Robert Millar (born 13 September 1958) is a Scottish former professional road racing cyclist. Millar won the \"King of the Mountains\" competition in the 1984 Tour de France and finished fourth overall. Millar was the first rider from an English speaking country to have won the Mountains classification in the Tour de France. This success was the first time a British rider won a major Tour classification, and was unsurpassed as the highest Tour finish for a Briton until Bradley Wiggins was retrospectively placed third in the 2009 Tour de France. He is one of only four Britons to have won a Tour de France jersey competition along with Wiggins, Chris Froome and Mark Cavendish. He rode the Tour de France eleven times completing the race eight times. Millar also achieved the highest finish by a Briton in the Giro d'Italia, finishing second in 1987 and also winning the King of the Mountains classification. As well as the Giro second-place finish, he finished second in two other Grand Tours: the 1985 and 1986 Vuelta a España. Millar was the first British rider to achieve three top three finishes in grand tours (an achievement only equalled when Wiggins was promoted to third in the 2009 Tour de France in 2012). He was set to win the 1985 Vuelta before losing the leader's jersey on the penultimate stage due to collusion by the Spanish-speaking teams. Millar won the 1985 Volta a Catalunya, the 1989 Tour of Britain and the 1990 Dauphiné Libéré.


Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Serebrov (February 15, 1944 – November 12, 2013) was a Soviet cosmonaut. He graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1967), and was selected as a cosmonaut on December 1, 1978. He retired on May 10, 1995. He was married and had one child. He flew on Soyuz T-7, Soyuz T-8, Soyuz TM-8 and Soyuz TM-17.He was one of very few cosmonauts to fly for both the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation that followed it. He held the record for most spacewalks, 10, until Anatoly Solovyev surpassed it. In all, Serebrov spent 371.95 days in space. Serebrov contributed to the design of Salyut 6, Salyut 7, and the Mir space stations. He helped design, and, according to a New York Times obituary, \"was the first to test a one-person vehicle - popularly called a space motorcycle - to rescue space crews in distress and repair satellites.\" Serebrov died suddenly in Moscow on November 12, 2013. and buried on November 15 at Ostankinsky cemetery. He was awarded: \n* Title of Hero of the Soviet Union \n* Title of Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR \n* Order of Friendship of Peoples  \n* Two Orders of Lenin \n* Order of the October Revolution \n* Medal \"For Merit in Space Exploration\" (Russian Federation) \n* Officer of the Legion of Honour (France)


Peter Kenneth Gethin (21 February 1940 in Ewell, Surrey, United Kingdom – 5 December 2011) was a British racing driver from England. He participated in 31 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 21 June 1970. He won the 1971 Italian Grand Prix in the fastest average speed in Formula One history, but this was his only podium finish. Gethin also participated in numerous non-Championship Formula One races, winning the 1971 World Championship Victory Race and the 1973 Race of Champions. Gethin also raced for Team McLaren in the 1970 Canadian-American Challenge Cup series, driving the McLaren M8D that had been driven by Dan Gurney in the first three races of the season. Gethin won one race and finished third in the 1970 championship. In 1974 Gethin won the Tasman Series, a Formula 5000 series held in Australia and New Zealand. Gethin drove a Chevron B24 Chevrolet. Gethin later ran a Formula 3000 team.


George Whitfield Scranton (May 11, 1811 – March 24, 1861) was an industrialist and politician, a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from March 4, 1859, until his death in 1861. Moving to Pennsylvania in the late 1830s to establish an iron furnace, he and his brother Selden T. Scranton are considered among the founders of the city of Scranton, Pennsylvania, named for their family. They and two partners established what became known as the Iron & Coal Company. They developed a method of producing T-rails for constructing railroad track, which previously had been imported from England. The innovation led to a boom in production of track and construction of railroads. Scranton became a major industrialist, also leading the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, which depended on the iron industry. After his death, his cousin Joseph H. Scranton, an early investor who had moved to this city, became president and the cousin's son, William Walker Scranton, became general manager of the Iron & Coal Company. W.W. Scranton managed the company during and after the Scranton General Strike of 1877, founding the Lackawanna Steel Company.


Sir Bradley Marc Wiggins, CBE (born 28 April 1980) is a British professional road and track racing cyclist who rides for the UCI Continental team WIGGINS. Nicknamed \"Wiggo\", he began his cycling career on the track, but has made the transition to road cycling and is one of the few cyclists to gain significant elite level success in both those forms of professional cycling. He is the only rider to have combined winning both World and Olympic championships on both the track and the road, as well as winning the Tour de France, and holding the iconic track hour record. In addition, he has worn the leader's jersey in each of the three Grand Tours of cycling and as of 2016 holds the world record in team pursuit. The son of the Australian cyclist Gary Wiggins, Wiggins was born to a British mother in Ghent, Belgium, and raised in London from the age of two. He competed on the track from the early part of his career until 2008. Between 2000 and 2008 he won ten medals at the track world championships, of which six were gold: three in the individual pursuit, two in the team pursuit and one in the madison. His first Olympic medal was a silver in the team pursuit in Sydney 2000, before winning three medals including the gold in the individual pursuit at the Athens 2004, and two golds in the individual and team pursuit at the Beijing 2008. On the road, Wiggins turned professional in 2001, but made it his focus from 2008. Initially viewed as a time trial specialist and as a rouleur, he showed his ability in stage races when he came fourth in the 2009 Tour de France; he was later promoted to third after Lance Armstrong's results were annulled in 2012. He signed with the newly formed Team Sky in 2010, and in 2011 he claimed his first victory in a major stage race in the Critérium du Dauphiné, as well as finishing third in the Vuelta a España. In 2012, Wiggins won the Paris–Nice, the Tour de Romandie, the Critérium du Dauphiné, and became the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France and the time trial at the Olympic Games. In 2014 he won gold in the time trial at the road world championships, and founded the WIGGINS cycling team. Wiggins returned to the track at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, and in June 2015 he set a new hour record with a distance of 54.526 km (33.881 mi). In 2016 he won a further world championship in the madison, and gold in the team pursuit at the Olympics, his fifth successive medal winning appearance at the Games. Wiggins was awarded a CBE in 2009. Following his success in 2012, Wiggins was the subject of further honours and awards; the Vélo d'Or award for best rider of the year, the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award and a knighthood as part of the 2013 New Year Honours.


Alessandro Dell'Acqua (born 21 December 1962 in Naples) is a fashion designer. He presented his first prêt-à-porter collection at Milan Moda Donna in 1996 and his first men's line at Pitti in Florence in January 1998. Dell'Acqua took over as creative director at Malo, the Italian luxury knit company, and showed at Milan Fashion Week for the Spring 2009 season in September. At June 2009, Dell'Acqua sent out a press release informing the press that the men's Spring-Summer 2010 and women's Pre-spring 2010 collections will be produced without his approval, and departed ways with his eponymous label. Currently, Dell'Acqua is back on the fashion scene with a new collection, named N°21. The name comes from the designer's birthday, and it is also his lucky number. The 80-piece collection, which spans dresses to knitwear to outerwear, will debut at the upcoming Fall 2010 Milan Fashion Week with a small runway show on February.


Cesar Esteban Grillon was born in Asunción, Paraguay in 1957. He was the first Consul General of Paraguay in Miami. He served in this position from 1986 - 1993. He promoted his country and greatly increased the diplomatic, commercial, and cultural relationship between the United States and Paraguay. He is currently the first Ambassador of Paraguay in the Southeast Asia region, based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Grillon was mentioned in a South Florida Business Journal article while he was Consul General. The article states:  And the country's 31-year-old Consul General in Miami, Cesar Esteban Grillon, is receiving much credit for softening Paraguayan government policy that leaned for decades towards protectionism. \"Cesar does in fact represent the new Paraguay,\" says Miami attorney Margaret Kent, a member of the law firm Feinchrieber & Associates. \"I think he is knocking down the doors that need to be knocked down.\"


Gregory B. Starr (born February 3, 1953) is an American diplomat and the current Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security. He was previously the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Safety and Security. He was selected by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on May 6, 2009. Prior to his appointment with the United Nations, Starr was the Director of the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), and the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary within Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) from March 1, 2007. Starr also served as the acting Assistant Secretary of State for DS from October 2007 to July 2008. Starr became a Special Agent and joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1980. His overseas assignments include Senior Regional Security Officer (RSO) at the U.S. Embassy to Israel (1997–2000), and Regional Security Officer positions in Tunisia, Senegal and Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo). His awards include several Senior Foreign Service Performance and Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards. In January 2013 Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon announced the interim replacement for Mr. Starr. Mr. Starr's pending departure had been announced the previous August. On February 1, 2013 it was announced that Mr. Starr has again assumed the responsibility of Director of the Diplomatic Security Service and will also serve as the acting Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Diplomatic Security. On July 31, 2013, President Obama announced that he was formally nominating Mr. Starr for Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Diplomatic Security.


Emma Jane Pooley (born 3 October 1982) is an elite English sportswoman. A former professional cyclist who specialised in time trials and hilly races at the highest level, she transferred her skills to endurance running, duathlon and triathlon, and is currently a professional triathlete, and the reigning double world champion in long distance duathlon. She won an Olympic silver medal in the time trial in 2008 and was world time trial champion in 2010. She has won six UCI Women's Road World Cup one-day races, as well as several stage races including the ten-day Tour de l'Aude. She is three-times a British time trial champion and in 2010 also won the British road race championships. Pooley retired from professional cycling after the 2014 Commonwealth Games to concentrate on triathlon, duathlon and long-distance running, having won the Lausanne Marathon and the Swissman triathlon the previous year. On 16 December 2015, Pooley announced that she would be returning temporarily to cycling, seeking to qualify to represent Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, as she felt the unusually mountainous time trial course on offer played to her strengths In June 2016, Pooley came out of retirement and re-signed for her former team, Lotto–Soudal Ladies, in time for the 2016 Giro Rosa.


Sir John Edward Thornycroft, KBE (1872–1960) was a British mechanical and civil engineer. Thornycroft was born in Chiswick in 1872 and was the eldest son of Blanche Ida née Coules and Sir John Isaac Thornycroft, the founder of the Thornycroft shipbuilding company. He was educated at St Paul's School, London before receiving engineering training at the Central Technical College in South Kensington. Following this training Thornycroft joined his father's shipyard where he worked on the construction of ships. He became managing director of the company in 1901. He worked on the design and construction of vessels for the Royal Navy during the First World War, a service for which he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1918. He also developed road vehicles, including a steam-powered wagon and an oil-engined tractor. He was elected president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers for 1937 to 1938. Thornycroft was also elected president of the Institute of Civil Engineers for the November 1942 to November 1943 session. In 1946 he was made a fellow of Imperial College London. He resigned as Chairman of the Company on 20 July 1960, being then elected as President of the Company. Sir John died five months later on 21 November 1960.


Pietro Bellotti (1625–1700) was an Italian painter active in the Baroque period. He was born in Salò. He was a pupil of Girolamo Forabosco in Venice. He was patronized by Pope Alexander VIII and by the Duke of Uceda. He lived in Bolzano. He painted mostly portraits. He died at Venice. He shares the same name with the younger brother of Bernardo Bellotto, a Venetian vedute painter, nephew of Canaletto. This Pietro was born March 22, 1725 in Venice, and after collaborating with the two painters above, moved to Toulouse, France, where he was active in the local Royal academy, as well as in Nantes (1755,1768), Besançon (1761), Lille (1778-1779), and Paris. In France, he was referred, by a number of names, including le Sieur Canalety and Pietro Bellotti di Caneletty. He is also referred as Belloti, Belloty, Beloty, or Bellottit. He died around 1805.


Scottie Maurice Pippen (born September 25, 1965) is an American retired professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association. Nicknamed \"Pip\", he is most remembered for his time with the Chicago Bulls, the team with which he won six NBA titles. Pippen, along with Michael Jordan, played an important role in transforming the Bulls team into a championship team and for popularizing the NBA around the world during the 1990s. Considered one of the best small forwards of all time, Pippen was named to the NBA All-Defensive First Team eight consecutive times and the All-NBA First Team three times. He was a seven-time NBA All-Star and was the NBA All-Star Game MVP in 1994. He was named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History during the 1996–97 season, and is one of four players to have his jersey retired by the Chicago Bulls (the others being Jerry Sloan, Bob Love, and Michael Jordan). He played a key role on both the 1992 Chicago Bulls Championship team and the 1996 Chicago Bulls Championship team which were selected as two of the Top 10 Teams in NBA History. His biography on the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame's website states, \"The multidimensional Pippen ran the court like a point guard, attacked the boards like a power forward, and swished the nets like a shooting guard.\" During his 17-year career, he played 12 seasons with the Bulls, one with the Houston Rockets and four with the Portland Trail Blazers, making the postseason sixteen straight times. Pippen is also the only player to have won an NBA title and Olympic gold medal in the same year twice (1992, 1996). He was a part of the 1992 U.S. Olympic \"Dream Team\" which beat its opponents by an average of 44 points. Pippen was also a key figure in the 1996 Olympic team, alongside former Dream Team members Karl Malone, John Stockton, and Charles Barkley as well as newer faces such as Anfernee \"Penny\" Hardaway and Grant Hill. He wore number 8 during both years. Pippen is a two-time inductee into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (for his individual career, and as a member of the \"Dream Team\"), being inducted for both on August 13, 2010. On November 8, 2005, the Chicago Bulls retired his number #33, while his college, University of Central Arkansas, retired his number #33 on January 21, 2010 as well.


Liu Hailong (born May 30, 1981 in Shandong Province) is a Chinese Sanshou kickboxer. Liu's rise to fame came in 2000 in the inaugural King of Sanda tournament. Liu not only won his weight class, but went on to win a grueling one-night open weight round robin tournament against much bigger fighters as well, giving him the title Sanda \"King of Kings\". Exciting and charismatic, Liu is almost certainly China's most recognized combat athlete. In 2003, Liu faced a fellow King of Sanda in Yuan Yubao in the promotion's first \"superfight\", defeating him soundly by decision to earn the title of \"Super King of Sanda\". At the Sanshou World Championships in Macau, Liu faced Muslim Salihov in amateur rules competition and beat him on points to win the 80 kg division gold medal. Salihov is a highly accomplished Russian Sanshou fighter who would later become a King of Sanda himself. Some fight observers believe Salihov won the closely contested match. In December 2003, Liu scored a unanimous decision over Eduardo Fujihara to claim the IKF Sanshou World Championship. Other Chinese fighters who participated in that event include Bao Li Gao. At the World Sanda Kings tournament in 2003 there was a challenge issued by well-known American Sanshou fighter Cung Le to Liu Hailong for a ``superfight`` to decide who was the best in the world. However the highly anticipated matchup never materialized between the two sides. After an injury in 2005, Liu retired from the sport. In 2009, he made a comeback facing and KOing Japanese fighter Iga Koji.


Bryan W. Nolen was an Oklahoma City, Oklahoma architect who served as a Major in the Oklahoma National Guard. He designed numerous armories built under the Works Progress Administration. He is credited with more than 20 buildings that are preserved and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. His works include: \n* Anadarko Armory, 700 W. Oklahoma St., Anadarko, OK (Nolen, Bryan W.) NRHP-listed \n* Clinton Armory, 723 S. Thirteenth St., Clinton, OK (Nolen, Bryan W.) NRHP-listed \n* Cushing Armory, 218 S. Little Ave., Cushing, OK (Nolen, Bryan W.) NRHP-listed \n* Eufaula Armory, 48 Memorial Dr., Eufaula, OK (Nolen, Bryan W.) NRHP-listed \n* Guthrie Armory, 720 E. Logan, Guthrie, OK (Nolen, Bryan W.) NRHP-listed \n* Healdton Armory, Jct. of Fourth and Franklin Sts., Healdton, OK (Nolen, Bryan W.) NRHP-listed \n* Hominy Armory, 201 N. Regan St., Hominy, OK (Nolen, Bryan W.) NRHP-listed \n* Kingfisher Armory, 301 N. 6th St., Kingfisher, OK (Nolen, Bryan W.) NRHP-listed \n* Konawa Armory, 625 N. State St., Konawa, OK (Nolen, Bryan W.) NRHP-listed \n* Mangum Armory, 115 E. Lincoln St., Mangum, OK (Nolen, Bryan W.) NRHP-listed \n* Marlow Armory, 702 W. Main St., Marlow, OK (Nolen, Bryan W.) NRHP-listed \n* Minco Armory, 407 W. Pontotoc St., Minco, OK (Nolen, Bryan W.) NRHP-listed \n* Okemah Armory, 405 N. 6th St., Okemah, OK (Nolen, Bryan W.) NRHP-listed \n* Okmulgee Armory, Jct. of 2nd. and Alabama Sts., Okmulgee, OK (Nolen, Bryan W.) NRHP-listed \n* Pawhuska Armory, 823 E. 8th St., Pawhuska, OK (Nolen, Bryan W.) NRHP-listed \n* Pawnee Armory, Jct. of First and Cleveland Sts., Pawnee, OK) NRHP-listed \n* Roff Armory, Jct. of Burns and N. 9th Sts., Roff, OK (Nolen, Bryan W.) NRHP-listed \n* Sulphur Armory, 500 W. Wynnewood Ave., Sulphur, OK (Nolen, Bryan W.) NRHP-listed \n* Tahlequah Armory, 100 Water Ave., Tahlequah, OK (Nolen, Bryan W.) NRHP-listed \n* Tishomingo Armory, 500 E. 24th St., Tishomingo, OK (Nolen, Bryan W.) NRHP-listed \n* Tonkawa Armory, Third and North Sts., Tonkawa, OK (Nolen,Bryan) NRHP-listed \n* Wagoner Armory, 509 E. Cherokee St., Wagoner, OK (Nolen, Bryan W.) NRHP-listed \n* Watonga Armory, 301 W. Main, Watonga, OK (Nolen, Bryan W.) NRHP-listed \n* Weatherford Armory, 123 W. Rainey St., Weatherford, OK (Nolen, Bryan W.) NRHP-listed


James P. McAnulty (sometimes McNulty) is the U.S. Envoy to Somalia. Since the U.S. officially recognized the government of Somalia and reopened its Mission there in 2013 after some 22 years, the United States has continued to be represented in Somalia by a special envoy based at its embassy in Nairobi, Kenya and titled a Special Representative rather than by a U.S. Ambassador. The US appointed James P. McAnulty, a career foreign service officer (FSO), who joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1983, as the Mission’s Special Representative to Somalia, and he was received as such by the Somalia government on August 26, 2013. McAnulty was last prior to being appointed the U.S. Special Representative to Somalia, the U.S. Deputy Chief of Missions in Nigeria. A graduate of the United States Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, Colorado, James McAnulty served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Air Force before joining the U.S. Foreign Service.


Stephen \"Jo Jo\" English (born February 4, 1970) is an American professional basketball player who starred at the University of South Carolina in the early 1990s and later played parts of three seasons for the National Basketball Association's Chicago Bulls. English made his NBA debut on December 2, 1992. A 6'4\" guard, English is perhaps best remembered for being involved in a bench-clearing brawl with Derek Harper of the New York Knicks during a 1994 NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals playoff game at Chicago Stadium. With NBA Commissioner David Stern in attendance, English and Harper carried their fight into the stands and were subsequently punished with one and two-game suspensions, respectively. English played just eight games in the following season and later joined the minor-league Continental Basketball Association. He also played for the Adelaide 36ers in the Australian National Basketball League during 1995, averaging 14.8 points in 21 games. He later played in Turkey for two seasons.


Jocelyn Charles Bjorn Lovell (19 July 1950 – 3 June 2016) was a Canadian cyclist. He dominated Canadian track and road cycling in the 1970s and early 1980s; winning dozens of national titles as well as gold medals at the Commonwealth Games and Pan American Games. He competed at three Olympic Games. His victories, at international competitions, renewed global interest in Canadian cycling. His greatest success came at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton where he won three gold medals in Games record times. Later that year he won a silver medal at the world championships. He continued to race as an amateur into the early 1980s. However, tragedy struck on 4 August 1983 when he was involved in a collision with a dump truck while training in Halton Region, just northwest of Toronto. The truck hit him from behind and broke his neck and pelvis. From that moment on, he permanently became a quadriplegic. No charges were laid. In 1985, he was inducted into the  Canadian Sports Hall of Fame.


Jan Gustafsson (born June 25, 1979) is a German chess grandmaster. He earned his IM title in 1999, and his GM title in 2003. Born in Hamburg, West Germany, Gustafsson started playing in the Hamburg SK chess club. As a young chess player he soon became successful, and won the U13 German team championship in 1992. Two years later he won the U15 German championship, and in 1996 both the U17 individual championship and the U20 team championship. He has played in the German Chess Bundesliga since 1997. He was nominated to the German national team in 2002, and in 2004 he represented Germany in the 2004 Chess Olympiad. Gustafsson is one of the strongest German chess players, and finished second in the 2004 and 2005 German championships. He is also considered a very strong blitz chess player, winning the German blitz championship in 2001. In 2011 he tied for 1st-3rd with Nigel Short and Francisco Vallejo Pons in the Thailand Open in Pattaya and won the event on tie-break. His highest Elo rating is 2652, which he sustained from November 2010 until January 2011. Gustafsson is involved in Chess24.com project, in which he makes video analyses of notable chess games, and has been named by the chess historian  Edward Winter as one of the top five Internet chess broadcasters. He is also a poker player, and has written a book on poker together with Dutch professional poker player Marcel Lüske.


Joseph Quick (6 November 1809 Chelsea, London – 30 March 1894 Clapham Park) was an English civil engineer who was closely involved in improvements to water supply in the great industrial cities of the nineteenth century. Both his father and his son (author of The Water Supply of the Metropolis. London and New York: 1880) were also waterworks engineers by the name Joseph Quick. On 28 March 1844, as engineer to the Southwark Waterworks, Quick was called to give evidence before the Health and Towns Commissioners of the British Parliament. Again after the 1848/49 outbreak of cholera in London, he was one of the advisors to the government to improve the London water supply infrastructure. One proposal was to have all intake of water from the Thames moved from the tidal Thames to up-river of Teddington Lock. The expert evidence heard by parliament led to the Metropolis Water Act (1852), as a result of which Quick was entrusted with the building of the new Hampton Waterworks, which he designed in an Italianate style. Even before work at Hampton was complete, contamination of the water supply of the Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company, providing water to the borough of Southwark, Battersea, and other locations in the vicinity, led to the 1853 cholera outbreak. A further cholera outbreak in Soho in 1854 added to the urgency. Both outbreaks were famously studied by Dr John Snow. The company’s new facilities up-river at Hampton (shared with two other water companies) only came into operation in 1855. By 1851 Quick was also consulting engineer to the Grand Junction Waterworks Company. As such he bore responsibility for the water tower constructed in 1857-58 on Campden Hill, of which there is a well-known contemporary print, although he himself was not the designer. In 1857, together with Alexander Fraser, he was granted a patent for “improvements in apparatus for regulating the drawing off and supply of water and other fluids”. Quick’s expertise as a waterworks engineer was such that together with his son he set up an international consultancy, and in the 1860s became involved in projects for the provision of modern water supplies in Amsterdam, Berlin, Saint Petersburg, Antwerp and Beirut. In St Petersburg the open filter method that proved highly successful in Amsterdam turned out to be entirely unsuitable to local climatic conditions.


Crystal Huang (born July 6, 1979 in Changsha, Hunan) is an American table tennis player of Chinese origin. As of October 2010, Hunag is ranked no. 196 in the world by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). She is also left-handed, and uses the penhold grip. Huang currently resides with her family in San Gabriel, California, and obtains a dual citizenship. Huang earned a spot on the U.S. team for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by placing first over Canada's Zhang Mo in the women's singles from the North American Qualification Tournament in Vancouver. Huang joined with her fellow players Wang Chen and five-time Olympian Gao Jun for the inaugural women's team event. She and her team placed second in the preliminary pool round, receiving a total of five points, two victories over the Netherlands and Nigeria, and a single defeat from the Singaporean trio Wang Yuegu, Li Jiawei, and Feng Tianwei. The U.S. team offered another shot for the bronze medal by defeating Romania in the first play-off, but lost their next match to South Korea, with a unanimous set score of 0–3. In the women's singles, Huang lost the preliminary round match to Congo's Yang Fen, attaining a set score of 2–4.


Sir Norman Andrew Forster Rowntree (11 March 1912 – 1991) was a British civil engineer. Rowntree was born in London in 1912 and held a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering. He worked as an engineering consultant for Alcott & Lomax, who would be acquired by Babtie in 2000. During his consulting career he was involved with the construction of water pumping stations. Rowntree was appointed director of the Water Resources Board (WRB), a national water planning body established in 1964. The WRB was dominated by civil engineers and focussed its efforts on implementing structural solutions to water resource problems. Rowntree was a keen proponent of that school of thought saying in 1962 that \"the solution of water supply problems … will require the construction and operation of large works and highly‐developed technical control\". Under Rowntree's leadership the WRB was able to undertake what was the largest scheme of water planning yet seen in England and Wales. Rowntree was made a Knight Bachelor in Elizabeth II's birthday honours on 13 June 1970. Rowntree gave the Institution of Electrical Engineers 1972 Graham Clark Lecture on \"Conservation and use of water resources\" and the same year wrote an article for the Proceedings of the Royal Society B entitled \"Water Resources Management in England and Wales\". By 1974 he had become a Professor and, on 2 December that year, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by City University London. Rowntree was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) for the November 1975–76 session. He used his inaugural presidential address to emphasise that \"the duty remains with engineers and other experts to minimise the range of intangible issues… the inaccuracy of words and the opportunities of distortion are enormous. In the present age of unreason this is a real danger and may be responsible for many of our present ills\". He was a chartered engineer and a fellow of the institution. In 1976 Rowntree was employed by the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and, on 8 December, gave the 63rd Thomas Hawksley lecture to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on the history of water engineering. In August 1986 he wrote an article in the Proceedings of the ICE comparing water resources planning in the United Kingdom with that of New Jersey in the USA.


Don Candy (born 31 March 1929) is an Australian former tennis player who was mainly successful in doubles. At the Grand Slam tournaments he reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Championships singles event in 1952 and 1959. In the singles event at the French Championships he reached the eighth-finals in 1956 and 1960. In June 1951 Candy won the singles title at the Kent Championships, a grass court tournament held in Beckenham, defeating Gardnar Mulloy in three sets. The next year, 1952, he again reached the Kent final but on this occasion lost in three sets to Ham Richardson. In July 1951 he won the Midlands counties men's singles title after a straight sets victory in the final against Naresh Kumar from India. In 1956 he won the Men's Doubles title at the French Championships. With his American partner Bob Perry he won against compatriots Ashley Cooper and Lew Hoad in three straight sets. After his active career he moved to Baltimore in 1967 where he coached the World Team Tennis Baltimore Banners and later became the coach of Pam Shriver.


Oliver Holzbecher (born 25 September 1970) is a German former footballer who played as a forward. Holzbecher was a West Germany youth international, and came through the youth team of Hertha BSC. He made his Hertha debut in the last game of the 1988–89 season, coming on as a 75th-minute substitute for Sven Kretschmer in a 1–0 defeat against Fortuna Köln. Over the next few years his appearances were restricted to Hertha's reserve team, where he was part of the team that reached the 1993 DFB Cup Final, losing 1–0 against Bayer Leverkusen. This gave him another chance at first-team action, and he made a further nine appearances in the 2. Bundesliga before leaving in 1995. He spent three years in the Regionalliga Nordost with Reinickendorfer Füchse, before playing out his career with an eight-year spell at Spandauer BC, who were renamed FC Spandau 06 in 2003. He retired in 2006.


Gary Charles Gait (born April 5, 1967) is a Canadian retired professional lacrosse player and currently the head coach of the women's lacrosse team at Syracuse University, where he played the sport collegiately. He played collegiately for the Syracuse Orange men's lacrosse team and professionally in the indoor National Lacrosse League and the outdoor MLL, while representing Canada at the international level. Gait has been inducted into the United States Lacrosse National Hall of Fame and the National Lacrosse League Hall of Fame. He was a four-time All-American for the Syracuse Orange men's lacrosse team from 1987-90 (including first-team honors from 1988 to 1990), and was on three NCAA championship-winning teams. He twice won the Lt. Raymond Enners Award, given to the most outstanding college lacrosse player, in 1988 and 1990. Gait holds the Syracuse career goals record at 192 and the single-season goals record at 70, an NCAA record until 2008. In 1997, the NCAA Lacrosse Committee named Gait, along with his twin brother and Syracuse teammate, Paul, to the 25th Anniversary Lacrosse team. He played in the NLL for 17 years, winning Rookie of the Year in 1991, earning league MVP honors for five straight years, from 1995 to '99 and winning All-Pro honors each season. Gait led the league in points and goals seven times, won three league championships and finished his indoor career with 1,091 points, a league record at the time. Gait also played five seasons in MLL from 2001 to 2005, winning the league title three times and co-MVP honors in 2005. He helped Canada win the 2006 World Lacrosse Championship, the country's first world championship since 1978, by scoring four goals in the final against the United States.


Sid James (born Solomon Joel Cohen; 8 May 1913 – 26 April 1976) was a South African-born British actor and comedian. Appearing in British films from 1947, he was cast in numerous small and supporting roles into the 1960s. His profile was raised as Tony Hancock's co-star in Hancock's Half Hour, which ran on television from 1956 until 1960, and then he became known as a regular performer in the Carry On films, appearing in 19 films of the series with the top billing role in 17 (in the other two he was cast below Frankie Howerd). Meanwhile, his starring roles in television sitcoms continued for the rest of his life. He starred alongside Diana Coupland in the 1970s sitcom Bless This House which aired from 1971 until James died in 1976. Remembered for a lascivious persona, the Snopes website describing him as \"the grand old man of dirty laughter\", he became known for his amiability in his later television work. Bruce Forsyth described him as \"a natural at being natural.\" On 26 April 1976, while touring in The Mating Season, James suffered a heart attack while on stage at the Sunderland Empire Theatre; he died in hospital an hour later. Some, including comedian Les Dawson, claim to have seen the ghost of James at the theatre.


William J. \"Wild Bill\" Hapac (January 26, 1918 – March 9, 1967) was the first Consensus All-American to play for the University of Illinois men's basketball team when he garnered the recognition during his senior season of 1939–40. A native of Chicago, Illinois, Hapac was an all-state player for J. Sterling Morton High School East in 1935. Hapac would star for the Fighting Illini before playing in the National Basketball League from 1940 to 1948. He set a then-unheard of Big Ten Conference single game scoring record of 34 points against Minnesota on February 10, 1940. His senior year, he was honored as a Consensus NCAA First Team All-American and was the first ever recipient of the University of Illinois' Athlete of the Year award. In addition to basketball, Hapac also lettered for three years while playing for the school's baseball team. Hapac played professionally for the Chicago Bruins.


Russ Hogue (born December 26, 1974) is an American kickboxer from Belleville, Illinois. He started training in martial arts under three time world kickboxing champion Jim Boucher in Belleville, Illinois. He was also a member of a National Karate competition team with other notable athletes such as Bridgett Riley (World Boxing/Kickboxing Champion), Patrick Riley (mixed martial arts champion), Donny Reinhardt (North American Kickboxing Champion). He won the St. Louis Golden Gloves title in 1992 and 1993 along with several other kickboxing titles: KICK MO State Champion, USA-KIA MO State Champion (2 weight classes), WKF and IKA US Champion. Throughout the late 80's and early 90's he was a successful karate competitor, winning several national karate tournaments for a period of 4 years, he was the #1 ranked sparring competitor in the region. He was also an alternate member of the 1991 Pan Am Games Karate Team. In February 2007 he was inducted into the Midwest Martial Arts Hall of Fame with Bridgett Riley and Patrick Riley. He was awarded his 5th degree blackbelt by Grand Master Rich Osborn.


Little and Large were a British comedy double act comprising straight man Syd Little (Born Cyril Mead in 1942) and comic Eddie Large (Born Edward McGinnis in Glasgow in 1941). They formed their partnership in 1962, appearing as singers in local pubs around north-west England. They later turned to comedy and, after appearing on Opportunity Knocks they had their own Thames Television series The Little and Large Tellyshow in 1977, and then appeared on BBC1 on The Little and Large Show from 1978 until their show was cancelled in 1991. Eddie Large was generally the funny man while Syd Little was the more serious 'straight guy'. Eddie Large performed a number of impressions, particularly cartoon characters like Deputy Dawg and Woody Woodpecker, while Syd Little simply stood next to him, looking perplexed and distressed. They continued to appear in theatres and pantomimes, including \"Babes in the Woods\" written by Ian Billings. The two were at the peak of their popularity, along with Cannon and Ball, in the 1980s. However, as mainstream comedy moved away from their pantomimish style towards alternative comedy, their popularity dwindled. Eddie Large was told that he might have a heart attack at any moment. The partnership split up when Eddie Large had to have a heart transplant. Syd Little performs on cruise ships, notably on the QE2 during September 2007, and used to run The \"Little\" Restaurant at The Strawberry Gardens pub and now runs a restaurant in The oldest pub in his hometown of Fleetwood called The Steamer. Eddie Large also remains in showbusiness. Eddie Large revealed in an interview in 2010 that he had not spoken to Syd Little for several years. Syd is a member of the showbiz association Christians In Entertainment run by Pastor Chris Gidney.


Emil Weiske (1867, Dolsenhain bei Altenburg – 1950, Saalfeld) was a German naturalist. Emil Weiske was a professional collector of insects and birds.He emigrated to California in 1890 and to Hawaii in 1892. He made expeditions to the Fiji Islands in 1894 and to New Zealand and Australia in 1895. He became a professional collector inNew Guinea dealing especially in birds of paradise (1895 -1900). Later expeditions were to Northeast Siberia, Lake Baikal and North-Mongolia (1908) and then to Patagonia (mainly to the Rio Negro und Limay) and Paraguay (mainly) Concepcion (1911). His collections were mostly birds, mammals, molluscs, reptiles and amphibiens, beetles, butterflies, herbaria and ethnological artefacts. His associates were, among others George Meyer-Darcis, Carl Ribbe, Friedrich Wilhelm Niepelt, the Otto Staudinger Staudinger & Bang-Haas dealership Walter Rothschild and Henley Grose-Smith. He maintained a private museum in Saalfeld where he gave lectures on natural history and his travels. Insects (all orders but especially Hymenoptera, Coleoptera and Lepidoptera collected by Emil Weiske are held by Zoologische Staatssammlung München in Munich, Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin and the Natural History Museum, London (via the Natural History Museum at Tring). Birds collected by Weiske are in Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde, Natural History Museum, London, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin Museum für Naturkunde and Naturkundemuseum Leipzig.Other collections are in Naturhistorisches Museum Wien and Museum für Völkerkunde in Vienna. He is honoured in the butterfly name Graphium weiskei and the bird name New Guinea hawk-eagle (Hieraaetus weiskei).


Iván Ramiro Parra Pinto (born October 14, 1975 in Sogamoso) is a Colombian road bicycle racer for Colombian Continental cycling team Formesán-Bogotá Humana. He has also competed professionally for Petróleos de Colombia, Vitalicio Seguros, ONCE–Eroski, >Comunidad Valenciana–Kelme, Cafes Baque, Colombia–Selle Italia, Cofidis, Colombia es Pasión–Coldeportes and EPM–UNE. Parra comes from a Colombian cycling family. His father, Humberto was a successful in the Vuelta a Colombia, his eldest brother was the famous Colombian climber Fabio Parra who won stages in the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España in the 1980s. His other brother (named after his father) Humberto was also a professional cyclist for several years. Parra started cycling as a mountain bike rider and was the Colombian national MTB champion in 1994. He represented Colombia internationally as a Mountain Biker but changed to road racing. In 1998 he came second in the Vuelta a Colombia. In 1999 he came to ride in the European peloton. In 2005 while riding for the UCI Professional Continental team Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Selle Italia, Parra won two back-to-back stages of the 2005 Giro d'Italia.


Robert David \"Robbie\" Keane (born 8 July 1980) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a striker for and captains Major League Soccer team LA Galaxy. He served as captain of the Republic of Ireland national team from March 2006 until his international retirement in August 2016. Keane began his professional career at Wolverhampton Wanderers, scoring twice on his first team debut aged 17. The following season he was the club's leading goalscorer and scored his first international goal for the Republic of Ireland. He changed club frequently between 1999 and 2002, breaking transfer fee records, but his brief spells at Inter Milan and Leeds United were unexceptional. He joined Tottenham Hotspur in 2002 and played there for seven-and-a-half years over two spells and amassed 303 appearances across all competitions, scoring 122 goals. The 2007–08 season was the most fruitful of his career as he set a career record of 23 goals in a season, including a landmark 100th competitive goal and won his first senior honour, the League Cup. Keane moved to Liverpool in July 2008 but he spent only six months at the club before returning to Tottenham, where he was made first team captain. In January 2010, he moved on loan to Scottish Premier League side Celtic for the rest of the season, and spent the second half of the following season loaned to West Ham United. He left Tottenham for LA Galaxy in 2011, and in January 2012 went to Aston Villa on a two-month loan, during the Major League Soccer off-season. He is the tenth-highest goalscorer in Tottenham's history and scored 126 Premier League goals for six different clubs, which ranks him as the thirteenth-most successful goal scorer in the history of the Premier League. Keane scored a total of 68 goals for the Republic of Ireland national team over an 18-year international career, making him the all-time record Irish scorer. His 146 caps makes him their highest appearance-maker. He was the highest male international scorer among active players following Miroslav Klose's retirement in August 2014. Keane is the joint fourth-highest scoring European of all-time, and the only player in the history of world football to have scored at least one international goal in nineteen consecutive seasons. He is also the all-time top scorer in European Championship qualification matches. Keane was Ireland's top scorer at the 2002 FIFA World Cup with three goals as they reached the last 16, and also played at UEFA Euro 2012 and UEFA Euro 2016.


Matthew \"Matt\" Wilson (born 1 October 1977 in Melbourne, Victoria) is a retired professional Australian road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional between 2001 and 2012. During 2007 he rode as a domestique for the UCI ProTour team Unibet.com. In 2008 and 2009, he rode as a team leader for the US-based Team Type 1, and rode for the Garmin–Transitions team in 2010 and 2011. He joined GreenEDGE for the 2012 season, and retired after the Vattenfall Cyclassics in August of that year. Wilson's talent ensured that he became a part of the Australian national team with basis in Italy. He was diagnosed however with Hodgkins disease in 1999 and he moved back to Australia. After the cancer treatment, he decided however to take up cycling again. His friend and Unibet team mate Baden Cooke helped him to get a place in the professional stable Mercury-Viatel. He won a stage in Tour de l' Avenir 2001. The following year he and Baden Cooke changed to Française des Jeux. At the start of 2003, Wilson won the Australian road race championship. He won the Herald Sun Tour in October 2007 winning 2 stages along the way. He also said it was his most important and favourite victory in his life.


Élie Marcel Bayol (28 February 1914 in Marseille – 25 May 1995 in La Ciotat) was a French racing driver who raced in Formula One for the O.S.C.A. and Gordini teams. He started his career in 1950 racing Monomill DB-Panhards and progressed to Formula 2 races and hillclimbs around France. His best result was a fourth place in the Circuit de Cadours, in 1951. In 1953 he was fourth again at Pau and obtained a pole position at Albi. He also succeeded the same year to win the Aix les Bains Circuit du Lac Grand Prix (Formula 2). His Formula One World Championship career consisted of entering 8 races over a five-year span. After two years with an OSCA, he joined the Gordini team in 1954 with Jean Behra. He scored his only 2 championship points with a fifth-place finish in Argentina. He also finished fourth at a non-championship event at Pau. In 1956 he raced a few times but then disappeared from single-seater racing.


Alexander Kanoldt (29 September 1881 – 24 January 1939) was a German magic realist painter and one of the artists of the New Objectivity. Kanoldt was born in Karlsruhe. His father was the painter Edmond Kanoldt, a late practitioner of the Nazarene style. After studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe in Karlsruhe he went to Munich in 1908, where he met a number of modernists such as Alexei Jawlensky, Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter. He became a member of the Munich New Secession in 1913, with Jawlensky and Paul Klee. After military service in World War I from 1914 to 1918, the still lifes Kanoldt painted show the influence of Derain and an adaptation of cubist ideas. By the early 1920s Kanoldt developed the manner for which he is best known, a magic realist rendering of potted plants, angular tins, fruit and mugs on tabletops. He also painted portraits in the same severe style, as well as geometrical landscapes. In 1925 he was made a professor at Breslau Academy, a post he held until 1931. During this time he came into conflict with the Bauhaus faction at the Academy, and he was increasingly at odds with the avant garde. From 1933 until his resignation in 1936 he was the director of the State School of Art in Berlin. With the rise of the Nazi regime in 1933 Kanoldt attempted accommodation, painting in a romantic style, but nonetheless many of his works were seized by the authorities as degenerate art in 1937. He died in Berlin in 1939.


Lin Ye is a table tennis player from Singapore. She won a team gold and singles bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Born in China, she started playing at aged 8. She later moved to Singapore where she obtained citizenship in 2013, and was named the Young Player of the Year in 2013 and 2014. On 2 June 2015, she and her compatriot, Zhou Yihan defeated top seed Feng Tianwei and Yu Mengyu 4-3 to clinch the Women Doubles title in 28th Southeast Asian Games held in Singapore.  The pair continued their good momentum and caused one of the biggest upset in history when they defeated the top doubles pair Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen 3-0 in ITTF World Tour, Japan Open Semi-Final  but lost to another China pair of Wu Yang and Liu Fei in the Final. On 12 December 2015, she defeated Hamamoto Yui of Japan to clinch the U21 singles title in ITTF World Tour Grand Finals held in Lisbon, Portugal. This is her second U21 singles title.


Charles George Male (8 May 1910 – 19 February 1998) was an English footballer. Born in West Ham, London, Male trialled with West Ham United before playing with non-league Clapton. He joined Arsenal as an amateur in November 1929, turning professional in May 1930 and made his debut in a 7-1 victory over Blackpool on 27 December 1930. Initially a left-winger or left-half, usually deputising for Bob John. Male's appearances were few and far between - three in 1930-31 (in which Arsenal won the First Division for the first time in their history) and nine in 1931-32, although he was a surprise choice at left half in the 1932 FA Cup final after Alex James was withdrawn because of injury and the side reshuffled as a result. Arsenal controversially lost 2-1 to Newcastle United, after Newcastle's equaliser had come after the ball had already gone behind for a goal kick. In 1932, with Arsenal's current right back Tom Parker ageing and his replacement, Leslie Compton, not looking entirely assured, Male was converted from left half to right back by Arsenal manager Herbert Chapman; Male would later recount how, before being told of the switch by Chapman, he entered his office fearing for his future at the club, but Chapman convinced him not only could he play at right back, but that he was the best right back in the country. Bolstered by Chapman's pep talk, Male slotted into the right back role easily, and he became a near ever-present for the next seven seasons; he was undisputed first-choice right back and played over 35 matches for every season in that period. During that time, Arsenal won the First Division four more times (1932-33, 1933-34, 1934-35 and 1937-38), as well as the FA Cup in 1935-36. Male's performances for club soon meant he was an international; he made his debut for England against Scotland on 14 November 1934 and went on to win nineteen caps for his country, captaining the team for six of them. By the end of the 1930s, Male was Arsenal captain, although injuries restricted his appearances in 1938-39. However, World War II intervened when Male was 29 and at the peak of his career; he played nearly 200 wartime matches for Arsenal, as well as serving in the Royal Air Force in Palestine. Upon the resumption of League football Male was 36, but still played 8 times in Arsenal's 1947-48 First Division-winning season, and thus became the first player in League history to play in six title-winning seasons. His last match for Arsenal was an 8-0 victory over Grimsby Town in May 1948. In all he played 318 matches for the Gunners, though he never scored a goal. After retiring from playing, Male became a coach at Arsenal, training the youth and reserve teams. He was later a scout, discovering, amongst others, Charlie George. He was still at the club to see it win its first Double in 1970-71, before retiring finally in 1975; he later emigrated to Canada to live with his son. Although at the time of his death in February 1998, at the age of 87, he was reported as being the last survivor of the Herbert Chapman era, Ray Bowden survived until September that year, and to a greater age (89).


James \"Jim\" or \"Jimmy\" Hinch (nicknamed the Prince) was an English Association football forward who spent most of his career in the lower English divisions. He also played two seasons in the American Soccer League, where he was the 1976 ASL leading scorer MVP, and two in the North American Soccer League. Hinch began his professional career in 1969 with Tranmere Rovers in the Football League Third Division. On 10 February 1971, Tranmere transferred Hinch to fellow third division club Plymouth Argyle. In 1973, he then moved to Hereford United. In 1974, Hinch moved up to York City which had just won promotion to the Football League Second Division the previous season. He went on loan to fourth division Southport F.C. during March and April in the 1974-1975 season. In 1976 and again in 1977, Hinch went on loan to the Los Angeles Skyhawks of the American Soccer League. The Skyhawks were established in 1976, but ran to the league championship as Hinch led the league in scoring with thirteen goals and six assists in eighteen games. This led to Hinch's selection as League MVP. In 1977, Hinch finished second behind Jose Neto in scoring with eleven goals and thirteen assists, gaining him first team All Star recognition. York City transferred Hinch to Sheffield Wednesday for the 1977-1978 season, but he played only one game for Wednesday before moving to Barnsley F.C. At the end of the season, Barnsley sold Hinch's contract to the California Surf of the North American Soccer League. He spent the 1979 and 1980 seasons with the Surf.


André Wicky (22 May 1928 – 14 May 2016) was a Swiss racing driver, active from the late 1950s to the late 1970s. He was mainly involved in sports car racing, as an entrant and team owner as well as a driver, but also took part in several non-championship Formula One races during the 1960s. Wicky entered the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1960 and 1961 with an AC Ace, winning the 2.0 GT class in 1960. He returned to Le Mans in 1966, and raced every year until 1975, campaigning Porsches. From 1969, he drove for his own team, the Wicky Racing Team, and his best overall result was 17th in 1971, driving a Porsche 908. The same year, Walter Brun finished seventh in a Wicky Porsche. Occasionally Wicky campaigned other marques besides Porsche; in 1974 he entered a BMW 3.0CSL for Brun, although it retired after one lap, and a De Tomaso Pantera for Max Cohen-Olivar and Philippe Carron, which retired after 16 laps. From 1961, he participated in occasional Formula One races, first with a Cooper T53, but this car suffered engine failures in every race that Wicky entered. At the 1963 Mediterranean Grand Prix, he drove a Lotus 24 for Scuderia Filipinetti, and achieved his best Formula One result of ninth from 11th on the grid. He subsequently bought the Lotus and entered it in the next two Syracuse Grands Prix, but found little success with the car, only able to repeat his ninth-place finish in the 1965 race, albeit a distant last.


Richard Fletcher (January 8, 1788 – June 21, 1869) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. The brother of Governor Ryland Fletcher, he was born in Cavendish, Vermont on January 8, 1788. He pursued classical studies and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1806. He taught school in Salisbury, New Hampshire, studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice there. He moved to Boston in 1819 and was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1837 – March 4, 1839). Fletcher was not a candidate for renomination to the Twenty-sixth Congress. He served as a judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Court 1848–1853, and died in Boston on June 21, 1869. His interment was in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge. Fletcher was elected as the first president of the American Statistical Association, although by the ASA's own admission, he was \"little more than a figurehead\".


Mani Liaqat (born April 25, 1984) is a Manchester based British Asian actor and comedian. He is known for his bizarre rants, portly figure, witty voice and mixture of Punjabi/Urdu/Hindi and British everyday-humour. Mani is best known as the winner of The Great Indian Laughter Challenge UK on Star One, Star Plus Production Sky Channel 783. Mani has been awarded as UK's funniest Asian Comedian Alongside his comedy Mani is concentrating on his Acting and Presenting career as well. More recently he has made a successful move into dramatic world of acting. He has already appeared in Bollywood feature Film Pusher (Nasha) 2010  alongside Bollywood actress Mahima Chaudhry directed by Assad Raja Also playing a cameo character alongside fellow mancunian actor Ali Khalid, Abid Ali (actor) and Noman Ijaz in a Pakistani drama serial SARD AAG Directed by Yasir Akhtar based on British Pakistanis aired on a global satellite channel Hum TV currently aired weekly in the U.K on Venus TV. Most Recently Mani was invited as The Best British Asian Comedian to appear on Geo TV's renowned talk show The Nadia Khan Show  that delight its viewers with Nadia’s trademark style of conducting informal and candid celebrity interviews. Mani Liaqat also gave an electrifying and memorable performance at the Miss Bollywood UK 2009  at Birmingham biggest venue ICC on Broad Street which had judges and the audiences in tears of laughter. Reena Patel was crowned Miss Bollywood 2009. At the event were present the hottest names of the industry such as Manisha Koirala, Michelle Collins (EastEnders), Joseph Marcell (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air), Lisa Lazarus (Actress in Veer (film)), Rohit Verma (Designer), Raza Malal (Writer/Director), Karl Ude-Martinez (actor), Harvinder \"Harry\" Anand (Music director), Taz (singer) (Stero Nation), Karl George (Adjudicator) Hakille (dancer) and hosted by Raj& Pablo (BBC Asian Network).


Lilian Jégou (born January 20, 1976 in Nantes) is a French road racing cyclist. Jégou made his professional debut in 2002 when he signed for Crédit Agricole as stagiaire. A year later he would make his Tour de France debut, but withdrew after stage 8 which led to l'Alpe d'Huez. In 2005 he made his second giant tour appearance when he took part in the Giro d'Italia and finished in 98th position at the arrival in Milan. After several second and third places he won his first race in 2006. In Kango, Gabon he won the second stage of the La Tropicale Amissa Bongo. A year later in 2007 he would win the fourth stage of this race in Mitzic. Later that year he would improve his Giro d'Italia record by finishing in 75th position this time. He also took part in the 2007 Tour de France. Having taken the combativity award in the first stage of the 2008 Tour de France, Jégou, riding for Francaise des Jeux was forced to abandon midway through Stage 7 from Brioude to Aurillac after fracturing his wrist in a collision with a tree. His contract with Francaise des Jeux expired at the end of that season.


Shui-Ling \"Lily\" Yip is a Chinese-born American table tennis player and coach. Yip began playing table tennis in Guangzhou at the age of 7 and went on to become a member of the Guangdong provincial team at age 15. She moved to the USA in 1987 and obtained American citizenship in 1991. She competed in women's singles and doubles at the 1992 and 1996 Olympics.Between 1991 and 2003, Yip participated in 3 Pan American Games, winning 2 gold and 4 silver medals. She also played in 9 World Championships and 3 World Team Cups. At the US National Championships, Yip was the runner-up in women's singles 4 times and won the women's doubles title 4 consecutive times (1992-1995). In 2005, Yip and son Adam Hugh became national champions in mixed doubles. In 2006, Yip and daughter Judy Hugh won the women's doubles title at the US Open. In 2004, Yip was inducted into the USA Table Tennis Hall of Fame. She was named USATT National Coach of the Year in 2004, 2010 and 2013.Yip resides in Warren Township, New Jersey and is the director of the Lily Yip Table Tennis Center in Dunellen, New Jersey, one of 7 \"National Centers of Excellence\" recognized by USA Table Tennis.


Claire Curran (born 10 March 1978) is an ex-professional female tennis player from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Curran represented both Great Britain and Ireland in the Fed Cup during her career. Curran is the youngest ever Irish Fed Cup player (15 years 65 days) and before UC Berkeley was largely focussed on singles, with the highest singles win percentage of any Irish Fed Cup player. At UC Berkeley she won the NCAA Championship, with serious injury resulting in her decision to focus on doubles post university. Curran reached a career-high doubles world-ranking of 89, and won a total of 12 ITF titles over the course of her career and was a finalist in one WTA event and was the key doubles players in the Great British Fed Cup teams of the mid 2000s. Her overall Fed Cup record has the highest win percentage of any British or Irish player who has played in over 25 matches. Curran retired from the sport in 2007 following 6 years of professional play. Following her retirement she and Nigel Sears acted as coaches to former British No.1, Anne Keothavong, and she has also spent time coaching Laura Robson and the doubles team of Jocelyn Rae and Anna Smith. She is presently a National Coach at the Lawn Tennis Association.


George S. Bolster (1913–1989) was an American photographer from Saratoga Springs, New York. Bolster is noted as the creator of the George S. Bolster Collection of 375,000 negatives, chiefly from the Saratoga Springs area from the period 1855–1980, taken by himself and other photographers. The collection is now in the Saratoga Springs History Museum. Bolster was born in Saratoga Springs in 1913 and exhibited an early interest in photography. He graduated from St. Peter's Academy in Saratoga Springs and opened a photography studio. In 1958 he took over the business of another well-known Saratoga Springs photographer, Harry B. Settle. Settle's collection contained negatives by J. S. Wooley, Gustave Lorey, Seneca Ray Stoddard, C.C. Cook, and H.C. Ashby in addition to Settle's own work. To this Bolster added a large collection he acquired from another photographer, Joe Deuel, plus his own numerous photos of the Saratoga scene. Bolster died in 1989 and willed his collection to the Saratoga Springs History Museum.


Jessie Macgregor (1847–1919) was a British painter. Macgregor first learned drawing at the drawing academy in Liverpool run by her grandfather Andrew Hunt. Her parents went to live in London and she began to study painting there, becoming a pupil at the Schools of the Royal Academy where her teachers were Lord Leighton, P. H. Calderon, R.A., and John Pettie, R.A. She won a gold medal at the Royal Academy for history painting in 1871. She was the second woman after Louisa Starr's gold medal in 1867, and the last woman to do so until 1909. She beat Julia Cecilia Smith and Julia Bracewell Folkard. It was noted how these three women's achievements revealed the silliness of the rules that excluded women from becoming full members of the Royal Academy. MacGregor exhibited paintings at Chicago World Exposition in 1893. Her painting In the Reign of Terror was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World. \n* In the Reign of Terror, 1891


Acclaimed pianist Tzvi Erez received international recognition when he recorded and released his “Beethoven Piano Works” (2000) and “Tzvi Erez plays Chopin” (2003) under the Niv Classical record label. Since then, he has been regarded as a leading interpreter of classical music, particularly in the works of Bach, Beethoven, and Chopin. His interpretations and technique have become a point of reference to millions of music audiences around the world. In addition to live solo concerts, TZVI released several performances together with orchestral string players, including musicians from the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. TZVI is passionate about charity work, and over the years, has been performing at multiple venues dedicated to helping charitable organizations. TZVI has released twenty albums worldwide on Niv Classical, including The Well Tempered Clavier, Partita 2, and The Goldberg Variations (Bach); Beethoven Piano Works, Beethoven Sonatas; Chopin (Ballades, Etudes, Preludes, and Nocturnes); Suite Bergamasque (Debussy); Liszt Piano Recital; Gymnopedies, Gnossiennes, and Cold Pieces (Erik Satie); Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky); Essential Classics, Masterpieces, Sentimental, and others. Born in Israel, TZVI began piano studies at age six. He subsequently moved to Canada and graduated from The Royal Conservatory of Music, where he trained with Mildred Kenton, Andrew Burashko, and Antonin Kubalek. Erez is also accused of being a multi-million dollar Ponzi-scheme fraud artist. Shortly after the Financial crisis of 2007–2008 he was charged with 10 counts of fraud concerning printing contracts between 2005 and 2009.


Felicity Brown is an English-born fashion designer and artist, specialising in couture and art pieces. She lives and works in London in the United Kingdom. She studied Fashion Textiles at the Glasgow School of Art, receiving a first class honors degree. From there she went on to the Royal College of Art in London, graduating in 2002 with an MA in Textiles. After leaving college, she gained experience in the European fashion houses, and craft skills from working in India, before setting up her own designer label with her brother, Henry Brown. The Felicity Brown label was officially launched in London in February 2010 and featured Felicity's signature dip-dyed silks, hand printing and artisan finishing. In 2010, the fashion magazine Vogue Italia noted: Raw yet refined, the collection shows the amazing attention for detail and fantastic creative talent that have marked Felicity’s career to date. At the beginning of 2011, Felicity became part of NEWGEN, a talent identification scheme developed by the British Fashion Council that helped new fashion businesses to develop. This enabled Felicity to show collections in London, Paris and New York. In 2011, the Victoria and Albert Museum asked Felicity Brown to create an exclusive dress for its 2012 Ballgowns Exhibition. In 2012, curator Judith Clark commissioned a dress for the opening of a permanent exhibition at the Simone Handbag Museum in Seoul, South Korea. In June 2012, model Erin O'Connor wore a unique dress by Felicity Brown at the Investec Derby. Since 2013, Felicity Brown has been travelling on 'Fashion Journeys' throughout America and Europe. The concept involves taking a bag of fabric, meeting people, listening to their stories and making pieces for them in the moment. These journeys and stories have been documented through photography and are included on Felicity's website. In 2015, Felicity Brown's 'Bird Dress' was included in The Fashion Project's exhibition at Bal Harbour Shops, Miami. The 'Bird Dress' was exhibited alongside pieces from Jean Cocteau, Elsa Schiaparelli, Léon Bakst and Hussein Chalayan.


David Thorne (born September 16, 1944) is an American businessman and diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Italy and Ambassador to San Marino from 2009 to 2013. He was nominated by President Barack Obama and sworn in August 17, 2009. David Thorne's parents were Alice Smith (Barry) and Landon Ketchum Thorne, Jr. David lived in Italy for a decade while his father helped administer the Marshall Plan. David's twin sister Julia was the first wife of John Kerry. Thorne graduated from Yale University in 1966 with a B.A. in American History, where he roomed with Kerry and both were members of Skull and Bones, and then from Columbia University in 1971 with a master's degree in Journalism. He served in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War, and worked in political consulting, real estate development, and publishing. He is married and has two grown children.


Charlie \"Chic\" Thomson (2 March 1930 – 6 January 2009) was a Scottish football goalkeeper who played for Clyde, Chelsea and Nottingham Forest. He was born in Perth. Thomson began his career with Clyde, and one of his first appearances for the club came in the Scottish Cup against Rangers at Hampden Park, though his side lost 4–1. He stayed with the club until October 1952, when he became one of the first signings of new Chelsea manager, Ted Drake. Thomson was a member of Chelsea's 1954–55 league title-winning side, playing in the final 16 games of the run-in, including the title decider against Chelsea's main rivals, Wolverhampton Wanderers, during which he made a crucial last-minute save to secure a 1–0 win. He struggled to retain his position as first-choice goalkeeper at Chelsea, however, losing out to Bill Robertson, and signed for Nottingham Forest in 1957 having made 59 appearances for Chelsea. Two years later, he was a member of Forest's FA Cup-winning team, helping preserve their 2–1 lead over Luton Town in the final minutes at Wembley. He remained at Forest until 1961, making 136 appearances, and joined lower league side, Valley Sports, where he ended his career. He died on 6 January 2009 in Nottingham.


Luis Brethauer (born 14 September 1992 in Aschaffenburg) is a German racing cyclist who represents Germany in BMX. Luis Brethauer is so called sports soldier (German Bundeswehr). He takes part as TSV Betzingen in Air BMX team. His sport career started in 2000. His first international championship happened in 2003 (European Championships in Klatovy), where he finished third. In the German Championships 2010 he was vice-winner. In 2011 Brethauer took his first noble ranking as 10th in the European Championship in Haaksbergen. He was also 10th at the World Championships in Copenhagen. In 2012 he won his first national title at the World Championships 2012 in Birmingham. Despite he was 49th in the final race of the European Championships in Orléans, he reached the final at the 6th Place. One of his biggest international successes in the World Cup (Supercross) 2012 is the 6th place in the Super Time Trial in Papendal and the 12th in the Super Time Trial in Randa mountain. With his teammate, Maik Baier, Brethauer participated in 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he became the 1st German Olympic athlete in BMX cycling in general, both retired from there in the quarterfinals. In 2015 Luis Brethauer has reached Semi-final of the '1st European Games' in Baku. July 2015 became very successful for Luis as he won the Time Trial in German National Championships and took the title of German Champion in 6th times. Brethauer's biggest success was recorded at the BMX World Championships 2013 in Auckland. After a good performance he reach the final and won the bronze medal. He had to admit defeat to the British Liam Phillips and the New Zealander Marc Willers. Management: 24passion GbR


Janet Susan Birkmyre (born 10 August 1966 in the Worcester area) is an English track racing cyclist. She took up cycling in 2003 and raced for the first time in 2004. Since then she has been an elite British National Champion three times, winning the National Scratch race in 2012 as well as the National Derny Championships in 2015 and 2008, she has also won the National Omnium Series eight times. In addition, she has taken 32 World Masters Championship titles, plus 22 European Masters titles and 45 National Masters titles. Janet has set a number of World Masters Records: she was part of the World Masters Team Pursuit team that set a new World Masters record in 2014 and 2015, in October 2012 she set a new world record for the 500m TT (45-49 category) with a time of 37.419. The previous year she set a new world record for the 200m TT (45-49 category) with a time of 12.229, bettering the previous record which had stood since 2002, she also set a new record for the 500m TT (45-49 category) with a time of 37.429. Previous to this, in September 2006, she broke the World Masters Record (40-49 category) in the 500m TT in Manchester, with a time of 37.239, she also holds a number of European Masters Records. Birkmyre broke the National Tandem Record for 5 km on the 16 May 2006 in a new time of 6:45:848.


William Haywood (died probably in 1823) was an architect who worked in Lincoln, England. His father John who died in 1817 was mayor of Lincoln twice and worked as a mason. Haywood succeeded his father as mayor after his death in 1817. His grandfather, John Hayward (1708–78) was also a mason in Lincoln. William Hayward's great grandfather was Abraham Haywood an architect of Whitchurch, Shropshire who came to Lincoln around 1720. William Haywood succeeded William Lumby as Surveyor to Lincoln Cathedral in 1799 and Edward James Willson followed him in this position in 1823.William Hayward also succeeded William Lumby as Surveyor for the Lincolnshire County County Committee, which had responsibility for Lincoln Castle and the prison. Howard Colvin considered Hayward to be a competent designer in the ‘Regency’ style and that from the re-construction of Kirton in Holland church in 1804 had an understanding of Gothic architecture quite remarkable at that date.


Hugh Edwards (1903–1986) was an American curator of photography. Along with Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and John Szarkowski, Edwards was one of the handful of key curators who struggled to win the acceptance of fine art photography and documentary photography as art forms in the United States. Edwards was Curator of Prints & Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1959 until 1970, responsible for the significant collection of photographs there. He was the first person to offer a solo show to major photographers such as Robert Frank, Raymond Moore, and many others. Edwards struggled to curate in a cramped gallery space and without the financial resources even to produce accompanying exhibition catalogs. Shy and retiring, and without a college education, Edwards did not become a public champion of photography and rarely wrote about it beyond reviewing. But in the years before the art world's acceptance of photography, Edwards offered vital support and encouragement to many emerging photographers, including Jan Saudek, Duane Michals, Algimantas Kezys, Danny Lyon and many others. Edwards was also a photographer; during the 1950s he worked on a decade-long project to document a roller rink. He ceased photographing in 1961.


Sot Chitalada, born as Chaovalit Wongcharoean (5 May 1962, in Chonburi, Thailand) was formerly twice WBC Flyweight Champion. Chitalada built a reputation as a Muay Thai in name Chaovalit Sithphrabrahma champion in Thailand before making the transition to professional boxing. After winning his first four professional fights, he challenged WBC Light flyweight Champion Jung-Koo Chang on 31 March 1984, losing a twelve-round decision. The name \"Sot Chitalada\" comes from the name of \"Muns Sorchitpatana\" a boxer, one of the managers of his support. But Sorchitpatana losing by Netrnoi Sor Vorasingh and likely to retire. But the name Sorchitpatana also in the ranking of the WBC, his manager was a subrogate Chaovalit Sithphrabrahma to fight on behalf instead Muns Sorchitpatana. Later the rankings of the WBC was incorrect, Sorchitpatana became to Sot Chitlada eventually. Undaunted by the Chang loss, he won two more fights and a little over six months later shocked WBC and The Ring Flyweight Champion Gabriel Bernal, winning the world championships in his home country at Indoor Stadium Huamark, Bangkok. Chitalada is perhaps best-remembered for his fights with Bernal. The two met again twice in Bangkok. On 22 June 1985, Bernal fought Chitalada to a twelve-round draw, Chitalada keeping the titles. Bernal made another attempt eighteen months later, but on 10 December 1986 he lost another twelve-round decision to Chitalada. This was Bernal's final attempt at the Flyweight titles. Chitalada brought stability to the WBC and The Ring Flyweight titles, the six title holders prior to Bernal all losing the belts in their first defences, and Bernal losing his second defence. Following the first Bernal fight, Chitalada made six title defences (and won several non-title fights). During this run he defeated former world champions Charlie Magri and Freddy Castillo. He lost the titles on 24 July 1988, travelling to South Korea and losing a twelve-round decision to Yong-Kang Kim. After winning three more fights, Chitalada lured Kim for a rematch in his home country of Thailand. This time, it was Chitalada who came out on top, winning a twelve-round decision. Chitalada made four more title defences after he regained the titles. In his third defence, he made his second fight in the Western Hemisphere, defeating Richard Clarke by an eleventh-round knockout in Kingston, Jamaica, thus retaining his titles. For his fourth defence, he travelled to Seoul to avenge the only other loss in his career, to Jung-Koo Chang. Following the Chang fight, on 15 February 1991 Chitalada defended his titles against fellow-countryman Muangchai Kittikasem. This fight ended Chitalada's reign as he suffered his first knockout, Kittikasem stopping him in Round 6 to take the titles. Chitalada won two more fights before challenging Kittikasem to a rematch, but the result was the same, this time it ended in a ninth-round stoppage. That fight would be the last of Chitalada's career, he retired and never attempted a comeback. After retirement, he studied at the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce. He is the first Thai boxer who graduated a bachelor's degree. He worked in a Thai Airways already resigned. From 2006 to 2007, Chitalada taught Muay Thai at the Muay Thai Institute of Kunponli in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has since moved to teach martial arts in California.


Vestards Šimkus (born August 21, 1984 in Jūrmala) is a Latvian pianist and composer. He won the 2001 International Performers Competition in Stockholm, the 2002 Los Angeles' Liszt Competition and the 2009 Maria Canals International Music Competition, and was awarded the Latvian Grand Music Award in 2002. He has performed through Europe and the United States since 1998. Šimkus started to play piano in age of 5. He studied in Emīls Dārziņš Music School in Riga. Later he studied in University of Southern California under Daniel Pollack. He also has studied under Lazar Berman and Igor Zhukov. In 2002–06 he studied in Queen Sophia music academy in Madrid under professor Dmitri Bashkirov. After Bashkirov's invitation in 2003 he also participated in his master class in Savonlinna, Finland.Šimkus also has studied composition for five years under Pēteris Vasks. Today he continues his studies in R. Strauss conservatory in Munich under Vadim Suhanov.In 2012 Šimkus married the opera singer Elīna Volkmane. He was decorated the Order of the White Star in 2005.


Clarisa Fernández (born 28 August 1981) is a retired Argentine tennis player who is best known for her semi-final appearance at the 2002 French Open, the first Argentine since Sabatini in 1992 to reach that stage. Fernández was ranked 87th in the world at the time of her shocking result. She defeated, in order: (Q)Lubomira Bacheva, Jelena Kostanić, Kim Clijsters, (13) Elena Dementieva, Paola Suárez, before losing to second-seeded Venus Williams in straight sets.. Fernández is a crafty left-handed player. She turned professional in 1998, and did not have much success before her appearance at the French Open. She has six ITF titles to her name, including one in 2006. Since 2003, Fernández has been plagued with injuries. She has suffered from tendinitis in her left shoulder, an injury to her left wrist, and to her right knee. Fernández is now trying to get her career back-on-track with a healthy start. Fernández enjoys playing on hard and grass courts. She was coached by Leonardo Lerda. Her tennis inspirations are Pete Sampras and Martina Navratilova. In April 2008, Fernández announced her retirement from professional tennis after a lengthy battle with knee injuries.


Francois \"Frank\" Joseph Girardin (October 6, 1856 – August 7, 1945) was an American impressionist artist who worked in the Cincinnati, Ohio, Richmond, Indiana and Los Angeles, California areas. He was also an early player for the Cincinnati Reds baseball team. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Girardin came to Cincinnati in the 1870s and studied under Thomas Satterwhite Noble and later Frank Duveneck at the Cincinnati Art Academy. He was best known for his landscape paintings of both Indiana and southern California. He played an important role in the development of the Art Association of Richmond (now the Richmond Art Museum) was a prominent member of the Richmond Group of artists. He was a member of the board of directors of the Art Association for several years. It was during his time in Indiana that he received the most recognition for his work. He exhibited three paintings in the Indiana building at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904 and was a member of the Society of Western Artists. In 1910, Girardin moved to Redondo Beach, California where he painted local landscapes. His paintings are found in the San Diego Museum of Art; the Richmond Art Museum; the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette; Morrisson-Reeves Library; Kokomo-Howard County Public Library; Connersville, Indiana Public Library and the Wayne County (Indiana) Historical Museum.


Anneliese Heard (born 3 November 1981) is a Welsh triathlete from Bassaleg near Newport, Wales. She competed in her first triathlon at the age of eight, winning the Cannock Chase under nine category. She was crowned British Juvenile Champion at the age of 12. She became World Junior Champion in 1999 and 2000. Her Commonwealth Games debut came in Manchester in 2002 where she finished ninth. She was also present at the launch a set of stamps by the Royal Mail, featuring swimming, cycling and track, prior to the Games. Her performances were affected by injury in 2004 and 2005. Anneliese was again a member of the Welsh triathlon team at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, this time she finished eleventh. She turned to professional cycling in 2007, riding for the same team as Nicole Cooke, the Swiss Univega Raleigh Lifeforce Pro Cycling Team. Heard is one of many athletes working with Super Schools to inspire children to take up sport. A qualified coach, she is worked for Welsh Cycling as a coach coordinator then talent development coach.Anneliese then started working for England Athletics in 2012 as Club and Coach Support Officer.


Amanda Elliott (born 1 November 1989) is a British tennis player. Elliott has won 4 doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career. On 24 November 2008, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 311. On 4 May 2009, she peaked at world number 251 in the doubles rankings. Elliott made her WTA main draw debut at the 2008 Banka Koper Slovenia Open in the doubles event partnering Han Xinyun. Elliott competed in the Ladies Singles Qualifying event at The Championships, Wimbledon in 2008 and 2009, and competed in the Ladies Doubles event at The Championships, Wimbledon in 2008 and 2009, partnering Katie O'Brien and Elena Baltacha respectively. In 2008, Amanda Elliott and Katie O'Brien lost in the first round to Aiko Nakamura and Aravane Rezai 7-5 6-4, and in 2009 Amanda Elliott and Elena Baltacha lost in the first round to Victoria Azarenka and Elena Vesnina 6-0 6-4.


Benjamin Franklin Butler (November 5, 1818 – January 11, 1893), known pejoratively as \"Beast\" Butler by some contemporaries, was an American lawyer, politician, soldier and businessman from Massachusetts. Born in New Hampshire and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts, Butler is best known as a political major general of the Union Army during the American Civil War, and for his leadership role in the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. He was a colorful and often controversial figure on the national stage and in the Massachusetts political scene, where he served one term as Governor. Butler, a successful trial lawyer, served in the Massachusetts legislature as an antiwar Democrat and as an officer in the state militia. Early in the Civil War he joined the Union Army, where he was noted for his lack of military skill, and his controversial command of New Orleans, which brought him wide dislike in the South and the \"Beast\" epithet. He helped create the legal idea of effectively freeing fugitive slaves by designating them as contraband of war in service of military objectives, which led to a political groundswell in the North which included general emancipation and the end of slavery as official war goals. His commands were marred by financial and logistical dealings across enemy lines, some of which probably took place with his knowledge and to his financial benefit. Butler was dismissed from the Union Army after his failures in the First Battle of Fort Fisher, but soon won election to the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. As a Radical Republican he opposed President Johnson's Reconstruction agenda, and was the House's lead manager in the Johnson impeachment proceedings. As Chairman of the House Committee on Reconstruction, Butler authored the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 and coauthored the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1875. In Massachusetts, Butler was often at odds with more conservative members of the political establishment over matters of both style and substance. Feuds with Republican politicians led to his being denied several nominations for the governorship between 1858 and 1880. Returning to the Democratic fold, he won the governship in the 1882 election with Democratic and Greenback Party support. He ran for President on the Greenback ticket in 1884.


Eugene de Salignac (1861–1943) was an American photographer who worked for the Department of Bridges/Plant and Structures in New York City. Born in Boston in 1861 into an eccentric family of exiled French nobility, de Salignac had no formal training in photography. In 1903, at the age of 42, his brother-in-law found him a job as an assistant to the photographer for the Department of Bridges, Joseph Palmer. After 3 years of apprenticeship, Palmer suddenly died, and in October 1906, de Salignac assumed his duties. As the sole photographer for the department from 1906 to 1934 (in 1916 it changed its name to the Department of Plant & Structures), he documented the creation of the city's modern infrastructure—including bridges, major municipal buildings, roads and subways. Most notably, he documented the construction of the Manhattan Bridge and the Queensboro Bridge, and the Manhattan Municipal Building but his most famous image is that of painters posing nonchalantly on the cables of the Brooklyn Bridge. Using a large-format camera and 8x10 inch glass-plate negatives, he shot over 20,000 images in his career. Most of these negatives and over 15,000 vintage prints are held by the New York City Municipal Archives. Into his 70s de Salignac was still climbing bridges and actively working, but he was forced to retire in 1934 despite a petition to Mayor La Guardia. In his lifetime de Salignac's work was little seen outside of New York City government, and his name was forgotten after his death in 1943. His images were rediscovered in the 1980s, but it was not until 1999 that an archivist realized the collection was mostly the work of one man. In 2007, Aperture published New York Rises, the first monograph of his work, which became a traveling exhibition that opened at the Museum of the City of New York. Since then, his photographs have been widely reproduced and are part of a growing interest in industrial photography that has been left out of the traditional photography canon.


In the 1934 Tour de France, Vietto, a relative unknown, got wings on the mountains. This was not a surprise, because he had won the Grand Prix Wolber. He was prepared for the Alps and won easily on the steepest terrain. After he won the two major Alpine stages, journalists reported that this 'boy' could be the purest mountain climber that France knew. During the 1934 Tour, he was poised to be race leader after his team leader Antonin Magne crashed during stage 16. Vietto was unaware of Magne's situation; his advantage gave him the virtual race lead. A marshal on a motorcycle caught Vietto to inform him his captain was on the side of the road, with team-mate Lapébie ahead, and the other team-mates behind the yellow jersey. Vietto turned and rode back up the mountain into the descending riders (at the time, reversing course was legal, but is no longer so), to give Magne his bike. Magne mounted Vietto's bike and with Lapébie closed the gap to preserve his overall lead and win the Tour. A photograph shows Vietto sitting on a stone wall as the race passes. This made him a star in France. The image of a 20-year-old who sacrificed his chance of winning the Tour doubled his popularity. Vietto was nevertheless named the Tour's best climber; he finished 5th overall, almost 1 hour behind Magne. Vietto never won the Tour. He was closest in 1939, when he gained the yellow jersey in Lorient in one of the first stages, but in the mountains, once his favorite place, he was left by Sylvère Maes. After that Tour, war broke out and the race wasn't held until 1947. Vietto, still loved, attacked from the second stage. As a result, he took the yellow jersey in Brussels, to lose it a day before the finish, in a time trial of 139 km. Despite failing to hold the lead, Vietto wore the yellow jersey for 15 stages during the 1938 Tour de France and during the 1947 Tour de France for 14 stages. He finished second in 1939, fifth in 1934 and 1947 and eighth in 1935. Until Fabian Cancellara broke his record in the 2012 Tour de France, Vietto had the highest career yellow jersey statistics of anyone to never win the Tour de France overall. Vietto lost a toe to sepsis in 1947. Legend has it that Vietto insisted his domestique, Apo Lazarides, cut off one of his own toes to match. According to legend, Vietto's toe is in formaldehyde in a bar in Marseilles.


Pone Kingpetch, also known as Mana Seedokbuab (born in Hua Hin on February 12, 1935 – died in Bangkok on March 31, 1982) was a professional Thai boxer and three time world flyweight champion. He became Thailand's first world boxing champion on April 16, 1960 when he defeated Pascual Pérez of Argentina at Lumphini Boxing Stadium in Bangkok for the world flyweight championship. He later lost the world flyweight championship to Fighting Harada of Japan on October 10, 1962. Pone Kingpetch regained the world championship after defeating Harada on January 12, 1963 before losing it to Hiroyuki Ebihara. He won the title for the last time when he defeated Ebihara on January 23, 1964 before losing the flyweight championship to Salvatore Burruni. Kingpetch retired in 1966 and died on March 31, 1982 at the age of 47.


Laurence Everett Pope II (born September 24, 1945) is an American diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador to Chad from 1993 to 1996 and former US Chargé d’Affaires to Libya. Pope held a number of senior posts in the Department of State. He was the Director for Northern Gulf Affairs (1987–1990), Associate Director for Counter-Terrorism (1991–1993), U.S. Ambassador to Chad (1993–1996), and Political Advisor to General Zinni USMC, Commander-in-Chief of United States Central Command (1997–2000). In 2000, President Bill Clinton nominated him as Ambassador to Kuwait but his appointment was not confirmed by the Senate. Ambassador Pope retired from the U.S. Foreign Service on October 2, 2000 after 31 years of service. He continues to consult with various institutions and is a respected arabist. A graduate of Bowdoin College, Pope also had advanced studies at Princeton University and is a graduate of the U.S. Department of State Senior Seminar, a Senior Fellow at the Armed Forces Staff College. He speaks Arabic and French, and resides in Portland, Maine. Laurence Pope is the eldest son of Medal of Honor recipient Major Everett P. Pope, who was married to Eleanor Pope. He has a brother named Ralph H. Pope. On Thursday, October 11, 2012, the U.S. Department of State announced that Ambassador Pope had arrived in Tripoli as the U.S Chargé d’Affaires in Libya. On January 4, 2013 the US embassy in Tripoli announced that William Roebuck arrived in Tripoli as the new Chargé d’Affaires in Libya replacing Pope.


Felicia Michaels is an American stand-up comedian. She was nominated twice for Funniest Female Comic by the American Comedy Awards; in 1999 she won the award. She has released one album, Lewd Awakenings, on the What Are Records label. She has appeared on such networks as Showtime, MTV, VH1, NBC, as well as appearing twice on ABC's Full House. She was also a Grand Champion on Star Search, where she made her national debut. You can also hear Michaels' comedy on XM Satellite Radio and Last.fm. Over the course of the '90s, Michaels shifted her stand-up persona from a dumb-blonde stereotype to a soft-spoken provocateur with an unrepentantly blue sense of humor. She explores such topics as the dynamics of the male/female relationship, \"dirty thoughts,\" and the proliferation of the sensual feminist. She has appeared in three movies: Smart Alex directed by Steve Oedekerk, Los Enchiladas directed by Mitch Hedberg and most recently \"I Am Comic\" directed by Jordan Brady. She is a regular on Parental Discretion, which is due to start filming its second season in the fall of 2013. She posed nude for Playboy and was featured in the October 1992 issue. She is also a photographer and her photography project titled \"Stand Up / Stripped Down\" documents comedians and the mystery of what happens backstage in the shadows that lead from the green room to the power of the stage. \"Stand Up / Stripped Down\" received first place for the people's choice Px3-PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE PARIS for photo journalism. She is also a recipient of a CINE Golden Eagle Award for In The Weeds a short film she wrote and directed. Michaels was the co-host of a popular weekly podcast with Joey Diaz named \"Beauty and Da Beast.\" It was nominated for Funniest Podcast by the Podcast awards in 2012. In 2011, She released her second CD entitled Chew On this which continues where Lewd Awakenings left off.


Ruta Anna \"Ruth\" Tarvydas (c. 1947 – 16 May 2014) was an Australian fashion designer. Born in Germany to Lithuanian parents, her family emigrated to Perth, Western Australia, when Tarvydas was two years old. She opened her first boutique at the age of 19, with her brother, and shortly after established her first label. In 1983, Taryvdas became the first Australian designer to export clothing overseas. By the 2000s, she had designs being sold in 170 outlets across 16 countries, with a number of celebrity clients, both in Australia and overseas. A flagship store in King Street, Perth, was opened in 2009, but closed three years later with Tarvydas in heavy debt. A new store was opened in Claremont in 2012, and was featured with Tarvydas in a 2013 ABC1 documentary. Tarvydas was to debut at Paris Fashion Week in 2014, but died two months before the event.


Umberto Abronzino (16 November 1920 – 1 July 2006) was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1971 for his lifelong dedication to building the sport of soccer. Abronzino was elected to the California Soccer Association Hall of Fame in 1964 and the California Youth Soccer Association Hall of Fame in 1979. Born in Sessa Aurunca, Italy, Umberto Abronzino, played for the Lauro di Sessa team before he emigrated to the United States in 1937 as an accomplished soccer player. He worked as a barber in Hartford, Connecticut while playing for and managing several teams in the area until 1952. Abronzino then moved to the San Francisco bay area where he opened a barber shop and helped organize the four-team Peninsula Soccer League, serving in a number of offices, including secretary/treasurer. The Peninsula Soccer League now has more than 60 men's teams and is an affiliate of the United States Soccer Federation. The Peninsula Soccer League was run from Abronzino's barber shop until his death. He also organized a Sons of Italy soccer team in San Jose, California in 1959. He became an officer in the California Soccer Association. Abronzino helped organize California North Youth Soccer and served on the U.S. Soccer National Amateur Cup's organizing committee. He also worked as a referee and served on the CSFA Referees Commission. Abrozino served as financial secretary of the National Amateur Cup competitions and in 1994, became the MasterCard Ambassador of Soccer for Italy in the World Cup.


George Marcus Burley (23 December 1900 – ?) was an English professional footballer who played predominantly as a centre forward. Born in West Ham, he started his career with Ellesmere Port and later played for Chester. In October 1926, Burley was signed by Football League First Division side Burnley. He made his debut for the club in the goalless draw with Bury on 6 November 1926. Burley made only one more appearance during the 1926–27, deputising for Joe Devine in the 0–2 defeat away at Huddersfield Town on 12 March 1927. He again made just two league appearances in the following campaign. Burley played his last competitive match for Burnley on 8 February 1928 in the 1–3 loss to Aston Villa, a game which saw Archie Heslop and Joe Mantle make their debuts for the club. Burley remained at Turf Moor until July 1929, when he left to sign for Colwyn Bay. He later played for Stalybridge Celtic and had a second spell at Chester.


Kenneth Henry May (born April 5, 1970 from Sacramento, California, U.S.) is a former American professional \"Old/Mid School\" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years were from 1985 to 2000. His best known nickname is \"May Day\", a play on words involving his last name and the international call of distress Mayday which was in turn prompted by his hard charging \"go-for-it\" racing determined to come in first no matter what the cost. It often lead him to be carried off the race track in a stretcher. His being knocked out after a severe wreck (despite having a helmet on) during the 1986 American Bicycle Association (ABA) Grand Nationals being a case in point. He often managed to recover quickly enough to be in the next moto (heat) of racing to take the win and transfer to the main. Incidents like this also earned him the alternate nickname of \"Mayhem\", another play on his name and his predilection for wrecking on the race track and his aggressiveness toward other racers while racing and not.