François Delange (1935 - June 2007) was a Belgian physician and researcher who contributed to thyroid research. He performed field studies on goiter prevalence worldwide and performed pioneering research in early screening for congenital hypothyroidism. Delange studied at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) and graduated as M.D. in 1960. In 1973, he completed his Ph.D. thesis entitled Etude d'une endémie goitreuse en Afrique Centrale: Influence de la croissance et des facteurs d'environnement sur la fonction thyroïdienne. He spent most of his professional career at the University Hospital Saint Pierre, eventually becoming Chief of Clinic and Professor of Pediatrics at the ULB, until he retired at the age of 60 years, in 1995. After his graduation as M.D., he joined the lab of André Ermans in the University Hospital Saint-Pierre and focused his studies on the study of goiter and iodine deficiency in Central Africa. He was most active in the region of the former Zaire, performing over 30 research journeys between 1965 and 1982. He studied the iodine deficiency on a population level and showed role of cassava (manioc) and thiocyanate in endemic goiter and worked on the use of iodized oil in iodine deficiency disorders prevention. Delange also performed research for neonatal screening for congenital hypothyroidism, using TSH levels as a marker for hypothyroidism. Furthermore, Delange was promoting ThyroMobil, an initiative to perform standardized thyroid volume measurement and urine iodine concentrations all over the world. Delange was a member of the International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD) and served as board member since its foundation in 1986. He was working as the Executive Director of ICCIDD between 1995 and 2001. During his career, Delange authored or co-authored 12 books and 361 publications, also he presented more than 200 communications at international meetings.


(This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Perea and the second or maternal family name is Arias.) Édgar José Perea Arias (2 June 1934 – 11 April 2016) was a Colombian politician and football radio and television commentator. In a country where soccer is the national pastime, Perea was considered one of Colombia's greatest sportscasters. He was known in Colombia for his thunderous voice and for the way he intoned the traditional Spanish-style \"Goooooooool!\" sound when a goal had been scored. Perea commentated on eight football World Cups, fifteen World Series for CBS Spanish Radio, seven Olympics, many boxing matches and thousands of soccer matches in Colombia and abroad. He became so successful as a sportscaster that he transcended himself into a national politician. Perea was Afro-Colombian and broke down many barriers that kept black Colombians from gaining admiration and respect in Colombian pop culture and in entering the ritzy social scenes of Colombian society. After gaining popularity for his picturesque way of narrating football matches, Perea joined the Colombian Liberal Party with the support of then presidential candidate Horacio Serpa and ran for the senate. In 2009 he was appointed Ambassador to Colombia in South Africa.


Bernard Charles \"Bernie\" Ecclestone (born 28 October 1930) is a British business magnate. He is the chief executive of the Formula One Group, which manages Formula One and controls the commercial rights to the sport, and part-owns Delta Topco, the ultimate parent company of the Formula One Group. As such, he is generally considered the primary authority in Formula One racing and is most commonly described in tabloid journalism as \"F1 Supremo\". His early involvement in the sport was as a competitor and then as a manager of drivers Stuart Lewis-Evans and Jochen Rindt. In 1972, he bought the Brabham team, which he ran for fifteen years. As a team owner he became a member of the Formula One Constructors Association. His control of the sport, which grew from his pioneering the sale of television rights in the late 1970s, is chiefly financial, but under the terms of the Concorde Agreement he and his companies also manage the administration, setup and logistics of each Formula One Grand Prix, making him one of the richest men in the UK. Ecclestone entered two Grand Prix races as a driver, during the 1958 season, but failed to qualify for either of them. Ecclestone and business partner Flavio Briatore also owned the English football club Queens Park Rangers between 2007 and 2011.


Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom, OBE (4 February 1915 – 4 October 2010) was an English actor, comedian, and singer-songwriter best known for a series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966 featuring his hapless onscreen character Norman Pitkin. Wisdom gained celebrity status in lands as far apart as South America, Iran and many Eastern Bloc countries, particularly in Albania where his films were the only ones by Western actors permitted by dictator Enver Hoxha to be shown. Charlie Chaplin once referred to Wisdom as his \"favourite clown\". Wisdom later forged a career on Broadway in New York and as a television actor, winning critical acclaim for his dramatic role of a dying cancer patient in the television play Going Gently in 1981. He toured Australia and South Africa. After the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, a hospice was named in his honour. In 1995 he was given the Freedom of the City of London and of Tirana. The same year he received an OBE. Wisdom was knighted in 2000 and spent much of his later life on the Isle of Man. His later appearances included roles in Last of the Summer Wine and Coronation Street, and he retired from acting at the age of 90 after his health deteriorated. He died on 4 October 2010, at age 95.


Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel (November 7, 1911 – October 25, 1971), was a leading missile designer in the Soviet Union. His career started as an aviation engineer, after graduating from Moscow Aviation Institute in 1937. He worked with famous aircraft designers Nikolai Polikarpov and later, Artem Mikoyan. Then he moved to the field of ballistic missiles, where he first was in charge of guidance systems. As Sergei Korolev’s associate, he set up a rocket propulsion center in Dnipropetrovsk in the Ukraine which later formed the basis of his own OKB-586 design bureau in 1954. At first, Yangel’s facility served to mass-produce and further develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) in which area Yangel was a pioneer of storeable hypergolic fuels. His bureau designed the R-12, R-16 and R-36, whose launch vehicle adaptations are known as Cosmos, Tsyklon, Dnepr respectively are still in use today. Yangel narrowly avoided death during the development of the R-16 in the 1960 Nedelin catastrophe. Yangel's bureau was part of the Ministry of General Machine Building headed by Sergey Afanasyev. For his outstanding work, Mikhail Yangel was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1960 and USSR State Prize in 1967. He was also awarded four Orders of Lenin, Order of the October Revolution, and numerous medals. He died in Moscow in 1971. Several notable places were named after Yangel: \n*  A street in the Chertanovo neighborhood in Moscow \n*  A Metro station Ulitsa Akademika Yangelya on the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line (near the above street) \n*  A street in Kiev \n*  One of the two major streets in Baikonur (the other is in honor of his main rival Sergei Korolev) \n*  The crater Yangel on the Moon. A minor planet 3039 Yangel discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova in 1978 is named after him.


Sir Charles Hutton Gregory  (14 October 1817 – 10 January 1898) was an English civil engineer. He was president of the Institution of Civil Engineers between December 1867 and December 1869. Charles was the son of Dr Olinthus Gilbert Gregory, a master of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. The chair of mathematics at that time was held by Charles Hutton, who acted as Dr. Gregory's patron. It was in Hutton's honour that Charles was named. Gregory was consulting engineer of several major railway construction works, including those in Ceylon, Trinidad, Cape Colony, Perak and Selangor. He was the first to use railway semaphore signalling which he employed on the London and Croydon and the South Eastern Railways in 1842-3. This method later superseded all others and was dominant from 1870. In 1882 he was a member of the Channel Tunnel Committee and in 1886 was a Royal Commissioner for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in 1876, and appointed a Knight Commander of the same order in May 1884. In 1894, he married Fanny Stirling, an actress who died the following year. Gregory died in London on 10 January 1898, and is buried in Brompton Cemetery.


Patrick \"Paddy\" Ambrose (17 October 1928 – 22 February 2002) was a professional football player and coach from Dublin, Ireland. Signed by Jimmy Dunne from junior side Clontarf, he was associated with Shamrock Rovers from 1948 to 1973, firstly as a player and then as a coach. He made his debut against Transport in Bray on 28 August 1949 in a Dublin City Cup game. He was one of the club's best ever strikers. During his career at Rovers he scored 109 League goals which is a club record . He was the leading scorer at the club in 1953–54, 1954–55, 1955–56 (20 goals) and 1960–61. When Rovers won the title in 1953–54, their first title for fifteen years, Paddy scored 13 goals. Paddy won a League medal with Shamrock Rovers four times, in 1953–54, 1956–57, 1958–59 and 1963–64. He played in six FAI Cup finals plus one replay and won four winner's medals in the following years, 1955, 1956, 1962 and 1964. Paddy made 6 appearances in European competition for Rovers. The man who became famous for wearing the green and white hooped number nine shirt was capped by Ireland five times, scoring once, also earning two B caps and one amateur international cap for the Republic of Ireland national football team. Paddy shared a testimonial with Gerry Mackey in May 1959. The great service of Paddy Ambrose to Rovers was marked by the presentation of a gold medal by the directors. This was a medal which was presented to any Rovers player who had 15 consecutive years service to the club. At the end of the 2012 League of Ireland season Ambrose is joint thirty third in the all-time League of Ireland goalscoring list with 109 league goals


Charles Josiah Belden (November 16, 1887, San Francisco, California – February 1, 1966, St. Petersburg, Florida) was a photographer and rancher who was famous for his visceral photographs of the area around Meetseetse, Wyoming. Belden was born in San Francisco into a wealthy California family. His grandfather, Josiah Belden, was an early California pioneer who made millions in San Francisco real estate and was the first Mayor of San Jose. After graduating from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Charles Belden bought his first camera to record a European tour with his school friend, Eugene Phelps. The highlight of the tour was a journey through Russia in Belden's 1908 Packard, the first automobile to make such a trip in the country. After the trip, Belden went to work as a cowboy on the Phelps (Pitchfork) Ranch in Wyoming. In 1912, Belden married Eugene's sister, Frances. The couple had three children, Annice, Margot, and Mary Elizabeth, who died while still a toddler. Eugene's father died in 1922, leaving Eugene and Charles to take over management of the Pitchfork Ranch. Belden's 1921–1940 photographs of the Pitchfork Ranch were widely published, including in The Saturday Evening Post, National Geographic, and on the cover of Life magazine. Airplanes became a fascination for Belden. In the late 1920s, Charles became involved in raising antelope and sending them by airplane to zoos around the world, including some to Germany in the Hindenburg. He helped to pioneer the process of planting fish from the air and filmed the experience for future reference. In addition, he helped the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission conduct a census of wildlife herd populations using aerial photographs. Estate taxes, mismanagement, and an agricultural depression that began in 1921 took their toll on the Pitchfork and the ranch fell into decline. To meet expenses, in the 1930s the family turned their home into a dude ranch, but this response did not stop the financial drain. After many years of strained relations, Charles divorced Frances in 1940 and moved to Florida with a new wife, Verna Steele Belden. Charles Belden died in 1966 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in St. Petersburg, Florida.


Adam Harasiewicz (born 1 July 1932) is a Polish classical concert pianist. Harasiewicz was born in Chodziez, Poland. After studying violin for two months, at the age of 10 he began piano study, and at age 15 he obtained first prize in a contest at Rzeszów. At 18 he entered the State Higher School of Music in Kraków (at present Academy of Music in Kraków) where he studied with Zbigniew Drzewiecki. Harasiewicz studied with Drzewiecki for six years, and became pre-eminent as an interpreter of Chopin, excelling through a combination of superb technique, lyrical imagination, exceptional consistency of stylistic and idiomatic approach, and (through all of these) in playing of a characteristic temperament which identifies him as a true exponent of the Polish Romantic tradition. He won the first prize at the International Chopin Piano Competition in 1955. He then spent some years in Belgium, before settling in Austria. Harasiewicz was a member of the jury at the International Chopin Piano Competition in 1995, 2010 and 2015. He has recorded the complete works of Chopin and also much by Szymanowski.


Marco Vecellio (1545–1611) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was also called Marco di Tiziano, since he was Titian's nephew.He was born and active mainly in Venice. He accompanied his distinguished uncle in the journeys to Rome and Germany. He was the favorite pupil of Titian, and approached nearer to his style than any other member of the family. There are several pictures by him in the Doge's palace, among the best an allegory in the ante-chamber to the Sala del Gran Consiglio. Another good example is a picture in the Sala della Bussola, Doge Leonardo Donato before the Virgin and Infant Christ. He also painted for churches at Venice, Treviso, and in the Friuli, among other things a Christ fulminating the world, and the The Virgin on earth sending the two founders Dominic and Francis for the church of San Zaniopolo at Venice. He left some able productions in the ducal palace, the Meeting of Charles V. and Clement VII. in 1529; in S. Giacomo di Rialto, an Annunciation; in SS. Giovani e Paolo, Christ Fulminant. A son of Marco, named Tiziano (or Tizianello), painted early in the 17th century.


Jill Krementz (born 19 February 1940) is a photographer and author. She has published some 31 books, mostly of photography and children's books. Krementz grew up in Morristown, New Jersey, and moved to New York City in her late teens. She got a Nikon camera as a twenty-first birthday present in 1961. In the 1960s she worked as a photographer for the New York Herald-Tribune. Her color photography of the \"March on the Pentagon\" was featured on the cover of The New York Times Magazine. She spent a year taking photographs in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Krementz later specialized in the photographing of writers. A major profile of her - written by Dorothy Gelatt - was published in the Spring 1975 issue of 35mm Photography (Ziff-Davis Publishing Company). According to the article, Krementz decided in 1970 to \"...fill the author picture vacuum...\". Working only with the aid of a secretary she built and ran a large library of photographs of authors. Most of her photographs at that time were in black and white. The article described her as working with a minimum of photographic equipment (two 35mm camera bodies and three lenses) and having her prints made by Erika Leone at the Meridian photographic laboratory. At the time the article was written, \"...the Krementz stock list of authors totalled roughly 542...\". Krementz's photographs were shown at the Nikon House gallery in New York the mid-1970s, and in 1980 her book The Writer's Image (David R. Godine, Boston) was published. The book contained solely black-and-white photographs, with a preface written by Kurt Vonnegut, and an introduction by Trudy Butner Krisher. She is the widow of author Kurt Vonnegut and has one daughter, Lily. In 2004, a major exhibition of her work was held at the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut. Writers Unbound featured warm, intimate portraits of authors in their homes and at their desks.


Peter Westbury (26 May 1938 – 7 December 2015) was a British racing driver from England. He participated in two World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, scoring no championship points. In 1969 he raced a Formula 2 Brabham-Cosworth, driving in his first Grand Prix in the 1969 German Grand Prix. He finished ninth on the road, fifth in the F2 class. The following year he failed to qualify for the 1970 United States Grand Prix driving a works BRM, after an engine failure. Early in his racing career he campaigned a homebuilt special called the M.G.W., graduating to a Cooper-Climax in 1960 which was later fitted with a Daimler V8 engine. Westbury won the British Hill Climb Championship twice, in 1963 and 1964. In 1963 he drove the self-built Felday, with supercharged Daimler V8 2.6 litre motor. The following year he won in the 2.5 litre Climax-engined Ferguson P99 with four-wheel-drive, on loan from Ferguson Research Ltd. Westbury also drove the Ferguson P99 in the 1964 Brighton Speed Trials and at the First International Drag Festival, a series of six events held in England that year, where the car covered the standing-start quarter mile in 11.01 seconds. He also drove a Lotus 23-BRM sports car at the Drag Festival. During 1965 Westbury developed the Felday-BRM 4 sports car with four-wheel-drive. The car won on its debut at Brands Hatch on Boxing Day, 26 December 1965, driven by Mac Daghorn. At Mallory Park on 13 March 1966, Peter Westbury and Mac Daghorn shared the car, each winning a race. Jim Clark raced the Felday 4 in the Guards Trophy at Brands Hatch on 29 August 1966. The Felday 5 sports car was fitted with a 7-litre Ford Galaxie engine and four wheel drive, but only raced briefly. The Felday 6 was a 4.7 litre Ford-powered hillclimb single-seater, with rear wheel drive, built for Tony Griffiths. In 1967 Westbury raced a Brabham-Ford Formula Three car in England and in Continental Europe. He won the F3 race at the Silverstone circuit on 29 April, the Grand Prix des Frontières at Chimay on 14 May, and also at the Auvergne Trophy meeting on 18 June 1967, on the daunting Clermont-Ferrand circuit in France. The same year he resuscitated the old BRM P67 four-wheel-drive F1 car, designed by Mike Pilbeam in 1964, for David Good to campaign in the British Hill Climb Championship. The car led the series at the half-way mark, but then passed into the hands of Peter Lawson, who revamped it for 1968. The car was a dominant winner of the series in 1968.


Riccardo Tisci (born 1974 in Taranto, Italy) is an Italian fashion designer. He studied in Italy at the Design Istituto d’Arte Applicata in Cantu until the age of 17, and then graduated from London's Central Saint Martins Academy in 1999. In 2005, Tisci was given the title of Creative Director for Givenchy Women's haute couture and ready-to-wear lines. In May 2008 he was additionally named as menswear and accessories designer of the Givenchy men's division. Tisci's apparent fascination with Gothic touches (dark, languid dresses for fall couture) and space-age minimalism (one ready-to-wear show featured white-clad models drifting around a sterile-white sphere) has drawn new attention to the Givenchy brand. Reviews and output so far have been mixed and inconsistent, but many, including influential fashion critics (such as Cathy Horyn of The New York Times and Suzy Menkes of the International Herald Tribune) have homed in on Tisci's conceptual leanings, as well as his future potential for revitalizing the Givenchy brand and infusing it with his precision and imagination.


John Ostell (7 August 1813 – 6 April 1892) architect, surveyor and manufacturer, was born in London, England and emigrated to Canada in 1834, where he apprenticed himself to a Montreal surveyor André Trudeau to learn French methods of surveying. In 1837 he married Eleonore Gauvin, a member of a prominent French Catholic family in the city. His marriage ensured entry to French Canadian society, he was appointed diocesan architect for Montreal. In 1849 he formed a partnership with his nephew Henri-Maurice Perrault (1828–1903), this was the formation of one of the first architectural dynasties in Canada. He mostly worked in the Greek Revival style of architecture. His first work in Montreal was the city's original Custom House, completed in 1836. This was followed by the McGill University Arts Building, 1839–1843, the oldest building on the McGill campus, extended 1860-1862; Asile des Soeurs de la Providence (aka Asile de la Providence), 1842 (demolished); High School of Montreal, 1845 (demolished); Protestant Orphan Asylum, 1848 (demolished); Palais episcopal (Episcopal Palace) 1849, burnt 1852; Eglise de Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Graces, 1851; Church of St Anne, 1853 (demolished); Grand séminaire de Montréal, 1854; and the Old Montreal Court House, now known as the Édifice Lucien-Saulnier.1856-1859. Ostell submitted designs for the new St. James Cathedral in Toronto in 1849, placing second in the competition to Frederick William Cumberland. The only residential home left standing built by Ostell is the former home of Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine in downtown Montreal at 1395 Overdale Ave. Unfortunately, the home is falling into ruin. \n* Édifice Lucien-Saulnier. \n* original Custom House \n* McGill University Arts Building. In 1859 he largely abandoned architecture having established a successful lumber business in 1852. The factory made doors and windows for export to Upper Canada (Ontario), Australia, the USA and Britain. By 1856 the factory covered 5 acres (20,000 m2) and employed 75 workers and had a turn over of goods worth £18,750 per annum.


Robert Wyndham Walden (1843 – April 28, 1905) was one of the most successful trainers in thoroughbred horse racing during the last quarter of the 19th century. Known by his middle name, Wyndham, in 1872 Walden and his wife Caroline moved from New York City to Middleburg in Carroll County, Maryland where they established \"Bowling Brook Farm\" to breed and train thoroughbred race horses. Wyndham Walden trained his first Preakness Stakes winner in 1875, Tom Ochiltree, then two years later began a streak of five straight victories, all of which came with horses owned by George L. Lorillard. Walden won the Preakness for a seventh time in 1888 with his own horse, Refund. The win set a record for a trainer which still stands. During a career spanning thirty-one years between 1872 and 1902, he also won the Belmont Stakes four times and trained more than 100 Stakes race winners. In 1899, his son Robert J. Walden won the Kentucky Derby with Manuel, owned by the Morris brothers, Alfred and David. His daughter married jockey Fred Littlefield who rode Refund to his 1888 Preakness Stakes victory and was aboard Bowling Brook for the win in the 1898 Belmont Stakes. On Wyndham Walden's death in 1905, Bowling Brook Farm was taken over by his wife, then on her death by his son Robert, who lived there until his death in 1951. Over the Walden family's eighty-year history in racing they raised and trained winners of more than one thousand races. Robert Wyndham Walden was inducted in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1970.


Charles Samuel Gubser (February 1, 1916 – August 20, 2011) was an American politician of the Republican Party who was a member of the United States House of Representatives from California from 1953 to 1974. Born in Gilroy, California, Gubser attended the public schools and graduated from Gilroy Union High School in 1932, San Jose State Junior College in 1934, and the University of California, Berkeley in 1937, followed by two years of graduate work. He taught at Gilroy Union High School from 1939 to 1943. Gubser had been a farmer since 1940. He served as member of the California State Assembly in 1951 and 1952. Gubser was first elected to represent California's 10th congressional district, which included San Jose and other parts of Santa Clara County, in 1952 and was sworn in on January 3, 1953. After winning re-election ten times, Gubser did not run for re-election in 1974 and resigned his seat on December 31, 1974. Gubser died in Fresno, California, where he had lived since 2005, on August 20, 2011 at age 95.


Enrique Bernardo Vidallé (born 7 May 1952 in Canals, Córdoba) is a former Argentine football goalkeeper. He played for a number of clubs in Argentina and Palestino in Chile. Vidallé came through the Boca Juniors youth system to make his professional debut in 1972, he stayed at the club until his move to Chilean team Club Deportivo Palestino in 1975. Vidallé played a number of games for the Argentina national football team including appearances at the 1979 Copa América. Vidallé played for Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata in the late 70s and for their fiercest rivals Estudiantes de La Plata in the early 80s. Between 1982 and 1983 he played for Club Atlético Huracán before joining Argentinos Juniors in 1984. Vidallé was part of the Argentinos Juniors team that won back to back league championships in the Metropolitano 1984 and the Nacional 1985. They then went on to win the Copa Libertadores 1985, with Vidallé facing a penalty shootout in the final. Argentinos went on to play in the Intercontinental Cup in 1985 which they lost to Juventus, and in the Copa Interamericana in 1986, which they won 1-0 against Defence Force. Vidallé retired in 1987 at the age of 34.


Jeffrey Allen Lahti (born October 8, 1956, in Oregon City, Oregon) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He is an alumnus of Portland State University. Drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 5th round of the 1978 MLB amateur draft, Lahti would make his Major League Baseball debut with the St. Louis Cardinals on June 27, 1982, and appear in his final game on April 24, 1986. Lahti was a member of the St. Louis Cardinals team that defeated the Milwaukee Brewers in the 1982 World Series. He led the 1985 Cardinal team that went to the World Series in saves a year after the departure of relief ace Bruce Sutter. He was injured early in the 1986 season and Todd Worrell took over as the team's closer, winning the National League Rookie of the Year Award. Lahti was often called Lahti-Da by his teammates out of respect and premier pitching finesse. In 2012 the acting governor for the Government of Michigan incumbent Rick Snyder contacted the then Governor of Oregon John Kitzhaber with a preposition. Snyder had watched Jeff Lahti play throughout his short baseball career, over this time Snyder had been inspired by Lathi and impressed by his charismatic style. Snyder proposed to the governor of Oregon that a children's health clinic be named in honor of the baseballer, he felt that the name would inspire and give hope to sickly children in Lahti's home town. Initial talks between the governors where promising but further support was needed to get the project off the ground. Unfortunately talks broke down when two undisclosed members of the Government of Michigan intercepted the conversations and advised John Kitzhaber to not move forward with the project. The talks were concluded in there very early stages 'The Lahti Children's Health Clinic' was ultimately never proposed or put into motion.


Thomas K. Bohannan (born c.1955 in Mobile, Alabama) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. He grew up in Lexington, Kentucky and as a young man became a hotwalker, groom, and racing stable foreman. In 1989 he became the private trainer for the successful Loblolly Stable of Lake Hamilton, Arkansas. With Loblolly, Tom Bohannan had two horses successfully compete in the U.S. Triple Crown series. In 1992, Pine Bluff finished fifth in the Kentucky Derby, won the Preakness Stakes and was third in the Belmont. The following year Prairie Bayou finished second in the Derby, then gave Tom Bohannan his second consecutive victory in the Preakness. Fatally injured in the Belmont, Prairie Bayou was posthumously voted 1993's U.S. Champion 3-Year-old Colt. Unfortunately for Bohannan, a year later Loblolly Stable owner John Ed Anthony and his ex-wife disbanded the operation and Bohannan set up a public stable. Beset with personal problems, in the early part of the 2000s (decade) Bohannan left racing for several years but came back in 2006 when he began training again for former Loblolly owner John Ed Anthony who now races under the name Shortleaf Stable. After a difficult year in which they won only four of thirty-five races, in October 2007 Bohannan and John Ed Anthony parted ways.


George Adolphe Pechiney (September 20, 1861 – July 14, 1943), was a Major League baseball pitcher from 1885–1887. He played for the Cleveland Blues and Cincinnati Red Stockings in the American Association Pechiney was born in Cincinnati. He began the 1885 season with the Chattanooga Lookouts of the Southern League. He also played for the Columbus Stars of the Southern League in 1885 before joining the Major Leagues with the Cincinnati Red Stockings of the American Association later that year. He made his Major League debut for the Red Stockings on August 4, 1885. With the Red Stockings in 1885, Pechiney pitched in 11 games, starting and completing all of them, with a win-loss record of 7–4, a 2.02 earned run average and 49 strikeouts in 98 innings pitched. His winning percentage of .636 ranked 4th in the American Association behind just Bob Caruthers, Dave Foutz and Bobby Mathews. In 1886, Pechiney pitched for the Red Stockings once again. He started 40 games, compeleting 35. In 300 1/3 innings pitched he posted a win-loss record of 15–21, a 4.14 earned run average and 110 strikeouts. His 2 shutouts ranked in the top 10 among American Association pitchers, as did his 21 losses, 133 walks, 152 earned runs surrenders and 14 hit batsmen. Pechiney also played in 4 games in the outfield for Cincinnati in 1886, including a game on September 12 which he started but moved to center field after three innings because he was pitching wildly. On April 27, 1886, Pechiney pitched a complete game despite giving up 20 runs in a 20–3 loss to the St. Louis Browns. In 1887, Pechiney moved to the newly formed Cleveland Blues of the American Association. On April 16, 1887, he was the Blues' Opening Day starting pitcher for the first season in the team's history, pitching against his former Cincinnati team. The Blues lost the game by a score of 16–6. For the season, Pechiney started 10 games for the Blues, completing all of them. He had a win-loss record of 1–9, with a 7.12 earned run average and 24 strikeouts in 86 innings. He pitched his final game for the Blues, and in the Major Leagues on June 24, 1887. In 1888 he pitched in the minor leagues once again for the Canton Nadjys of the Tri-State League. On June 12, 1925, Pechiney appeared at the Golden Jubilee celebration of Redland Field, along with other former Reds and Red Stockings players. Pechiney died at the age of 81 in Cincinnati and is buried at Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati.


Charles Peoples (February 3, 1924 – September 17, 1999) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. Charles and his twin sister Isabel Peoples were born in 1924 to Charles and Annie Peoples, both first-generation immigrants to Chester County, Pennsylvania, from County Donegal, Ireland. In the latter part of the 1950s, he started conditioning horses for the operations of Bayard Sharp, a director of Delaware Park Racetrack and a president of The Blood-Horse Inc. Unknown to each other at the time they came together in racing, Sharp had been the teenage stranger who saved a four-year-old Charles Peoples and a small girl from drowning when he pulled them out of the bottom of a pond. Based at Sharp Farm in Middletown, Delaware, Peoples won a number of important races. In 1959, he won the Flamingo Stakes at Hialeah Park Race Track with Troilus. Sent to the Kentucky Derby under jockey Chris Rogers, Troilus moved from his tenth starting position into the lead at the half-mile mark but then stopped badly and finished last. It was later discovered that the colt had been suffering from an ulcer, and he died later that year from peritonitis. Peoples also trained Dixieland Band, winner of the 1983 Pennsylvania Derby and the 1984 Massachusetts Handicap. In 1985, Peoples won the Grade I Hopeful Stakes with Papal Power. Peoples died in 1999 at the age of seventy-five.


Jacopo Bertoia, also known as Giacomo Zanguidi or Jacopo Zanguidi or Bertoja, (1544 – ca. 1574), was an Italian painter of a late-Renaissance or Mannerist style that emerged in Parma towards the end of the 16th century. He was strongly influenced by Parmigianino. Born in Parma, he apparently studied in Bologna with Sabatini. His masterpiece is the Sala del Bacio, in the Palazzo del Giardino in Parma. He also helped decorate the Sala di Orfeo in the same palace. In Rome, he was part of the team that frescoed the walls of the Oratorio del Gonfalone in Rome, painting the panel depicting the Entry of Christ into Jerusalem. He was commissioned by Cardinal Alessandro Farnese in 1572-1573 to paint galleries (Sale del Giudizio, della Penitenza, dei Sogni, as well as the Anticamera degli Angeli) of the Villa Farnese in Caprarola, where he replaced the role of Taddeo Zuccari. He had earlier worked in Caprarola with Federico Zuccari in 1574, painting in the Sala di Ercole.


Žarko Dolinar (3 July 1920 – 9 March 2003), Ph.D., was a biologist and table tennis player who won eight medals at the World Table Tennis Championships. He was born in a family of Slovene economic immigrants to Croatia. In 1939, at the age of 18 he became the national champion of Yugoslavia. Dolinar was champion of the Independent State of Croatia multiple times, and also competed for its national team on nine occasions. Dolinar is the only world sporting champion with a doctoral degree in biology. He graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in 1949, and received a doctorate in 1959. He was world doubles champion with his partner, Vilim Harangozo. Dolinar was also head of the Sports Science Committee for the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). A university professor in both Zagreb and Basel, he was honored as one of the Righteous Among the Nations for saving, together with his brother Boris, about 300 Jews during World War II.


Eugenio Torre (born November 4, 1951) is a chess grandmaster (GM). He is considered the strongest chess player the Philippines produced during the 1980s and 1990s, and has been Board 1 player for the Philippines in eighteen World Chess Olympiads. In 1974, then twenty-two years old, he became Asia's first Grandmaster by winning the silver medal in the Chess Olympiad held in Nice, France. In a tournament in Manila in the 1976, Torre beat then reigning world chess champion Anatoly Karpov in a game that has become part of Filipino chess history. In 1982 he earned a spot in the World Candidates Chess Championships, where he faced the legendary Zoltan Ribli. His ELO rating reached 2602 in 1985 and in 1986 Torre was ranked 40th in the world with an ELO Rating of 2619. He served as Fischer's second in the 1992 World championship against Boris Spassky in Yugoslavia. Torre is still performing consistently as of present by winning the 2008 Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Cup, an international chess tournament.


James (Jim) Bacchus (born June 21, 1949) is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives and a former chairman of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization. Bacchus graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude with high honors in history. At Vanderbilt he was a Founders Scholar and member of Phi Beta Kappa. Bacchus earned a Master of Arts degree from Yale University in 1973 as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. Bacchus served in the United States Army between 1971 and 1977. In 1978, he received his J.D. with high honors from Florida State University College of Law. Bacchus was a member of the Order of the Coif and served as editor-in-chief of the FSU Law Review. Bacchus was a member of the staff of Florida Governor Reubin Askew from 1974 to 1978, serving as speechwriter. He became Askew's special assistant from 1979 to 1981, after Askew was appointed U.S. Trade Representative. In 1990, Bacchus was elected as a member of the Democratic Party to represent Florida's 11th congressional district in the 102nd Congress and Florida's 15th congressional district in the 103rd Congress from January 3, 1991 to January 3, 1995, and was not a candidate for reelection to the 104th Congress in 1994. Instead, from 1995 to 2003 he served on the Appellate Body of the WTO, rising to the position of chairman in 2001. He was the first American to sit as part of the Appellate Body. Since 2004, Bacchus has served as Chairman of the Global Trade & Investment Practice Group at Greenberg Traurig, a Miami-based international law firm. He is also Co-Chair of its Global Practice Group. Bacchus has regularly written trade related articles for publications including Forbes and The Wall Street Journal. On February 23, 2007, Bacchus was named to a Department of Defense panel reviewing the Walter Reed Army Medical Center neglect scandal.


Cesare Vecellio (c. 1530 – c. 1601) was an Italian engraver and painter of the Renaissance, active in Venice. He was the cousin of the painter Titian. Like Titian, he was born in Cadore in the Veneto. He accompanied Titian to Augsburg in 1548, and seems to have worked as his assistant. Many of Cesare's pictures were ascribed, perhaps knowingly, to Titian. In the Milan Pinacoteca there is a small Trinity by Cesare. He died in Venice. The crude woodcuts for book assembling contemporary fashion from across the world, De gli Habiti Antichi e Modérni di Diversi Parti di Mondo published in Venice in 1590 by Cesare as if they were his works, may in fact belong to Christopher Krieger from Nuremberg. They depict the garb, sometimes fanciful and imagined, of individuals, men and women, from Tsars to Tribeswomen from the Arabian Desert to Muscovite nobles to Arabian nobles to Inca nobles. Cesare also published a book of prints depicting the jewels of royal crowns, titled Corona delle nobili e virtuose donne (1591). Cesare's brother, Fabrizio di Cadore or Ettore, was little known beyond his native place, for the Council-hall of which he is said to have painted a fine picture. He died in 1580.


Noel Armstrong Forster (15 June 1932 – 7 December 2007) was a British artist who trained at King's College Newcastle a part of Durham University, graduating in 1957. He was born in Seaton Delaval, Northumberland and attended to Gosforth Grammar School.He married Eileen Conlan in 1962, later having three sons with her. In due course he became Principal lecturer in Painting at the Chelsea College of Art & Design in Chelsea as well as Artist-in-Residence and Supernumerary Fellow at Balliol College Oxford University. In 1978 he won the John Moores Painting Prize His art can best be described as abstract, colourful and usually involving a cross-weaved fabric of straight or curved parallel lines drawn by hand, often executed in oil on linen. He died in London. \"Noel was in my view the most important post-War abstract painter in England, and his work combined performance, intellectual rigour and the artist's craft. It was simultaneously clever and sensuous. He was an influential teacher too and a very gifted musician. But he was also larger than life.\" Stephen Bury, Curator, British Library, 8 December 2007 \"Noel was a splendid friend, and a wonderful painter.He thought endlessly about the relations of paint and light, and talked with extraordinary clarity - and complexity - about making works of art. He taught me a lot about looking.The ideas behind his own work were intricate and uncompromising.\" AS Byatt, Author, Dec 2007 \"Noel Forster was an adventurous and productive artist whose glowing, audacious personality looked out from his canvasses.\"Obituary in The Times, 17 January 2008 Bernard Cohen, Artist, Dec 2007


Robert \"Bob\" Fullam (1897–1974) was an Irish footballer and one of the best-known players in the League of Ireland in the 1920s . A versatile attacking player, he was skilful but also had a tough-man image. born Ringsend, Fullam worked as a docker in Dublin, and played for Shelbourne F.C. 1918–21, winning the Irish Cup in 1920. He then transferred to Shamrock Rovers, and played in the inaugural Free State Cup final in 1922. In that match, his skirmishes with Charlie Dowdall of eventual champions St. James's Gate F.C. helped provoke post-match disturbances involving players and supporters. This led to a ban for the start of the following season. Nevertheless, he finished top scorer with 27 goals in 22 games, as Rovers won their first League title. He transferred to Leeds United for 1923–24 but played only seven games. He returned to Rovers the next season, helping them to the Double, as \"give it to Bob\" became a Dublin catchphrase. In the 1926 Cup final, he famously pulled out of a goalmouth challenge, sacrificing a goal (and the Cup) to prevent injuring the Fordsons goalkeeper. Fullam made his debut for the Irish Free State against Italy in Turin in 1926; he scored in the return match against Italy in 1927. As he was now 30, and the selectors had a preference for young players, this second cap was his last. He continued to play for Shamrock Rovers into the early 1930s. In 1927/28 he went to the United States along with Dinny Doyle and several other players from both North and South. Upon their arrival in Philadelphia they formed their own club which was known as Irish Philadelphia Celtic. After a year Bob returned to Dublin where he renewed his association with Rovers. After his playing days Bob continued with the Hoops as a coach, a capacity he held until his departure to London in 1945. His time with Rovers was littered with medals. He won the League and the FAI Cup 4 times scoring 92 league goals and 9 Cup goals as well as winning 6 Inter-League caps. In 1956 Bob was awarded damages in a libel case taken against the Sunday Dispatch for a story that the journalist admitted making up. Fullam died in London 1 January 1974.


Gerd Sannemüller (19 October 1914, Heilbad Heiligenstadt – 13 June 2008) was a German composer, pianist and musicologist. After his Abitur in Stralsund he studied musicology with Arnold Schering and Georg Schünemann as well as history, philosophy and psychology at the University of Berlin and school music at the Berlin College for Church and School Music. After university he became a high school teacher and a concert pianist in Berlin. Later he studied musicology with Hans Albrecht, Friedrich Blume and Kurt Gudewill as well as history and psychology at the University of Kiel. In 1961 he received his Doctor of Philosophy degree. He was a docent at the Flensburg College of Education and at the Kiel College of Education. From 1965 to 1983 he served as a professor of musicology and music education in Kiel. During that time he was director of the Institute of Music and Didactics. He was mostly interested in music by Maurice Ravel, Paul Hindemith, Béla Bartók and Polish contemporary classical music (Witold Lutosławski and Karol Szymanowski). He was an editor of the complete works of Paul Hindemith at the Hindemith Institute in Frankfurt. His compositions are consistently played at the Theatre of Kiel. He also composed for musicians such as the Ensemble Sortisatio (CD Ensemble Sortisatio VKJK 0325). Gerd Sannemüllers brother was the violinist Horst Sannemüller whom he often accompanied on the piano.


(This is a Chinese name; the family name is Guo.) Guo Shuang (born February 26, 1986) is a Chinese professional track cyclist. She won two bronze medals at the 2006 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, in Sprint and Keirin, and two silver medals at the 2007 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, again in Sprint and Keirin. Guo had an eventful semi-final in the sprint at the 2008 Summer Olympics, having won the first heat and conceded the second to her opponent Anna Meares, the third heat saw Guo come down the banking too steeply and her front wheel slipped from beneath her. The heat was re-run and although Guo won by a few millimetres, she was relegated for coming down the tack and pushing Meares onto the côte d'azure on the final lap. This put Meares through to the final ride-off for gold. Guo went on to win the final ride-off for the bronze against Willy Kanis. Guo competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. She and Gong Jinjie set a world record of 32.447 seconds in the qualification round of the team sprint event, which they then improved upon with 32.422 in the next round. They went on to finish first in the final against the German team, but were disqualified for an early relay, and were relegated to the silver medal instead. Guo and Gong's coach Daniel Morelon maintains that the pair were \"robbed\" of the gold medal, and described it as an \"injustice\". He complained that the judges refused to provide a \"video footage of the race on slow motion\", and only provided a \"vague explanation\" for the infringement they had allegedly committed. However, the British cycling champions Victoria Pendleton and Jessica Varnish, who were also disqualified for a similar reason earlier on in the competition, accepted the judges decision and chose not to claim that they were unfairly robbed of a medal. Pendleton recovered and went on to win a gold medal in the women's keirin event with Guo Shuang coming 2nd.


Basil Lee Whitener (May 14, 1915 – March 20, 1989) was a Democratic U.S. Representative from North Carolina between 1957 and 1968. Whitener was born in York County, South Carolina on May 14, 1915, and was educated in the public schools of Gaston County, North Carolina. He graduated from Lowell High School in 1931 and from Rutherford College in 1933, attending the University of South Carolina from 1933 to 1935 and graduating from Duke University Law School in 1937. He was admitted to the North Carolina bar in 1937 and commenced practice of law in Gastonia, North Carolina. In 1941 Whitener was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives and was renominated in 1943 but resigned to enter the United States Navy. He served as a gunnery officer until November 1945, leaving with a rank of lieutenant. Whitener was appointed solicitor, fourteenth solicitorial district, in January 1946 and elected in November 1946, reelected in 1950 and 1954, and served until December 31, 1956. In 1948, he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. Whitener was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fifth and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1957 – January 3, 1969); he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1968 to the Ninety-first Congress and an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1970 to the Ninety-second Congress. He resumed the practice of law. Whitener was a resident of Gastonia, North Carolina until his death there on March 20, 1989.


Masood Khalili, also Massoud Khalili and Masud Khalili (born 5 November 1950) is an Afghan diplomat, linguist and urbane poet. Khalili is the son of the famous Dari language and Afghan poet laureate, Ustad Khalilullah Khalili. In the war against the Soviets from 1980 to 1990, he was the political head of the Jamiat-i-Islami Party of Afghanistan and close advisor to Commander Ahmad Shah Masood. In the internal conflict that followed, he chose to be the Special Envoy in Pakistan to President Burhannudin Rabbani. Deported from the same country for his high rank in the Northern Alliance, he went to New Delhi in 1996 as the Ambassador of the Afghanistan (Anti-Taliban) where he stayed for many years. He was non-resident Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Nepal at the same time. On September 9, 2001, Ambassador Khalili was sitting next to the hero of Afghanistan, Commander Massoud, when two men posing as journalists set off a bomb placed in their camera. Commander Massoud was assassinated and Ambassador Khalili survived. Two days later, Al Qaeda Attacked America. After his recovery, he was made the Ambassador of Afghanistan to Turkey and he is currently the first Afghan Ambassador to Spain. You can find further information about him by visiting his official website or official Facebook page.


Alexander Shabalov (Aleksandr Anatolyevich Shabalov; Latvian: Aleksandrs Šabalovs; born September 12, 1967) is an American chess grandmaster and a four-time winner of the United States Chess Championship (1993, 2000, 2003, 2007). He also won or tied for first place seven times in the U.S. Open Chess Championship (1993, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2015, 2016). In 2002 he tied for first place at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow with Gregory Kaidanov, Alexander Grischuk, Aleksej Aleksandrov and Vadim Milov.In 2009 Shabalov shared first place with Fidel Corrales Jimenez in the American Continental Chess Championship. He was born in Riga, Latvia, and like his fellow Latvians Alexei Shirov and Mikhail Tal he is known for courting complications even at the cost of objective soundness. Shabalov regularly lectured chess players of all ages at the House of Chess, a store that he ran at the Ross Park Mall in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, until it closed in mid-2007. In 2015 he was inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame.


Gyula Sax (18 June 1951 – 25 January 2014) was a Hungarian chess grandmaster and International Arbiter (1995). Sax was awarded the IM title in 1972 and the GM title in 1974. He was the Hungarian Chess Champion in 1976 and 1977 (jointly). In 1971-72, Sax was the European Junior Champion, and he placed first at Rovinj-Zagreb 1975, Vinkovci 1976, Las Palmas 1978 and Amsterdam 1979. He won the 1978 Canadian Open Chess Championship and the strong Lugano Open in 1984. Gyula Sax participated twice in a row in the Candidates Tournament after qualifying at the Subotica Interzonal in 1987 and at the Manila Interzonal in 1990 respectively but was eliminated in the Candidates in 1988 by Nigel Short (+0=3−2) and in 1991 after extra-time by then sixty years old Viktor Korchnoi (+1=6-1; +0 =1-1 rapid chess). His highest Elo rating was 2610 in January 1988 and again in January 1989, with his best world ranking on position 12 shared in the (half-year-list) January to June 1989. Judit Polgár paid tribute to him shortly after his death:


Hernán Gumy (born 5 March 1972 in Buenos Aires) is a former tennis player from Argentina, who turned professional in 1991. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was defeated in the first round by Venezuela's Nicolas Pereira. Gumy made two finals in his career; both of them ATP 250s on clay in 1996. He won Santiago, Chile (his final tournament of 1996) by beating the Spanish World No. 15 Félix Mantilla in a tough three-setter: in the semi-finals, and the Chilean world number 11 Marcelo Ríos in the final 6-4, 7-5. He lost the other final he was in, in Oporto, Portugal to Spain's Félix Mantilla despite winning the first set. The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 19 August 1996, when he became World No. 39. Gumy won the gold medal in the men's singles competition at the 1995 Pan American Games. Gumy has also coached former World No. 1 and US and Australian Open champion Marat Safin.


Richard Taliaferro (c. 1705–1779) was a colonial architect and builder in Williamsburg, Virginia. Among his works is Wythe House, a Georgian-style building that was built in 1750 or 1755. It was declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1970. Other works were public buildings, including the Governor's Palace, the Capitol, and the President's House at the College of William & Mary. Richard Taliaferro, born about 1705, lived most of his adult life at his plantation, Powhatan, in James City County outside Williamsburg. Taliaferro built the Wythe House in Williamsburg for his daughter, Elizabeth, and her husband, George Wythe. In his 1775 will, he gave them life tenancy in the house upon his death: \"In the name of God Amen, I, Richard Taliaferro of the Parish and county of James City, being aged, but of sound mind and memory, do make my last will and testament as forth with. I give and desire my house and lotts in the city of Williamsburg situate on the west side of Palace Street, and on the North side of the Church yard, to my son-in-law Mr. George Wythe and his wife, my daughter Elizabeth during their lives. ...and I do hereby constitute and appoint my Son-in-law the said George Wythe and my said son Richard Taliaferro Executors of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made.\" Taliaferro died in 1779 at the age of 74 \"with the gout in his head.\"


Thomas Franklin Brigance (February 4, 1913 – October 14, 1990), professionally known as Tom Brigance, was a Texan-born New York-based fashion designer noted for his work in sportswear in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. As a house designer for Lord & Taylor, Brigance was best known for bathing costumes and play clothes, and for his clever use of flattering details such as pleats and darts. During the 1930s Brigance was a rare example of a male working in the female-dominated world of American sportswear design. In the late 1930s, he was regularly mentioned alongside Clare Potter as a leading name in mid-range priced sportswear. Like Potter, Brigance was skilled at to designing smart, fashionable clothing which could easily be mass-produced, making his work attractive to manufacturers as well as to customers. After serving in the Army during the Second World War, Brigance resumed designing for Lord & Taylor and for Charles W. Nudelman; branching out into a wider range of garments, including suits, coats, and formal wear. He was known for his clever use of unusually textured and/or unexpected fabrics, such as a flannel swimsuit, and in 1953, reportedly designed over half of the textiles in his collections himself. In 1953 Brigance was awarded the Coty Award for his designs. Brigance continued designing during the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on swimwear for various companies. One of his swimsuit designs for Gabar, produced before his retirement in the late 1970s, was still a best-selling design for the company in 1990. He died in New York in 1990.


Alexander Nikolaevich Vinokourov (born 16 September 1973) is a Kazakh former professional road bicycle racer and current general manager of UCI ProTeam Astana. As a competitor, his achievements include two bronze medals at the World Championships, four stage wins in the Tour de France, four in the Vuelta a España plus the overall title in 2006, two Liège–Bastogne–Liège monuments, one Amstel Gold Race, and most recently, the gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics Men's Road Race. Vinokourov is a past national champion of Kazakhstan, and a dual-medalist at the Summer Olympics. Vinokourov began cycling in 1984 as an 11-year-old, competing within the former Soviet Union. He moved to France in 1997 to finish his amateur career, and then turned professional there in 1998. After almost a decade as a professional, Vinokourov was caught blood doping during the 2007 Tour de France, which triggered the withdrawal of the entire Astana team from that year's race. After a 2-year suspension from competition, he returned to cycling in August 2009, riding first for the national team of Kazakhstan and then for his beloved Astana. A serious crash during the 2011 Tour de France threatened to prematurely end Vinokourov's career for a second time, but he announced he would continue for one more season in 2012 – with an eye towards competing in the Olympic Games in London. There, Vinokourov played the role of ultimate spoiler when he dramatically won the gold medal in the men's road race after breaking-away in the closing miles with Colombian Rigoberto Urán. Vinokourov retired after the Olympics and assumed management duties with Astana for 2013. He is an honorary colonel in the Kazakh army but lives in France with his wife and children.


Bill R. Newton (born December 22, 1950) is an American retired power forward–center who played two seasons in the American Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Indiana Pacers during the 1972–73 and 1973–74 seasons. Born in Rockville, Indiana, he attended Louisiana State University. While at Louisiana State, he amassed 1,339 career points & 802 career rebounds. He finished his career as the school’s 4th all-time leading rebounder. While at LSU, he helped lead them to the 1970 NIT Final Four, was a 2-time ALL-$EC selection and team captain & MVP his senior year (1971–72). He participated in 1972 U.S. Olympic trials and selected as an alternate. He was named to LSU’s 1970s All-Decade Team. He played for coach Press Maravich. In 2013, he was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame He attended Rockville, Indiana High School, leading the Rox to a record of 19-3 and a Wabash River Conference title his senior season (1967–68). He led the state of Indiana in rebounding (22.0 rbs/game) his senior season.


James Simon Wallis Hunt (29 August 1947 – 15 June 1993) was a British racing driver who won the Formula One World Championship in 1976. After retiring from racing in 1979, Hunt became a media commentator and businessman. Beginning his racing career in touring car racing, Hunt progressed into Formula Three where he attracted the attention of the Hesketh Racing team and was soon taken under their wing. Hunt's often reckless and action-packed exploits on track earned him the nickname \"Hunt the Shunt\", \"shunt\" being a British racing term that means \"crash\". Hunt entered Formula One in 1973, driving a March 731 entered by the Hesketh Racing team. He went on to win for Hesketh, driving their own Hesketh 308 car, in both World Championship and non-Championship races, before joining the McLaren team at the end of 1975. In his first year with McLaren, Hunt won the 1976 World Drivers' Championship, and he remained with the team for a further two years, although with less success, before moving to the Wolf team in early 1979. Following a string of races in which he failed to finish, Hunt retired from driving halfway through the 1979 season. After retiring from motor racing, he established a career commenting on Grands Prix for the BBC. He was known for his tactical knowledge, technical insight, a dry sense of humour and his criticism of drivers who, he believed, were not trying hard enough, which in the process brought him a whole new fanbase. Hunt died from a heart attack aged 45. He was inducted into the Motor Sport Hall of Fame on 29 January 2014.


Jimmy \"The Titan\" Ambriz (born March 20, 1977) is an American professional mixed martial artist currently signed with Super Fight League. He is the former King of the Cage Super Heavyweight Champion. He is also a veteran of the WEC, Tachi Palace Fights, K-1 Hero's, Pancrase, the MFC, and DREAM. Ambriz was expected to face former WWE and TNA wrestling star Bobby Lashley on January 30, 2010 at Strikeforce: Miami, but for reasons unknown, Ambriz was dropped as an opponent for Lashley. Ambriz stepped in for injured Jesse Wallace to fight Mike Guidry at Tachi Palace Fights 7 on December 2 in the heavyweight division. He then faced Bulgarian Lyubomir Simeonov at the MAXFIGHT-21 event, in May 27, 2011. After numerous punches Ambriz was forced to tap in the first round. Ambriz then fought at the first Super Fight League event, SFL 1, and he fought against Indian fighter Satish Jha. He won the fight via TKO 14 seconds into the first round. He was expected to return to the SFL at SFL 4 against Japan's Satoshi Ishii. but due to the change in the organisation's structure the fight was scrapped. However at SFL 10, Ambriz stepped in for an injured Singh Jaideep to fight Mohamed Abdel Karim. Ambriz won via arm-triangle choke.


Wellington Leal \"Megaton\" Dias  is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) practitioner, and an official black belt representative of the Royler Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Association. Wellington originally trained under Rogerio Camoes and later at the legendary Gracie Humaitá jiu-jitsu school in Rio de Janeiro. Wellington received his black belt at the age of 18. Wellington is currently a fifth degree black belt under Royler Gracie. Wellington is a multiple Pan-American medalist, European medalist, Worlds medalist, US National medalist, Rickson Gracie International Championship medalist, Rio de Janeiro State Champion and Abu Dhabi veteran, among other accomplishments. He is the only Brazilian jiu-jitsu competitor to have competed in all 21 World Jiu-Jitsu Championships, realized since the first edition in 1996. Wellington Dias resides in Phoenix where he directs the Megaton Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy, the first BJJ academy in Arizona. Megaton has trained in judo and Brazilian jiu-jitsu since 1976. His wife Luciana and daughter Mackenzie Dern are also black belts in the discipline, under his tutelage. Dias is nicknamed \"Megaton\" because of his judo training and propensity to launch his competitors high into the air, similar to the blast of a nuclear bomb. \"Megaton\" was named the #1 ranked nickname in MMA by SubFighter.


Master Hugo (fl. c.1130-c.1150) was a Romanesque lay and the earliest recorded professional artist in England. His documented career at Bury St Edmunds Abbey spans from before 1136 to after 1148. He is most famous for illuminating the first volume of the Bury Bible, which \"have led to a general acknowledgement of Master Hugo as the gifted innovator of the main line of English Romanesque art\". This was made for the Abbey in about 1135, and is now in the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; it is not known whether he illuminated the second volume, of which only a small fragment is known to survive, now in a private collection in the USA. He is also recorded as making bronze doors for the western entry of the Abbey church, a great bell and a carved crucifix with figures of Mary and Saint John, for the Monk's Choir (probably a rood). He has been credited with having made the ivory Cloisters Cross (or \"Bury St. Edmunds Cross\"), now at The Cloisters, New York, It is not known where Master Hugo was born or trained. According to the Fitzwilliam Museum, \"the magnificent colour patterns of his paintings, the startlingly new Byzantine draperies and the deep-staring eyes of Moses, Aaron and the Jews suggest that he had travelled at least to southern Italy and probably also to Cyprus, Byzantium, and even the Holy Land.\"


Stefano Boeri is an Italian Architect and Urban Planner, born in Milan in 1956, founding partner of Stefano Boeri Architetti. He earned a master's degree in Architecture from Polytechnic University of Milan and a PhD in Architecture in 1989 from Iuav University of Venice. Among the most known projects are the Vertical Forest in Milan, the Villa Méditerranée in Marseille, and the House of the Sea of La Maddalena. Stefano Boeri was the editor-in-chief of the international magazine Domus from 2004 to 2007 and Abitare from 2007 to 2011. He is the professor of urban planning at Polytechnic University of Milan. He has been visiting professor in many international Universities as GSD Harvard Graduate School of Design, Berlage Institute, Columbia University. From 2013 he is the artistic director of MI/ARCH, an International Festival of Architecture promoted by the Politecnico Di Milano. Until today it has involved more than 60 speakers ranging between architects, artist, and photographers, among which: Renzo Piano, Rem Koolhaas, Elizabeth Diller, Steven Holl, and many others. He was also the artistic director of the International Festival of Architecture FESTARCH, which was held in Cagliari (2008 and 2009) and Perugia (2011 and 2012). He is currently the director of the web platform theTomorrow (www.thetomorrow.net), which promotes an exchange of ideas on European culture, and part of the Scientific Board of the Galleria Degli Uffizi in Florence, Italy, a palace and Italian classical art museum, along with Davide Gasparotto Senior Curator of Paintings Department at The J. Paul Getty Museum, and Carl Brandon Strehlke, Curator Emeritus of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In the period between July 2014 and October 2015 was Councillor for Culture and Major Events for the Mayor of Florence Dario Nardella in charge of the Artistic Direction of the “Estate Fiorentina 2014” an urban summer festival with live music, theatre performances, and several cultural projects by local organisations. In the period between April 2011 and March 2013 he has had been appointed Head of Culture, Design and Fashion for the city of Milan, developing projects such as: Piano City Milano, and BookCity Milano, both projects are still celebrated on a yearly base, contemporary art exhibitions for internationally renowned artists such as Marina Abramovic’s performance of The Abramovic Metod in PAC (Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea), Alberto Garutti retrospective, and Jeff Wall exhibition entitled “Actuality”. All this in addition to the major and classical exhibitions of Picasso at the Palazzo Reale (the most visited exhibition in Italy in the year 2012), the show Bramantino a Milano at the “Castello Sforzesco” and the effort to improve and relocate the exhibition of “La Pieta Rondanini” one of Michelangelo’s last sculptures dated back to 1552. In 2011 he was curator for the research \"Sao Paulo Calling\", promoted for the Housing Secretary of São Paulo. Which organised an extensive international network of research on the phenomenon of informal settlements. Taking into São Paulo, Brasil, the experience of other informal settlements around the world, such as Rome, Nairobi, Medellin, Mumbai, Moscow and Baghdad. In 1993 he founded a research agency for territorial investigation based in Milan, called Multiplicity, concerned about contemporary urbanism, architecture, visual arts and general culture through which he promoted research and exhibitions on the transformation of the inhabited territories that have been presented in many museums and exhibition venues and international universities. Multiplicity was involved in three major research projects: “USE-Uncertain states of Europe”, a research on territorial transformations in contemporary Europe, presented for the first time as part of Mutations, Bordeaux, 2000; “Solid Sea”, a study of the Mediterranean presented at Documenta11, Kassel 2002 and “Border-Device(s)”, a research into the proliferation of controversial boundaries in the contemporary world, produced within the exhibition Territories at Berlin Kunst Werke and Utopia Station, Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art 2003 Multiplicity publications include: Mutations, (Actar, Barcelona 2001, with various authors); Mutations, (TNProbe, Tokyo 2000, by various authors), Geografie und die Politik der Mobilität, (Generali Foundation, Vienna 2003, by various authors), USE Uncertain states of Europe (Skira, Milan 2003).


Akira Santillan (born 22 May 1997) is an Australian–Japanese tennis player. Santillan was born in Tokyo to a Japanese mother and a South African father. The family moved to Brisbane, where he became an Australian citizen. However, in March 2015, Santillan opted to play under the Japanese flag instead due to a fractious relationship with Tennis Australia. On the junior tour, Santillan has a career high ITF junior ranking of 7 achieved in September 2015. Santillan's major highlights on the junior tour included a semifinal at the 2015 Australian Open and doubles finals at the 2014 French Open and the 2015 Wimbledon Championships. Santillan has a career high ATP singles ranking of 291 achieved on 11 July 2016. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 675 achieved also on 11 July 2016. Santillan has won 5 ITF Futures singles titles and 1 ITF Futures doubles title. Santillan will make his ATP main draw debut at the 2016 Generali Open Kitzbühel, receiving singles and doubles main draw wildcards.


Manuel Elkin Patarroyo (born November 3, 1946) is a Colombian Professor of Pathology and Immunology who made the world's first attempt to create a synthetic vaccine against a parasite called the protozoa Plasmodium falciparum that causes severe malaria, a disease transmitted by mosquitoes that affects millions of people and is one of the leading causes of death (~1.5 million people per year) in tropical and subtropical regions, including parts of the Americas, Asia, and Africa. The vaccine candidate, first developed in 1987 in Colombia, was evaluated in clinical trials carried out by the WHO in Gambia, Tanzania and Thailand, and had mixed results. In 2009, a comprehensive Cochrane review assessed the SPf66 as being not efficacious in Africa and Asia, and as having a low but statistically significant efficacy of 28% in South America. Today, after more than 33 years of research, there is still however no licensed malaria vaccine. Researchers and vaccine developers have been working on many approaches to bring forward the availability of a malaria vaccine.\" More research and clinical trials are required for a universal vaccine to be implemented.


Anson Holzer is an outsider large-canvas artist living and working in Washington, DC. His work has been likened to that of artists of the Color Field school that originated in DC in the 1950s. Holzer's palette is tightly controlled and exhibits a very precise use of color, contrasting almost monochromatic textural backgrounds against precise, often explosive, foreground elements. His work bears a strong Buddhist influence and frequently centers on meditative, abstract or primal themes. He developed his unique style while studying in Taipei, Taiwan and continues to works mainly with ink on canvas. Holzer has actively shunned the mainstream art scene, avoiding media attention and rarely granting interviews.Despite his reclusive nature he has sold hundreds of canvases and commissions throughout the United States and around the world He continues to exhibit his work in small niches, and in more anonymous and unconventional settings. His mother Mary Hannah Boynton-Bernardo is a painter and illustrator. He is a native of Morrisville, Vermont.


Owen W. Roberts (born March 29, 1924) was a US diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Togo from June 28, 1984 to July 5, 1986. Roberts was born in Ardmore, Oklahoma. He graduated from Princeton University in 1948 and Columbia University in 1955 with an M.A. and Ph.D. He can speak French and German, as well as English. Roberts served in the United States Army from 1943 to 1946. In 1949 Roberts married Janet Roberts. In 1955 he entered the Foreign Service as consular officer in Cairo, Egypt, and was commercial officer in Leopoldville from 1958 to 1960. In the Department he was desk officer for Africa in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (1961 to 1962), and in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs (1963 to 1964). He was political officer in Lagos from 1964 to 1965, and deputy chief of mission in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso from 1966 to 1968. He attended the Air War College from 1969 to 1970. In the Department he was staff director of the Board of Examiners for the Foreign Service from 1970 to 1971, Deputy Director for Cultural Affairs for Africa, from 1971 to 1972, a member of the policy planning staff in 1973, and Executive Director of the Office of Inspector General from 1974 to 1975. From 1976 to 1978, he was Deputy Director of the Sinai Field Mission, Sinai Desert. He was Director of the African Office at the Department of Defense from 1978 to 1979, and deputy chief of mission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 1979 to 1982. In 1983 he served as African adviser to the United Nations General Assembly. From 1982 to 1984, he was roving Charge in Victoria in the Seychelles, Banjul, The Gambia, and then N'Djamena, Chad. In May 1984 Roberts was appointed Ambassador to the Republic of Togo, and held that post through September 1986. Owen retired in 1989.


Tom Kelley Sr. (December 12, 1914 – January 8, 1984) was an American photographer who photographed Hollywood celebrities in the 1940s and 1950s. He is best known for his iconic 1949 nude photographs of Marilyn Monroe, which were distributed widely as calendar art—one of which was featured in the inaugural issue of Playboy magazine in 1953. Kelley was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He learned photography as an apprentice in a New York photo studio, and then worked for the Associated Press and Town & Country magazine. After coming to California in 1935, Kelley established a photography studio in Hollywood and produced promotional photographs of motion picture stars. David O. Selznick and Samuel Goldwyn retained Kelley to take promotional photos of their stars and starlets for magazine covers and advertising. Later, Kelley's business shifted to commercial and advertising photography. Some of Kelley's most famous photo subjects have included Gary Cooper, Greta Garbo, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Winston Churchill, Bob Hope, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Jack Benny, David Bowie, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin D. Roosevelt and, of course, Marilyn Monroe, with and without clothes. Kelley served on the panel of judges at the Miss Universe 1952 and Miss Universe 1956 pageants. He appeared in the 1966 documentary film The Legend of Marilyn Monroe.


Amy Ramsey (born 1981) is a professional hair stylist and winner of The Rock Style Awards' Celebrity Hairdresser of the Year 2010 in the \"Metal Category\". Amy is well known among the Los Angeles heavy metal and rock'n'roll community for her innovative hairstyles. She has worked with many well known bands and musicians including Marilyn Manson, Lifehouse, Carcass, Morbid Angel, Anvil, Mastodon, Clutch and even, in one emergency, Kenny Loggins. Ramsey was recently named as the personal hair stylist for Steven Adler's 2010 world tour with his band Adler's Appetite. Amy released her own line of natural and organic hair products in October 2009. Called \"AmyHair,\" the products are innovative because they can be used by both people and their pets. Ramsey donates 35% of the profits from AmyHair to \"Beyoncé's House,\" a home for stray pets in Valley Village, California that Amy named for her voluptuous puppy Millie who she claims \"has hips like Beyoncé.\"


Ivan Basso (born 26 November 1977) is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer who last raced with UCI ProTeam Tinkoff–Saxo. Basso, nicknamed Ivan the Terrible, was considered among the best mountain riders in the professional field in the early 21st century, and was considered one of the strongest stage race riders. He is a double winner of the Giro d'Italia, having won the 2006 edition and the 2010 edition of the Italian Grand Tour whilst riding for Team CSC in 2006 and for Liquigas in 2010. However, in 2007 Basso admitted he was planning to use doping and was suspended for two years. His suspension ended on 24 October 2008, and he returned to racing two days later in the Japan Cup, where he placed a close third behind Damiano Cunego and Giovanni Visconti. He later returned to racing in his home tour and in 2010, he won his second Giro d'Italia while riding for Liquagis-Domo, winning two stages along the way.


Goodloe Edgar Byron (June 22, 1929 – October 11, 1978), a Democrat, was a U.S. Congressman who represented the 6th congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1971 until his death from a heart attack in Hagerstown, Maryland on October 11, 1978. He was replaced as 6th district representative by his widow, Beverly Byron, in 1979. Prior to serving in Congress, Byron served as a member of the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps from 1953 to 1957, honorably discharged with the rank of captain. He earned his JD from The George Washington University He later was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates (1963–1967) and the Maryland State Senate (1967–1971). His parents, William D. Byron and Katharine Byron, both served as 6th district representative, from 1939 to 1941 and 1941 to 1943, respectively. The Byron family were communicants of Saint John's Church, Hagerstown.


Ray Goodlett is a retired American soccer defender who spent one season in Major League Soccer with D.C. United. Goodlett graduated from Sherwood High School. He attended Howard University, playing on the men’s soccer team from 1994 to 1997. On April 12, 1999, Goodlett signed with the Hershey Wildcats of the USL A-League. On July 25, 1999, he went on loan to D.C. United of Major League Soccer, but was an unused substitute. In 2000, Goodlett began the season with the Wildcats, but D.C. United signed him on July 12, 2000. He played four games that season. United waived Goodlett on May 4, 2001. On May 18, 2001, the Richmond Kickers signed Goodlett. Following the 2003 season, Goodlett retired in order to attend Fuller Theological Seminary. He graduated in June 2004 and became the Director of Every Nation Campus Ministries at the University of Richmond. This led to his return to the Kickers, now playing in the USL Second Division, on March 21, 2006 for a single season.


Lucy Martin (born 5 May 1990) is a British retired professional road and track cyclist. Martin was born in Whiston, Merseyside and grew up in Widnes, Cheshire where she attended Riverside College. She was spotted by British Cycling's Olympic Talent Team at the age of 15, and later moved on to their under-23 Olympic Academy Programme, which rode as 'Team 100% ME'. In 2011, Martin was signed by the Garmin-Cervélo women's team as one of four British riders. Following the disbandment of that team, she was one of six of their riders, including all four British riders, picked up by AA Drink–leontien.nl for the 2012 season. As of 2012, she is based in Girona in Spain. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's road race. In August 2015 Martin announced her immediate retirement from competition. She subsequently joined Orica–BikeExchange from 2016, working on the team's digital content and PR.


Terry Duerod (born July 29, 1956) is an American retired professional basketball player. A 6'2\" guard, Duerod played college basketball under Dick Vitale at the University of Detroit. In four seasons at Detroit, Duerod scored 1,690 points, averaging 23.3 points per game during his senior season. When Vitale accepted a coaching job with the NBA's Detroit Pistons in 1979, the Pistons selected Duerod in the third round of the 1979 NBA draft. Duerod averaged 9.3 points per game during his rookie season in the NBA, shooting 47 percent from the field. After the Pistons replaced Vitale with Richie Adubato, however, Duerod was left unprotected in the 1980 NBA Expansion Draft, where he was selected by the Dallas Mavericks. Duerod only played eighteen games for Dallas before being waived. He was then signed by the Boston Celtics, with whom he would become a fan favorite as the team's twelfth man. Celtics fans often chanted \"Doooo!\" whenever Duerod entered games, and he became a frequent subject of discussion among the Celtics' television and radio announcers. Duerod earned a championship ring when the Celtics won the 1981 NBA Finals over the Houston Rockets. Duerod played one more season with the Celtics, then played five games for the Golden State Warriors during the 1982–83 season. In his NBA career, he averaged 6.7 points per game. He was inducted into the University of Detroit's Athletic Hall of Fame in 1993. Duerod served as a Detroit firefighter for 27 years, mostly driving fire trucks. Duerod also played on the fire department's basketball team. He retired because of the department's mandatory retirement policy.


Matthew Hockley (born 5 June 1982) is an English former professional footballer, currently playing for Bideford. He can play in defence or midfield. Hockley was born in Paignton, Devon and joined Torquay United as a trainee. He turned professional in July 2000 and made his first team debut in the 1-1 draw at home to Southend United in the FA Cup 1st Round on 18 November 2000. His league debut came the following week in a 2-1 home win against Barnet. He made sporadic appearance over the next two seasons before becoming a regular under Leroy Rosenior, missing only one game in the 2003-04 promotion season. He is nicknamed 'Pitbull' due to his tenacious tackling. In May 2005, he accepted a new contract with Torquay  and in the 2006-07 season made his 200th first team appearance for the Gulls. His 200th league appearance came on 2 March 2007 in a 1-1 draw away to Chester City, Hockley replacing Lloyd Kerry as a late substitute. Torquay were relegated to the Conference National at the end of the 2006-07 season, but Hockley chose to remain with the club, agreeing a new contract with new Torquay manager Paul Buckle. He was an unused substitute in Torquay's FA Trophy Final defeat at Wembley in May 2008, and was released by Torquay three days later. Hockley joined Truro City in June 2008. After 1 season at Truro City he then moved onto Bideford on a free transfer. His brother Wayne was also a professional with Torquay United.


Auguste Hüssener (1789 – 13 February 1877) was a German engraver and miniature painter. Hüssener was born in Szczecin, and was a pupil of the engraver Ludwig Buchhorn. In 1814 she became a professor at the Prussian Academy of Arts and worked since 1824 entrusted with the leadership of the Academic School engraving. At the annual exhibitions of the Academy Hüssener regularly presented works from 1828 to 1860. She became known for her portraits of celebrities from aristocracy, art circles, diplomacy and science. A particular focus was on the portraits of contemporary women, such as the Swedish Nightingale Jenny Lind or Lola Montez. Many of her works were created as templates of other artists. The sculptor Elise Hüssener (1809–??) and the painter Julie Hüssener were her sisters and also worked in Berlin. Julie Hüssener was married to the painter and Hensel-student Edward Ratti (1816–??), whose pictures were Hüssener often used as a template. Hüssener died February 13, 1877 in Berlin.


Michael Felty formerly Miguel Juan Miranda (born November 15, 1963 in Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.) is a former American \"Old School\" professional Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years were from 1981-1986. His previous surname which he is still widely and most familiarly known by, \"Miranda\", was his stepfather's name. There seem to be two stories on how he got his nickname \"Hollywood\". It was either coined by Bicycle Motocross Action (BMXA) editor Steve Giberson because he like to \"show off\"; or he had pretty much gave himself the moniker by having a name sticker under the visor of his helmet reading \"My name is Hollywood\", which was noticed at the 1981 NBA Roncho Nationals. Here is how he tells it in this 1982 quote: \"This guy I know that races motorcycles in Southern California is a real jerk. Every time you did something stupid, we would call you by his last name. 'You're such a Smith.' And at the Super Bowl of Motocross three years ago (in 1979), he raced and had \"Hollywood\" on the back of his jersey. From then on, whenever you did something stupid, we would say: 'You're such a Hollywood'. It was meant as a putdown but now I guess it's compliment. I just tell people that they call me that because I like to show off. Steve Giberson started it.\" -----Mike Miranda Super BMX April 1983. Much like fellow pro racers Eric Rupe and Shawn Texas, he was a born again Christian who credited much of his success to God. Mike Hollywood Miranda now runs the new updated CW Racing  He is using the old school retro style 4130 cromo frame and fork. CW has been widely popular by demand of the classic style of BMX.


Ryan Perryman (born April 13, 1976) is a retired American expatriate basketball player who spent time playing professionally in Hungary, South Korea, Chile, the Dominican Republic and Argentina. He is best remembered, however, for his collegiate career at the University of Dayton between 1994–95 and 1997–98. Perryman played for the Flyers after attending Oak Park High School in Oak Park, Michigan. During his four-year career, the 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m), 228-pound power forward compiled 1,524 points and 1,156 rebounds. As a senior in 1997–98, Perryman led NCAA Division I in rebounding with a 12.5 per game average. He holds the school records for rebounds in a game (23) and offensive rebounds in a season (166). Perryman did not get selected in the NBA Draft and spent his first year out of college as a teacher in Michigan before becoming a professional basketball player. He had the most success while playing for Argentino de Junín in Buenos Aires. He led the Argentine league in rebounding every single season he was there and even developed a cult following among the team's fans. He also played briefly in the Continental Basketball Association for the Grand Rapids Hoops during the 1998–99 season, averaging 3 points and 5 rebounds per game in limited action. Today he is an elementary school textbook representative for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the Columbus, Ohio region. He is married and has three children.


Lee is the South Korea national team's primary half-middleweight fighter, having represented them at the 2014 and 2015 World Judo Championships. He was also chosen as the half-middleweight representative in the 2015 World team competition, where he won a silver medal. His main skill is seoi nage, a trademark of the Korea national team. On the International Judo Federation circuit, he has won a silver medal at the 2015 Grand Slam in Tokyo and the 2013 Grand Prix in Jeju and Rijeka. A soldier of the Republic of Korea Armed Forces, Lee has participated in various military games, and most notably won the gold medal at the 2015 Military World Games in Mungyeong. Lee became Korea's half-middleweight representative after defeating double world champion Wang Ki-chun as the latter ascended from lightweight. He has consistently won the national title in the weight division, however lost to Wang in the 2015 Korea National Championships. Lee is currently ranked No. 29 in the world rankings, and is the second ranked in Korea for the Olympic qualifiers after Wang.


Robert 'Bob' Thomson (29 December 1890 – 1971) was an English footballer who played during the early 20th century, mainly prior to World War I. Playing as a forward, Thomson carved out a career in the game despite having only one eye, resulting from a childhood accident with a firework. When asked how he dealt with a ball coming to him on his blind side, Bob would answer: 'I just shut my other eye and play from memory.' He started out with his local side Croydon Common before joining west Londoners Chelsea in September 1911. His most successful season with Chelsea came in 1914-15, when his six goals in eight FA Cup games helped his team reach the final, where they lost to Sheffield United. When competitive football was abandoned in Britain in 1915, Thomson continued to turn out for Chelsea in unofficial wartime matches, scoring 100 goals in three seasons 1915-17. He played twice more for the club in FA cup when hostilities ended. He made a total of 95 appearances and scored 29 goals. He signed for Charlton Athletic in 1921.


Eddie Keizan (12 September 1944 – 21 May 2016) was a South African racing driver. He raced in three World Championship Formula One Grands Prix during the 1970s, debuting on 3 March 1973. He scored no championship points. Keizan was born in Johannesburg. After success in South Africa driving saloons and sports cars, Keizan moved into Formula 5000 where he won the national championship. He participated in the South African Formula One championships as well, including three World Championship South African Grands Prix, twice with a Tyrrell owned by Alex Blignaut - this car had been previously raced by Jackie Stewart. For the third of his three attempts, Keizan drove a Lotus 72, entered by local outfit Team Gunston. After Formula One, Keizan raced in touring cars and also concentrated on his business interests, including a successful alloy wheels company, TSW Alloy Wheels formally known as Tiger Sports Wheels.


Helen Newington Wills (October 6, 1905 – January 1, 1998), also known as Helen Wills Moody and Helen Wills Roark, was an American tennis player. She became famous around the world for holding the top position in women's tennis for a total of nine years: 1927–33, 1935 and 1938. She won 31 Grand Slam tournament titles (singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles) during her career, including 19 singles titles. Wills was the first American woman athlete to become a global celebrity, making friends with royalty and film stars despite her preference to stay out of the limelight. She was admired for her graceful physique and for her fluid motion. She was part of a new tennis fashion, playing in knee-length pleated skirts rather than the longer ones of her predecessors. Unusually, she practiced against men to hone her craft, and she played a relentless game, wearing down her female opponents with power and accuracy. In 1933 she beat the 8th-ranked male player in an exhibition match. Her record of eight wins at Wimbledon was not surpassed until 1990 when Martina Navratilova won nine. She was said to be \"arguably the most dominant tennis player of the 20th century\", and has been called by some (including Jack Kramer, Harry Hopman, Mercer Beasley, Don Budge, and AP News) as the greatest female player in history.


Ryan DeForest Mollett (born November 3, 1978) is a finance executive and a retired lacrosse defenseman who played professional field lacrosse in Major League Lacrosse (MLL). He starred as a member of the Princeton Tigers men's lacrosse team from 1998 through 2001, where he was the best NCAA lacrosse defenseman in the nation, the Ivy League player of the year, a two-time United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) All-American (first team once), two-time All-Ivy League first team selection and a member of two national champion teams. During his time at Princeton, the team qualified for the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship all four years, reached the championship game three times, won the championship game twice and won four Ivy League championships. He was a member of Team USA at the 2002 World Lacrosse Championship. He was the first collegiate player ever drafted in the MLL and became an MLL All-Star player.


Simon Aspelin (born 11 May 1974) is a former professional tennis doubles player from Sweden who turned professional in 1998. His success mainly came in doubles, winning 12 titles and reaching World No. 7 in March 2008. In men's doubles, Aspelin won the 2007 US Open and the Silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. A memorable part of Aspelin's career was when he and doubles partner Todd Perry were playing in the 2006 Wimbledon Championships men's doubles quarterfinals as the eighth-seeded doubles team against third-seeded Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor. Knowles and Nestor won the match by winning the final set 23–21. At the 2007 U.S. Open, seeded tenth with his partner Julian Knowle, Aspelin achieved the greatest triumph of his career by winning the U.S. Open, his first Grand Slam. In the first two rounds, they won against Kubot/Skoch and got a walkover over Calleri/Horna. They went on to upset the eighth seeds Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram in the third round. In the quarterfinals, they shocked the top seeds Bob and Mike Bryan, having lost to them only weeks before. In the semifinal, they held off unseeded Julien Benneteau and Nicolas Mahut, before winning the final in two sets over the ninth seeds, Pavel Vízner and Lukáš Dlouhý. He had never before reached a Grand Slam semifinal. This win put them into the No. 5 position in the ATP Doubles Race, and also gave Aspelin his career-high ranking of No. 13. His Davis cup record in March 2009 is 3–5 in doubles. Another notable performance in 2007 was the final against Knowles/Nestor in Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai, which he lost with Julian Knowle. In the 2008 Summer Olympics, he and fellow Swede Thomas Johansson defeated French pair Michaël Llodra and Arnaud Clément 7–6, 4–6, 19–17 in the semi-finals. The match that lasted 4 hours and 46 minutes. They went on to win the Silver medal. Prior to his pro career, Aspelin competed for four seasons at Pepperdine University, in Malibu, Calif. He was one of just two Waves to earn All-American status all four seasons, and was inducted into the Pepperdine Hall of Fame in the fall of 2010. In May 2011, he was inducted into the ITA Hall of Fame. In July 2011, Aspelin announced his retirement from professional tennis. He played his last tournament in Båstad, where he reached the final but failed to claim his thirteenth ATP title.


Ansley Cargill (born January 5, 1982) is a former tennis player from the United States, who won four International Tennis Federation Circuit singles titles, and four International Tennis Federation Circuit doubles titles. In 2006 she won $50,000 ITF/Hammond, LA-USA defeating No. 1 seed Tatiana Poutchek of Belarus 6–1 6–3 in Quarter-finalsand No. 4 seed Tatiana Perebiynis of Ukraine 6–4 6–4 in the final. She also won $25,000 ITF/Vancouver-CAN which she was defending champion, as she won the event in 2005. She has reached a career-high WTA Tour Singles ranking of No. 90 on May 5, 2003. On the WTA Tour she has reached one Singles quarterfinal at Sarasota, FL-USA in 2003. She defeated World No.13 Patty Schnyder of Switzerland in first round and World No.31 Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand in second round before losing to World No.22 Nathalie Dechy of France. She has also reached one WTA Tour Doubles final at Tokyo, Japan Open in 2003 with Ashley Harkleroad of the United States, they lost to Maria Sharapova of Russia and Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand. She has played nine Grand Slam Main draw events and reached the second round of the 2003 Australian Open defeating Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain before losing to Venus Williams of the United States. Following her graduation from Duke University, Cargill now works in Equity Sales at the Atlanta office of financial brokerage firm Morgan Stanley.


Joseph \"Yonnie\" Starr (August 11, 1905 – March, 1990) was a Canadian Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse trainer about whom the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame says has a \"record unmatched in Canadian racing history.\" Starr began his career in Thoroughbred racing as a jockey's agent, representing prominent jockeys such as Frank Mann, Pat Remillard, Red Pollard, and George Seabo. At the same time, in an unofficial capacity Starr became involved in the conditioning of horses. As an unlicensed trainer his first win in 1936 was not formally recognized as were the wins of other horses he trained between then and 1952 when he applied for his license. Yonnie Starr earned his first Canadian Horse of the Year honors in 1955 with Ace Marine, a colt whose wins included the three races that four years later were officially designated as the Canadian Triple Crown series. In all, Starr won ten official Triple Crown Classics including four Queen's Plates. His horses earned ten Sovereign Awards and won a record seven Canadian Horse of the Year titles: Ace Marine (1955), Wonder Where (1959), Fanfreluche (1970), La Prevoyante (1972), L'Enjoleur (1974, 1975), L'Alezane (1977). Seven of the horses he trained were inducted in the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame with one of them also elected to the U.S. United States Racing Hall of Fame. Although Starr trained horses of both sexes, he was recognized as someone who also had a special talent to develop fillies. During his career he trained horses with great success for prominent owners such as Conn Smythe and Larkin Maloney, both individually and for the Smythe/Maloney racing partnership. In the 1970s and 1980s Starr continued as a dominant force in Canadian racing as the trainer for Quebec sportsman, Jean-Louis Levesque. In addition to training for others, he owned a few horses and notably trained Unbranded who won the 1954 Jockey Club Cup Handicap. Yonnie Starr trained horses until his death in Florida in March 1990 at age eighty-four. At the time, he had been racing for the winter season at Gulfstream Park.


Jack Price Hallett (born November 13, 1914 in Toledo, Ohio, died: June 11, 1982 in Toledo, Ohio) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Chicago White Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates and New York Giants between 1940 and 1948. He was a 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m), 215 pound right-hander. He made his big-league debut on September 13, 1940 at the age of 25 for the White Sox, wearing #28. In two games that year, he went 1 and 1 with a 6.43 ERA in 14 innings of work. In 1941, he spent time as both a starter and reliever. He posted a 5 and 5 record and a 6.03 ERA. On December 9, 1941, Hallett was traded from the White Sox with Mike Kreevich to the Philadelphia Athletics for Wally Moses. Obviously, he never played with the A's. He appeared in only 3 games in 1942, starting all of them. He had an 0 and 1 record, but he completed two of the games he appeared in. In 1943, with his number changed to 40, he posted a tiny 1.70 ERA in 47 innings of work, but still had a losing record of 1 and 2. He missed 1944 and 1945 because he was serving overseas during World War II. He came back after his time in the military and posted a solid 3.29 ERA in 115 innings of work for the Pirates in 1946. Still, his record was only 5 and 7. His number was 39. After playing for the minor league Indianapolis Indians in 1947, he came back in 1948 and finished his big league career with the Giants at the age of 33. In four innings of work in 1948 and wearing number 40, he posted a 4.50 ERA. His final game was on April 29. Overall, he went 12 and 16 in 277 innings of work over a span of six seasons. He appeared in a total of 73 games, starting 24 of them and completing 11 of his starts (2 of his complete games were shutouts). His career ERA was 4.05. He was a fairly solid batter, hitting .238 with one home run in 80 career at-bats. He was a perfect fielder, committing zero errors. His career pitching statistics are most similar to those of Jim Britton. He died in 1982 at the age of 67 in Toledo, Ohio. He was buried at the United Church of Christ Cemetery in Holgate, Ohio.