzeidane signed his T-shirt when he lost the title. In the year 2013 the Arab Contractors FC head coach Mohamed Radwan selected him to join the first team to be the youngest Egyptian Football player in the Egyptian premiere league and played his first official match against Al Ahly FC \"African Club of the Century\" and the final result was a great win to the Arab Contractors FC that is also known as the \"Mountain Wolves\" Taher was lucky to be trained by one of the famous Egyptian trainers Hassan Shehata who took the responsibility for two successive years and during this period he was one of the coach privileges. Taher joined all the youth national teams starting with the 1995 Team under the responsibility of Alaa Maihoub, and the Olympic Team under the responsibility of Hossam El Badry and currently he is the leader of the 1997 Team under the coaching of Moatemed Gamal who succeeded to qualify to the African Nations Cup next year in Zambia and scored the effective goal in Rwanda that was the main reason to give the edge to the young Pharos.Taher is highly educated as he finished his IB certificate in 2015 at his elite French School \"Ecole Oasis\" that was of extreme good support for him to continue his professional career as a recognized footballer, during his school years studies he participated with his school in 3 main football events started in 2008 where the school team won the competition of the International schools held in Cairo with 2 personal titles being the best player and the top scorer, in 2012 the school cross the borders to participate in the Mediterranean Cup held in Verona, Italy where they achieved the title with a personal satisfaction to Taher being the Best Player in the competition, finally in the year 2013 the school team with the main support of Taher achieved the silver Medal in the Valencia cup held in Spain. International press In September 2016 the famous US ESPN selected Taher Mohamed among the top 10 world football players who are eligible to rise with their national teams to the World Cup Russia 2018.


Clarence Edward Heise (August 7, 1907 – May 30, 1999), was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played in 1934 with the St. Louis Cardinals. Heise was originally in the Chicago Cubs organization. In August 1933, Cardinals general manager Branch Rickey called his counterpart with the Cubs, William Veeck, Sr. and offered him two pitchers—Heise and Bill Lee. According to Bill Veeck, one of Rickey's favorite tricks was to offer another team two players and trust that the other team would take the wrong one. In the case of Lee and Heise, Rickey knew that all but one Cubs pitcher was right-handed, and expected the Cubs to take Heise, a left-hander. However, on the advice of chief scout Jack Doyle, the Cubs took Lee. The trade proved to be one of the most lopsided trades of the 1930s, and one of the few instances where Rickey, well known for fleecing other National League teams, got fleeced himself. Heise appeared in only one game during the 1934 season, allowing three hits and three runs in two innings of relief in what would be his only major league action. He was sent back to the minors after the season, and spent the next two years in the Cardinals and Chicago White Sox organizations before retiring. Meanwhile, Lee won 169 games in 14 years, 139 of them with the Cubs. Heise was born in Topeka, Kansas, and died in Winter Park, Florida. His son, Jim, played for the Washington Senators in 1957.


Mateusz Bartel (born 3 January 1985 in Warsaw) is a Polish chess player who holds the title of International Grandmaster (GM). He won the Polish Chess Championship in 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2012. Bartel learnt to play the game at the age of 6 from his father when he and his younger brother were at home ill with chickenpox. Both Mateusz and his brother later entered the chess club \"Polonia Warsaw\". He won the under-18 European championship in 2003. In 2005 Bartel finished equal first with Zoltan Gyimesi in the inaugural EU Individual Open Chess Championship in Cork. In 2007, he tied for 1st–6th with Vitali Golod, Zahar Efimenko, Yuri Yakovich, Michael Roiz and Mikhail Kobalia in the 16th Monarch Assurance Isle of Man International tournament. In 2009 he came first at Prievidza. In February 2012, he tied for 1st–3rd with Anton Korobov and Pavel Eljanov in the 11th Aeroflot Open and won the event on tie-break. He played for Czech team \"G-Team Nový Bor\" that won the 2013 European Chess Club Cup in Rhodes. In 2015 Bartel won the bronze medal at the European Individual Championship in Jerusalem. Bartel represented his country in the Chess Olympiad in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014. In the Turin 2006 Olympiad he played fourth board, scoring 5/10 (+3 =4 -3). In the Dresden 2008 Olympiad, Bartel scored 4/7 (+3 =2 -2) as the team's third board. In the 2010 Khanty-Mansiysk Olympiad he played on the fifth board scoring 7 points out of 9 games (+6 =2 -1) and got a silver medal for individual result on his board. After Sebastien Feller’s disqualification for cheating, Bartel received the gold medal.


Antonios Kablionis, is a professional Greek - German footballer. He plays both as a Defender and a Winger currently for AE Larissa. Kablionis was born on October 24, 1991, in Athens, Greece. He began his career in Germany in 2008, from the youth team of FSV Erlangen-Bruck, and in 2009 he played for the youth team of SSV Jahn Regensburg II in the Under 19 Bundesliga. He competed in 24 games and scored 1 goal. He has also played for Freier TuS Regensburg in the Bayernliga. In the summer of 2011 he signed with the Greek Football League club AO Chania. He competed with the Cretan club for almost 3 years and on August 2014, he signed for A.O. Trikala in the Greek Gamma Ethniki.   On 27 August 2015 he signed with AE Larissa. On 1 February 2016 Kablionis was given on loan to Gamma Ethniki club Pydna Kitrous until the end of the season.


Reginald Harold Haslam \"Reg\" Parnell (2 July 1911 – 7 January 1964) was a racing driver and team manager from Derby, England. He participated in seven Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, achieving one podium, and scoring a total of nine championship points. Parnell, as both a driver and a team manager, had a considerable influence on post-war British motorsport until his premature death in 1964. Parnell raced at Brooklands and was banned following an accident with Kay Petre which ended her racing career. Before the war he bought up racing cars. Once the hostilities had ceased he sold them to form the basis of post-war racing entries. He later raced a whole host of cars before turning to management and taking Aston Martin into Formula 1. Parnell went on to run the Yeoman Credit Racing team with the help of his son Tim who later raced in Formula 1 himself.


William Barton Wade Dent (September 8, 1806 – September 7, 1855) was an American politician, educator, soldier and businessman from Georgia. He represented Georgia in the U.S. Congress (1853–1855). Dent was born in Bryantown, Maryland, in 1806 and attended Charlotte Hall Military Academy in Charlotte Hall, Maryland. He graduated from Charlotte Hall Military Academy in 1823 and moved the next year to Mallorysville in Wilkes County, Georgia, and taught school. In 1827, Dent pursued mercantile interests in Bullsboro, Georgia. He was also a key founding member of the city of Newnan, Georgia, in 1828. Dent pursued farming and milling in Coweta, Carroll and Heard Counties. He also did business in land holdings in Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, Tennessee and Texas. Dent also served as a colonel in the Georgia Militia during the Creek War. In 1843, Dent served in the Georgia House of Representatives. He returned to Newnan in 1849 and presided as judge of the inferior court of Coweta County. In 1852, he was elected as a Democratic Representative of Georgia's 4th congressional district to the 33rd United States Congress and served one term from March 4, 1853, to March 3, 1855. He did not run for reelection to the 34th Congress in 1854. Dent died in Newnan on September 7, 1855, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery.


Ferhunde Erkin (née Ferhunde Remzi) (June 8, 1909 – July 11, 2007) was a Turkish pianist born in Istanbul. Ferhunde Remzi started her first lessons in Bandırma with her father Ali Remzi Yiğitgüden's guidance when her brother Necdet Remzi Atak started violin lessons. Ferhunde and Necdet later took lessons from several teachers in Istanbul, but mostly from Karl Berger. They gave their first recital in Galatasaray High School on March 20, 1920 when Istanbul was under occupation after the end of World War I. With the advice of a music teacher, Von Kleibiner, Ferhunde and Necdet applied and received the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation scholarship and went to Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig. They finished the three-year school in two years and graduated in 1930. Upon their return to Turkey both started as teachers at Musiki Muallim Mektebi (Music Teachers School) on April 7, 1931. Ferhunde Remzi met Ulvi Cemal Erkin on that same day. Ferhunde Remzi and Ulvi Cemal Erkin married on September 29, 1932. She played in Berlin at wartime in 1943 with Berlin City Orchestra conducted by Fritz Zaun. She played with Suna Kan from 1961 till 1967 on several local and international concerts. Ferhunde Erkin retired in 1967. Some of her students are Hüseyin Sermet, Nimet Karatekin, composer Nevit Kodallı, Bilge Aydın, Kamuran Gündemir, Filiz Ali, Madlen Saydam, Tekin Alp Ulusoy and Zeren Dirim. She made the first playings of 22 piano concertos in Turkey. Ferhunde Erkin received the Sevda-Cenap And Music Foundation Honour medal in 1999. Ferhunde Erkin died in Istanbul, on July 11, 2007.


Sir Charles Brinsley Pemberton Peake GCMG MC (2 January 1897 – 10 April 1958) was a British diplomat. Peake served in the Royal Leicestershire Regiment during the First World War, being commissioned into the 1/4th Battalion in 1915. He was awarded the Military Cross in June 1916. His service also included attachment to the regiment's 9th Battalion. Peake was discharged in 1918. He joined Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service in 1922. His first appointment was in Sofia, subsequently being posted to Tokyo, Paris, Washington DC and Tangier. In 1939, Peake became head of the Foreign Office News Department and chief press adviser at the Ministry of Information. In 1941 he was posted to Washington as Acting Counsellor. In 1946 he became Ambassador to Yugoslavia, before his appointment as Ambassador to Greece in 1951. He served in the position until 1957. He was invested as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1956. Peake married Catherine Marie Knight, with whom he had four sons.


Louis Bosman Raymond (28 June 1895 – 30 January 1962) was a male tennis player from South Africa. At the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium, he defeated Ichiya Kumagai in the finals to win the gold medal. He won the South African Championships six times; four consecutive titles from 1921 through 1924 as well as victories in 1930 and 1931. In 1924 he made it to the semifinal of the singles event at the Wimbledon Championships, losing to eventual champion Jean Borotra in straight sets. In 1927 he reached the quarterfinal of the French Championship in which he was defeated by Bill Tilden. Between 1919 and 1931, Raymond played in ten ties for the South African Davis Cup team and has a record of ten wins and eleven losses. In Tilden's book, The Art of Lawn Tennis, Raymond is described as a \"hard working and deserving player\" and someone who \"attains success by industry rather than natural talent\".


Jim Boylen is the associate head coach for the Chicago Bulls. Prior to 2015, Boylen was assisting Coach Gregg \"Pop\" Popovich, where he helped the Spurs attend the NBA Finals two times (2013, 2014), However, His team (SA Spurs) hoisted the trophy only once.(2014)...He is a former head basketball coach of the University of Utah Utes. He had coached the program from 2007 to 2011 before being fired on March 12, 2011. The Utah job was his first head coaching position after spending over a decade as an assistant at both the NBA and NCAA levels. He replaced Ray Giacoletti, who was fired from Utah on March 3, 2007. Prior to joining Utah, Boylen spent two years at Michigan State University (MSU) as the Spartans top assistant under Tom Izzo. During his time at MSU, Boylen was considered to be among the top assistant coaches in the NCAA. Boylen was born in East Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1965 and attended the University of Maine, where he was a captain during both his junior and senior seasons. As a senior, he earned First Team All-North Atlantic Conference honors after averaging 21 points per contest. That same year, he finished runner-up in the conference Player of the Year voting to Northeastern's Reggie Lewis. Boylen earned a bachelor's degree in business from Maine in 1987.


James W. \"Jimmy\" Smith (born c. 1905) was an American Thoroughbred horse trainer. He was the son of Tom Smith, trainer of Seabiscuit. James Smith trained for automotive industrialist Charles T. Fisher and won the 1940 Arlington Classic with Fisher's colt, Sirocco. A few years later he trained for the renowned owner of Idle Hour Stock Farm, Edward R. Bradley, for whom he earlier rode as a jockey, riding and winning on such stars of the turf Black Helen at 2 and Blue Larkspur at 4, among others. Along with his father, James Smith trained for Maine Chance Farm. On February 15, 1949, James W. Smith trained his last horse for Maine Chance Farm, winning the feature race at Florida's Hialeah Park Race Track with Royal Blood.  In 1946 he had three horses in the Kentucky Derby, the best finish a fourth place with Lord Boswell. James Smith's last Derby entrant was in 1961 with Jay Fox. James trained Champions Busher, By Jimminy, Bridal Flower, Myrtle Charm. He also trained Champions But Why Not (no SW), Star Pilot (no SW) and Beaugay (multiple SW).


William Richard \"Dick\" Hern, CVO, (20 January 1921 – 22 May 2002) was an English Thoroughbred racehorse trainer and winner of sixteen British Classic Races between 1962 and 1995, and was Champion Trainer on four occasions. Following his early career in the Army (Major), he became a riding instructor, including a spell as instructor to the Olympic gold medal winning team in 1952. His first training licence was as private trainer to Major Lionel Holliday in 1958, at La Grange Stables in Newmarket, before moving to West Ilsley at the end of the 1962 season to take over from R. J. 'Jack' Colling. Hern became a St. Leger Stakes specialist, winning the event six times. He produced three Epsom Derby winners in Troy (1979), Henbit (1980) and Nashwan (1989), who also won the 2,000 Guineas and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. Hern trained Brigadier Gerard who was only beaten once in eighteen races. Other major winners include Sun Princess, Dayjur, Hethersett, Bireme, Bustino, Longboat, Little Wolf, Petoski, Highclere, Provoke, Prince of Dance, Minster Son, Unfuwain, Dunfermline and Cut Above. In December 1984 Hern was seriously injured in a hunting accident, after which time he used a wheelchair. In 1988 he was controversially sacked from his position as trainer for Queen Elizabeth II at West Ilsley by her racing manager 7th Earl of Carnarvon – Hern was recovering from heart surgery at the time. Later a compromise was reached whereby Hern shared the stable with the new incumbent – William Hastings-Bass (later Earl of Huntingdon) for a year before moving to Hamdan Al Maktoum's Kingwood House Stables in Lambourn. Dick Hern died in 2002 at Oxford, England at age 81.


Daniel Bermúdez Samper (born 1950) is a Colombian architect, and Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Design of the University of the Andes. Daniel was born in 1950 in Bogotá. His father was the well known modern architect Guillermo Bermúdez Umaña and her mother Graciela Samper Gnecco. Compared to his father's Daniel Bermudez's work is less propositive and less innovative, but his involvement with pedagogy has provided him a position of certain relevance in Bogota's architectural context. He is an alumnus of the University of the Andes where he graduated in Architecture in 1973 Since 1975 he has been a faculty member of the Universidad de Los Andes teaching at the Department of Architecture and Design. He is currently coordinator of the Degree project course (BA), part of the faculty team in charge of thesis projects and a member of the Architecture, City and Education (ACE) research team.


Kathleen Mary \"Kathy\" Griffin (born November 4, 1960) is an American actress, comedian, writer, producer, and television host. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, she moved to Los Angeles in 1978, where she studied drama at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and became a member of the improvisational comedy troupe The Groundlings. In the 1990s, Griffin began performing as a standup comedian and also appeared as a guest star on several television shows. She achieved recognition in a supporting role on the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan (1996–2000). Her Bravo reality show Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List (2005–2010) became a ratings hit for the network and earned her two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Reality Program. Griffin has released six comedy albums, all of which received Grammy Award nominations. Her first album, For Your Consideration (2008), made her the first female comedian to debut at the top of the Billboard Top Comedy Albums chart. In 2009, she released her autobiography Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin, which topped The New York Times Best Seller list. Griffin has taped numerous standup specials with HBO and Bravo. For the latter network, she has recorded 16 television specials, breaking the Guinness World record for the number of aired TV specials on any network, by any comedian in the history of comedy. In 2011, she also became the first comedian to have four televised specials in a year. Besides her comedy career, she is an LGBT activist involved in causes such as same-sex marriage and the repeal of \"Don't ask, don't tell\". She has also participated in two USO tours. Influenced by acts such as Joan Rivers and Don Rickles, Griffin is known for her conversational style and controversial statements on celebrities, religion and sexuality. After being nominated for six years in a row for the Grammy for Best Comedy Album, she won the award in 2014, becoming only the third woman to win the category (the others being Lily Tomlin and Whoopi Goldberg).


Gary F. Jones (born June 16, 1944 in Long Beach, California) is a retired trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses whose career began in 1974 and ended with his retirement at the end of July, 1996 having earned $52,672,611 in purses and the winner of 1,465 races including 102 graded stakes. Gary Jones was elected to the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame in 2014. Jones trained 104 stakes-winning horses, including Turkoman, the 1986 Champion Older Male. Jones won 15 meet titles on the Southern California circuit, including four at Santa Anita, where he ranks sixth all time in wins (576) and seventh in stakes victories (72). He set a record with 47 wins at Santa Anita in 1976, surpassing the previous standard of 44 established by his father, Farrell Jones. At Hollywood Park, Jones ranks 13th all time in wins (463) and 10th in stakes victories (58). He also won 17 stakes at Del Mar, including the inaugural Pacific Classic with Hall of Famer Best Pal in 1991. Jones guided Turkoman to victories in the Marlboro Cup, Widener Handicap and Oaklawn Handicap in his 1986 championship season. Jones twice won the signature handicap in California, the Santa Anita Handicap, with Best Pal and Stuka. Along with the Pacific Classic and Santa Anita Handicap, Jones trained Best Pal to wins in the Oaklawn Handicap, Hollywood Gold Cup, Swaps Stakes and Strub Stakes. Jones trained Kostrama to a world turf record of 1:43 4/5 in the 1 1/8-mile Las Palmas Handicap at Santa Anita, sent out Time to Explode to equal a world record of 1:19 2/5 at Hollywood and conditioned Beautiful Glass to a five-furlong track mark of :55 4.5 at Hollywood. Other major victories for Jones include the Mother Goose, Santa Barbara Handicap, Hollywood Oaks, Del Mar Futurity, Hollywood Futurity, Yellow Ribbon, Apple Blossom Handicap, San Antonio Handicap, La Brea, San Felipe, Santa Anita Oaks, NYRA Mile, Milady Handicap, Fantasy, Californian and Norfolk, among others. Among the outstanding horses trained by Gary Jones were Hall of Fame inductee, Best Pal, Turkoman who was voted the Eclipse Award as the 1986 American Champion Older Male Horse, and Kostroma, who set a 1 1/8-mile turf world record of 1:43 4/5 in winning the Las Palmas Handicap. Other notable horses trained by Jones include Quiet American, Wishing Well, Lakeway, By Land by Sea, Fali Time, Radar Ahead, Eleven Stitches and Lightning Mandate.


Jan Jankiewicz (born 17 September 1955) is a retired Polish cyclist. In 1979 he won two silver medals in the road race at the World Cycling Championships, individually and with the Polish team. He competed at the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics in four events in total. In 1976, he finished in tenth and fifth place in the 4000 m pursuit, individually and with the Polish team, respectively. In 1980, he was fourth in the road race, but failed to reach the finish in the 100 km time trial. Jankiewicz had his best racing years between 1978 and 1980. Besides his two silver medals at the world championships, he won six stages of the Tour de Pologne, three in 1978 and three in 1979; in 1979, he also won one stage of the Peace Race. In 1980, he won three stages of the Milk Race and one stage of the Tour de Pologne. He is married to Marzena Jankiewicz. They have two daughters, Patrycja and Natalia, and live in Wrocław, where Jan works as an entrepreneur.


Lee Weiss (born 1928 in Inglewood, California), is an American painter. She attended California College of Arts and Crafts for a year, studied under Nels Eric Oback, and was critiqued by Alexander Nepote. However, for the most part, Weiss is a self taught artist. She won numerous watercolor awards, as well as exhibiting in the White House Rotating Exhibition Program. She painted her impressions of a space shuttle launch in 1984, under the auspices of the NASA art program. To achieve the specific textural qualities that she felt watercolor lacked, Weiss invented a watercolor technique in which she paints both sides of the paper, turning the paper back and forth while the paint is still wet. That way, the paint from one side transfers to the table and then to the other side of the paper, along with some of the table's texture. This process is continued until an adequate surface has been built up to suggest a subject and composition. In general, she works away from the subject matter, in the studio without sketches or slides, allowing the process of painting to guide the portrayal. She also works in a more traditional manner, foregoing the surface treatment of the paper, and starting directly with a brush and subject. Her work is part of over sixty corporate and museum collections. She has held solo exhibitions in California, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, as well as taking part in group exhibitions in Japan and France.